No matter what Bill O'Reilly, Mike Allen, Kathleen Parker, Clarence Page, Michael Wolff, David Gergen, Ruth Marcus and an army of media pundits insist, the cold facts are clear: in the two weeks following its public dispute with the White House. Fox News' ratings did not “soar” or “spike” or “go through the roof.”

Instead, the ratings flat-lined.

As I note in my column:

The chattering class wanted to claim Fox News' ratings were going up, up, up. They wanted to suggest that the White House critique had massively backfired. But now we know that's fiction. So when are the pundits going to start posting their retractions?

Full column here.