Throughout the Gosnell trial, Fox News has been parroting anti-choice talking points including the memes that the media wasn't sufficiently covering the trial and that what happened at the Gosnell clinic is typical abortion practice. Now, the anti-choice movement is using a failed anti-abortion Senate resolution, introduced by GOP Sen. Mike Lee, to portray themselves as victims of pro-choice zealotry and Democratic chicanery. So it should come as no surprise that Fox News, in coming to their rescue, would promote Lee's resolution which isn't quite what Fox News is making it out to be. Sunday, Fox News' Shannon Bream provided the requisite "pro-life" spin without reporting on the real substance and ramifications of the resolution which was similarly spun, by alleged "news" host Megyn Kelly, on Friday. Ah, love the smell of fair & balanced in the afternoon! 

Last week, Senator Lindsey Graham assured viewers, On the Record and elsewhere, that the “dam was about to break” on the Benghazi incident, thanks to last Wednesday’s House Committee hearing featuring three whistle blowers. I guess the dam hasn’t broken, because last night Graham was back On the Record promising more whistle-blowers – even though he declared he was “tired” of them and what he really wanted was a joint select committee and testimony from eye-witnesses.

That Fox News panders to the homophobic religious right and pro-life extremism is underscored by what seems to be more frequent appearances by Tony Perkins, head of the "Family Research Council." This so-called "family values" organization has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its virulent anti-LGBT views, some of which have been articulated, without rebuttal, on Fox. Along with opposing marriage equality, the FRC is part of the movement that, in seeking to ban abortion, would put abortion back in the hands of back alley butchers whose practices would rival that of convicted murderer Dr. Gosnell. So there was some irony in the official Fox "news" interview with Perkins, this past week-end, about Gosnell whose comments received no push back from Fox's Shannon Bream who does appear to be America's "pro-life" newsroom's "pro-life" news correspondent

Last night’s O’Reilly Factor conducted a “Factor Follow up” on a scandal in Baltimore in which a prisoner has allegedly run a drug ring in the prison and impregnated four prison guards. The story of the Baltimore detention center, taken over by the state of Maryland is, in fact, a big one. But O’Reilly glided over most of the details and deliberately made it more about Governor Martin O’Malley than the prison. And guess what? It just so happens that Democrat O’Malley is a 2016 presidential hopeful.

Nobody gets to the heart of Fox News maliciousness like Stephen Colbert. In his funny dissection of the Benghazi non-troversy, he also took an enjoyable swipe at Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld for calling the mainstream media “Obama’s condom.” 

It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry at the brazen hypocrisy of Sean Hannity and Fox News in calling on Dick Cheney to lecture President Obama about preventing terrorism attacks and being ready to handle attacks such as the one in Benghazi, Libya when they do come. While many may think of the Bush administration as having abjectly failed to protect the country from the original 9/11 – thousands of times worse than what happened in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 – and for killing thousands in Iraq in a war based on false claims that the country was an imminent threat (and never mind Hurricane Katrina), Hannity and Fox pretended that Cheney had some kind of track record to be proud of when it comes to protecting Americans.

In Fox's never-ending enthusiasm for the rehabilitation of Allen West from a sore loser of a Congressional candidate who was nearly court martialed for torturing a prisoner while in Iraq into a Person Who Still Matters, Fox & Friends Weekend welcomed him to the show yesterday to share his “insights” into the IRS scandal in which the agency has admitted targeting Tea Party groups for investigation. But even there, West failed in that he laughably linked the IRS inquiries to the long-debunked conspiracy theory that the federal government supposedly discriminated against Republican auto dealers during the auto bailouts. That’s the same conspiracy theory that even Fox News has debunked. But the Fox & Friends hosts developed a West-friendly bout of amnesia about that.

Geraldo Rivera was a bit more like his old Benghazi self on his radio show today and a lot less like the Geraldo Rivera on Fox News since he was reportedly admonished by Roger Ailes (which Rivera has denied) for his fiery opposition to the politicization of the scandal. Today, Rivera nicely smacked down Bolling on the claim that the military could have rushed in and saved Americans under attack in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012. Then, for good measure, Rivera smacked down Bolling for his smarmy politicization of President Obama’s daughters.

Our newly-revived Outrageous Quote feature was a bit delayed this week due to site problems I've been trying (still unsuccessfully) to fix. But, to quote Sean Hannity, let not your heart be troubled as it's here now. We've got a variety of subjects this week: religion, Benghazi, Boston and Syria. Check them out and vote for your "favorite!"

Fox News “liberal Democrat” Dennis Kucinich could have (and should have) taken a lesson from Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) today when he appeared on Fox News Sunday to discuss the Benghazi controversy before Kucinich did. Unlike Kucinich, Smith was able to both raise questions that still need to be answered about Benghazi and defend against the partisan witch hunt that Republicans have turned Benghazi into – with Fox News’ enthusiastic participation.