Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, chosen to moderate one of the upcoming presidential debates, is causing heads to explode among the activist liberal media for maintaining a more neutral approach to calling out candidates who lie.

As Mediaite notes, Wallace was interviewed by colleague Howard Kurtz on MediaBuzz yesterday, and when Kurtz asked him, “What do you do if they make assertions you know to be untrue?” Wallace replied thusly:

“That’s not my job. I do not believe that it’s my job to be a truth squad. It’s up to the other person to catch them on that. I certainly am going to try to maintain some reasonable semblance of equal time. If one of them is filibustering, I’m going to try to break in respectfully and give the other person a chance to talk.”

He said people can fact-check the candidates after the debates, but it’s not his role to do it in real time.

That flies squarely in the face of mainstream media liberals who see it as their holy duty to abandon any pretense of journalistic objectivity and attack conservative candidates. Already Wallace has received a fair amount of criticism for taking this stance. ThinkProgress’ Judd Legum, for example, said that Wallace would basically “allow lying.”

Wallace has a history of calling out both Clinton and Trump in one-on-one interviews in the past.

Watch the full interview with Kurtz above, via Fox News.