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Source link. Speaking in friendly territory -- before a tea party crowd of about 500 in Central Florida's bucolic Mount Dora -- the former House Speaker savaged Mitt Romney, the campaign ads that have been pillorying Gingrich across the state -- and his own Republican party. Gingrich wasted little time in criticizing Romney as he took to the stage with his wife, Calista, decrying the "attack ads and all sorts of junk" and charging that Romney is hypocritical for attacking him for Freddie Mac when he has stock in it. "He thinks we're going to back down, I don't think...

I finally got a hold of the transcript for Romney's very unsuccessful Bret Baier interview (for some reason Fox hasn't posted it on their website, perhaps the Romney folks put pressure on them?). Anyway, courtesy of Lexis Nexis, I was able to get it. Below are some key highlights with snarky commentary from your humble narrator: BAIER: Like the "Union Leader," your critics charge that you make decisions based on political expediency and not core conviction. You have been on the both sides of some issues, and there's videotape of you going back years, speaking about different issues, climate change,...

Mitt Romney appeared strangely agitated in his interview with Fox News host Bret Baier on Tuesday. Romney had won praise earlier in the campaign for his calmness. But the calmness has given way under campaign pressures to open irritation. He testily brushed off Baier's blameless questions as "unusual." Baier isn't exactly Martin Bashir, yet Romney felt the need to treat him like a particularly hostile questioner. Romney hasn't been this agitated since he grabbed at Rick Perry's shoulder. Behaving like a thin-skinned pol didn't lend any credence to Romney's claim during the interview that he is the refreshing outsider in...

(RealClearPolitics)Mitt Romney became visibly irritated with "Special Report" host Bret Baier when he confronted the presidential hopeful about his numerous nuanced positions compared to his past positions. "Well, Bret, your list is just not accurate," Romney said, when asked by Baier about changing his stances on climate change, abortion, gay rights and immigration. "So, one, we're going to have to be better informed about my views on issues," Mitt Romney sarcastically said to Baier. "My view is, you can look at what's written in my book. You can look at a person who has devoted his life to his family,...

If you haven’t seen the Bret Baier interview with Mitt Romney it is now abundantly apparent why Mitt Romney will not sit in the middle chair and take tough questions from the roundtable — his skin is as thin as Barack Obama’s. (To Bret’s credit, he had the roundtable panel submit questions and Steve Hayes asked an awesome one. You’ll have to watch the interview to see it) Bret Baier asked Romney, “About your book, you talk about Massachusetts healthcare. We’ve heard you many times, in the debates and interviews, talk about how it is different in your mind than...

With ratings head and shoulders above its cable news competitors, a Fox News Channel appearance would seem like an appropriate place for Republican presidential candidates to make their case. Fox’s 6:00 p.m. “Special Report” program is especially popular — but not with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who has declined to appear on the show. “We just received an email from the Romney campaign that they are officially turning down our invite to be on ‘Center Seat,’” host Bret Baier revealed at the end of his Monday broadcast. “They say, as of now, Gov. Romney will not appear on center...

At a fundraiser in San Jose yesterday, President Obama slammed the crowd at the Fox/Google GOP debate for booing a gay soldier, projecting the behavior of a few rude audience members onto more than 5,000 debate-goers and the entire GOP.“Some of you here may be folks who actually used to be Republicans but are puzzled by what’s happened to that party, are puzzled by what’s happening to that party,� Obama said. “I mean, has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change. It’s true. You’ve got audiences cheering at the...

Fox News Channel has signed “Special Report” anchor Bret Baier to a new, multi-year contract extension, the network says. Baier will continue to serve as the anchor of “Special Report” under the new deal. He has led the show since January, 2009, when he took over for Brit Hume, who is now a political analyst for the network. “Bret’s integrity and hard-nosed approach to journalism has made him a go-to source for political news coverage,” said FNC senior VP of news editorial Michael Clemente in a statement. “We look forward to his strong presence on the network for years to...

Are viewers tiring of opinion news shows? According to Nielsen's numbers "Special Report with Bret Baier" topped both Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity in total viewers for the month of November. Bill O'Reilly remained the (long-time) leader with 3,509,000 viewers for the month. This marks the first time Baier has trumped either Beck or Hannity in total viewers, and suggests that Fox viewers may be craving hard news over opinion. It's worth noting that Beck lost more total viewers since October (2,748, 000 to 2,299,000) than Baier gained (2,248,000 to 2,404, 000). Meanwhile in the 25-54 demographic Baier dropped back...

...But there are also some large media stories involving the TV journalists who will be bringing election news to millions of viewers. And one of the biggest involves Bret Baier, anchor of the nightly Fox News program "Special Report with Bret Baier." Baier steps up this fall as lead political news anchor on Election Night replacing Brit Hume, who moved after the 2008 elections to the role of senior political analyst. Given the way Fox News has come to lead in ratings for coverage of political events since CNN's glory days during the presidential campaign of 2008, Baier's ascension makes...

Don't you just love it when a young student hammers the arrogant professor in a debate? That was the distinct feel of last night's "Special Report" program, where Bret Baier interviewed President Obama. In case you have not figured it out, Baier is the victorious young student in this analogy. Certainly this was not what the White House had in mind when President Obama agreed to sit down and chat with the heretofore-nondescript Fox anchor. Where is Anita Dunn and her war on Fox News when you need her? With all due respect to Brit Hume and Charles Krauthammer, who...

