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Fox News' Bret Baier interrupted President Obama so many times during Wednesday's interview that Newsweek described the enounter as a "interrupt-a-thon."

Baier acknowledged his repeated interjections at the end of the interview, by interrupting the president once more to apologize. Baier told Obama "I apologize for interrupting you, sir.

The possibility that Fox shows could disappear from cable viewers' screens increases as the media giants continue trying to hammer out a deal by midnight on New Year's Eve.

CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, finishes fourth behind Fox News, MSNBC and its own HLN.

The Obama administration's recent characterization of Fox News is a long overdue acknowledgment of the obvious: Fox News is not a legitimate news organization -- indeed, after many years of serving as the research and messaging wing of the Republican Party, it has now gone beyond even that, to become the electronic evangelist of an ultra-partisan and non-reality-based world view.