Chris Wallace said it was "an exceedingly smart speech." Howard Wolfson "thought it was great." Even Pat Buchanan called it "a genuinely outstanding speech".

But the AP's Charles Babington, often a guest on MSNBC programs, wasn't as enthusiastic in his analysis of Barack Obama's acceptance speech, and Keith Olbermann called him out on it.

• Read Babington's story here and judge for yourself...

> More: E&P reports Babington's original article had the length of the speech at 35 minutes. But "a few minutes later, the AP copy showing up at news sites had been corrected to '44 minutes.'"