video The takeaway question from yesterday's contentious sit-down interview between Fox News' Bret Baier and President Obama: Was Baier guilty of unnecessarily interrupting the President, or was he simply keeping the President on track? We've already run down the mixed media reactions to the interview, and now Mediaite's own Tommy Christopher asked White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs for his thoughts on the interview. (more...)

video Well this is an interesting soundbite. Appearing on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made a rather bold claim. When asked if the president now believes if he has the votes to pass health care, Gibbs avowed, "Chris, we'll have the votes when the House votes within the next week." He further proclaimed that next week we will be talking about health care reform not as a proposal, but something that "will soon be the law of the land." (more...)

video Juan Williams has absolutely no faith in the 2012 Republican presidential field. He brought a healthy dose of "fair and balanced" to the FOX News Sunday Panel Plus online-exclusive segment yesterday, where he predicted to his bemused colleagues that, despite their high hopes, if they didn't find a respectable candidate soon, Barack Obama would win reelection in a landslide. (more...)

On a Fox News Sunday round table discussion today, Liz Cheney joined The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol and Ceci Connolly of the Washington Post to speak about, among other things, the ongoing debate centered around the locale for the 9/11 terror trials. Cheney's response, though, was the most direct: "When we prosecuted and successfully convicted people after the '93 World Trade Center bombing, after the East African bombing, what it got us was 9/11 and 3,000 dead Americans." (more...)

video After his Fox News Sunday interview with Sarah Palin, the show's host Chris Wallace either rolled his eyes or didn't, depending on whether you believe MSNBC's Joe Scarborough or Wallace himself. Whether it matters or not is an entirely separate issue, but the MSNBC accusation was enough to get a response from Fox News and Wallace, who not only clarified that he did not roll his eyes, but said that chatter about the interview has not been focused on him, but on the formidable candidate Sarah Palin. (more...)

video In what has already proved to be a Sarah Palin-heavy weekend, the constant candidate continued to keep her media star shining bright with an appearance with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. "How hard do you think President Obama will be to defeat in 2012?" she was asked. Palin doesn't like his chances -- unless he "plays the war card," that is. (more...)

video Sometimes it's just too easy for television's punditocracy. In yesterday's speech regarding the failed terrorist attack of Christmas Day, Barack Obama admitted that there was a failure "to connect the dots," a clean, honest and trite acknowledgment that mistakes had been made. Also, a perfect soundbite for TV pundits eager to simplify a complex narrative into a few, easy-to-understand words, almost like a puzzle designed to quiet children on a restaurant placemat. Speaking of which... (more...)

video Whatever else John McCain does with the rest of his political life -- and lately he's been doing quite a lot -- it's likely that he is going to be forced to devote some time to explaining the bizarre behavior of Sarah Palin to the rest of the world. (more...)

Senator John McCain appeared on Fox News Sunday today with Chris Wallace to discuss the political climate in Washington, D.C. and the first 11 months of Barack Obama's presidency. When asked about the president's performance so far, and whether Obama has been "the president he promised when he ran against you," McCain responded: "There's been a change: it's more partisan. It's more bitterly divide than it's been." (more...)

video Mike Huckabee is a media star (although not at the level of Sarah Palin) and a GOP presidential contender for 2012. But now Huckabee's history is intersecting with a suspect accused of killing four police officers in Washington state - who he granted clemency as Arkansas Governor in 2000. (more...)

"Anytime anybody in the political world uses guest bookings as either a gift or in a punitive way, you start playing games with the news. If you're an administration official, you ought to be able to answer questions from someone like Chris Wallace."

video You'd be forgiven for concluding, after a weekend of celebratory headlines, that Congress's passing of the health care bill on Saturday night was the final step in the long slog that saw many ups and downs this summer. Of course, you'd be wrong. Saturday's results, which saw Congress pass the bill 220 to 215 (one Republican yea and 30 Dem nays) thanks in large part to Nancy Pelosi's willingness to throw away coverage for "elective" abortions in what is now being referred to as "the biggest turning point in the battle over the procedure since the ban on so-called partial birth abortions six years ago" still has to make it through the Senate. Judging from some reactions on the Sunday shows, it's going to be a battle, to say the least. (more...)

Disgraced former New York Times journalist Jayson Blair will sit down with Chris Wallace tonight on Fox News Sunday to discuss the state of the mainstream media and unavoidably, his own ethical scandal. The network is currently running an exclusive preview of the interview online at Wallace's blog. (more...)

video Rush Limbaugh's interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday, during which he criticized President Obama's "out of this world ego" and described the president as "immature," "inexperienced," and "in over his head" is still making waves. On Joy Behar's HLN show last night both Arianna Huffington and The Nation's Katrina Vanden Heuvel weighed in on the interview, which Vanden Heuvel described as 'sycophantic': (more...)

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Someone at Fox News must really like The Untouchables. On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace followed in Glenn Beck's footsteps of last week, playing a clip from the gangster film to underscore the Obama administration's "Chicago way of doing business" in retaliating against Fox for its unfavorable coverage.

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Much has been made of James O'Keefe and his remarkably successful effort to bring down ACORN through his shocking hidden camera interviews. At the start, this story was almost entirely reported by Fox News, the NY Post, Matt Drudge and Andrew Breitbart. And O'Keefe was mostly portrayed as more of a collegiate prankster than modern-day Upton Sinclair. Enter Chris Wallace, who finally gave O'Keefe his hagiographic due. (more...)

video President Barack Obama is making all the media rounds this weekend, going on five Sunday news programs to drum up support for his health care reform. One network not included in his very busy schedule? Fox News. Last night Bill O'Reilly had the host of "Fox News Sunday" Chris Wallace on to discuss the White House's decision to exclude FNC from Obama's Sunday tour, and while Wallace seemed to want to take the high road, it got a little juvenile. (more...)

Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney this weekend generated lots of headlines for Cheney's stunning admission that he was okay with interrogation techniques that went "beyond the specific legal authorization." But at least one media critic found Wallace's interviewing techniques to be less than stellar. Andrew Sullivan writes on his blog an article titled "Chris Wallace, A Teenage Girl Interviewing The Jonas Brothers". (more...)