FoxNews.com is trumpeting on its home page an article on FoxBusiness.com called, Romney's Odds of Winning Edge Higher. True enough. But Romney's edge only increased from dismal to poor. If you read the actual article, the first two sentences are, "GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney's Intrade odds of winning rose to 34%, 'back to where they were the day before the 47% video was released,' says Peter Boockvar of Miller Tabak, referring to the governor’s comment caught on video that 47% of Americans view themselves as entitled to government benefits. Boockvar adds the odds are 'up from 26% yesterday and 21% on Sunday.'"

Frank Luntz has a history of putting together focus groups that are skewed toward Republicans which he tries to pass off as fair and/or representative. So I was immediately suspicious when Luntz described tonight’s presidential debate focus group by saying, “13 of these 24 people voted for Obama in 2008, only 10 voted for McCain.” Notice that he didn’t say how many were Democrats, how many Republicans, how many independents or other. For all we know, those 13 people who voted for Obama were Republicans. And guess what? Every one of them said they were undecided about who to vote for before the debate. That’s not a representative sample of voters at all.

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As we know, Fox News believes that nutritious school lunches are a plot by a fascist Obama administration (and his evil wife) to take away the Jesus given freedom of American youth to stuff as much greasy crap down their gullets as possible which, in turn, is contributing to a childhood obesity crisis. It's a true testament to the bizarro world of Fox that they actually oppose efforts to make school lunches more nutritious. And now that kids are fighting the power and expressing their discontent with the good food, Fox is giving them the support that they didn't give to "Occupy." Jon Stewart exposes this Fox inanity and hypocrisy.  

Sean Hannity's finger-pointing over the mainstream media' having "completely ignored" Barack Obama's "outrageous comments" in 2007 raises an obvious question: If this is such big news that the failure to report it is, as Hannity said last night, "further proof that the mainstream media has been in the pocket of Barack Obama since the day that he arrived on the national stage," then where was Fox News? How did it miss this big news only until now, when the Daily Caller website did its work for it? If Hannity's accusation is correct, then either Fox is also "in the pocket of Barack Obama" or monumentally inept. Or they reported the story and it's just not that big a deal. Hint: select Option C.

The cognitive dissonance on Fox News is amazing. They supported the First Amendment rights of Chick fil-A's president to make anti-gay comments while also supporting the Family Research president's complaint about the Southern Poverty Law Center's First Amendment right to designate, as a hate group, the FRC. In discussing the man behind the incendiary anti-Islamic video, Fox's Megyn Kelly focused on his free speech. In discussions involving persecuted Christians, Fox pundits invariably bring up free speech. But, on Fox, not all free speech is created equal. The one true Fox priest, Fr. Jonathan Morris, during his last Sunday sermon, seemed to suggest that the President of Iran should not be entitled to free speech when in the US. It's funny. While Morris called out Ahmadinejad on "hate speech," he's never called out any Fox and other right wing media/religious activists for their hate speech. Forget cognitive dissonance! How bout hypocrisy?

Juan Williams can be outstanding when he goes against Hannity on racial issues. Last night, following the debut of Hannity’s ballyhooed Obama race tape, Williams didn’t mince words. “You guys are playing a race card now against Obama. You tried the ‘redistribution’ video, it fell flat.”

Donald Trump has some debate advice for Mitt Romney. If President Obama brings up Romney's tax returns, then Romney "should immediately ask for Obama's college records and applications." That's what Trump said in a tweet discussed on On The Record last night. When Greta Van Susteren asked him what he's looking for in Obama's old records, Trump suggested they would reveal that Obama was born in Kenya.

Sean Hannity – the guy who pals around with a slavery apologist and other bigots – has a new race card to play against President Obama. Thanks to Tucker Carlson, there’s some new video footage of a 2007 speech President Obama made talking about poverty and the inadequate federal response to Hurricane Katrina and – OMG! He gives a shout out to Rev. Jeremiah Wright and talks more like an African American than he does to white people. Ladies and gentlemen, this is proof that Obama is a racist and a hate monger! Just like when Hannity found the same “bombshell” proof in a video showing Obama hugging a “black radical” (who was a tenured Harvard professor) in 1990. I suspect this one will have only slightly more impact.

The line forms on the right, gentle reader, if you want to join the list of out-of-office statesmen, would-be pundits and just plain big-mouths wanting to help Fox News slam Obama on his foreign policy. Last night it was the turn of former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Yes, the architect of the Bush Administration’s debacle in Iraq re-emerged to tell On the Record that the Obama administration is in denial about the Libyan attack, that Obama’s apologetic weakness is a symptom of America in decline, and that people in Afghanistan are so relieved now that the Taliban is no longer around.