This morning Fox & Friends, like every other cable news show, spent significant time discussing yesterday’s Goldman Sachs Senate hearing.

But one thing just didn’t make sense for co-host Gretchen Carlson. Specifically, why Pres. Barack Obama would go after his buddies.

While some news outlets took Pres. Barack Obama‘s call to reconnect “young people, African Americans, Latinos and women” in 2010 as a sign he was playing the race card, Rush Limbaugh took it a different way. What about old white guys? Why doesn’t our President want to reconnect them?

Pres. Barack Obama‘s brother-in-law, Oregon St. basketball coach Craig Robinson has a new book out this week, A Game Of Character, and he went on Stephen Colbert‘s Comedy Central show to promote it last night.

Besides joking about his similarities to Michelle Obama as well as his past job, he talked about who “vetted” the book – including the White House.

President Barack Obama‘s NASA speech yesterday and new policy has seen its fair share of opinions from those in and around the program.

But one stood out – NBC’s 77-year-old space correspondent Jay Barbree, who very rarely goes political but certainly did yesterday.

Dick Morris, frequent Fox News contributor, political strategist, and ex-BFF of the Clintons, appeared on Fox & Friends this morning where he had some harsh words to say about Obama’s new policy on nuclear weapons. He finished by claiming that the president may be our first “anti-American” commander in chief. Video of the conversation after the jump.

Could this be a very brief preview of a presidential debate sometime around September 2011?

In a Good Morning America interview in Prague, George Stephanopoulos asked Pres. Barack Obama about recent comments from Sarah Palin. And Obama’s dismissal was obvious.

Harry Smith‘s exclusive interview with President Barack Obama took place yesterday afternoon.

The walk-and-talk and in-game chat revealed an interesting exchange between anchor and President about talk radio – which Pres. Obama felt the need to call out specific hosts personally.

Which journalists had lunch with Pres. Barack Obama today?

We’re still looking into it, but we can confirm Fox News’ Major Garrett, CBS’ Katie Couric and we’ve heard Brian Williams from NBC as well. When will we get more details about the journalist-White House lunch date?

The network that talked to Pres. Barack Obama during a Duke-Georgetown game in January will have another hoops-related exclusive this week.

CBS’ The Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith will interview Pres. Obama on the White House basketball court. Then they will play basketball.

One of the takeaways from President Barack Obama‘s physical over the weekend was that he’s still struggling to quit smoking.

But there was another vice mentioned as well: alcohol. And the characterization of his imbibing is a point of contention right now on several media outlets.

Do you feel like you haven’t seen Pres. Obama doing enough media appearances and interviews? Probably not. But that’s because he’s gone through other means – a YouTube Q&A, a college basketball broadcast – in addition to one-off interviews on broadcast networks. And this strategy is not making the White House press corps who covers the President the most very happy.

Come join us for Mediaite’s live blog tonight of Pres. Barack Obama‘s one-time-only first-ever State of the Union speech. It’s going to be HUGE (or forgettable).

Either way we’ve assembled an all-star group from the media, comedy and business world to discuss the speech and coverage in real time. With your help. Check it out – we’re live at 8pmET!

Shepard Smith was one of the lucky media members to attend the annual off-the-record lunch with Pres. Barack Obama today ahead of his State of the Union tonight.

He reported on the tone of the meeting, the menu and the guy sitting next to him (MSNBC’s Chris Matthews) during The Live Desk today.

Robert Gibbs – White House press secretary, Fox News guest, iPhone pitchman?

The White House is touting its brand new iPhone app, and Gibbs plays the Luke Wilson role in a commercial of sorts for the product.

Pres. Barack Obama held a job-related town hall in Pennsylvania today, and when it came time to take questions, he got one very unique one from a college sophomore who has “been studying some criminology.”

What do you think, Mr. President? Ready to legalize drugs and prostitution?

What does Tina Brown think of Sarah Palin? While besides knocking a “total ignorance,” she describes the “present, raw, visceral quality,” that helps Palin connect to her supporters.

And also helps her separate from Pres. Obama, who is starting to feel “rarefied” and “unpassionate,” according to Brown.

Pres. Barack Obama met with VP Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and others last night for a final meeting on Afghanistan strategy before his big decision on troop deployment coming next Tuesday.

How do we know? Well if you follow the White House Flickr stream closely, you would have known about it late last night. Welcome to the new media presidency.

Well, it finally happened.

After all the back and forth between the White House and Fox News, Major Garrett (who described himself after the interview as a “conscientious objector” in the feud) sat down with Pres. Barack Obama earlier this week (as other networks did as well). Here’s how it went.

A little less than a week after Mediaite confirmed from Fox News that Major Garrett would interview Pres. Barack Obama in China, then the White House essentially denied, we now know that yes – the interview is taking place.

After months of tension between the two sides, this could be a sign of new era. But let’s not overplay the olive branch – four other networks get the interview as well.

Pres. Barack Obama‘s trip to Asia already has a big media moment, and it’s about the Commander-in-Chief bowing…again.

But this time, is the reaction warranted? Get ready to hear a lot about Bow-gate II.

Bill O’Reilly praised Pres. Barack Obama‘s Fort Hood memorial speech to begin his Fox News show last night, before launching into another “Talking Points” segment about political correctness and the media playing down the “Muslim terror” angle.

But it was later in the show, when he got into why we need to “win hearts and minds,” that he waded into some murky territory.

Remember during the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, when Pres. Barack Obama didn’t’ have nearly the name recognition he has now?

He has a somewhat difficult name, and it sounds a bit like Osama bin Laden. There were slips of the tongue then…and now that confusion is back this week on Fox News.

Fox News’ new big star Glenn Beck appeared on the cover of Time magazine last month, in a story about his and Fox News’ influence, and now FNC is getting a focus from Time‘s competitor.

Newsweek‘s editor Jon Meacham takes on the White House feud with Fox News, and provides a historical context to the battle.

Look what ABC News White House corresopndent Jake Tapper started.

Yesterday’s round-robin pool interviews of new executive pay czar Kenneth Feinberg saw the White House trying to ostracize Fox News again – and their partners in the pool taking a stand, again.

The Morning Joe team flashed back to around 2005 this morning, as co-host Joe Scarborough and regular guest Lawrence O’Donnell went at it over weapons of mass destruction, the lead up to the war in Iraq and the Bush administration.

All this came about after some more harsh comments aimed at Pres. Barack Obama by former VP Dick Cheney last night.