In a nauseating discussion Friday night, Bill O’Reilly, Greg Gutfeld and Bernard McGuirk showed just how mean-spirited and small-minded they are as they not only failed to admit that Hillary Clinton is owed an apology from the people on their network who accused her of faking a concussion but suggested that she deserved it. And then attacked the left for faking their concern.

Finally, someone on Fox got it and explained it about that upstate New York newspaper which published the names and addresses of gun owners. It’s a story that Fox has been harping on incessantly and almost entirely from a biased, distorted and definitely unbalanced perspective. But on Friday night’s O’Reilly Factor (1/4/13), Geraldo Rivera helped nudge the scales back a tad.

The Christian right still can't deal with the reality of the Supreme Court decision which ruled that public school prayer is unconstitutional. But some members of the Christian right are undeterred by those silly Supremes and that's why there are periodic attempts, by Christian right politicians, to enact legislation mandating school prayer. As the mouthpiece for the religious right, it wasn't surprising to see, on the Fox & Friends weekly Catholic catechism class, Fr. Jonathan Morris discuss Indianal egislation that would allow the Lord's Prayer to be said in public schools. And while he didn't really agree with mandatory school prayer, he was able to preach the Christian right agitprop message about the evils of "government schools" and the need for school vouchers. Rather than making lemonade out of lemons, maybe you could say that he made holy water out of pond scum?

Given that Bill O'Reilly has lamented the demise of the white, Christian, male power structure and seems to be concerned about how "the white establishment is now the minority" in a country where the president was elected by minorities who want "free stuff," it's not surprising that he would have a soul brother in Peter Brimelow, the founder of the white nationalist, anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic SPLC designated hate group, VDARE. Not only is Brimelow concerned, as is O'Reilly, that "weird aliens with dubious habits" are destroying traditional America; but like O'Reilly, he's really, Really concerned about the "Christophobes" and Jews who are trying to ruin Christmas. In fact, he seems to be the source of what has become O'Reilly's and Fox's season cottage industry the, wait for it - War on Christmas. And he's proud of his spawn, as reflected in his recent praise of Bill O'Reilly's valiant effort to beat back the heathen hordes!

We can add Mexico to the list of countries and entities that Bill O’Reilly thinks he has vanquished from his mighty microphone. You may recall how his boycott of France cost them “billions of dollars” (a claim Media Matters proved false) and how Pepsi canceled a Ludacris ad thanks to him. I’m not sure what the result of his threats to Canada and Aruba were. But now that a former Marine has been released from a Mexican jail after an extensive on-air campaign by O’Reilly and Fox News, O’Reilly announced last night, “The only reason the Mexicans let him out in the first place is because I told them if they didn’t, there was going to be real trouble economically down there for them.”

Sean Hannity joined the Republican Rehab: Sandy edition brigade tonight. Following on the heels of a similar effort on Fox & Friends a few days ago, Sean Hannity did his part to rehab the image of House Republicans - who blocked Sandy relief legislation earlier this week – via the all-purpose Fox News strategy: blame President Obama. Even though Hannity admitted that the supposedly poisonous pork in the bill that the GOP “had to pull” was put there by the Senate. One of his guests took it a step further and suggested that the reason for the delay in aid is because Obama only cares about lower class victims, not the middle class. And we know which races inhabit which!

With all the faux Fox outrage over Al Gore's sale of Current to Al Jazeera, wasn't it only a matter of time until somebody accused him of consorting with Al Qaeda? Well, that happened on the Happening Now show today.

While the holiday season (ewww, I said a dirty word) is behind us, Bill O'Reilly just can't quit his Christmas crusade. His weekly column offers advice on which countries are best for those nasty "secular progressives" who "want to diminish the birth of Jesus in the public square." (Meanwhile, Bill has no problem with the crass commercialization of his main man's b'day!) The article is classic Bill O'Reilly bullshit, laden with projections, inaccuracies, and not so thinly veiled attacks against those who don't subscribe to his rigidly archaic views. But the pièce de résistance is some unintended irony at the end of the article where O'Reilly, the prince of personal destruction, wishes for peace. As the "Church Lady" would say, "now isn't that special."

In case you missed it, Fox Newsies could not stop clutching their pearls over the news that Al Gore's Current TV had been sold to Al Jazeera. Supposedly this just verifies their accusations that Gore is Un-American (or else he wouldn't have sold to that America-hating network) and a hypocrite because a) Al Jazeera is based in oil-rich Qatar and b) he reportedly tried to close the deal by the end of the year in order to save tax money.

File this one under truth is stranger than fiction. Fox News psychiatrist Dr. Keith Ablow - he of the crackpot, unprofessional and homophobic diagnoses - is considering running for the U.S. Senate in - get this - Massachusetts. As a Republican, of course.