Chris Wallace will anchor You Decide 2008 coverage from 8:00-9:00PM ET. Hannity & Colmes will be live from 9:00-10:00PM ET followed by On the Record with Greta Van Susteren from 10:00PM-11:00PM ET and Shepard Smith hosting more You Decide 2008 coverage from 11:00-12:00AM ET.

Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron and Major Garrett will provide live updates, in addition to results analysis provided by; The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol; Fortune Magazine’s Nina Easton; Politico’s Jim Vandehei and FNC political contributor, Karl Rove. Also, viewers can log on to www.foxnews.com for in-depth coverage of the races.

FishbowlDC has a recap of Hillary Clinton’s comments to the Politico’s John Harris regarding MSNBC and the praise she gives FNC over their coverage of her. Oddly enough, the Politico’s website has an incomplete transcript of the interview as of 10:08pm PST…

Update: The Politico fixed its transcript…

JOHN HARRIS: Senator, you were offended the other day for reasons that I think a lot of people understood by comments that were made on MSNBC. And in the wake of that, I heard from some of the people on your staff who say, to their surprise, they actually think that Fox News is giving you a better break than MSNBC. Is that your perception?

SENATOR CLINTON: Well, there was some independent study that my staff sent me — we didn’t do it — but it was some independent study which seemed to suggest that, that in terms of the fairness of the coverage — you know, look, I’m a mom first. I’m a candidate second. And, you know, I really am troubled by this pattern of behavior and comments that you hear.
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Gawker has an email from Rachel Marsden about her time on Red Eye and Greg Gutfeld. Will this be a topic on the next Red Eye?

New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer writes about Eric Burns’ impending departure from Fox News Watch…

Just so you know, Burns, the spokesperson added, the reason they wanted to see other people was that Burns just wasn’t satisfying their needs anymore: “We didn’t feel the current talent would be capable of handling the new direction,” the spokeswoman told the Times. But Fox really can’t blame Burns for pining for them. After all, they are kind of great. Probably the best Burns will ever have. It must be hard for him, you know? The spokeswoman added. “Not having a contributor agreement renewed is something that’s very difficult to accept.”

Meanwhile the AP’s David Bauder writes about the story and interviews Burns…
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FNC contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano will be a guest on Mike Schneider’s “Night Talk” tonight at 10pm ET…

Tonight on “Night Talk with Mike Schneider” Judge Andrew Napolitano rails against President Lincoln, trumpets the candidacy of Ron Paul and talks about his latest book “A Nation of Sheep.” Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court Judge in the history of the State of New Jersey, a Judicial analyst and the author of “Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks its Own Laws.”

Broadcasting & Cable’s Marisa Guthrie writes about FNC Senior VP of Newsgathering David Rhodes’ indirect connection to the Obama campaign; his brother Ben…

But it turns out Fox News and the Obama campaign are bound by blood.

David Rhodes, Fox News’ senior VP of newsgathering, is the older brother of Ben Rhodes, one of the speechwriters responsible for Obama’s orotund oratory.

David, 34, who has been with Fox News since its 1996 inception, is responsible for the network’s news coverage. But while some will no doubt look for evidence of punches pulled—or redoubled, as it were—in Fox’s Obama coverage, David says brother Ben is discreet.

“He’s very careful not to give me any particular insight into his job,” he says.

Page Six notes that apparently John Edwards isn’t the only one boycotting FNC…

THE folks at Fox News Channel are magnanimous enough to put their rivals from CNN on air, but CNN isn’t big enough to return the favor. Geraldo Rivera - who has a new book coming out, “His Panic: Why Americans Fear Hispanics in the U.S.” - was booked to appear on Nancy Grace’s CNN show on Feb. 28. But then he was disinvited and told CNN had “a blanket boycott” against anyone from Fox. ” ‘The Most Trusted Name in News’ just chickened out,” Rivera told Page Six. “This reveals a corporate insecurity.” Fox has had on as guests both Wolf Blitzer and Glenn Beck. A CNN rep denied any boycott and blamed a scheduling conflict.

