In the aftermath of Saturday’s tragedy, the most wanted commodity in the political world seems to be a shred of recognizable political identity to attach to shooter Jared Loughner, and so far no major ideology– neither left nor right– has sufficed. The latest group to be dismissed as an influence in Loughner’s heinous acts is the previously accused group “American Renaissance,” described by the Department of Homeland Security as an “anti-semetic” group.

During a defensive press conference today, President Obama ruffled a few feathers by making a controversial comparison between Republicans and hostage takers. Fox News Washington Correspondent James Rosen especially took umbrage at this remark—but not because he thought it was uncalled for. Instead, as Rosen told Bill O’Reilly tonight, he thinks Obama’s comment could have “national security implications.”

For the second day in a row, Fox News seems to be ignoring the rest of the alphabet in favor of just three letters: N, P, and R. Today, on America Live with Megyn Kelly, correspondent James Rosen brought up a blog post written by Eric Boehlert of Media Matters—one that calls for NPR to take action against Mara Liasson, who is both NPR’s national political correspondent and a regular presence on Fox shows like Special Report with Bret Baier and Fox News Sunday.

On the night that Christine O’Donnell was declared the winner of the Republican Senate primary in Delaware, Fox News reported that the establishment — in this case the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) – would not be funding O’Donnell’s campaign. The NRSC later rebuffed that initial report, supporting O’Donnell to the maximum financial amount allowed by law. But things still are completely rosy between the two, best evidenced by the report filed by James Rosen of Fox News.

In case you couldn’t tell by the twinkle in Bill O’Reilly’s eye tonight, it’s a good day to be working at Fox News. While some people may not be thrilled with the network getting the bump up to the front row, the Factor host couldn’t have been happier with the White House Correspondents Association’s choice. He warned viewers tonight that he planned on hogtying Major Garrett and getting right up in Robert Gibbs’ face.

“Journalism in America is in dire trouble.” This was the basic theme of Bill O’Reilly‘s opening segment last night, a bit that he calls his “Talking Points,” which lashed out at the lack of coverage of the Shirley Sherrod story on network news. O’Reilly claims that journalists are loathe to cover problems within the Obama administration – and by some accounts that may be true. But in this instance, the measured approach of network news journalists appears to have been the right way to go.

Tiger Woods press conference wasn’t the only province of awkwardness – the run-up to his public apology also brought some odd moments. Namely, Fox News James Rosen made a strange analogy when he compared the Thanksgiving night incident in which Tiger’s secret life began to unravel with the Watergate break-in that lead to the resignation of then President Richard Nixon. Huh?

A fresh round of attacks by White House officials aimed at Fox News took place last weekend, and with it came another batch of people writing how this is not a winning strategy – and over the line.

The Fox News official response to all this has evolved over the past couple weeks, and now serves in an interesting dual role.

Fox News has found a good reason to keep talking about Fox news – they’ve got an escalating feud with the White House. And no amount of awkwardness is going to stop them from covering themselves.

It started with a news report by James Rosen this afternoon, continued with Neil Cavuto and was followed by Glenn Beck. Here’s a look at the self-coverage:

Two videos of reporters being interrupted live on air at the Values Voter Summit went viral last week.

The interruptions made for interesting TV, and caused a brief confrontation between reporter and attendee. But one attendee says the blame goes to the reporters for their tactics.

Fox News reporter James Rosen did not get such a warm welcome when attempting to broadcast live from the Summit earlier this afternoon (his contempt for the attendee “crowding” his space and asking for his removal is hard to miss.) This avoidance of cameras (Fox or otherwise) seems to be a theme for the Value Voters people — according to Politico not even Bill O’Reilly’s address will not be open to cameras.