The big fuss over Barack Obama visiting Fox News Sunday, two years after Chris Wallace extended an invitation, was all for naught. The interview (transcript here) revealed little, if anything, newsworthy. Must we keep revisiting the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres storylines? What he'll do about his commitment to a federally financed campaign — didn't he already share his intention to work something out with John McCain?

Way to render your airtime – and publicity stunt – irrelevant.

Below, Chris Wallace's post-interview reaction.

“…[I]t was a very friendly exchange. I think we asked them questions that Fox viewers would want to hear and I think they’ll be interested in his answers, but he, he very much clearly wants to reach out to the kind of moderate conservative Democrats and Republicans who watch of Fox and I think, as I say, very much wants to get away from any sense that he’s a creature or a captive of the left. That was very clear throughout his more than half an hour we sat down and talked to him…” [The Page]

[Photo: The New Yorker]