JON SCOTT, HOST OF "FOX NEWS WATCH" (voice-over): On “Fox News Watch,” it's a trifecta for Santorum this week. The Republican candidate chalking up wins in Minnesota, Missouri and Colorado, and capturing headlines and media attention. But did most in the media shortchange Santorum? What has his win done to the coverage?

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UNIDENTIFIED CATHOLIC PRIEST: I take the protection of conscious and religious freedom as one of my highest responsibilities.

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SCOTT: Controversy builds over the Obama administration's stance to force religious organizations to provide contraception and other services against their beliefs. Most in the media ignore the issue. The conservative press goes all out. So which side wins?

Iran's growing nuclear threat has Israel on high alert and some here concerned about how the U.S. will react. Are the media paying attention, too?

Mr. Obama does a 180, flip-flopping on super PACs, and the liberal media yawns.

And some interesting things going on inside the White House this week.

(on camera): On the panel this week, writer and Fox News contributor, Judy Miller; radio talk show host, Monica Crowley; Jim Pinkerton, contributing editor, the American Conservative magazine; and Daily Beast, columnist, Kirsten Powers.

I'm Jon Scott. "Fox News Watch" is on right now.

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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST OF "ANDERSON COOPER 360": Welcome back. Something just happened, and Wolf Blitzer said OMG during the commercial break. Wolf --

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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Let me tell you what's going on and I'll repeat it, OMG. Look at this. Right now, 64 percent of the precincts are in. Rick Santorum is 75 votes ahead of Mitt Romney in Colorado.

RUSH LIMBAUGH, CONSERVATIVE RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: We've got an OMG. Doesn't that mean, oh, my god? It's, oh, my god. Wolf, you can say, oh, my god. They didn't say you couldn't say, oh, my god. You just can't say shotgun, but you can say, oh, my god. OMG?

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SCOTT:  CNN's Wolf Blitzer reacting to Rick Santorum's performance on Tuesday night. And Rush Limbaugh reacting to Wolf's performance on Tuesday night. Santorum's win not anticipated by most in the media, giving new shape to the GOP race and the coverage as well.

On the heels of Santorum's success, a Fox News poll asked voters, what best describes the race for the GOP Nomination. 80 percent think it's not over yet. 17 percent say it's over and that Romney will win.

So, Jim, were the media blindsided by Rick Santorum's performance?

JIM PINKERTON, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, and AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE MAGAZINE: I think not only the media, but everybody else, including all the highly paid consultants around Romney. This is one of the times where reality just kind of bumps the scenario here pretty hard. Everybody though Romney had it locked up. Now, a few people think so, including, obviously, the vast majority of the voters.

SCOTT: What does Santorum's win -- how does it change the coverage here on out?

JUDY MILLER, WRITE & FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: I would think one would hope that the analysts might be a little more humble.

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But that's not going to happen. They're already drawing lessons, as your client at The Washington Post"said, well, the clear lesson, money isn't everything. Duh. The New York Times said, well, it looks like we're in for a long, drawn-out battle. I think fewer predictions are probably the lesson I would draw. Just watch it unfold.

SCOTT: But the flip side of that, Kirsten. Many in the media said, Rick Santorum, his win a meaningless, he's not going to get the nomination anyway.

KIRSTEN POWERS, COLUMNIST, THE DAILY BEAST: Well, that would be my opinion, actually, because I think, if you look at the states, they're not probably -- you know, they're not, they're not --

SCOTT: He didn't leave a lot of delegates.

POWERS: Right.

SCOTT: But he -- in fact, he didn't win any delegates.

POWERS: Well, they're kind of beauty contests and they're not where Romney's putting most of his efforts. And Romney will do well in a lot of states that are coming up. That's a fair analysis. And we never can say definitely who the nominee is going to be, of course, but it's the job of political analysts to handicap what's going on and make some sort of informed judgment.

SCOTT: Monica, I saw this comment from Paul Mulshine in The New York Star Ledger (ph). He wrote that God must love pundits --

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-- because just when you want to hit the snooze button --

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SCOTT: -- during this GOP race, he," meaning God, "pulled the rug out from under them by giving Rick Santorum the win."

MONICA CROWLEY, FOX NEWS RADIO HOST: It may be God or it may be the voters who have a way of upending the conventional wisdom and throwing a monkey wrench, even the best laid plans of the candidates and the media. I think one thing that's interesting about Wolf Blitzer's OMG and the fact he was stuck talking in emoticons about the Rick Santorum victories, is because the left wing media, and as well as the American people at large, have bought into the conventional wisdom about the race, which is that it's essentially built on economic issues. I think that's true. I don't think that's wrong. I think a lot of folks were taken by surprise, that a social conservative like Rick Santorum would do a full three-state sweep on Tuesday.

SCOTT: Why, Jim, can't the media remember, oh, about four years ago, a little known Senator from Illinois came out to sweep the rug out from Hillary Clinton?

PINKERTON: And an evangelical minister, Mike Huckabee, won Iowa. There's a blind spot in the media on social issues. They can't believe that the people in the heartland can believe this stuff and it doesn't get through their heads. And I think that Santorum is attractive in the sense that he's new and fresh and gets happy and keeps the reporters from going back to their drudgery of general assignments. They can stay on the road.

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