While Fox News is not officially part of the Republican Party, it is their media mouthpiece (their out-house organ?!). As such, Fox will never, evah give credit to President Obama for anything that he does. He could be walking with Jesus and they would accuse him of taking Jesus hostage. Their hatred for Obama was reflected in their disappointment over Syria's agreement to relinquish chemical weapons, a move which they framed as a "humiliating defeat" for this country. Jon Stewart took on this latest anti-Obama meme and in so doing provided a perfect description of Fox News. 

On yesterday’s Your World, Grant Cardone, who bills himself as an international business and sales expert, was on hand to criticize discuss President Obama’s leadership style in the Syria crisis. Any Fox watcher worth his or her salt could have guessed in advance that Cardone was going to find Obama severely lacking. But Cardone didn’t exactly add to his foreign policy cred (even if the only FNC requirement seems to be a willingness to attack Obama with inflammatory soundbites) when he said he was more impressed with Miley Cyrus’ leadership in the last two weeks than Obama’s. 

Hatriot Michelle Malkin must have been so proud of her little racial dog whistle last night when, during a Hannity-show debate with Juan Williams over President Obama’s Syria policy, she referred to our president as a “rodeo clown.” Yet when Juan Williams suggested that her isolationism was un-American, Malkin was just outraged that someone would dare speak to her that way.

How on earth did Rudy Giuliani get to be an expert on Syria? His greatest claim to fame is that he happened to be mayor of New York during the 9/11 attacks. And while my New York City Democratic friends assure me Giuliani did do a great job in the aftermath, that hardly qualifies him as an expert on Syria or anything else regarding foreign policy. And he pretty much proved that by “forgetting” George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq and calling President Obama’s Syria policy “the most bungled” and “most mishandled” foreign policy in the history of the modern age. Seriously.

We posted the other day about Roger Ailes' proposed solution to the Syria crisis - as revealed in some off-the-cuff remarks in his Ailes-approved biography. Last night, Jon Stewart gave his comedic take on it.

The Trayvon Martin case generated discussion about the role of race and racism in our society. But not for the white right wing which used the tragedy to advance their claim that while black activists and the president made the Martin case into a "race case," the real issue is the imaginary wave of black on white hate crime which, they claim is being ignored by the mainstream media. And because the president identified with Trayvon, these aggrieved folks think that he needs to show the same empathy whenever a black person is involved in a crime against a white - even when there is no racial motive. As the network for white grievance, it wasn't a surprise when Fox's famous "dick" Tucker Carlson advanced the claim that librul media hasn't given the same amount of coverage to Chris Lane, a white man who was randomly killed by a mixed race group of teens, as they did for Trayvon Martin. In addition to pushing this false equivalency, on a network that ignores real hate crimes, he also claimed that "fashionable" black on white crime is ignored and that Pres.Obama owes America an apology for this crime. No, I'm not making this up.

Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City and Mayor on 9/11 12 years ago, opened yesterday's Your World by lying about Benghazi on its one year anniversary.

Kirk Cameron is a former child actor ("Growing Pains") who has now turned to evangelical Christianity and rabid, right wing activism. And while he loves Jesus, he is also a homophobe who believes that homosexuality "is detrimental, and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization." He thinks that marriage was defined, in the Garden of Eden, as being between a man and a woman and has joined up with the National Organization for Marriage in order to promote its homophobic propaganda about how "God" will so not be at your gay wedding. And if you criticize his views, you're "trying to take his freedom away" and obviously part of the anti-Christian "secular-totalitarian" agenda. Now that he wasn't successful in persuading Americans to vote against Obama's "flood of moral and spiritual evil," Kirk has produced a new movie in which he preaches about the importance of faith in adversity - a movie that he pimped, this morning, on Fox & Friends. Where else...!!!!!

Shepard Smith has signed a new deal with Fox News that gives him more money but one less show. His Fox Report will no longer air at 7 PM ET, making it quite likely that Sean Hannity will move into that spot when Megyn Kelly returns and takes over his 9 PM slot, as was reported not too long ago. Smith will also now become what is described as "the primary breaking news anchor" and become managing editor of a newly-created breaking news division.

Bill O’Reilly opened a segment last night in which he rhetorically asked, “Is there a rise of hate crimes in the U.S.A. in the wake of the Trayvon Martin verdict?” Anyone remotely familiar with The O'Reilly Factor and/or Fox News, in general, knew in advance what answer would be presented. But O’Reilly’s own behavior didn’t just undercut his thesis it suggested he was hiding the truth.