Fox, doing it’s usual bang-up job:

On Monday, the day the NIE conclusions surprised the world, three of the four Fox News programs made no mention of the story at all. The exception with Special Report with Brit Hume, which featured a discussion between Hume, conservative media personality Fred Barnes, conservative media personality Mort Kondracke, and conservative media personality Charles Krauthammer.

It was a brief discussion, but viewers heard Kondracke argue, “[Iranians] are still trying to reprocess uranium. If they find out how to reprocess uranium, it’s a short step from that to a nuclear program.” Barnes argued, “Well, look, this is not a case for diplomacy. That’s not what worked.” And Krauthammer concluded that intelligence officials might be wrong.

Which leads us to last night’s programs.

* Special Report ran a piece Chief Washington Correspondent Jim Angle, who told viewers, “If the latest NIE is, in fact, accurate, Iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program in 2003, not long after President Bush said it was part of an axis of evil, which made some people squeamish, raising the question of whether Iran backed off nuclear weapons in spite of the Bush comments, or in part because of them.”

* Special Report also featured a discussion — with the same four conservative voices from Monday night — in which viewers heard Fred Barnes say, “It’s an estimate. It’s a guess. And there are good guesses, and they describe this latest thing as they have high confidence. Well, I don’t have high confidence in it.”

* The Big Story led with a lengthy report on the Stacy Peterson case, another lengthy report on a Tampa teacher who had sex with a student, and then another lengthy report on Norman Hsu. After these gripping news items, John Gibson asked, “We’ve got the IAEA saying they’re not trying to make one. We have got Ahmadinejad saying we just cascaded 3,000 centrifuges, we’re on our way. Who should we believe?”

* On Hannity & Colmes, Alan Colmes broached the subject, asking for responses from Republican pollster Frank Luntz and conservative activist Kristen Powers. Both guests said the NIE is not to be trusted.

* The O’Reilly Factor featured a fairly lengthy discussion about the NIE on Iran. That’s the good news. The bad news is, the discussion was with former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who called for a congressional investigation into an NIE he dismisses, and right-wing personality Glenn Beck, who said the NIE might be right, but it’s proof of Bush’s greatness.

And people wonder why Fox News viewers are so confused about reality.