Bernard Goldberg appeared on The O’Reilly Factor last night where he attacked the left for accusing the right of racial attacks on President Obama. Bill O’Reilly called it “unseemly” and “cheap” and Goldberg dismissed the accusation out-of-hand as some kind of white guilt. Yet somehow neither of them managed to consider the very racialized context that the right has used to make criticisms of President Obama. And Fox News is Exhibit A in that proof.

The "fair & balanced" Fox News media is doing all in its power to keep hate alive in its ongoing attacks on the NY City elementary school principal who dared to remove red state America's hymn, "God Bless the USA" from a graduation ceremony. And while the Fox Nation race baiting was bad enough, Fox TV has doubled down in their zeal to promote this "nationwide controversy" (thank you Fox News) by creating a false reality. This morning, Fox & Friends showed what they claimed was an rally of students who support the singing of Lee Greenwood's patriotic schlock that has become a second National Anthem for red stateAmerica. Thing is that it wasn't an organized student protest. It was a press event engineered by GOP Congressional Rep. Bob Turner who is running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. The kids were a prop for a publicity stunt. As a famous, fictional New Yorker once said, "It's not a lie if you believe it."

What a difference a weekend makes! On Friday, Bill O’Reilly applauded President Obama’s change in immigration policy as politically brilliant. Last night, O’Reilly was full of smears and jeers designed to make Obama look like some lawless dictator, including, “(Obama) says he doesn’t like” the current immigration law, “so he, Julius Caesar, is going to say, ‘No,’ you don’t have to enforce it.”

The removal of Lee Greenwood's right wing national anthem, "Proud to be an American," from a school graduation program is essentially a local NY City issue. But in what appears to be a shameless attempt at race baiting, Fox News has taken quite the interest in taking this issue national. Bill O'Reilly has threatened to send his producer/stalker, Jesse T Watters, to harass the school principal responsible for this latest, bogus right wing outrage. Fox & Friends has reported on story. And Fox Nation, the website for "those opposed to intolerance," ran a straight up race baiting thread, complete with photo of African-American school principal Greta Hawkins, asking if she "hates America."  And now they have another thread which is full of the vile racist comments that the "proud to be American" Fox Nation denizens are noted for.

The Daily Caller’s Neil Munro got his predictable dose of Republican Rehab on the Hannity show last night. Munro laughably claimed that his disrespectful question which interrupted President Obama’s immigration announcement was due to a mistaken belief he had finished speaking. Sean Hannity made it pretty clear even he wasn’t buying that story, but he was still perfectly happy helping Munro spin it.

Bristol Palin was a no-show today for her interview on Mike Huckabee's radio show - and he was not pleased.

Fox Nation - you know, the website dedicated to civility and tolerance - has once again erupted in very disturbing racist comments about President Obama and his wife. The occasion this time? A post designed to stir up animosity and a sense of otherness, called Ann Romney Takes Swipe At Obama Vacations. For extra animosity, Fox Nation highlighted the following sentence: Ann Romney: 'I doubt' we'll take as many overseas vacations as the Obamas. Click through to see what ensued.

David Plouffe appeared on Fox News Sunday yesterday where Chris Wallace repeatedly (and predictably) tried a number of gotcha questions that Plouffe seemed unprepared for. What was worse, when the subject of the deficit came up, he looked like he was trying to suck up by twice saying Obama wants a “fair and balanced” approach to reducing the deficit.

Fox News has been unabashedly supportive of the American Catholic bishops in their opposition to the Obama administration's birth control mandate which the bishops claim is really about their right to "religious freedom." Fox News has promoted this meme about religious liberty at every opportunity in what seems to be an effort to ensure that aggrieved Catholics vote GOP. Fox's only clergy religion contributor, Fr. Jonathan Morris, has spoken about this supposed violation of religious freedom. He has also discussed the the "non-negotiable" items which Catholic are supposed to use as the basis for voting. Yesterday, during his weekly homily, Morris combined these two issues in a discussion about why southern Democrats are deserting the party. While he tried to be non-partisan, the message was clear. Even the video title, which seemed to be culled straight from an article from the Catholic News Agency, framed the agitprop: "Democrats Leaving Party Over" - you guessed it - "Religious Freedom?"  

If you look at the "hot topics" tab of FoxNews.com's video page, there's only one subject right now: Meet the Romneys. There, you'll find six videos with such burning issues as: How does Mitt Romney handle negativity? Mitt and Ann Romney reveal what bugs each other. And my personal favorite, Does Mitt Romney ever get angry?