Scheduling conflict? How can a program have a secheduling conflict…that far in advance? If it really was a scheduling conflict, the standard procedure would be to rebook the guest at another date. Unless they really didn’t want him there…

The New York Times’ Brian Stelter writes about Eric Burns departure from Fox News Watch…

Although Mr. Burns said he was surprised by his termination, he acknowledged that he had seen changes coming. Fox’s executives had recently decided that the network’s weekend ratings were not high enough, especially in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic.

Perhaps in an effort to draw younger viewers, Mr. Burns said he expected the modified show to cover Internet trends in more detail.

“But I don’t know because I don’t think anybody at Fox knows, except in general terms, that somehow they must catch up with new information sources,” he said.

Mr. Burns said Fox News had never actively promoted the show, despite pledges that it would be advertised in print.

“If that’s not evidence that they don’t want this show to be seen, I don’t know what it is,” he said.

Ms. Klinghoffer of Fox said that Mr. Burns’s assertions about advertising were “not true,” adding that “not having a contributor agreement renewed is something that’s very difficult to accept.”

I saw this earlier this afternoon on FNC. Starting next week Phil Keating will be taking one of the FNC Election Link vehicles across the country as he tries to guage the mood and issues of the voting public. He’s supposed to be crossing 15 states in 15 days.

(via Olbermann Watch)

John, you are the last person who should be going anywhere near a story about someone saying the wrong thing on the air. You got off easy. Radio people tend to get fired when they do that sort of thing…

Roger Ailes sent out an email to the entire Fox News Channel staff that is all the talk today. TVNewser has the leaked memo…

Johnny Dollar scores an exclusive with Eric Burns following yesterday’s news that Burns wasn’t going to be renewed at FNC. So head on over there and read Burns’ explanation (or lack thereof) for what’s going on…

Extra got behind the scenes at FNC…

FNC’s Chris Wallace will interview President Bush from Camp David on this week’s FOX News Sunday. The President will share, for the first time, his thoughts on Senator John McCain taking a commanding position within the Republican Party and what he thinks of Mitt Romney’s decision to suspend his run for the White House.

Well we’ve seen the old (D)/(R) switcheroo before in cable news. And we’ll probably see it again…

ICN has learned that FNC has not renewed their contributor agreement with Fox News Watch host Eric Burns which is set to expire later this spring. I’m told the program will remain focused on media criticism but will be revamped with a new host and more of an eye on the evolving new media. Fox News Watch handily beats CNN’s Reliable Sources…proving that Fox is not afraid to tweak even successful programming.

FBN’s Neil Cavuto, live from Pebble Beach, CA where the AT&T National Pro-Am golf tournament is underway, will interview actor Clint Eastwood. The interview will air on FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto (4-5pm ET) and on FBN’s Cavuto (6-7pm ET).

TV Guide’s Stephen Battaglio writes about the FNC Decision Desk during Super Tuesday…

For viewers, Super Tuesday was a dizzying night of spinning graphics, graphs and maps. But it would mean nothing without the number crunchers who sift through the exit polls and the vote count. TV Guide took a seat at the Fox News “decision desk” as the results rolled in to get a feel for how the electoral sausage gets made.

6:30 p.m. The Fox decision desk team includes academics, a pollster, a veteran election results analyst, and Fox News senior vice president John Moody who’ll make the final determination on when anchor Brit Hume will call a race. The polls are still open, but the team is already poring over exit poll numbers from the research firm that provides them to all of the networks. But instead of being holed up in a back room, they are smack in the middle of the news channel’s Super Tuesday set — a mix of lucite, steel and plasma TV screens that could serve as the set for a futuristic musical stage production. The team, who look they like belong in a university mathematics department, seem a bit out of place in the high gloss production. But that’s the point, says Fox News vice president David Rhodes. “We thought the best way to deal with this issue is maximum transparency — to put as much of this process as possible on camera to demystify it. Let the viewers see a journalistic and academic process.”

