McCain Assails Response to Katrina

Wright's interview with Moyers is scheduled for broadcast Friday night on "Bill Moyers Journal" and is Wright's first high-profile appearance since the firestorm over his remarks began.

Wright will speak at the National Press Club in Washington on Monday.

-- Shailagh Murray

TICK-TICK-TICK-TICK

Chris Wallace Gets Obama to Show

After repeatedly failing to book Barack Obama as a guest on "Fox News Sunday," host Chris Wallace last month started an "Obama Watch" clock. Last Sunday, the clock read 765 days, 13 hours and 54 minutes: the time elapsed since Obama promised Wallace an interview. The clock will stop with Obama's appearance Sunday.

"The 'Obama Watch' probably had some effect," Wallace says. "We made it clear he was ducking us." He says Obama's strategists "realized they need to reach working-class moderate and even conservative Democrats." An Obama spokesman said the clock was not a factor.

A year ago, most Democratic candidates were avoiding Fox as a channel unfair to their party. In late March, however, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, a Hillary Clinton supporter, said on "Fox & Friends" that "Fox has done the fairest job, has remained the most objective of all the cable networks."

Media analysis or plain, old pandering? "You ignore or boycott 'Fox News' at your peril," Wallace declares.

-- Howard Kurtz