According to a recent guest on Fox & Friends, Christians are unfairly accused of being stupid. One has to look no further than Fox News to see why rational people might have this opinion. As part of their advocacy for the religious right, Fox News provides a platform for the discredited theory of "intelligent design" (Bill O'Reilly), revisionist religiously based history curriculums (Fox & Friends) and outright hatred of atheists (Eric Bolling). And while Fox's Mike Huckabee doesn't appear to lack cognitive processes, those processes can result in amazingly, extraordinarily, and stupendously STUPID statements such as those he made regarding the horrific massacre in Aurora, CO. While the motivation for the shooting is not known, it is probable that the shooter was exhibiting ideation related to mental health issues. In linking the behavior to other societal problems (including, he believes, abortion), Mike Huckabee attributes it to - ready for it - sin! Yup, you heard it right.

Even if you think George Zimmerman acted reasonably, there's something shocking about the gleeful response to the death of an unarmed teenager from the Fox Nation readers. Not only that, they seem eager to start a race war. (h/t Bryce D.)

During his Talking Points Commentary last night, Bill O’Reilly strenuously argued that the mass shootings in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater were “nobody’s fault.” But he suggested otherwise during a later segment when he gratuitously “explained” that the reason children were killed at the midnight showing of Batman was because “their parents didn’t want to pay for babysitters.”

I’ll give props to Fox News for their overall tasteful coverage of the mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, at least in the 24-hour aftermath. I’ll bet that by Monday they’ll have figured out a way to attack liberals and/or President Obama over it. But in the meanwhile, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Jon Scott all managed to work in comments letting viewers know that there's no need to consider the shooter’s easy access to guns and whether that had anything to do with the slayings that killed 12 people and wounded 58 more during a midnight premiere of the latest Batman movie.

There are times to put aside differences and the tragic shootings in Aurora, CO is one of them. In that vein, we liked what Neil Cavuto said today about these horrific events in his commentary segment: “Sometimes on days like this, life just stops, right? The arguing over politics. Maybe the arguing, period.”

It's a testament to how deeply our nation has been impacted by the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado that even Fox News has (mostly) suspended their partisanship. Here's an open thread where we can all share news, thoughts and emotions about this awful event.

Megyn Kelly, an attorney, visited The O’Reilly Factor last night, to weigh in on Sean Hannity’s interview with George Zimmerman the night before. Kelly didn’t mince words. “The real question is why would Mark O’Mara (Zimmerman's attorney) have agreed to this?” she asked. The answer appears to be that it was to raise money. But Bill O’Reilly was more interested in exploring why she thought Zimmerman had harmed his case than why an attorney would agree to such a thing.

Bill O’Reilly likes to boast about being independent but he was quacking an awful lot like someone looking out for Republicans last night as he demanded that former President George W. Bush “be generous to the country” and campaign for Mitt Romney in what O’Reilly called a “vital, vital election.”

Back in May, Fox news tried to force a meme called the “fiscal cliff” on their websites. According to the story, it’s a term used by financial insiders to describe a scenario where, if the Bush Tax Cuts are allowed to expire, the economy will go into a freefall, put us in another recession, and shrink the economy by 1.3% This is all fine and dandy for frightening people, except that good ol’ FNC didn’t tell the whole story, probably because that wouldn’t fit into their future tactics. So, as a result, they left out the parts of the report that they can’t use for that purpose.

The New York Times has an article about tensions ratcheting up between President Obama and Fox News. The Obama campaign has taken a few swipes at Fox lately and the GOP propaganda machine  executive vice president of news, Michael Clemente, is reacting the way they do to almost anything and everything Obama says or does: by going on attack.