In a lapdog interview with Fox’s “Campaign” Carl Cameron that was little more than one opening after another for Paul Ryan to spout talking points, Ryan offered up what he thought was his foreign policy experience: voting for war in Congress. (H/T Crooks and Liars and Mediaite)

During his interview with Romney spokesman Ed Gillespie today, Chris Wallace didn’t just ask when we can expect Mitt Romney’s 2011 tax returns to be released, he all but pulled out a calendar with an “X” on October 15^th and a big red circle around the date of “Friday after the Democratic convention.”

On Happening Now last week, host Jon Scott spoke about Congress having a 10% approval rating, and how this Congress is the least productive ever. But on Fox News, the least productive Congress is the best Congress! 

There was a time that you couldn't turn on Fox without seeing proud Tea Party members. But on at least one occasion, the Fox host neglected to mention their guest's Tea Party affiliation in an attempt to present the guest as just one of the folks who is mad as hell and isn't going to take it any more. There was also a time that you couldn't turn on Fox without seeing 9-11 family members who spoke out about the so called Ground Zero Mosque. What the Fox audience wasn't told was that some of these folks, who didn't represent all 9-11 families, were members of very right wing anti-Islamic, anti-Obama groups. Last Friday, during Megyn Kelly's defense of the so called Ground Zero Cross, she featured a  9-11 family member who appeared to be another member of the just folks crowd who hates atheists cuz they're trying to destroy America. (A view that dovetails nicely with that of Roger Ailes.) What Megyn didn't mention was Joe Connor's Tea Party affiliation and activism directed against the Obama administration. Just folks, indeed!

On yesterday’s America’s Newsroom, Martha MacCallum, Juan Williams, and Mary Katharine Ham debated Mitt Romney’s refusal to release more tax returns. MacCallum predictably stuck up for Romney and repeatedly announced that his tax returns were not anybody’s business.

Remember how Hannity was complaining a few days ago about the sleazy Obama campaign playing the race card on Mitt Romney? You may recall I said in my post that was a “tell” that Hannity was about to do the same thing. Sure enough, a little later on the same show, Hannity was suggesting that Michelle Obama was some kind of black radical whose views (and by extension, her husband’s) had heretofore been hidden from the public.

While Fox News is always willing to defend the Christian cross, they have no problem attacking atheists who seem to have replaced Muslims and "illegals" as the personae most non gratae. So when Fox is able to combine their patented memes of persecuted cross with evil atheists, they've hit the meme jackpot. Last September, Fox had full guns blazing in defense of the placement of the "Ground Zero Cross" (a piece of a surviving steel cross beam, from the WTC, that became an object of Christian worship) at the Ground Zero museum. Martha MacCallum freaked out about this "iconic source of hope." Brian Kilmeade fulminated against the atheists who want the cross removed from the museum. Eric Bolling ranted about atheists who wanted to take away a "symbol of hope." Megyn Kelly did two segments in which she admonished atheists who are "making people upset" about something that "isn't religious" but "part of history." Yesterday, Kelly continued her cross defense in what could only be called a tale of two guests in that Kelly mocked her atheist guest while allowing her Christian guest to defame atheists. But this is straight "news" and not "opinion." Right?

Sean Hannity appears to be very glum lately. Probably because his man Mitt is looking just as much the loser even after he chose Ronald Reagan Reincarnated Paul Ryan as a running mate. So Hannity has been handling his disappointment the way most bullies do: by taking it out on others. Unfortunately for him, Democrat Joe Trippi wasn’t intimidated by the bluster and histrionics.

On the August 15 Your World, Senator John McCain and former CBO director Doug Holtz-Eakin discussed entitlements. Host Neil Cavuto did the Republican spinning for them. “There’s a lot of controversy and mudslinging back and forth because you dare talk about the third rail of politics, reigning in the growth of entitlements, and that’s all Congressman Ryan’s been talking about with his plan, just reigning in the growth, not ending it.”

Allegations of employment and sexual discrimination against men have arisen at the Department of Homeland Security. It’s a serious case: a lawsuit has been filed by the head of New York City’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement office alleging that women appointed by DHS head Janet Napolitano were unqualified for their positions and “created a frat house-type atmosphere that is targeted to humiliate and intimidate male employees.” Fox News covered this with their usual kind of tastefulness and sensitivity when a Democrat is under harsh scrutiny: by asking if a “lesbian cabal” is “ruling the roost” at DHS.