During Studio B this afternoon Shepard Smith interviewed someone from his alma mater, Ole Miss, on the tornado that swept through the region in the early hours of the morning when he was anchoring Super Tuesday coverage. Using his knowledge of the region he talked about the campus and the different areas in and around the town of Oxford, near where he grew up.

Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici blogs about the so called boycott of FNC in light of Hillary Clinton agreeing to appear on an FNC debate…

With Edwards out of the picture, Clinton showed some foresight yesterday in agreeing to debate on Fox — a move that makes her, not Obama, look like the kind of bridge-building candidate who can reach out to swing voters. (In fact, both of them have made multiple Fox appearances during the primaries, just not in debates.)

Obama hasn’t yet responded to the latest Fox invitation, nor to press inquiries about it. I assume that means he’s hunkered down with his advisors, trying to figure out how to avoid being outmaneuvered by Clinton while keeping the MoveOn and DailyKos left in his corner. The irony here is that, of the three leading Democrats, Obama was always the worst suited to the role of anti-Fox warrior, with all his talk of healing the partisan divide and learning from Republicans.

NPR’s David Folkenflik writes about race projections and interviews FNC’s David Rhodes…

A few long blocks away, at Fox News Channel’s Midtown Manhattan headquarters, executive David Rhodes shows me around the decision desk. That’s where Michael Barone, who’s overseeing the network’s team of academics, political researchers and journalists, will stand and explain to viewers exactly how they’re making predictions.

Rhodes says there’s a lingering memory that accounts for the caution: Election Night 2000, when networks predicted who had won Florida. Twice. And had to withdraw it. Both times.

“This is tougher than a general election,” Rhodes says of tonight’s Super Tuesday primaries.

Roger Ailes sent out a memo to the troops this morning on FNC’s Super Tuesday coverage and all the work done to bring the new set online…

I was proud of Fox News last night. Everyone who worked so hard to make Super Tuesday a special night succeeded. Thank you very much.

GretaWire takes on David Zurawik over his comments last night on Super Tuesday and Campbell Brown…

Let me be one of the first to welcome my woman competition to cable news prime time — Campbell Brown. Then let me be the very first to say - shame on you to Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik who wrote this (and I hope that his women colleagues at the Baltimore Sun have a little talk with him):

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What’s with this? Doesn’t this guy like the women? If this is so easy do television, why isn’t this guy at the Baltimore Sun on the air? Let me make plain: I want to beat Campbell Brown but not at the expense of jerks being unfair to her….she has gotten to where she is the old fashion way — she earned it!!….(one other thing…I guess this reporter was too busy whacking the women to notice all the stupid predictions by some of the men ….oops….)

FNC had a funny exchange a short time ago between Chris Wallace and FNC contributor Harold Ford Jr:

Wallace: You have to be a real policy wonk to understand the differences between these two – don’t you think?

Ford: Well, thank you for calling me a nerd on national TV, I appreciate that…

FNC aggressively called the New Jersey Democratice primary for Hillary Clinton 10 minutes before any other cable news network.

Update: I thought I had posted this but accidentally I had hit Save instead.

Shepard Smith will take over FNC’s coverage a 1 am. At 3 am Bret Baier and Jamie Colby will anchor coverage. At 5 am Fox and Friends takes over.

Karl Rove is being interviewed by Chris Wallace as I type this. How do you think Rove did tonight?

The Politico’s Ben Smith blogs about Clinton strategist Mark Penn saying that the Senator from New York has agreed to appear to a debate with Barack Obama on FNC. But will Obama agree to a debate?

