Megyn Kelly was a vision of patriotic support for the Million Veteran March demonstration held last weekend – and a scold for that biased media (by which she meant everyone but Fox News) that focused on the extremist elements that Kelly insisted were not representative of the crowd. But Kelly's choice of guests, anti-immigrant extremist Dennis Michael Lynch - there to provide the supposedly unvarnished truth - was no assurance at all.

The nice Fox & Friends Christians love Jesus who, as everybody knows, hates fags. Joining Jesus in some old time homo hating are various "family values" groups who have been designated, by the Southern Poverty Law Center, as hate groups because of their homophobia. But that's not a problem for Fox News which has warmly embraced the head of the hate group, The Family Research Council, Tony Perkins. Perkins has appeared, several times, on Fox & Friends, where he once claimed that his group doesn't hate gays and that his group is just trying to preserve the family. Fox & Friends is now defending another homophobic hate group, the American Family Association which has close ties to Fox's Mike Huckabee and Fox contributor/writer and male leather thong aficionado Todd Starnes. On this morning's Fox & Friends, Toddles whined about how the evil Obama administration is telling good Christian soldiers that the virulently homophobic and anti-Islamic hate group, The American Family Association, is a hate group - which it is - but not in the Fox & Friends apocalyptic world of persecuted Christians where the AFA is a "respected Christian ministry." True story.

Fox News’ White House correspondent Ed Henry walked out of a White House press briefing Friday after a public snubbing from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. Yesterday, Henry insisted he wasn’t walking out in protest, he just had work to do. But he would have stayed if he had been called on.

Dennis Michael Lynch is an "entrepreneur" and "filmmaker" whose xenophobic films earn him warm validation whenever he appears on Fox News. To say that Lynch's films are "documentaries" is a bit of a stretch given that they are really an extension of Lynch's paranoid belief that this country is being "invaded" by imaginary hordes of murderous "illegal aliens" some of whom are murderous Al Qaeda. Lynch knows this because - wait for it - he has seen discarded prayer rugs and Korans in the desert. Last week, the Daily Show's Aasif Manvi did a brilliant take down of Lynch who, once again, demonstrated his tenuous hold on reality. What is really pathetic is that his outlandish claims ("illegals" increase your daughter's chance of being raped) and his disdain for real data are taken seriously on Fox News - which, despite its claim of being "real news," is another type of comedy show! Enjoy.

Sarah Palin never served in the military but she was nonetheless deeply moved by the plight of World War II veterans shut out from the national memorial. So what's a half-term governor from Alaska to do except show up at the vets' demonstration in Washington to grab a little attention lend her support to the valiant effort of keeping the government shut down for everybody else?

It isn't surprising that the Fox audience is misinformed, given the panoply of partisan crap that is spewed on Fox News shows which, if they're "opinion" shows, are exempt from the "fair & balanced" part of the Fox News logo. But taking best in show, is Fox & Friends which is consistently misinforming its audience. It was only a week ago that the show was forced to apologize for and correct its fake story about how Pres. Obama personally funded a Muslim museum during the "slimdown." Today's diversion from reality was provided by Brian "all terrorists are Muslims," Kilmeade who asked "why now" in a discussion about how Washington Redskins is considered a racial slur. That sports guy Kilmeade is either too lazy to do some research or is merely conveying the Roger Ailes framing of the issue as much ado about nothing was demonstrated by his suggestion that the controversy is recent when it has been around for over FORTY YEARS!

While the "fair & balanced" Fox News does have some left of center contributors, it maintains a stable of conservatives, some of whom are in the totally batshit crazy category such as Sandy Rios who has compared same sex love to the rape and torture perpetrated by Ariel Castro. Fox's newest contributor, Dr. Ben Carson, isn't quite this extreme about teh gay; but his views on women's reproductive rights are straight out of the misogynist playbook of the radical anti-choice movement which has brought us such luminaries as Todd "legitimate rape" Aiken. At last week's Values Voters Summit, Carson reinforced the right wing narrative that there is no war on women and the patriarchy knows best about what we silly, misinformed women really need when it comes to our lady parts. True story.

H/T Raw Story

Fox News host Anna Kooiman has apologized for her false report last week that, while the government shutdown closed national parks and monuments, President Obama was personally funding a Muslim museum. She said this weekend, “We made a bad mistake by reporting a story based on poor research that was not true. We apologize for not checking the facts.” But there was something important she did not say.

Another week, another slew of outrageous quotes from Fox News pundits and guests. This week, you’ve got some more tough choices, dear readers. You’ve got Dennis Miller discussing “closeted” Muslims, Guy Benson dangerously suggesting young people would be better off going without health insurance, Elisabeth Hasselbeck revealing that television and air conditioning is the “ugly side of entitlements” and more.

Stuart Varney's desire to punish federal workers with the government shutdown was a most deserving winner of our Fox News Outrageous Quote Of The Week. Although he had some competition from 2nd place winner Anna Kooiman, Varney pulled it out with a decisive victory.