"The poll is a fraud," O'Reilly said, "as is the website."

"Daily Kos is trying to make an argument," Rove said, "and the argument falls flat on its face when you begin to look inside the numbers and you look at the methodology."

Flash forward to yesterday, and on Fox News Sunday -- the network's flagship broadcast -- Chris Wallace asked Sarah Palin whether she would run for president, pointing out that a recent poll showed her as the frontrunner among Republican voters.

Which poll was Wallace citing? You guessed it: none other than the Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll of Republicans derided just days earlier as a "fraud" by O'Reilly and Rove.