It turns out that moderating several Republican debates does not actually make one immune to thinking that there may be too many of them this time around. Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace visited radio host Mike Gallagher to talk about Thursday’s debate, and ended up instead talking about debates generally, and how “ridiculous” the fact that there have been nineteen of them is.

Bill O’Reilly and Bernie Goldberg aren’t usually the ones first in line to heap praise upon their competitors over at CNN, but last night they had nothing but good words for Wolf Blitzer‘s performance as moderator of CNN’s latest Republican debate, particularly in shutting down Newt Gingrich. Unlike John King, who Goldberg suggested was trying to “start a food fight” with his question on Gingrich’s marriages, both host and guest agreed that Blitzer was attacked for asking a legitimate question, and that the audience at home was on his side.

During a post-debate breakdown, CNN’s Wolf Blitzer spoke with Anderson Cooper about his pointed questions to Newt Gingrich and why he decided to press the former Speaker of the House on Mitt Romney‘s bank accounts.

During the last question of the night at the Flordia GOP presidential debate on CNN, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Rick Santorum why he was the candidate most likely to defeat President Obama. Santorum explained his differences with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, giving a laundry list of policy contrasts, perhaps most notably on climate change. “Cap and trade!” Santorum exclaimed. “Both of them bought into the global warming hoax!”

At Thursday night’s Republican Presidential Debate in Florida, former Gov. Mitt Romney tried to play coy when asked about an ad that accuses former Speaker Newt Gingrich of calling Spanish a ghetto language, telling moderator Wolf Blitzer “I haven’t seen the ad, so I’m sorry, I don’t get to see all the TV ads,” and later added, “I doubt that’s my ad.”

Several minutes later, Blitzer said that CNN had verified that the ad was Romney’s (not a SuperPAC’s), and asked him to explain, again.

Leading off CNN’s GOP debate in Florida, Republican presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney duked it out over immigration. Moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Gingrich if he thought Romney was the most anti-immigrant GOP candidate “I think of the four of us, yes,” Gingrich responded. “That’s simply inexcusable,” angrily replied Romney.

During CNN’s election coverage of the South Carolina primary results, Wolf Blitzer “corrected” Piers Morgan for saying fellow network colleague John King “attacked” Newt Gingrich when he asked the former Speaker of the House about the “open marriage” controversy.

It’s a typical question. You get an attractive young person on your show, the interview’s winding down, so you ask them if they’re seeing anyone. We can’t fault Wolf Blitzer for asking it to Jon Huntsman’s daughters. Besides he was just asking them what his Twitter followers wanted to know. However, there was something in the way Blitzer asked the question which caused the ladies to recoil like their creepy uncle just said they were “developing well.” Basically it made this the most uncomfortable moment of the campaign season so far.

Jon Stewart had a lot on his plate today, with the Iowa caucuses cramming a week’s worth of news into the wee hours of the night early Wednesday morning. Stewart gave every candidate their turn, and praised everyone from Rick Santorum to Mitt Romney for sticking with it. One entity notably getting moans and groans from Stewart for its inanity: CNN, for its “weeble” cyber-illustration of the caucuses.

CNN had a few great moments way past midnight tonight– the loosening of the proverbial tie happening somewhere around 1:30 AM. But the votes had still not come in, and an industrious producer put Wolf Blitzer in contact with the Clinton County, Iowa Republican Chairwoman, Edith Pfeffer, and the woman who woke her up to get the votes to CNN, Carolyn Talett.

Do you remember those all-nighters in college, during finals period, where everyone would mellow out for a bit before heading out for a cup of coffee and then have a collective caffeine-induced laughing fit over nothing in particular? Prepare to get nostalgic, because that is apparently what happened to the CNN Election Center crew around 1:30 AM tonight as they waited for election results, and a Magic Wall mishap sent the show spiraling out of control.

Tuesday night’s Iowa Caucus coverage will offer a wide array of television choices for every taste in cable news, with some channels opting for more entertainment than analysis. While Fox News and CNN are seeking some of their more buttoned up journalists for anchoring duties, and are pushing their more partisan/entertainment-focused anchors to post-coverage specials, MSNBC is pretty much giving up on the straight news coverage, and instead appears to be aiming to create some controversy… and maybe have some fun.

