[Prospero]

It's possible Wallace had the longest run in the history of television, and he was Hispanic. Before he became a news reader and performer, he actually did some investigative journalism, taking point for the Left internal party revolt against Lyndon Johnson and then against Richard Nixon.

He lost his edge when the nation gradually returned to a two party system, between 1980 and 1994.

He was a left-wing Democrat, and defined "normalcy" with that worldview.

[raybbr]

...and he was Hispanic.

Who cares? Why is that germane to anything?

[SoCal Pubbie]

“Wallace, whose family’s surname was originally Wallik,[1] was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, Frank and Zina (Sharfman) Wallace.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wallace_%28journalist%29

[Leep]

“and he was Hispanic”

Was he the good Hispanic or the White Hispanic...???
Otherwise, everyone here knows that the group known as “Hispanic” is a made up. Its origin can be traced historically all the way back to the 1960’s..???

:) Viva la Nixon!

[luvbach1]

It's possible Wallace had the longest run in the history of television, and he was Hispanic.

I thought he was Jewish.