Cliven Bundy supporter Richard Mack won our Fox News Outrageous Quote of the Week poll last week. Mack had quite a bit of Fox News outrageousness as competition but our readers voted his admission about "strategizing" for an armed conflict with federal agents the most outrageous. UPDATED

In the alternate reality of Fox News, Christianity is constantly under attack. When a Christian alleges that their First Amendment "free speech" rights are being violated, Fox validates their complaints as examples of attacks on Christianity. Allegations of violations, by Christians, of the First Amendment's "establishment clause" are not given the same warm support; but rather treated as - wait for it - attacks on Christianity. Fox is so desperate to prove that Christianity is being besieged by the forces of satanic secularism that, as shown on this morning's Fox & Friends, they established an allegation of anti-Christian bias when none has been proven. And in addition to promoting the patented Fox persecuted Christian meme, they also hit the patented Fox disdain of public education which hates Jesus and free speech. A propagandapalooza. 

Those who wage war on women rail against charges that because they that they seek to control women by not only curtailing access to abortion, but shaming those who, for whatever reason, seek to terminate a pregnancy. But it's just not those outside abortion clinics, many of them carrying Christian signs and accessories, screaming about how those entering the clinic are "killing their babies."  Those on Fox's unapologetic "pro-life" afternoon show, The Five, are also engaging in the same kind of woman shaming. Earlier this week, the show's nice pro-life Christians advanced (again) the newest "pro-life" outrage in launching a full scaled attack on a controversial British model who contemplated terminating her pregnancy as a career move. While her comments have, understandably, gotten some traction, The Five has taken it national with a hefty dose of slut shaming. 

Fox News provides a warm and sympathetic pulpit for Christians who feel that their First Amendment rights are being violated. But those who push back against what they feel are violations of the First Amendment's "establishment clause," by overzealous Christians, are targets of Fox's opprobrium. Mikey Weinstein, who is head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, seems to have replaced Cindy Sheehan as Fox's number one persona non grata because of his advocacy for those, in the military, who feel that their religious freedom is being violated by those with religious agendas. Last year, Megyn Kelly, during a sneering interview with Weinstein, suggested that his group put Christian religious liberty "at risk." Thursday night, she hosted Dr. and Mrs. James Dobson for a sweet, Christian attack on Weinstein who wasn't there to defend himself. So much for Kelly's claim to be "fair & balanced."

An article in yesterday's Esquire asks the question early on, "Exactly how difficult was it, though, to determine pretty early on that (Cliven) Bundy and his followers were using the threat of force to back up some terrifyingly misguided beliefs?" The answer is pretty obvious soon thereafter. If anything, the tough thing would have been to miss it. And yet, despite having at least two reporters on scene and nightly chats between Bundy and host Sean Hannity, Fox somehow kept portraying Bundy as a modern-day Gandhi or Thoreau.

It’s been clear from the start that O’Reilly was never a Cliven Bundy fan. But now that Bundy has been completely discredited as a racist – instead of just a lawbreaking America hater – O’Reilly feels sorry for the guy. Not only that, O’Reilly thinks Bundy is just ignorant and not really a racist. To top it all off, O’Reilly told his African American guest, Democrat Basil Smikle, that he and Bundy would be friends if only Smikle would give him a chance. Seriously.

There were so many gems in Ed Schultz’ opening to The Ed Show last night, it’s impossible to list them all. The best way to describe it is, Hannity gets exactly what he deserves.

With its large stable of conservative Catholic hosts and its support for the teachings of the conservative Catholic bishops, it does seem like Fox News is a media arm for the Catholic Church. Nobody embodies Roger Ailes love for the Magesterium than Ailes' *"surrogate,"  Fox VP, John Moody, a devout pro-life Catholic conservative, whose views appear to suffuse Fox's religious content. Because he is **concerned about what he perceives as anti-Christian bias in the mainstream media, he obviously wants to put a positive spin on Christian issues, such as when he and official Fox "news" anchor and fellow Catholic, Martha MacCallum gushed about Pope Benedict without a mention of the Catholic pedophilia scandal. This morning, during a lovefest for the two Popes who will be canonized, the sexual abuse crisis was not only framed as a euphemism, but the victims were trashed. Mirabile Dictu?

Stephen Colbert took his turn last night at skewering Sean Hannity for his slobbering coverage of lawbreaking, America-hater - and newly exposed racist - Cliven Bundy. “Hannity ate up that story so hard, Bundy should have charged him grazing fees,” Colbert quipped. Although not quite as epic as Jon Stewart’s two masterful takedowns, Colbert’s was pretty darned good. Especially that last line.

Sean Hannity took no personal responsibility tonight for his role in promoting lawbreaking Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy as some kind of modern day Zorro. Instead, Hannity focused on distancing himself from Bundy’s “repugnant” comments about African Americans, once again swept his own inflammatory rhetoric under the rug and – oh, yeah, made a big effort to convince people he’s not a racist. It wasn’t a bad effort. That is, if you don’t know a lot about Hannity’s past.