CLEVELAND — Earlier this afternoon, Ashley and I stumbled upon Fox News’s Bret Baier and Chris Wallace livestreaming a discussion from a Facebook booth adjacent to the convention center, where most of the campaign press work when not in the arena.
After meeting with President Obama to discuss such far-reaching issues as human rights and climate change, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, stopped by Fox News for a debriefing. Fox News had other ideas.
Mitt Romney doesn't give all that many in-person, one-on-one interviews, and perhaps this rare exception for Fox News' Bret Baier shows why. He gets snippy at any mention of him lacking convictions, or flip-flopping all the time, as though these are not the major concerns about him among the Republican base. Watch…
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Last week, Fox News' Bret Baier was grilled by Jon Stewart regarding the network's "hard news" objectivity. And while Baier asserted its legitimacy, on tonight's Daily Show, Stewart unearthed some questionable (read: driving-the-narrative-via-baseless-opinion) statements by Baier's boss, Bill Sammon.
