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.

As we get ready for the impeachment hearings set to begin Wednesday morning, a subset issue I'll be keeping in mind is the role of Sean Hannity in Trump’s bribery/extortion scheme with Ukraine. As CNN host Brian Stelter put it yesterday, the testimony we have seen so far has highlighted Hannity’s role as one of Trump’s “shadow foreign policy advisers.”

Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has the kind of career history that most Americans would probably consider improper for a taxpayer-funded position in the White House. But Fox News host Howard Kurtz seems to think the media should ignore those unflattering details the same way he did.

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— mike luckovich (@mluckovichajc) October 29, 2019

During a lapdog interview with Fox News’ Howard Kurtz, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham doubled down on her recent affirmation that Never Trump Republicans are indeed “human scum” because “my job … is to support the president.”