You know a Donald Trump speech is bad when Fox News host Chris Wallace calls it “an endurance test.”

In case you missed it, Trump’s speech was panned and reviled by both liberals and conservatives. But on Fox News, the heavy criticism is reserved for Democrats or wayward Republicans like Ted Cruz. So Fox's level of criticism immediately following the speech was noteworthy.

Wallace made a point of praising the substance of the speech. But then he added this – an unusually strong fault-finding of a Republican, much less a Republican presidential nominee.

WALLACE: We can’t ignore the presentation. And for some reason, he shouted the speech. For some reason, he said each word so slowly that it kind of became an endurance test and in that sense, I think it was a bit of a missed opportunity.

Brit Hume didn’t say a good word, even about the substance.

HUME: Well, it certainly was emphatic. But I don’t think anybody listening to this who expected there would be new material and ideas here […] that would cause conservatives, for example, who’ve had their doubts about him and have not been prepared to support him and others to say, “Now, that I hadn’t heard before. That is new. That is, that is, that is reason for me to rethink my position.” What he gave us, I think, was the standard material we’ve heard from him that has carried him this far. The question is, can these ideas and therefore this speech, carry him further. I think we’ll have to wait for the verdict from the people on that.

Host Megyn Kelly got in a dig. She noted that Ivanka Trump, who introduced her father, was “very optimistic in her tone” whereas her father was “a little bit more foreboding.”

Which was quite an understatement. But again, this is still Fox News, even if Roger Ailes has been kicked to the curb.

But then Kelly said pointedly, “There was such a contrast there between the tone and the approach.”

But if Trump’s little fingers started twitching watching this, he must have been greatly reassured by the cheering section that Sean Hannity brought in soon thereafter. Hannity and his fellow Trump lover Rudy Giuliani found nothing not to love in the speech. From Media Matters:

GIULIANI: That was the best acceptance speech I have ever seen, including my hero, Ronald Reagan. […] I’ve always known him to be exactly the man you saw up there last night. A good man. A compassionate man, a fair man, and an exceptionally talented man. There is no way that this man is not getting elected. HANNITY: Two things really impressed me in this speech. Number one, the statistics that he used to lay out the case that this country is headed in the wrong direction, that it is broken, and he literally—I don’t think he missed a single problem America is facing today, and offered what Hillary would do as the insider who has failed, and what he is offering, which is now a change election. America has a clear choice which direction this country will be heading.

In fact, the speech was full of lies and distortions. But don’t expect any serious fact checking on the “fair and balanced” network any time soon.

Watch it below, from the July 21 coverage of the Republican National Convention.