Penn said Clinton would like to see debates in Ohio, Texas, and Washington, and had already accepted three: One on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopolous, one CNN debate in Ohio February 27, and an MSNBC debate the next day hosted by Chris Matthews.

Wolfson also said Clinton has accepted a debate on Fox News, something Democrats shunned last year. That debate is scheduled for February 11, in Washington D.C., and would also air on the local Fox affiliate.

He defended the decision to accept a first Fox debate in response to a question from the blogger Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, noting that both Obama and Clinton have given Fox interviews this cycle, and that this would reach a lot of voters in D.C. and Virginia.

“Given that Senator Obama had been on the network, we’ve been on the network, and that the offer is a good one for this debate in terms of this upcoming primary, it made sense to accept it,” he said.

Update: The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein has Obama camp reaction…

Bill Burton, a spokesman for Obama, said that no plans existed as of now for his boss to participate in upcoming forums.

“As of right now, there are no debates on our schedule at all,” Burton told the Huffington Post. “We’ll figure out our schedule, including any debates, soon.”

The New York Times’ Brian Stelter blogs about Super Tuesday and reveals the location of the new FNC Election Studio…

Taking the show out of its in-house studios, the coverage by Fox News Channel, the leading cable news network, will emanate from spacious “election headquarters” it has constructed at Unitel Studios, a midtown Manhattan television studio.

FNC must have done it this way because of all the expansion going on for FNC and FBN in the News Corp. building, which I saw when I was there in November…

Crain’s Kira Bindrim writes about Karl Rove joining FNC…

The decision to join Fox News could be a move by Mr. Rove to get back into the public spotlight, particularly after an action for his memoir took over two months to generate a winning bid. Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster’s conservative imprint, won the world rights to Mr. Rove’s as-yet-untitled memoir in December, but he failed to win the $3 million advance he was asking.

Mr. Rove has said the book will explore his role in Mr. Bush’s campaigns and administration, and “shed light on important events and big controversies, spell out their implications for America and set the record straight.”

News Corp.-owned Fox News is the nation’s most-watched news channel.

The San Jose Mercury News’ Charlie McCollum writes about Super Tuesday…

CNN, Fox News and MSNBC will go wall-to-wall with Super Tuesday coverage. ABC has tossed out its entire prime time schedule in favor of five hours of political news. CBS is going with a two-hour special report, updated for the West Coast. And Fox News put together a three-hour presidential primary special - “Fox News Super Sunday” - that aired on Fox before the start of the network’s coverage of Sunday’s Super Bowl.

“It’s a return to the way network television used to be,” said John Roberts, the CNN anchor and political reporter. “Now, maybe, there’s a recognition that ‘hey, this political stuff is getting really good ratings’ and they’ve decided to capitalize on that.”

U.S. News & World Report’s Bonnie Erbe blogs about something Bill Kristol said on yesterday’s Fox News Sunday…

Magazine editor, TV commentator, and New York Times columnist William Kristol made one of the most nonsensical and uselessly offensive of them all over the weekend, however, on Fox News Sunday. Call it what you will: a brain cramp, a minor stroke, an unforgivably loose-tongued moment, an inept attempt at humor. Whatever it was, it was offensive:

Kristol: Look, the only people for Hillary Clinton are the Democratic establishment and white women. The Democratic establishment—it would be crazy for the Democratic Party to follow an establishment that’s led it to defeat year after year. White women are a problem, that’s, you know—we all live with that. [laughter]

Juan Williams (National Public Radio correspondent and Fox News contributor): Not me!

Brit Hume (moderator): Bill, for the record, I like white women.

Kristol: I know, I shouldn’t have said that.

No, Bill, you shouldn’t have. First of all, neocons’ stock is remarkably low in Washington circles these days, as they are being deservedly blamed for the failed invasion of Iraq. Why go turn off for no apparently good reason a sizable chunk of the American population?

Alan Colmes will interview former President Bill Clinton tonight on his radio program which airs at 10PM ET.