Fair And Balanced! FNC’s Geraldo Bashes Baier’s Interview Tactics

We’ve seen a lot of reaction to Bret Baier‘s exclusive interview with Pres. Barack Obama Wednesday on Fox News, and in the same way Baier focused on process over content, the reaction has largely focused on tactics over content.

One of the toughest criticisms came from Baier’s own colleague today – Geraldo Rivera.

Johnny Dollar has the audio from this morning’s Brian And The Judge show when Geraldo was asked for his take on the interview. Initially he had praise for Baier – “I thought he made the point that process was ugly, Bret did, clearly,” he said.

But then came this:

When the President seemed exasperated and frustrated and unable to complete a sentence, I thought at some point you have to make a difference between the guy who’s the Senate Whip or the House Whip, the Assemblyman, the leader of the State Senate, you gotta…he’s not a mayor. He’s the President.

The criticism isn’t new, but certainly rare from someone on Fox News. Dana Perino, former Pres. Bush Press Secretary, disagreed. “There’s not a single reporter who ever interviewed Pres. Bush who would have done anything different,” she said.

Geraldo then veered into territory sure to fire up both sides: “Sarah Palin‘s the only one who gets beat up the way Bret Baier beat up Barack Obama.”

Here’s the audio from this morning – check out how Geraldo compares Baier to, gasp, Keith Olbermann:

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