Weekend Watchdog Wrap-up

The Sunday show hosts failed to ask any of our Weekend Watchdog questions [1] today.

Fox News Sunday taped its interview with Rudy Giuliani [2] on Friday, one day after his client Purdue Pharma had some its executives plead guilty for misleading the public about Oxycontin. [3]

Giuliani was hired specifically to help Purdue avoid accountability [1] (Sunday's W. Post quotes a Drug Enforcement Agency official saying the company was trying to go around investigators [4] by hiring Giuliani and getting political access).

Yet Fox News didn't bother asking about his role, and what it says about how he would deal with issues involving the pharmaceutical industry as president.

NBC's Meet The Press [5] didn't ask Sen. John McCain one Iran question, despite the factually inaccurate comments about Iran McCain made [1] in the recent presidential debate (not to mention his cringe-inducing rendition of "Bomb Iran" [6]).

And ABC's This Week did not ask Sen. Barack Obama when we can expect to see a detailed universal health care plan.

In fact, the only question asked about health care didn't involve the substance of any plan, just whether Obama would raise taxes to pay for it -- a growing pattern with how the political reporters [7] deal with health care.

Further, ABC's website [8] previewed the interview by saying, "What will [Obama] do to ... make healthcare universal, and to stop global warming?" Neither question was asked.