Honor thy father

Okay. You know "60 Minutes" newsman Mike Wallace. And you may have seen elsewhere that, in an interview last week to promote his new book, Wallace suggested that maybe, just maybe, George Bush's presidency might have something "to do with the fact that the country is so [expletive] up."

Strong words, to be sure. And you would expect people of differing political belief to take exception to them. What you might not expect is for the man's own son, a Fox News anchor, to say that his father is a drooling idiot.

From AmericaBlog:

"He's lost it. The man has lost it. What can I say," the younger Wallace lamented to WRKO Boston radio host Howie Carr on Friday.

"He's 87-years old and things have set in," the Fox anchor continued.

Y'know, agree with him or not, the elder Wallace has won every major award in journalism. I saw him on "The Daily Show" not long ago, and he sure didn't come off like Grampa Simpson. He seemed fully in command of his faculties, and he made me want to read his book. I'm in the "hold line" for it at my library right now.

Surely he deserves better. How sharper than a serpent's tooth...