At first blush, Megyn Kelly’s scolding interview with Republican Congressman Darrell Issa last night over his behavior toward Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings may have seemed like she was exerting some political independence and real journalistic chops over the Republican IRS witch hunt investigation. But if you carefully consider what she said, it’s pretty clear that her chief complaint was that Issa’s behavior was harming the Republican efforts.

Brent Bozell had a sad on The Kelly File last night. He’s very, very upset that the news media is talking about the dustup between Rep. Elijah Cummings and Committee Chairman Darrell Issa over the IRS investigation. Why? Because now the media is not talking about the substance of the investigation. According to Bozell, the issue is so important, it makes Iran-Contra look “piddly.”

It’s hard to think of anything more disturbing than an American news network making racial attacks on an African American nominee to head the Civil Rights division of the Justice Department because he took on a civil rights case. But what’s even worse is how Fox’s race baiting helped get enough Democratic senators to block the nomination.

In what may be the most ridiculous defense of the Bush administration ever, Sean Hannity actually argued that Condoleezza Rice’s support for the Iraq War and “enhanced interrogations” was the same as President Obama’s now-infamous statement about the Affordable Care Act, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.”

It’s hard to know which was worse about Donald Rumsfeld discussing Ukraine on the Hannity show last night: the way his own colossal blunders were swept under the rug or his utter lack of professionalism or grace during this tense situation. Instead, Rumsfeld tag teamed with Sean Hannity in using a serious international confrontation for partisan hackery.

Fox News has been described, in the Center for American Progress' report "Fear Inc.," as an echo chamber for America's cottage industry of Islamophobia. But now that the so called "Ground Zero Mosque" is no longer an issue, the steady drumbeat of Fox Islamophobia has diminished. But it has not totally disappeared as shown by Fox & Friends' recent embrace of a "security expert" from a radical, fringe anti-Muslim group who used his Fox platform to spread more Fox fear and loathing of Islam. It's no surprise that Ryan Mauro, whose work appears on anti-Muslim sites such as Front Page Mag, would be playing the hate card given that his previous job was with the Christian Action Network, a virulently homophobic organization. So he's perfect for "the morning happy-talk show that Ailes uses as one of his primary vehicles to inject his venom into the media bloodstream."

Nothing, nothing, nothing could reveal Fox News’ hatred and calculating demonization of the poor better than Jon Stewart’s two segments on the subject last night. And you gotta love Stewart’s new motto for Fox: "We read the chain emails your Grandma gets in her inbox out loud like they were true."

Senator Lindsey Graham went beyond “broken record” on Benghazi into something either downright hilarious or downright terrifying last night. Graham argued that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine “started with Benghazi” not once, not twice, but three times in an On The Record discussion that lasted just a little over five minutes.

On today’s Your World, Neil Cavuto denigrated and trivialized President Obama’s budget proposal before he even began to discuss it with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).

Sean Hannity put aside his racial crusade against the NAACP last night in order to go after another favorite black target: filmmaker Spike Lee. The excuse this time was Lee's criticisms of gentrification in New York City. Watch how Hannity prodded his guests to make the attacks on Lee overtly racial.