I've been spending time with my family this week so posting will be a bit light for the next several days. In the meanwhile, please enjoy this post from The Borowitz Report: Fox News Wins A Pulitzer Prize For Fiction. (H/T Connie M.)

Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity are reportedly signing new, multimillion-dollar contracts with Fox News. (H/T Bradley L.)

During his regular Wednesday night visit to The O'Reilly Factor last night, Dennis Miller said this about the Secret Service prostitution scandal: “Hey, Billy, I don't know what you get for $47 bucks (in Cartagena, Chile) but we're getting' killed by the exchange rate. Now this is what happens. You go in, you offer the girl 50. I don't know what 50 gets you. I wish I worked at Current TV tonight, I could ask Spitzer to pull the price card out of his wallet. He could tell me.”

On yesterday's Your World, Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) spoke with Stuart Varney about why he was the only Democrat to vote against the Buffett Rule. "Both sides are wrong on taxes... Sometimes President Obama, he doesn't really says this, but almost says, ...if we tax millionaires enough, all our problems will go away. Also, the Republicans, I think they're wrong on taxes too. They say we shouldn't raise taxes on anybody under any circumstances. I think both those approaches are wrong.... I think we need comprehensive tax reform along the lines of Simpson-Bowles laid out for us." He said "I do think millionaires should pay their fair share."

If you don't know who Julie Mason is, let me tell you she happens to be my talk radio goddess. Seriously. She hosts a show called The Press Pool on the Sirius/XM station POTUS every weekday where she interviews political reporters, often those who cover the White House. While she seems to be more conservative than I, she is one bright and knowledgeable woman dedicated to excellence in media and reporting. In short, she is the anti-Fox News. So when Bill O'Reilly called her a loon for saying he and Glenn Beck damage the Fox News brand – and complained that CNN's Howard Kurtz “didn't slap her down like he should have” because, he suggested, the two of them are working to get President Obama re-elected - well, Bill those are fightin' words to me.

Well, it appears that Fox News’ pal Ted “suck on this” Nugent has finally crossed the line. It seems that the Secret Service is investigating  him for comments he made last Sunday at an NRA meeting. The Secret Service views his remarks - that if President Obama  wins the 2012 election, Nugent will be either dead or in jail - as a threat. Nugent also made a disturbing comparison of voting for Romney to violent rebellion - which doesn't go well with his other implied threat.

Mitt Romney has hired an advisor to help him choose a Republican vice presidential candidate - and Fox & Friends wants to know "Who should we choose?"

Jon Stewart examined Fox News' outrage over what it calls a made up war on women - and found that women are the only ones Fox has not labeled the victims of war. Well, except for conservative women, of course. Warning to Steeve Doocy, Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Sean Hannity and more - you are the ones who come out looking like lying hypocrites.

Underscoring how the "more things change the more they remain the same," is the continued existence of those who remain in fear of left wing political philosophies. Sixty years after Joe McCarthy fomented paranoia about communists in the media, the entertainment industry, and politics, we have folks like Congressman Allen West denouncing liberal members of Congress as communists. And it's just not communists that the right wing fear and loathe. Socialism is also portrayed as part of the evil array of left wing agendas that trying to destroy Merka as we know it. Now that alleged commie-pinko Van Jones is no longer in the Obama administration, the fear mongering patriots on Fox need another scapegoat to get the pitchfork gang salivating. Thanks to right wing Tucker Carlson's intrepid reporting, most likely sourced from a blog run by anti-teacher's union partisan and Fox fave, Kyle Olson,  we have one such person who was denigrated on last week's Fox & Friends as part of their series, "The Trouble with Schools" which is just a bunch of hit pieces aimed at the public school system and teachers unions. For venom with your morning coffee, you just can't beat Fox & Friends.

Fox “News” defenders, who rarely have facts on their side, have been having a field day with the exclusive Gawker Fox Mole Joe Muto.  And, it must be admitted, there was great disappointment on the part of those of us (up to and including myself) who want to see Fox “News” taken down a peg or two by its own hubris, lies, and demonstrably false propaganda.  Alas, there was to be no schadenfreude in Mudville, mighty Muto had struck out.  Gawker wound up wasting $5,000 on reports of where Bill O’Reilly evacuates and other dreary minutia.  Newly minted blogger Andrew Kirell, who, just like Muto, worked at Fox “News” until last week, published his Fox swan song in an article titled Why I Never Became Mediaite’s Fox News Mole.  While Kirell quite rightly mocks Muto’s non-scoops on Gawker, he also reveals the real reason why so many people want to see Fox “News” fail: