Fox News Moron Tried to Muzzle Wallace

Who's the Fox News executive who doesn't know what his job is?

I ask because Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, was reprimanded by a network higher-up after he politely informed the hosts of Fox & Friends, on air last Friday, that their "Obama-bashing" had become excessive.

"It was not at all in the sense of, you know, how dare you defend Obama," Wallace tells the New York Observer about the admonitory email he received. "It was in the sense that, isn't this the kind of thing we should be talking about off camera, not on camera?"

But what, exactly, did the anonymous Fox exec object to? That Fox talking heads were disagreeing with each other in public? Isn't that pretty much what the Fox & Friends crew get paid to do every day? (Not to mention Hannity & Colmes, Fox News Watch, etc.) That it made for unusually compelling morning television? That the clip, which "ricocheted to every far-flung corner of the Web," according to the Observer, generated massive exposure for F&F, while bolstering the claims by both Wallace and Fox News itself to be non-partisan?

Wallace deserves to be praised for speaking his mind and doing right by his network, and praised again for exposing the small-mindedness of the clueless suit who tried to rein him in. If only he'd told us the guy's name.

Here's the clip, in case you haven't seen it yet: