After just one impeachment hearing, Donald Trump’s allies in Congress and on Fox News are claiming the whole effort has fizzled.

Joseph diGenova’s anti-Semitic and baseless accusation that George Soros controls “a very large part” of State Department officials, including yesterday’s impeachment hearing witness George Kent, has engendered a demand for an on-air retraction and the banning of diGenova from the network. We agree 100%.

In his effort to assist Fox Business host Lou Dobbs in smearing impeachment hearing witness George Kent as anti-American, guest Joseph diGenova suggested that Kent and most of the U.S. State Department, as well as overseas FBI agents, are more loyal to George Soros than the U.S. (i.e. Dear Leader Donald Trump).

MSNBC host Ari Melber showed how Fox News contributor John Solomon’s pro-Trump propaganda was so successful that it backfired and is now at the heart of the Ukraine scandal that will likely get Donald Trump impeached.

The first public impeachment hearing begins at 10 AM today with witnesses Bill Taylor and George Kent. We’ll be watching and commenting as it goes along and invite you to do the same. But first, I want to share with you a “straight news” article on the subject from Fox News - which reads like it was cowritten by Kellyanne Conway.

Canadian broadcaster Don Cherry was fired last week after an anti-immigrant rant – so, naturally, that made him an instant hero for Tucker Carlson’s White Power Hour.

Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano should have put to bed Trumper whining about the unfairness of the impeachment process when he told viewers Republicans “had more participation” in the Trump impeachment process than they had in Watergate or than they gave Democrats when they impeached Bill Clinton.

Newt Gingrich and Brian Kilmeade floated impeachment defense strategies for Donald Trump that depended on persuading the public that Trump developed a sudden noble concern about corruption that seems to apply to the Bidens only. UPDATED: Apparently, this is the Republicans' strategy, too.

Sean Hannity gave Senate Republicans a list of witnesses whom “we should” subpoena as well as a detailed list of questions for them during a commentary in which Hannity appointed himself Armchair General of the Trump Defense Team.

The Outrageous Fox Quote of the Week Poll is back after a hiatus which I spent at dance camp and hosting my nephew for about a week afterward. But now I’m rested up enough to give a big round of raspberries to Mark Levin, the runaway winner of our last poll. Details and new nominees after the jump.