25. Pat Buchanan – 53 On-Air Mentions

And we start off our list with none other than Mr. Pat Buchanan. Buchanan made a number of appearances last week on MSNBC where he’s a commentator. One fun appearance was on Hardball where the he and Ron Reagan Jr. discussed Michele Bachmann. The talk was derailed briefly when Buchanan and Chris Matthews spent a while trying to figure out what on earth a “cyberattack” was. It made us think that MSNBC should add a technology show starring Chris and Pat. Each week would end with one of their grandchildren calling in to make sure they checked that the computer was plugged in first.

24. Jean Chatzky – 53 On-Air Mentions

Next up is Chatzky, who was part of a panel on the Today Show that offered financial advice to regular people over Skype. Isn’t it great, now that everyone has wonderful HD TVs, that we can use them to look at blurry computer images? We can’t wait till those new 3D TVs come out and Today can air YouTube videos. That cat with the piano is gonna blow your mind in 3D.

23. Charles Osgood – 65 On-Air Mentions

Osgood offered up a special Easter edition of CBS Sunday Morning by wearing a glorious pastel bow-tie and ending his show with a few minutes of soothing footage of bunnies frolicking in the field. It was so hypnotizing that we were unable to continue writing this list for like ten minutes. We’re talking about the bow-tie, not the bunnies.

22. Andy Rooney – 71 On-Air Mentions

60 Minutes is a powerful show. How powerful? Well, Rooney only appears on TV once a week, doing his famous rant on that week’s episode but, since there are so many affiliates carrying the show, he ends up at #22 on our list. In the April 4th rant, Rooney read some mail. It turns out he makes two piles with the letters he gets: the “good” mail and the “bad” mail. He read from the “bad” mail. Why not? It makes for better television. And makes him the 22 most oft-referenced TV pundit.

21. Harvey Levin – 76 On-Air Mentions

We now move to the well-respected area of hard-journalism that is celebrity news. Levin, who is also the executive producer and host of TMZ, appeared on a Fox affiliate to discuss the trial of Michael Jackson’s doctor for all the eight people who still care about the trial of the Michael Jackson’s doctor. He also appeared on The People’s Court where he acts as legal analyst where he asked people on the street if animals can die of being heartsick. Why that required a law degree, we are not sure.

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Earlier this week we took a look at where the network stands two years in – here’s where it stood today on Don Imus‘ show.

Fox News star Sean Hannity called into Don Imus’ morning show, and, inevitably, the White House/FNC feud was a major topic. “It’s not my war with the White House, they’re the ones that declared war on Fox,” he said. Later: “During the campaign I found it extremely odd that Obama attacked me by name 10 or 12 times. I really did. I loved every second of it, but I thought it was odd.”

Imus’ position poked fun at the opinion side of FNC, but disagreed very clearly with the White House. “They were fundamentally wrong,” he said of the Obama administration. “They were confusing your very fine award-winning program, and your very close friend Bill O’Reilly‘s fine program and your other close friend Glenn Beck‘s very fine program, with the news that’s done on Fox.” (The White House would probably argue they aren’t confused at all.)

New York Daily News sports columnist Mike Lupica was also a guest this morning, and, like most people weighing in on this issue from the political spectrum, didn’t think the White House was coming out looking very good. “I think it’s stupid,” said Lupica. “He looks bad, it’s not presidential, and it was ill-conceived at the start.”

>>> NEXT PAGE: The videos of Hannity’s appearance and Lupica’s appearances on Imus’ show.