For people who give Wally George bad reviews it's probably a few reasons. The first is that Wally was a hardcore Republican, but like Hulk Hogan was vain. Not that his political leanings were fake, but he used them for the kind of verbal fights that would be physical in the ring, and like wrestling, it's easy to disparage what is actually an extremely entertaining, fun and addictive ride...
Wally's co-host was David Kennedy, also the producer, who was comparably mellow and he was later replaced with a mustached big guy who looked like a cop... without David, though, Wally's Hot Seat was finished as it was already, by the latter eighties, on its last legs...
Few know, and IMDb doesn't even list, that Wally had a sister production where he sat behind a desk (in an even cheaper studio) and answered phone calls. This show was thirty minutes to Hot Seat's sixty and was funny too... it just wanted the screaming/shouting party that Hot Seat was... more like... a decompression for fans...
And there were many, myself included, who loved to laugh at Wally and how unintentionally funny he was... yet at the same time agreeing with him partially during the wonderful Reagan era...
Speaking of wrestling, many of his guests were reoccurring foes; one guy had a large head, and told Wally his audience sounded like they were cheering at a football game in which Wally shouted, "YOUR HEAD IS A FOOTBALL!" to the audience's cheering... My friends and I still laugh about that....
Laugh AT and WITH Wally George, which was the point... Especially with Wally's personal Lex Luther in hippie pot-legalizing-wanting Rudy Krause, who had long white hair like Wally and their bouts were just hilarious...
Wally, with a Columbia shuttle photo behind his desk and a framed John Wayne behind the combative guests (who were probably all Wally's friends in real life), defeated everyone because it was his show... But he made the mistake of calling into Howard Stern's show/domain, wherein Stern said, "Oh be still, you wig-wearing hump!" (which was probably written by Stern's then-writer Jackie Martling, whose own show died when Jackie left)...
Anyhow, Wally George is a little piece of time long gone... He never had a show during the Clinton years and would only turn up, latter in the 90's, emaciated and, pretty much dying... My friend and I would turn it on and my friend imitated Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2, who Wally resembled at this point, which was sad...
In his day of reign when Hot Seat was hot, and before Rush Limbaugh made legit the right wing showcase, Wally was the man who ruled the roost... HIS ROOST... and it was a total blast, through and through.
