On Wednesday, Fox News popinjay Greta Van Susteren picked a fight with on-air foe Al Sharpton over the reverend's supposed ditching of her show Tuesday night, less than two hours before he was supposed to appear, to go on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 because Barack Obama's campaign supposedly asked him to. Now, because we paid attention the first time around, we must also chronicle what happened next. Namely, a round of he-said-she-said.

Sharpton's rep Rachel Noerdlinger says on Tuesday she booked her client on Cooper's show, unaware of any conversation Sharpton had with Van Susteren, and later said Sharpton absolutely did not appear on CNN by request of Obama's campaign. (CNN didn't note the relationship, if there was one.)

But Van Susteren is sticking by her original claim: That she spoke with Sharpton directly, who excused himself from her show because he "had to" do CNN out of a commitment to Obama.

In the end, Sharpton says he never has been, nor is he currently, an Obama surrogate, but simply an Obama supporter. Whether he'll be asked back by FNC anytime soon is still up in the air.