Last night, Rick Santorum appeared on CNN to discuss his recent surge in Iowa. The former Senator has been the latest candidate to steal the GOP heat away from Mitt Romney but the old standby hit back on Monday, reminding voters that he had received Santorum’s endorsement back in 2008. Santorum defended this endorsement to Wolf Blitzer, pointing out that he’d made it as late in the 2008 race as possible and only because he was looking for literally anyone who was better than John McCain.

That’s weird. It’s basically the same reason people are now flocking to him!

With Rep. Ron Paul inching towards the Iowa caucuses in the top position, Wolf Blitzer‘s favorite question for his rivals for the Republican nomination, given Rep. Paul’s foreign policy views, has been to ask whether they can support Rep. Paul should he be the Republican nominee over President Obama. Newt Gingrich intimated that he may not be able to, while Mitt Romney could. Today, Rick Santorum got his turn, but in explaining that he would, he couldn’t seem to articulate a good reason why.

Wolf Blitzer‘s series of interviews with the Iowa frontrunners continued today with an exclusive look into the campaign lifestyle of Mitt Romney, in which the candidate detailed some more of his plan to gain traction and fight off his fellow Republican hopefuls. Blitzer ran him through several questions he gave Newt Gingrich the day before– particularly whether he would find himself voting Republican in November should Rep. Ron Paul win the nomination. Romney’s answer differed significantly from Gingrich’s.

Newt Gingrich stopped short of calling Mitt Romney a coward for not agreeing to a one-on-one, unmoderated debate today during his talk with Wolf Blitzer. Responding to Romney joking that Gingrich’s Virginia ballot gaffe was more “Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory” than Pearl Harbor, he demanded one-on-one time with the candidate. “Be man enough to own it,” he challenged.

There was a lot to unpack in Wolf Blitzer‘s interview with GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich, but one thing that stood out was a panel discussion that Blitzer conducted following a clip of Gingrich’s attack on Rep. Ron Paul over his newsletters, among other things. The ostensibly objective Blitzer said he thought “it took guts” for Gingrich to come out against Paul so strongly, David Frum accused Paul of racism, and panelist Jonathan Prince said Paul was “racist by design.”

It isn’t any news that Newt Gingrich isn’t a particular fan of his biggest threat in the 2012 race thus far, Rep. Ron Paul. What may be news, however, is that Rep. Paul may overtake President Barack Obama in antipathy Gingrich harbors for him, as he told Wolf Blitzer on CNN today that he could never vote for Rep. Paul, and that, between Rep. Paul and President Obama, he would have a “very hard choice” to make.

As Newt Gingrich continues to gaffe his way to the top (and, subsequently, the bottom) of the 2012 Republican pile, new questions have risen about his first divorce, and who exactly pulled the trigger. After an extensive CNN segment on the ins and outs of the divorce papers, however, Wolf Blitzer appeared, well, unconvinced that any of it mattered, to say the least.

Ron Paul walked out of an interview with CNN’s Gloria Borger following a heated exchange over the controversy of racist newsletters sent in his name during the 1990s. Borger asked the Congressman if he had ever read the newsletters. “Did you ever object when you read them?”

With the Iowa caucus just scant two weeks away, tensions are running high. During a campaign appearance at a grocery store yesterday, on-again, off-again GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich was approached by a seemingly innocuous supporter, who instead turned out to be something of pretty vocal critic. The grinning man got Gingrich’s attention with “You know something?” before following with “you’re a f*cking a**hole.”

Arizona Senator John McCain appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer Tuesday and lamented the political impasse over the payroll tax extension. “We have to recognize reality, and that is we are not going to see the payroll tax cut expire on the first of January, and we have to accommodate to that reality,” McCain observed.

Kathy Griffin was one of the more unpredictable guests to swing by Piers Morgan Tonight when she did so last August. Despite the obvious risks, Piers Morgan invited her back, however, and received something of a grab-bag of thoughts from the comedienne that ranged from how sexy Henry Kissinger‘s voice is to what her plans are to further embarrass Anderson Cooper this New Year’s Eve.

On Monday afternoon, conservative columnist Rich Galen appeared on CNN host Wolf Blitzer‘s program to discuss, among other things, the “War on Christmas.” And we learned that Galen is not one to beat around the bush Christmas tree.

In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room Thursday, Donald Trump was flummoxed that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney turned down the invitation to his debate. “I was surprised because as you know, he wants my endorsement very, very badly. He was very nice, he called me but I was surprised. If I was losing in the polls, I wouldn’t be saying no to anybody.”