Chris Wallace: Wrong about CNN

Why did Chris Wallace leave Fox News and move to CNN+? “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” he told the New York Times, “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

Indeed, one assumes that a significant percentage of the Fox News audience believes that there was something fishy about the 2020 presidential contest and that Democrats have overstated the importance of the January 6 riot. Just as it is almost surely the case that a large segment of those who tune into CNN — or MSNBC — believe, despite no evidence to substantiate such claims, that democracy was stolen by Russian gremlins in 2016 and minorities are being stopped from voting. As we’ve learned in recent years, some political conspiracy theories are acceptable in mainstream news while others are not.

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David Harsanyi

David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner.

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Why did Chris Wallace leave Fox News and move to CNN+? “I’m fine with opinion: conservative opinion, liberal opinion,” he told the New York Times, “But when people start to question the truth — Who won the 2020 election? Was Jan. 6 an insurrection? — I found that unsustainable.”

Indeed, one assumes that a significant percentage of the Fox News audience believes that there was something fishy about the 2020 presidential contest and that Democrats have overstated the importance of the January 6 riot. Just as it is almost surely the case that a large segment of those who tune into CNN — or MSNBC — believe, despite no evidence to substantiate such claims, that democracy was stolen by Russian gremlins in 2016 and minorities are being stopped from voting. As we’ve learned in recent years, some political conspiracy theories are acceptable in mainstream news while others are not.