Fox and Friends had a segment planned for today where they discussed the media's bias for Barack Obama and how the Senator refuses to participate in broadcasts that are not already in the tank for him (i.e. all of Fox News Channel).

But opposition came from a surprising source when Major Garrett (that's his name, not his rank), a correspondent for FNC, wrote a Jerry Maguire-esque memo to the staff and producers of the show, demonstrating that Obama has done at least eight interviews at the network. Good for Major!

We know Roger Ailes is such a good sport about everything, there will definitely be no retaliation from the station after it gets out that Major's email was leaked to Huffpost.

Full memo, after the jump.

—–Original Message—–
From: Garrett, Major
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2008 9:23 PM
To: [redacted]
Subject: Re: F & F Guests, November 3, 2008

In the context of the 6:15 am B Block "IGNORE FNC" segment, may I point out Obama has done 5 interviews with me and one with Chris Wallace, one with Brit Hume and one with Bill O'Reilly. That's 8 interviews. Would I like more? Yes. Would Chris Wallace? Yes. Would Brit and O'Reilly like more? Of course.
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But it's still 8 interviews with FNC in this campaign. By comparison, my count is the Hillary Clinton did 5 FNC interviews with FNC during the campaign: 3 with me, one with Chris Wallace and one with O'Reilly. This does not count morning round-robins done during the primaries as those tend not to have any selectivity to them.

Just a note to add some real numbers and a grain of context. Apologies if I left out any other big interview of Obama of Clinton on our network.

MG
Major Garrett
Fox News

Awesome. Score one against the man, Major! Show them the money!