{"id":11543,"date":"2021-01-21T04:53:46","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11543"},"modified":"2021-01-21T04:53:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:53:46","slug":"chris-wallace-this-was-best-inaugural-address-ive-ever-heard-the-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=11543","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Chris Wallace: This was best inaugural address I&#8217;ve ever heard&#8221;, The Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Justine Coleman\u00a0&#8211; <span class=\"submitted-date\">01\/20\/21 01<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrapper social\">\n<div class=\"blogs-social-wrp\">\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox_ru82\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/535043-chris-wallace-this-was-best-inaugural-address-ive-ever-heard\" data-title=\"Chris Wallace: This was best inaugural address I've ever heard\" data-description=\"Fox News host Chris Wallace designated President Biden\u2019s inaugural address as the \u201cbest\u201d he\u2019s \u201cever heard\u201d after the newly sworn-in president called for unity across the country.\">\n<div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"column\">\n<article class=\"node-535043 node node-article view-mode-full clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-with-sidebar-wrp\">\n<div class=\"content-wrp\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-free-html field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Fox News host <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/christopher-chris-wallace\" data-nid=\"440966\">Chris Wallace<\/a> designated President Biden\u2019s inaugural address as the \u201cbest\u201d he\u2019s \u201cever heard\u201d after the newly sworn-in president called for unity across the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d anchor labeled the inaugural address as \u201cthe best\u201d out of the speeches he\u2019s heard since former President Kennedy was inaugurated in 1961.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was a great speech,\u201d Wallace said following Biden\u2019s inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought this was the best inaugural address I ever heard,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace called attention to the fact that \u201cobviously\u201d the speech \u201cwas colored by the emotion\u201d of the Capitol riots two weeks ago, when a mob of former <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/donald-trump\" data-nid=\"261287\">President Trump<\/a>\u2019s supporters stormed the building resulting in five deaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a mob of thugs, of insurrectionists, of domestic terrorists on the inaugural stand,\u201d the Fox News host said. \u201cAnd <span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\"><a class=\"rollover-people-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/joe-biden\" data-nid=\"188332\">Joe Biden<\/a> was saying that democracy prevailed. We were able to get through that, and he was talking about how we need to get through that in the future if we are going to be a united country.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>Wallace also pointed out that the president called for the confrontation and defeat of white supremacy and domestic terrorism, noting that the overall speech felt like \u201cpart sermon, part pep-talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a call to our better angels, a call saying look, we\u2019ve got tremendous challenges, COVID, the economy, racial injustice, climate change but there&#8217;s nothing we can\u2019t do if we come together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"incontent-plugin incontent-plugin-535043\">\n<div class=\"incontent_widgets es_recommended_content\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/535049-read-bidens-inaugural-address?utm_source=thehill&amp;utm_medium=widgets&amp;utm_campaign=es_recommended_content\">READ: Biden&#8217;s inaugural address <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/535154-teen-who-bonded-with-biden-over-stutter-recites-passage-from-jfk?utm_source=thehill&amp;utm_medium=widgets&amp;utm_campaign=es_recommended_content\">Teen who bonded with Biden over stutter recites passage from JFK&#8230; <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis is the easy part as has been suggested,\u201d Wallace said. \u201cNow, he\u2019s gotta turn words, rhetoric into reality and action, but I thought it was a great start.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden was inaugurated as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/535018-biden-sworn-in-as-nations-46th-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the 46th U.S. president<\/a> on Wednesday and gave his inaugural address for about 20 minutes,\u00a0which included\u00a0a moment of silence for the more than 400,000 Americans who have died from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our historic moment of crisis and challenge. And unity is the path forward. And we must meet this moment as the United States of America,&#8221; Biden said during the address. &#8220;If we do that, I guarantee you we will not fail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/535043-chris-wallace-this-was-best-inaugural-address-ive-ever-heard\">The Hill<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Justine Coleman\u00a0&#8211; 01\/20\/21 01 Fox News host Chris Wallace designated President Biden\u2019s inaugural address as the \u201cbest\u201d he\u2019s \u201cever heard\u201d after the newly sworn-in president called for unity across the country. The \u201cFox News Sunday\u201d anchor labeled the inaugural address as \u201cthe best\u201d out of the speeches he\u2019s heard since former President Kennedy was inaugurated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11543\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}