Chris Wallace Defends President Bush to a Bunch of Hollywood Lefties

Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace came to the defense of President Bush after a bunch of Hollywood lefties attempted to claim that what Bush has done was somehow worse than what Richard Nixon did while in office:

Fox News journalist Chris Wallace on Monday evening defended President Bush against criticism by Hollywood filmmaker Ron Howard that the president has abused his office in a way similar to President Richard Nixon.

"Richard Nixon's crimes were committed purely in the interest of his own political gain," Mr. Wallace told Mr. Howard before an audience of a few hundred after viewing the filmmakers new film "Frost/Nixon," which is about the only U.S. president to resign from office.

"I think to compare what Nixon did, and the abuses of power for pure political self preservation, to George W. Bush trying to protect this country — even if you disagree with rendition or waterboarding — it seems to me is both a gross misreading of history both then and now," Mr. Wallace said.

Mr. Wallace was a member of the audience at a special preview screening of "Frost/Nixon," which depicts the process that led to the disgraced presidents confession of failure. The screening was held at the National Geographic building in Washington. The movie opens nationwide Friday.

After the screening, Mr. Howard took the stage, along with writer Peter Morgan, James Reston Jr., one of the researchers who helped interviewer David Frost, and historian Robert Dallek. ...

It was 35 minutes into the discussion when Mr. Wallace spoke up and responded to another comment by Mr. Reston, who asserted that young people today sympathize with Nixon.

"The younger generation feels that Richard Nixon was railroaded out of office and that what he did is trivial compared to what George W. Bush does," he said.

"Yeah I respectfully would like to disagree with that," Mr. Wallace said. "It trivializes Nixon's crimes and completely misrepresents what George W. Bush did. Whatever George W. Bush did was after the savage attack of 9/11, in which 3,000 Americans were killed, and was done in service of trying to protect this country. I'm not saying that you have to agree with everything he did, but it was all done in the service of trying to protect this country and keep us safe."

"And the fact is that we sit here so comfortably, and the country has not been attacked again since 9/11," Mr. Wallace said.

That last fact seems completely lost on the lefties. Kudos to Wallace for pointing out a few facts to those whose base of knowledge seems to consist of diary postings at the DailyKos.