Bill O'Reilly's baseless and hateful invective against Sandra Fluke is troubling when one considers what happened when O'Reilly's baseless and hateful invective against Dr. Tiller contributed to a climate of hate in which the doctor was murdered. And Bill isn't the only right wing man who loathes Fluke. Rush Limbaugh set the pace in the slut shaming of Fluke that has now become part of the conservative narrative - a narrative that Bill's fellow Fox "pro-life"pundit, Greg Gutfeld, has also advanced. As Amanda Marcotte points out, in her incisive article about why Fluke drives conservatives "bananas," the misogynistic reaction to Fluke stems from her challenge to patriarchal fantasies about womanhood. As I reported, O'Reilly (a misogynist defender of patriarchal fantasies) used his show to promote what appears to be the lie that Fluke wants taxpayers to fund transgender surgery - a lie that was advanced, by, Fox in March.  He's now taken the lie to his column. Words matter. While O'Reilly claims that liberals are divisive, his baseless and hateful words are truly toxic.

Fox News is on full spin cycle in its efforts to promote the GOP meme that there is no "war on women" despite the reality that the GOP, in the past two years, has promoted and passed an unprecedented number of anti-choice measures. But in an effort to reinforce the GOP meme of no war on women, Fox hosts have recently interviewed GOP women who reinforce the GOP meme. Rather than address the role back of reproductive rights, these women pivot to the economy. The reality is that without access to reproductive health care, women's personal economy will be affected; but that doesn't seem to be an issue for Gov. Nikki Haley, Gov. Mary Fallin and Mayor Mia Love whose support of anti-choice policies are part of the war on women. Yesterday, Gretchen Carlson spoke to GOP Senate Candidate Wendy Long who is another foot soldier in the supposedly non-existent war on women. Not only did Carlson validate the meme but claimed that focus on reproductive rights is "insulting."

Bill O’Reilly just can’t seem to stop thinking about Sandra Fluke. Last night, he mentioned her numerous times on one show – and even led off the show’s opening with her. I counted five segments where he discussed abortion and/or Fluke. Including one where the Factor’s ambush producer, Jesse Watters, mentioned off-hand that he had tried to "stake out" Fluke. And yet, O’Reilly lectured President Obama for not focusing enough on the bad economy “rather than ginning up phony controversies.”

Last week, author Mallory Factor appeared on Fox & Friends. The main purpose of the visit seemed to be to suggest that unions were “calling the shots” at the Democratic National Convention. And, of course, to demonize President Obama.

If you’ve been following The Daily Show’s coverage of the Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention, you know that the comedy show did plenty of mocking of the Republicans as well as the Democrats. But Chris Wallace chose one segment – and only part of that one segment – to highlight yesterday on Fox News Sunday. Guess who got mocked?

Mike Huckabee is one of those professional Christians who, if he doesn't already, should have the 10 Commandments tattooed on his ass. As one of Jesus' BFF's he reveres these biblical admonitions which he thinks are "the foundation of our law." But he obviously has forgotten or just doesn't give a crap about the commandment that prohibits lying because that's just what Mike Huckabee did, last week, during an interview with "family values" proponent, feminist hating and marital rape supporting Phyllis Schlafly. Huckabee and Schlafly must have made Jesus weep when, in promoting their deceitful and hateful screed against Obama, they advanced the lie, popular in the radical right community, that whenever President Obama quotes from the Declaration of Independence, he omits the word "creator." Oh, right, I forgot. On Fox News, Jesus hates Obama, too!

We've long noted the toadyism of Fox News' Peter Johnson, Jr. It turns out that Johnson is not merely the "legal analyst" he's described as in his Fox News biography - but he's also Fox News chief Roger Ailes' personal attorney.

On Saturday’s Cavuto on Business, the topic was the size of government. Regular panelist Charles Payne, not surprisingly, unloaded on the Democrats. He described the election as being between “big business” and “big welfare.” By “big welfare,” he meant “big government.” Payne went on to say, “Big welfare is destructive. It stops innovation, that’s all big government is, by the way.”  Later, he added, “I thought the Democratic convention was so mean spirited, so anti-American, that it’s hard for me to believe this country is tilting in that direction."

Sean Hannity hosted one of his hour-long specials Friday night (9/7/12) that – as usual – was little more than another excuse to bash Democrats. This time, Hannity purported to “expose” the “DNC lies and distortions" at the just-ended Democratic convention. But he undercut his own effort by not spending even one minute on independent fact-checking with a single Fox News “objective” reporter.

Bill O'Reilly has a problem with abortion. He has even more of a problem with women who support a woman's right to an abortion such as Sandra Fluke and Caroline Kennedy who "stunned" Bill O'Reilly when, during her speech at the Democratic National Convention, she invoked her religion whilst defending reproductive rights. O'Reilly doesn't think that women should be complaining about the unprecedented laws and policies that make abortion more cumbersome because, according to the uterus free O'Reilly, the right to an abortion remains intact - so abortion restrictions - meh! During his recent rant about Caroline Kennedy's speech, he said this: "And the restrictions aren't you can't have one. It's wait a couple of days and think it over." Really? Just a waiting period? Bill is either sadly misinformed or he is a liar because the restrictions go much farther.