Megyn Kelly may have gotten more than she bargained for when she tried to defend Fox’s attacks on the mainstream media to a reformed white supremacist who said “somebody like me” hears them as a “bullhorn” that shouts, “Jewish media!”

Journalist Cathy Areu gave a jaw-dropping response to Donald Trump’s authoritarian quote about having an “absolute right” to do whatever he wants with the Justice Department – not with alarm at the authoritarian nature of the remark but by validating it.

Kevin Jackson’s suggestion that the FBI might have plotted to assassinate Donald Trump was a perfect winner for our final Outrageous Fox Quote of the Week poll in 2017. But as we start 2018, we have one more week from 2017 to catch up on, as you’ll see after the jump.

During Fox News’ New Years Eve special last night, host Lisa “Kennedy” Montgomery put on a red wig, pretended to be Kathy Griffin and told a series of Anderson Cooper “jokes” to appreciative cohost Jesse Watters.

What happens when Fox News' Howard Kurtz hosts conservative Gayle Trotter, Fox “correspondent” Ed Henry and Democratic contributor Jessica Tarlov for a discussion of the media’s “sinking credibility in 2017?” You get seven Trump-friendly minutes of finger pointing that ridiculously overlooked Fox’s own missteps and misdeeds.

Even during a New Year’s Eve countdown, Fox News is divisive, mean-spirited and partisan.

Imagine my surprise when I saw Fox News contributor and conservative Baptist Pastor Robert Jeffress on an old TV game show called Card Sharks where he gambled his way through the game.

Under the guise of media criticism, Fox’s Howard Kurtz let Trump-sycophant Mollie Hemingway bogusly attack a bombshell New York Times report that Trump’s own campaign adviser George Papadopoulos’ brash, drunken boasts to an Australian ambassador is what prompted the FBI to open its Russia investigation, not the so-called Steele dossier that the right-wing loves to disparage.

The same Fox & Friends who slobber over “putting the Christ back in Christmas” prodded Rev. Franklin Graham to "slam" Rosie O’Donnell for daring to tweet to GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan ‘u will go straight to hell u screwed up fake altar boy” in response to the un-Christian tax bill.

Former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has reacted to a report about an FBI search warrant with tweets about the media, saying, “Punch them in the nose & MAKE THEM TASTE THEIR OWN BLOOD” and promising to “bitch slap these scum bags.” UPDATED