A Golden Globe nominated Taylor Swift song and a folk inspired piece from "Inside Llewyn Davis" were snubbed by this year's Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. But discussion about this pales when compared to howls of righteous Christian indignation over how a song, from an evangelical Christian movie, got an Oscar snub. The reason for doing so is clear. The songwriter e-mailed the song to members of the Academy and this was seen as an attempt to gain "unfair advantage." But in the world of Fox News, Christians are allowed to break the rules and those who call them out on it are part of Satan's minions. On yesterday's Fox & Friends, two of Fox's professional Christians Peter Johnson Jr. and Elisabeth Hasselbeck advanced the outrage in yet another patented persecuted Christian pity party. The patented evil Hollywood "picks on" godly Christians Fox narrative was advanced, later in the day, by "truth detector" Megyn Kelly who cited the Fox "brain room" to advance the agitprop.

In keeping with Kelly's standard propaganda paradigm, Kelly immediately set the message with the right code words while framing the propaganda. Her eyes flashing, her voice loud and dramatic began: "A dramatic backlash after the Academy Awards said no to a Christian movie." The chyron was the same used on Fox & Friends: "Fight for Faith..." She reported that the film had been nominated for an award but it was "abruptly rescinded." introduced her guest, Hollywood producer and anti-Obama ideologue, Gerald Molen who, according to Kelly, thinks that "this smacks of anti-Christian bigotry." In citing his films she only mentioned "Schindler's List" and the upcoming "America." She didn't mention that he also produced Dinesh D'Souza's anti-Obama film, "2016, Obama's America." 

Kelly quoted from Molen's letter to the Academy in protest of the decision. Molen, who is also outraged about the Justice Department's indictment, for campaign finance violations, of D'Souza, claimed that despite the Academy's contention that this is lobbying, lobbying is standard practice for Oscar nominees. Kelly cited the Fox "Brain Room" which claimed that this happens "all the time," that it is "common practice to lobby" and "it doesn't look like any rules were broken." (So that proves it folks!) To Kelly's question, Molen didn't know of any instances of nominations being rescinded for this reason.  Kelly said that the Brain Room's number came up with four.

Kelly, in her own words, summed up the innocent message of the songwriter who was met, by the Academy, with "this is a no, no." Kelly wanted to know why sending out e-mails was "so taboo." Molen tried to equate the e-mails with other means of publicizing films. He then spoke about the singers and musicians who will be affected. Kelly, looking oh, so coy, mentioned that Molen had found out that a rival studio, upset about not having been nominated, hired an investigator to "dig up dirt" on the Christian film which was then "bounced" by the Academy. Molen hoped that the Academy would reconsider. Kelly's last comment was about how the singer, who has nothing to do with the awards process, is an inspiring Christian quadriplegic.

Obviously, the brains in the Fox Brain Room are either dead or on an extended lunch break because the songwriter is in violation of Rule 5.3 which relates to campaigning for the Oscars. If DVD's are sent to Academy members, credits of composer and lyricist must be removed from the eligible songs. Bruce Broughton's e-mails requested that the judges "boldly direct [their] attention" to the nominated song which, according to one critic, is "a dreary dirge of a hymn that sounds like it should be played in the midst of a sleepy Sunday morning mass."

But even if the song does get reinstated, it's still going to lose to U2's "Ordinary Love."