Neil Cavuto presented Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett yesterday as a “fine Governor” whose great job in Pennsylvania just could be the reason Romney’s poll numbers have improved in that state. This just one week after Cavuto credited Florida Governor Rick Scott’s good job as a possible reason Obama was ahead in that state. 

On Monday’s Special Report (10/8/12), Brit Hume thought the President was lying about Romney’s tax plan. But Hume wound up misrepresenting the effects of the Bush tax cuts.

Obama's attack on Romney over cutting funding for Big Bird must be getting big traction, judging from the defense-playing going on at Fox. But Sean Hannity's melt down over the subject suggested it must really be going well for President Obama.

Neil Cavuto used his Common Sense segment yesterday to cheerlead Mitt Romney’s plan to get rid of government spending for public broadcasting and support for Sesame Street.

In addition to the usual character assassinations and promotion of the GOP/right wing agenda, Bill O'Reilly's trademark bloviation has taken on a "Dr. Phil" aspect in that Bill is now giving his "folks" advice on how to be a better and nicer person. Last night he recommended giving compliments, "rare in this selfish world," to people because it makes them feel good. He advised that if they make a good point "say, hey, that's a good point." Recently, as discussed by Ann Coulter on Megyn Kelly's Fox News program, and reported on the Fox News website and Fox Nation, African-American actress, Stacey Dash received death threats after she tweeted her support for Mitt Romney. She is being defended by Sandra Fluke who tweets that the "racist attacks" are unacceptable. She makes a good point. Let's see if Bill practices what he preaches by giving her a compliment. I'm not holding my breath!

Ann Romney had a little girlfriend chat with Martha MacCallum this morning on America’s Newsroom. The show airs during what Fox calls its “objective news” line up. But somehow, all the questions were sympathetic to Romney. And she had no problem with Romney denigrating Obama by likening him to a kid-in-a-sandbox for challenging Mitt Romney's veracity.

The irony is rich. Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, who traffics in biased, vicious, and unsubstantiated attacks on those who don't meet his standards of approval (think Dr. Tiller), attacks a major news outlet as "biased." More irony in that he's doing it on a network that while claiming to be "fair & balanced" is essentially an arm of the Republican National Committee and the religious right. Even more irony in that this supposedly evil, librul news source is used by Fox News. But none of that seems to matter to Bill O'Reilly who, in September, talked about how being kind to others brings good Karma. Well, given his biased, vicious, and unsubstantiated attack on the Associated Press, looks like Karma is going to bite him in the place from whence he draws the kind of verbal dreck that he defecated in last night's "Factor."

Sean Hannity’s new BFF, Bob Woodward, appeared on the Hannity show tonight where Hannity eagerly pressed him on the possibility that Benghazi would be President Obama’s Watergate. You may recall that Hannity has previously thought Sestak-gate, Fast and Furious-gate, and campaign-ad-gate would be President Obama’s Watergate. Unfortunately for Hannity, Bob Woodward - an authority on what would constitute the next Watergate if ever there was one - would not go along.

Mitt Romney may have won the debate with Barack Obama but he threw truth and facts out the window while he was polishing up his presidential act. Today, Fox & Friends not only dismissed concerns for the truth but actually attacked Democrats for making it an issue. (h/t bemused)

Mark Twain said "a lie can travel halfway around the world." That was before the internet and Fox News which, thanks to Bill O'Reilly, is aiding and abetting lies that eventually become part of the ugly and false right wing narrative that divides Americans into opposing camps. This divisiveness is underscored in the type of rhetoric, advanced by Fox News and the right wing media world, which fosters hatred of "illegal immigrants" who, according to those who promote hate, are getting benefits they don't deserve. Bill O'Reilly advanced this message in his recent conversation with Adam Carolla, during which they agreed that folks wouldn't starve without food stamp. O'Reilly started the food stamp conversation by claiming that the Obama administration is working to allow undocumented immigrants to receive food stamps. As with so much of what O'Reilly says, it's a great, big, fat, whopping lie.