Sean Hannity aired a two-segment interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney tonight. In the first part, Cheney spent a lot of time explaining his recent remarks that John McCain made a “mistake” in picking Sarah Palin as a VP candidate because she was “not ready to take over.” In the second segment, Hannity made sure to elicit comments from Cheney that President Obama is also not qualified to be President – and did his best to suggest that Palin would have been more qualified.

President Obama’s “broken promises” was the purported topic of the special on Hannity Friday night (8/3/12) but it wasn’t long before Hannity’s “studio audience” – little more than an accumulation of Fox News hosts and regular guests – used the subject to accuse Obama of deliberately sabotaging businesses in order to wreak his agenda of destroying the country and putting people on welfare.

Fox News' Liz Trotta - she of the "Now, what did they expect (when women joined the military)?" remarks about a rise in sexual assaults in the armed forces - has some new insights into women. This time, she passed comment about the "real reason" Ann Romney has not gotten favorable coverage in the media. Female journalists are envious that she "managed to do exactly what their mothers' told them, although they would never admit it. Marry a good, preferably rich man. Raise your children full time. And dress like a lady."

On Saturday's Cavuto on Business (8/4/12), Charles Gasparino wrongly said about the 1981 Reagan tax cuts: "Tax revenues went up after the Reagan tax cuts." Guest host Charles Payne did not correct him, even after panelist Ben Stein tried to.

For those of you who have been fortunate enough never to have seen his appearances on Fox News, allow me to sum up Steven Crowder for you. Crowder is a mediocre shock jock whose hateful rhetoric has earned him many posts on News Hounds  - which he tries to pass off as jokes. On the August 2 Fox & Friends, he “joked” that the difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals maim and rape people. Hahaha. (H/T Raw Story)

Our friends at Brave New Films (with whom we have long been associated) have a new video from their Cuentame campaign about gun smuggling to Mexico. There's also a petition to President Obama that is also sponsored by the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence and other groups.

Rupert Murdoch tweeted this morning that "every voter should read" the anti-Obama book written by Ed Klein, an author so discredited that even conservatives have denounced him - on Fox News. This is just the latest in a number of steps Murdoch has taken to insert himself into the U.S. presidential campaign.

Juan Williams, guest hosting on The O’Reilly Factor last night, hosted a discussion that was supposed to be about a Republican report designed to embarrass the Obama administration over a favorite Fox News topic, Solyndra’s federal loan guarantees and subsequent bankruptcy. But as the guests veered off into a serious debate about energy and energy policy, “liberal” Williams interceded to bring the discussion back to questioning President Obama’s integrity.

In the Orwellian world of Fox News, concepts that have a generally accepted meaning are turned upside down. Black is white, good is bad, and objecting to intolerance is - wait for it - intolerant. Nowhere is this bizarro world zeitgeist more apparent than Fox News' attempt to define, as intolerant, those who oppose the president of Chick fil-A's connections to homophobic hate groups and his comment that gays are bringing down the wrath of God - a comment which is, basically, another iteration of the "God Hates Fags" meme popularized by the Westboro Baptist Church. Fox's Chick fil-A's crusader-in-chief, Mike Huckabee has been preaching the Fox doublespeak gospel of tolerance which, in denigrating those who oppose Chick-fil-A's "biblical values," serves to reinforce the Christian right belief that gays are scum. And is so doing, during his interview with Juan Williams on "The Factor," he praised the SPLC designated homophobic hate group, the Family Research Council, as a paragon of family values - values held by former minister Huckabee who doesn't exactly practice the tolerance that he's now preaching. But yeah, if you criticize those who hate the LGBT community, like the FRC, you're the bigot. Party like its 1984.

On yesterday’s Your World, guest host Eric Bolling couldn’t just disagree with House Democrats who voted to let the Bush tax cuts expire, he used Fox News’ fave tactic of demonizing them. And for “balance,” he showcased one of the 19 House Democrats who voted with the Republicans.