Ed Henry may think he plays a “fair and balanced” reporter on television but as far as I can see, every time he shows his face on camera, he’s advancing Republican talking points. Today, during the White House briefing, Henry tried to goad Press Secretary Jay Carney with a gotcha question based on the false (GOP) accusation that President Obama is anti-profit or anti-capitalism. Carney not only smacked it down but went on to further use Henry’s question to highlight the difference between Obama’s capitalist supporters and the naked self-interest of Romney’s.

The folks at the right wing Media Research Center have their clean white (and very chaste, Christian, and heterosexual) panties in a bunch because the godless librul media had a "blackout" of news about supposedly rampant sex selection abortion and the "unprecedented" and totally awesome lawsuits filed by the Catholic Church against the Obama administration. But in keeping with promoting all the right wing news that's fit to propagandize and making the MRC happy, Fox News has been obsessing about HHS mandate, the lawsuits, and "genderside." Despite the claim of the network to be "fair & balanced," the coverage is squarely on the side of the Catholic bishops whose anger towards Obama rivals the most rabid in the GOP. In the coverage, Cardinal Dolan has received pride of place. But interestingly, there've been some other news stories, related to the Catholic Church on which the voices, in the Catholic amen corner of Fox, are silent. Put it this way, if both issues concerned - say - teacher's unions, the howls would be deafening. Curious, read on.

The Fox News logo says that the news network is "fair & balanced" - not fair & balanced except for its opinion shows which, according to Fox brass, are exempt from the phrase on the network's mission statement. Fox opinion is, for the most part, right of center, especially when it comes to abortion. When it comes to women's reproductive rights, Fox is unabashedly in synch with the "pro-life" community. But while Bill O'Reilly just talks the anti-choice talk, Mike Huckabee walks the walk in his extremist anti-choice positions which include support for "personhood" rights for fetuses from the moment of conception - "rights" that would eliminate the right to an abortion and birth control. He shares this zealotry with sting videographer and James O'Keefe protégé Lila Rose who always gets a warm welcome on the opinion shows on the "fair & balanced" network. Cecile Richards from Planned Parenthood - not so much - in fact, as far as I can determine, not at all!

As the clock winds down for the Wisconsin recall election, Scott Walker made at least three visits to Republican Central, otherwise known as Fox News, tonight. During his third and presumably final visit, to On The Record, a banner saying “BREAKING NEWS” displayed on the screen. What was breaking other than, possibly, a record for how many appearances on Fox a Republican candidate can make in one day? I never figured it out.

Former News Hound Melanie has a hilarious post in which she describes how, thanks to the wonder of Twitter, she was able to glean exactly the "gist of a Fox 'News' interview without the agony and fury of having to watch it."

What a coincidence that one of the discussions initiated by Fox News Sunday host Christ Wallace closely echoed an RNC attack ad that came out the day before! The RNC ad mocks an Obama ad featuring Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour urging viewers to enter a sweepstakes where the winner attends a fundraising dinner with Wintour, actress Sarah Jessica Parker and President and Mrs. Obama. As Wintour speaks (in the Obama ad), banners on the screen of the RNC ad highlight unemployment statistics under President Obama. Yesterday, Wallace picked up that meme and mocked the ad for making Obama look out-of-touch and elitist compared with the struggles of everyday Americans.

Megyn Kelly describes the rabidly right wing Michael Reagan as a "devout Catholic." As such, he has become quite the spokesman for the Catholic Church's lawsuits filed against the Obama administration. He joins pedophile priest defender Catholic League president, Bill Donohue as one of Megyn Kelly's go to guys for coverage of the Church's hissy fit - a coverage in which the voices of those who argue against the lawsuits and of those HHS supporting clergy, such as Sr. Carol Keehan of the Catholic Health Association and the Clergy Coalition for Choice are missing. On May 21, the divorced and remarried Reagan talked excitedly about Catholic plans to go all Saul Alinsky over the birth control policy - a tactic which, of course, is considered really nasty when done by "Occupy."  He did an encore on Tuesday's "America Live" during which he and fellow divorced and remarried Catholic Megyn Kelly engaged in happy chat about their Church's militancy and changes in the Catholic mass. And as an added attraction, Reagan gave advice on "getting around" Catholic employers rules on birth control. WTF? Isn't birth control a sin....??

I was all set to do a post praising Chris Wallace for his tough interview with Romney-advisor Ed Gillespie on yesterday's Fox News Sunday. But then I caught the panel discussion and all my props went out the window. It was little more than a thinly disguised effort to paint the Obama campaign as dysfunctional – while mostly ignoring Romney’s dance with the Birther Boy, Donald Trump.

On “objective” America’s News HQ today, Shannon Bream interviewed Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch and allowed her to distort the Scott Walker administration’s rather poor record of job losses as one of job creation.

David Zurawik, television critic for the Baltimore Sun, didn’t mince words about Fox News in the wake of its propagandistic anti-Obama video presented as news analysis on Fox & Friends last week. He said that Fox has been “compromised” and that he will deal with Fox “as a political organization primarily… at least through this election cycle” now.