On FOX News' pre-State of the Union coverage, general assignment correspondent Brian Wilson expressed bewilderment at how involved parties -- presumably Democrats -- were able to formulate and distribute responses to the speech since “they don't really know what the president is going to say.” In fact, several FOX News correspondents and commentators had already made clear that they had obtained embargoed copies of the speech, and it was available to the public on the Internet, so it was hardly mysterious how Democrats were able to review the speech and react to it before President Bush delivered it.

From FOX News' pre-speech coverage on February 2:

WILSON: We are going to be sitting here after the speech to get reaction. There has already been some reaction, but it's very interesting -- the president's speech hasn't even been delivered, but already into our BlackBerry and our communication devices we are getting reaction that is embargoed until the end of the speech. I've always wondered how it is that they can do that when they don't really know what the president is going to say in the State of the Union address.

But three hours earlier, on Special Report with Brit Hume, FOX News chief White House correspondent Carl Cameron reported that “the White House has just released excerpts of the president's address tonight” and previewed passages from the speech about Iraq, the broader Middle East, and Social Security. Only minutes earlier on The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly bragged: "The Factor has an advance copy of the speech." And at 8:30 p.m. ET -- about 30 minutes before Wilson expressed his bewilderment -- Thinkprogress.org, a weblog associated with the Center for American Progress, posted the full text of the speech online.

Did Wilson not know that his colleagues had advance copies? And if he did know, did he think that only FOX News staff, and not Democrats, would have access?