If anybody over at FOX News was concerned that after scolding his colleagues at Fox and Friends for attacking Obama unfairly, Chris Wallace might all of a sudden follow in his father Mike's footsteps and become a fair journalist, they needn't have worried. Chris is still a lesser son of a greater sire - as evidenced in the following interview with Senator Kerry.

He was belligerent, misquoting, quoting out of context - in short, he employed the old reliable Fox News tactics to get in his talking points and put JK on the spot. But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum, so to speak:  the good Senator wasn't playing ball! He was having none of Wallace's nonsense and calmly but firmly corrected him on every misquote and misstatement he tried to weasel into the interview.

After Senator Kerry rightly pointed out the many McCain flip-flops since signing on to campaign for president, Wallace had this to say:

"But Senator, with all due respect' (isn't it funny how anything that comes after this preface is utterly devoid of any respect?)   'almost every politician, and frankly, even you have been accused of flip flops over the years. But do you think John McCain was an opportunist when he supported the troops surge when nobody else in congress was supporting a troop surge? Do you think John McCain was an opportunist when he refused to take an early release from a Vietnamese prison camp because he was the son of an admiral? Because he said he was gonna stay there for years, as long as all the other Americans did?' (I was ready to cue the violins at this point and have the choir sing Saint McCain's praises.)

'Chris, please!' scoffed JK. 'You almost insult my intelligence and my values and those of every other American. Nobody would ever insinuate that John McCain is anything but a hero for his activities in Vietnam.'

'Well, Howard Dean called him a blatant opportunist' interrupted Wallace indignantly, to which the Senator helpfully proposed that Dean was likely referring to what's happened to McCain in the period of time since the nomination, and pointing to his own numerous references earlier to recent McCain reversals, and ending with setting the record straight once again on his own supposed flip flop that never was - the infamous 87 billion vote.

Well, you know what they say - if you can't beat 'em, change the subject... or something like that, which is exactly what Wallace did after JK's answer. However, despite Wallace's valiant effort to move to safer ground, Senator Kerry deftly steered his reply right back to where he wanted to be!

All is right with the world again and equilibrium has been restored. Wallace has stepped back into his proper role as FOX News unfair and unbalanced shill, and Senator Kerry got to sharpen his chops on him and possibly even reach out to the odd FOX viewer who possesses a modicum of intelligence. These kinds of interviews, and SFRC hearings are truly the highlights of the week!