Bret Baier, the genial, affable, amiable host of the Fox News program, Special Report, gently and politely kicked the President’s backside and took his lunch money in the very special interview between the two last night. The President, in turn, danced all around Baier’s simple to-the-point questions with all the virtuosity of Fred Astaire, but to no avail, as Baier’s polite but insistent queries made the President look worse and worse as the interview wore on...

When did Larry O'Donnell rip the "Question Authority" bumper sticker off his old Volkswagen van? Liberals normally love to celebrate those who "speak truth to power." But Larry O'Donnell is bent out of shape that Fox News' Bret Baier had the chutzpah to challenge and, yes, interrupt, Pres. Obama when interviewing him today about ObamaCare. Larry displayed his sudden deference to high-office on this evening's Countdown, subbing for Keith Olbermann. View video here.

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Fox News Channel's Bret Baier will have an exclusive sit-down interview with President Barack Obama on St. Patrick's day, tonight from Washington D.C. at 6 pm Eastern, 3 pm Pacific. Bret Bair hosts FNC's Special Report from Washington, Monday through Friday; however, Obama won't be visiting the Fox News studio, Bret will be going to the White House to meet with the President in the Blue Room. The event will be broadcast uniterrupted. Bret will be asking the President questions from television viewers submitted via email and online at Foxnews.com/specialreport. Thousands of questions have already been submitted [including]...

This series of posts is dedicated to the proposition that 90 percent of everything Ed Schultz, the host of MSNBC's The Ed Show, does is motivated by envy (and the same could be said of the Left). Schultz has raged against his more successful colleagues Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Glenn Beck. The folks at Politico give an indication of who Schultz's next target may be: Bret Baier of Fox News' "Special Report." A side-by-side comparison with Ed's direct competitor is damning:

When Fox News executives went looking to replace Brit Hume last year, they had to find someone to take over for their franchise newsman, the staid and steady Washington hand whose arrival in 1996 had conferred instant legitimacy on the upstart network. But the network turned not to another Hume, not a traditional anchor-desk presence or deep-voiced TV vet, but to Bret Baier — sunny, serious, self-deprecating and approachable. Eight years ago, he was holding down the network’s bureau in Atlanta. Today, he steps before the camera every weekday to anchor Fox News’s “Special Report” one-hour news program. Count Hume...

On Fox News Special Report today (September 3rd), Bret Baier revealed that under socialized medicine, British doctors are concerned about some terminally-ill patients being forced to die prematurely. Is this what we can expect from the end-of-life “care and counseling” from HR 3200? VIDEO: Death Panels Real in Europe

THE CAL RIPKEN PRESIDENTFebruary 25, 2009 As Obama prepared to deliver his address to Congress on Tuesday, the Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner, Fox News' Bret Baier and Charles Krauthammer all gushed that history was being made as the first African-American president appeared before Congress. Even Gov. Bobby Jindal, whom I suppose I should note was the first Indian-American to give the Republican response to a president's speech, began with an encomium to the first black president. (Wasn't Bobby great in "Slumdog Millionaire"?) Are we going to have to hear about this for the next four years? Obama is...

Bret Baier has been named primary anchor of FOX News Channel’s (FNC) Special Report, effective January 5th,

Fox names Bret to succeed Brit By: Mike Allen December 23, 2008 03:01 PM EST Fox News has chosen Bret Baier, chief White House correspondent, to succeed Brit Hume as primary anchor of "Special Report," the Washington bureau's signature nightly newscast. Hume's farewell program is Tuesday night, but he will continue at Fox News as a senior political analyst in what what the network calls "a Brokaw-like capacity," working 100 days a year. Here is Baier's Fox bio: Bret Baier is the chief White House correspondent for FOX News Channel. In this capacity Baier reports on presidential activities on a...

Honor roll for tonight's FReep include: Jimmy Valentine's Brother, Mr/Mrs Mason-Dixon, bstein80, Doctor Raoul, staytrue, kristinn, tgsltakoma, angelwood, billf, sauropod, exit148, DollyCali, Wheelbarrow, bert, albion wilde, christopher lincoln, bufordp; dinasour, hellinahandcart and gunsareok. Compared with other years, this year's WHCA FReep was no disappointment. The theme of our counterprotest this year was "Pulitzer Prizes for Treason" given that Dana Priest and others are receiving Pulitzer Prizes for reporting illegally leaked information. There were several signs that alluded to what is going on (only in America), including this brilliant one by BufordP: This point was further reinforced by our very own...

FNC on Monday night explored another area of the report from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that other media outlets have skipped: Saddam Hussein-controlled Iraq's role in helping terrorists. On the July 12 Special Report with Brit Hume, Bret Baier reported how "sixty-six pages of the report fall under the heading 'Iraq's Links to Terrorism'" and in it, Baier related, "multiple, credible sources are cited that Iraq provided al-Qaeda with various kinds of training, combat, bomb-making, along with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear training, backing up public and private statements by former CIA director George Tenet." Baier pointed out:...