Cheatin’ Chickenhawk Newt Gingrich was on the Hannity show last night banging the Benghazi drums with Sean Hannity. Predictably, he didn’t just ignore Condoleezza Rice’s call to stop the politicization of the tragedy but upped the anti with a racial dog whistle. 

It's official. Fox News doesn't just lean Republican, it's a network of active Republican operatives. Media Matters did the math and the numbers are astounding.

While Bill O'Reilly is said, by Jon Stewart, to be full of shit, the same could be said of Stephen Crowder who might have surpassed Brad Stine in the category of most incoherent and offensive right wing ideologue guest on Fox & Friends. Unlike other Fox jokers (Miller, Carolla), comedian and no longer virgin Crowder has never had a national spotlight. But he's getting one on Fox where he is allowed to spew his venom towards "leftists" who support abortion rights, gay marriage, and a tax system that provides for our most vulnerable. And in advancing the right wing meme that our tax system (which benefits the rich who are paying their lowest taxes since the 50's) steals from the productive to reward slackers, Jesus BFF Crowder has no qualms about attacking those on public assistance which includes his Fox & Friends promotion of the bogus "Obamaphone." But just when you think he can't get any more craven, he appeared on this morning's Fox & Friends where he provided an almost uninterrupted three minute "lesson" in "redistribution" using children.

Bill O’Reilly really let his racist flag fly tonight in ways not seen since his infamous visit to Sylvia’s restaurant in Harlem several years ago. In a discussion with Dennis Miller about why Obama has lost so much popularity since he took office, O’Reilly suggested that it’s because of “a grievance" that Obama shares with other African Americans "against whites who aren’t sympathetic to their cause.”

On Saturday’s Forbes on Fox (10/28/12), the topic was the President’s 20-page pamphlet for the middle class and jobs. Steve Forbes blasted it. “It’s the equivalent of a doctor bleeding a patient… It’s going to make the patient worse. Why? Because it takes resources for people to put that money to work. This is going to cost jobs… Every job they create with means two or three fewer jobs in the private sector.”

There is no depth to which Fox & Friends will not sink in its efforts to smear the president. Before the extent of Hurricane Sandy's impact was fully known, on Monday morning, Gretchen Carlson pimped yet another Fox & Friends right wing conspiracy. Forget "poll trutherism." The newest conspiracy is an iteration of the Fox advanced conspiracy which claims the Obama administration is doctoring the employment figures. According to former Miss America and Fox "friend," Gretchen Carlson, the president could use the hurricane to delay Friday's jobs report until after the election because, presumably, he doesn't want bad job numbers to affect the election.  Her proof - er - nothing.

Fox’s faux Democrats, Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, may have outdone themselves last night on the Hannity show as they didn’t just speak disdainfully of President Obama but actively urged Mitt Romney to attack him more forcefully over Fox’s favorite faux scandal, Benghazi. For good measure, they went after Governor Chris Christie for praising Obama’s response to Superstorm Sandy.

As they discussed the effect of Superstorm Sandy’s effect on the upcoming election yesterday, Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson argued that Sandy would hurt President Obama on many levels. First, he said that natural disasters tend to hurt more than they help candidates. Then, he added, “Typically people don’t blame the candidate for, any candidate, for the storm itself. Although one of these candidates did promise to lower the level of the ocean and obviously that didn’t work.” (H/T Eric J.)

Bernard Goldberg visited the O’Reilly Factor tonight where he said, “only half tongue in cheek” that he thought reporters wished Hurricane Sandy had hit swing states because President Obama’s disaster relief efforts would be more politically profitable.

If you’re Sean Hannity neither rain nor snow nor floods nor massive power outages can stop you from your goal of smearing people you disagree with. While some might see a national emergency like Monster Storm Sandy as a time to come together, Hannity saw it as just another day to hate monger against his political foes.