Fox's Jesus loving, homo hating Todd Starnes never served in the military; but he loves Christian men in uniform who are being persecuted by the evil Military Religious Freedom Foundation which seeks to prevent good Christian military members from "living their faith." Translated into real world terms, the MRFF wants the military to enforce the rules against the proselytizing that has prompted many complaints from those who feel that the in-your-face evangelizing and course content create a hostile work environment. Starnes and his Christian pals aren't happy about this perceived affront; so Starnes has lately launched a series of "brimstone tinged apocalyptic reactions" to "Constitutional principals." Wednesday, Fox & Friends advanced the brimstone during an interview with a representative of the hate group, Family Research Council. And on Thursday's "Hannity," Starnes reinforced the "war on Christians" meme and in so doing showed why Weinstein refers to him as a "fundamentalist barking dog."

On yesterday’s Your World, Jim DeMint of the Heritage Foundation got a friendly platform to defend promote a much-criticized report from his think tank, The Heritage Foundation, saying immigration reform could cost $6.3 trillion.  As Media Matters noted, even conservatives have called it a “fatally flawed” study. But host Neil Cavuto made no independent verification of the report. Nor did he investigate any of its claims beyond a “he said/she said” kind of approach.

If you watch Fox News for any length of time, it’s nearly impossible to avoid either a host or an esteemed guest condemn President Obama for not calling either the Boston Marathon bombing or the Fort Hood shooting, “Islamic terrorism.” As if fighting terrorism rests on what you call it. But yesterday, the FBI arrested a right-wing militia-type extremist who allegedly wanted to bomb a local police department. And Fox News is barely mentioning it at all, much less calling it “right wing terrorism.”

Bill O’Reilly jumped on the Benghazi bandwagon tonight in a big way. In a discussion with two Fox News contributors, Ralph Peters and Dave Hunt, O’Reilly echoed the sentiments of Mike Huckabee and floated the idea that President Obama might be impeached or deserve to be impeached as the result of upcoming House hearings on Benghazi. But then, after backtracking and playing the adult, O’Reilly floated the idea that President Obama might bomb Syria to “wag the dog” and divert attention away from Benghazi.

Be thankful that the ever-vigilant Todd Starnes is guarding our children's morals. Fox's culture warrior has taken time out from detailing the persecution of Christians in America, to fume over an explicit German sex-education book - without bothering to inform us that the publishers are discontinuing it.

Not only does Fox News report the news; but it's now making news. As part of its role as media conduit for the anti-choice lobby, Fox New is promoting their meme that Dr. Gosnell's clinic is what happens in all abortion clinics. In an effort to sway public opinion against Gosnell in particular and abortion in general, Fox News put together a "special report" about Gosnell. That the intent was to sensationalize and editorialize was underscored by the title of the report, "See No Evil."  While the Fox audience was probably pretty darned impressed with the "shocking" nature of the program, Gosnell's attorney was pretty pissed off about it.

So far, Fox hasn’t indulged in the kind of love-fest with Ted Cruz that it has with Rand Paul. But as the neophyte Texas Senator garners headline after headline for being an arrogant jerk forceful and uncompromising, it’s tough for the right-wing brass not to be a little impressed. When an influential pundit on the left aimed some complimentary remarks at Cruz on Sunday, the Fox Nation, with typical Fox Nation hyperbole, posted about it under the gleeful headline, “Senator Ted Cruz Terrifying the Left.”

There’s an interesting brouhaha today over a report in the New York Times that Roger Ailes ordered Geraldo Rivera’s microphone to be cut when he was on Fox & Friends shortly before the election last fall, criticizing the "preposterous allegations" and politicization of the Benghazi attacks and calling out colleague Eric Bolling in particular. Fox has denied the report. But one thing is indisputable: Rivera has changed his attitude toward Benghazi. On Saturday night (5/4/13) Rivera not only treated “Benghazi-Gate” as a serious controversy, he even welcomed Ann Coulter to politicize offer her “insights” into the subject.

The American anti-choice movement is aided and abetted by right wing politicians, evangelical Christians, so called "family values" groups, and the Catholic Church. In addition to these groups, they now have "fair & balanced" Fox News, an alleged "news" network that has become the media outlet for "right to life" propaganda which, at present, is focused on the trial of an abortion doctor who is accused of murdering babies, "born alive" during abortions. In order to conflate what happened in Gosnell's clinic with safe, legal abortion and, thus, advance their crusade to eliminate abortion, the anti-choice zealots accused the media of censoring the story. Fox immediately jumped into what wasn't a media blackout with commentary that pushed the pro-life propaganda. Fox even put together an emotionally charged, perjorative special report, praised by the anti-choicers, which used the trial to push the message that Gosnell represents "the reality of America's abortion industry." If that isn't pure propaganda, I don't know what is!

On the May 3^rd Your World, Fox's favorite climate-change denying weatherman, Joe Bastardi, discussed spring snowstorms in the Midwest and record cold in Dallas to dismiss climate change concerns. Neil Cavuto opened by saying “So much for Al Gore’s global warming prediction when he said that we should brace ourselves for one hot 2013.” Center for American Progress’ Joe Romm considers Bastardi possibly “the worst long-range forecaster ever.” But to Cavuto, Bastardi is indisputably “so good.”