Have we seen the last of Mike Wallace on TV? If you believe his son, Fox newsman Chris Wallace, the answer is yes. Mike Wallace, who has been recovering from a January triple bypass heart surgery, recently had a fall in his home in New York. Fortunately, Mike wasn't badly hurt, but the doctors are watching him closely in the hospital because of the complications from his heart surgery. He is on blood thinner because of the bypass and if he starts to bleed from the fall, he could bleed out. According to Wallace's son, Chris, host of Fox News Sunday, the heart "is working fine," but he added that his 90 year old father is done with TV. Does CBS know that for sure? I mean, will there be no future Mike Wallace interviews or special interviews? He retired from 60 Minutes in 2006, but remains with the network as Correspondent Emeritus. Chris made it sound like there will be no more TV ever for Mike Wallace.
He also said of his father, "He's doing really well," having spent time with him while he was in New York at Fox's studios to report on the presidential primaries.
Father and son will be vacationing this summer in Massachusetts. "His plans are to be healthy enough to go up to Martha's Vineyard for the summer. And since I spend two weeks with him every year, I said to him, in terms of his rehab, 'Don't screw it up, because you're going to wreck my vacation.'"
[via TVBarn.com]















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6-10-2008 @ 1:12PM
0megapart!cle said...
It is so sad how the father so completely outshines the son. While the father is a respected newsman, of the the last great ones still around, the son is a petty propaganda artist. (Yes, he is one of the "newsiest" Fox News anchors, but that's not saying much, and for every legitimate thing he says on air, he says another 10 incorrect, lying, or blatantly, horribly biased things)
The son probably went into the business because of his father, but he will always be known as a Fox News hack.
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