Believe it or not, Fox News is defending President Barack Obama - now that they can use him to attack Rev. Jeremiah Wright and the Chicago Teachers Union. Rev. Wright spoke critically about Obama at a Martin Luther King event held by the union and this is big news on Fox.

Jon Stewart gave Brit Hume’s lament about Chris Christie - that the “feminized atmosphere” of modern society unfairly targets “old-fashioned tough guys”  - its comedic just desserts. And, while he was at it, Stewart did a little riffing on Hillary Clinton’s so-called enemies list.

I’m sure that by now, most News Hounds readers are aware that a new book reveals Hillary Clinton’s aides kept a so-called “enemies list.” However, if you want to know exactly how dead-on-arrival this “scandal” should have been, you only have to look to Karl Rove, who offered up his $0.02 on the matter to say that lists of this nature are an institutionalized political practice - right before he tried to explain why Hillary’s list should be an outrage, anyway.

As the media mouthpiece for the anti-choice movement and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Fox News has been unwavering in its support for opposition to the HHS birth control mandate which has exempted churches and provided a mechanism by which religious non-profits and educational institutions can invoke their exemption to allow their insurance carriers to cover the cost of birth control. In promoting the bishop's position, Fox News has promoted their claim that the mandate covers abortion inducing drugs including emergency contraception which is only considered an "abortifacient" by the Catholic Church and not the medical community. (It prevents ovulation) On January 4th, Fox host and GOP hack Jeanine Pirro kept the lie going - by my count from only the programs that I reviewed - for the *11th time.

The Daily Show’s Samantha Bee offered up an amazing and oddball comically dramatic interpretation of Fox News’ The Five. It pretty much defies explanation but it involves what she called “a story as old as time, a story of love” between co-hosts Greg Gutfeld and Dana Perino.

Given their concern for excessive government spending, at taxpayer expense, you would think that the right wing would applaud the administration's decision to save taxpayer money by moving US Vatican embassy staff from a separate building to a compound shared by the US Italian embassy in Rome. But oh, no, certain right wing, anti-Obama Catholic zealots have their rosary beads in a bunch over what they consider to be part of the President's war on Catholics - a meme constantly aided and abetted by Fox News in their support for the Catholic bishops' opposition to the HHS birth control mandate. In late 2012, Fox did two pieces in which a former Vatican ambassador and big GOP honcho Jim Nicholson whined about the move. And this morning - drum roll please - he appeared on Fox & Friends, Fox's premier show for aggrieved Christians, for more whining!

In yet another attempt to undermine anti-poverty programs and to suggest the poor are lazy "takers," FOXNews.com touts the view held by Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) that those on SNAP are there undeservedly.

“Only the Godfather came remotely close,” Fox News host Neil Cavuto said yesterday, about the news that Hillary Clinton aides kept a list of political endorsers and non-endorsers in 2008. Even though there is no evidence of retribution by the Clintons against anyone on the list. And then, insisting he was just having fun – at Clinton’s expense – Cavuto trotted out actor Gianni Russo, from The Godfather, “who knows a thing or two about lists.”

Dick Morris was back (again) on Fox last night. And just in time to help divert attention away from the growing Chris Christie “Bridgegate” scandal and trump up Hillary Clinton’s “enemies list” as a bigger scandal. Just pay no attention to Morris’ disgraceful and discredited record or his long-standing grudge against Hillary Clinton. Fox News certainly didn’t mention it.

I don't know if Roger Ailes is a fan of ZZ Top; but it's apparent that he sure does love female anchor's legs and "knows how to use them." As Gabriel Sherman reports in his new book about Roger Ailes, "The Loudest Voice in the Room," Ailes is obsessed with displaying the legs of Fox female anchors. Sherman confirms the existence of the "leg chair" on "The Five." (While Andrea Tantaros was slated for this piece of furniture, former Victoria's Secret model Kimberly Guilfoyle seems to be the primary occupant.) This obsession with legs might have also been confirmed by Gretchen Carlson who admitted that pants were not allowed on Fox & Friends where the curvy couch provides maximum exposure for shapely "gams." And now that Gretch has her own show, she's still not wearing pants!