Sean Hannity is forever pouting that he and Republicans are unfairly characterized as wanting "dirty air, dirty water." But some new research puts the lie to that claim. Caught on tape!

As we saw from the imbroglio over Duck Dynasty, not only does Fox News believe that conservative entertainers have the right to free speech, but they also have a right to an audience. Such was the case, last week, when Fox News provided an audience for the latest victimized right wing entertainer. Maria Conchita Alonso left a San Francisco production of "The Vagina Monologues" after a backlash to an ad, for a Tea Party candidate for governor, Tim Donnelly, in which she appeared. Alonso is no stranger to Fox, so naturally, Fox wasted no time in giving her airtime during which her sad story of being "forced to resign" was validated. But, at no time during the interviews, was Donnelly's connection to the radical anti-immigrant Minutemen (He was founder of the California chapter) brought up - a connection that tells the whole story that Fox, in its attempt to present yet another persecuted conservative, doesn't want to tell.

If the choice of media critic David Zurawik on Fox News' #MediaBuzz is any indication, I think we can safely conclude that Glenn Beck's apology for divisiveness did not signal a return to Fox News in the near future. Meanwhile, we can all enjoy Zurawik's lively smackdown of Beck and the Beck apologist who also appeared in the segment.

File this under “Juicy!” Fox News contributor and private investigator Bo Dietl leaked damaging information about Rupert Murdoch’s then-wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, to Gawker. Who hired him to do so is still a mystery.

As sure as the tide goes in, the tide goes out, when a major Republican figure says something stupid, there's a good chance that Fox News will provide them with some sweet rehab. When Fox Host and possible presidential candidate Mike Huckabee made his now infamous libido comment, it didn't take much more than 24 hours for Fox to roll out the rehab carpet. Huckabee mansplained himself on Megyn Kelly's show. Bill O'Reilly mansplained Huckabee's comment on The Factor. And yesterday, Huckabee got warm validation on Fox & Friends where the liberal media was accused of spinning (!) Huckabee's comments and where Huckabee added to his mansplanation a big, fat lie about "free abortions" for all those out of control, gullible, libidinous nymphos who are getting seduced by Uncle Sugar and his free slut pills. Good times...

Attention Fox News: We still get emails from people who can't tell us apart. I haven't had a chance to open our mailbag of misdirected mail lately but here is a part of what has accumulated. I'll publish the rest in a later post. I look at it as a public service for the senders (because we know that Fox News personnel read our blog) and for our readers to get a glimpse into the minds of Fox News readers. 

The O’Reilly Factor purported to debate last night the firestorm that erupted over Mike Huckabee’s comments about women’s libidos and needing “Uncle Sugar” to provide birth control. Women, sex and contraception? Instead of talking Huckabee, Bill O’Reilly used the occasion to obsess (again) about Sandra Fluke – and smear her by misrepresenting what she stands for.

The right wing love Israel because of its biblical connections. But they are certainly not attuned to Jewish sensitivities as seen in their callous comparison of right wing issues to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. Fox News hosts provide examples of this insensitivity. When, at a Values Voters Summit, Mike Huckabee compared abortion to the Holocaust, the ADL described his remarks as "offensive" and "disturbing." The ADL condemned his comparison of the Holocaust to the national debt, at a NRA gathering, as a "political talking point." The ADL also called out Fox's Andrew Napolitano's column in which he suggested that if the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto had enough guns, some could have survived. This type of right wing commentary was recently advanced, by the alleged fair & balanced "news" host Martha MacCallum, on her alleged "news" show when she said that if only the Jews had guns, things would have worked out so much better. 

It's hard to think of any more deserving winner of our Fox News Outrageous Quote of the Week poll than Allen West. He's parked at Fox News while he earns money and exposure for his upcoming 2016 campaign "for whatever God would have me do." Meanwhile, he seems to have no qualms spreading an outrageous message of hate and bigotry.

Mike Huckabee visited The Kelly File tonight to defend his now-infamous comments about women’s libidos and birth control. He insisted he has nothing to apologize for because the only ones he was knocking were Democrats, not women who want birth control. Au contraire, Huckabee repeatedly maintained, his comments about women believing they need “Uncle Sugar” to provide birth control because “they cannot control their libido” were made out of respect and admiration.