That the allegedly "fair & balanced" Fox News network is a conduit for the lies and propaganda of the extremist anti-abortion "American Taliban" is underscored by the presence of Mike Huckabee whose program features anti-abortion extremists such as Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood worker who was "converted" to the anti-abortion movement. Saturday, Ms. Johnson, whose newest pet project is to encourage Planned Parenthood workers to leave their jobs, returned to the Huckabee show which devoted two segments to more anti-choice agitprop and Planned Parenthood bashing. It also featured another former clinic worker's baseless claims about alleged criminal actions at her former place of employment. If there's any question as to whether the war on women is real, Mike Huckabee's show answers it strongly in the affirmative.  

Greg Gutfeld must have been jealous of all the attention Bob Beckel got when he told CBS to take its Amazing Race show "and shove it" a few days ago. Either that or there's something in the water (or the Fox brass' instructions) at The Five that has them looking for reasons to become unhinged. Yesterday's excuse was Jim Carrey's Funny or Die video spoofing Charlton Heston and the NRA. Whatever the reason, Gutfeld accused Carrey of killing more people than "all the rifles combined." Really. And, of course, the whole thing got re-played over and over on Fox.

Another day, another racial whine from Fox’s master baiter of race, Sean Hannity. Tonight’s excuse, Touré’s comments about Dr. Benjamin Carson being conservatives’ guilt-assuaging “black friend.” Rather than address the substance of Toure’s remarks – that GOP policies matter more to African Americans than the color of their pals – Hannity trotted out two of his favorite African-American black attackers to throw racial flames at Touré, MSNBC and the left.

Dr. Ben Carson may have been mainly a Fox phenomenon immediately after he lectured President Obama at a National Prayer Breakfast last month, but it looks like he’s going mainstream. The conservative speaker and retiring neurosurgeon has been interviewed by CNN, and written up by such bastions of liberalism as the Washington Post. The doctor has been hyped as a candidate for President (or, more recently, a candidate for the vacant Michigan Senate seat) since the day after the prayer breakfast. But he is not on Karl Rove's list of "Conservative Rising Stars," as he told Greta Van Susteren on Friday night.

In case you missed it, The Five's Bob Beckel went on a tirade last week against CBS for an Amazing Race segment in which contestants were ordered to memorize “communist” Vietnamese songs and visit the site of a downed B-52 bomber. I’ll agree that the segment was not the most sensitive but Beckel’s explosive outburst – in which he told CBS to “take that show and shove it!” – seems rather hypocritical given his perch at Birther Central, aka Fox News, where hate mongering against Americans and our president is their stock in trade.

The insidious nature of Fox News mullah Bill O'Reilly's personal attacks is made even more so by his ability to frame his fatwa's in humorous and avuncular tones. While he's perfectly capable of angrily denouncing his "enemies," he's also able to get the same affect by gently making baseless accusation against them and mocking them as "pinheads." And in true O'Reilly style, he gets the last (and in many cases, the only) word because his victims don't get a chance to respond. But if his targets push back, Bill gets upset. Recently, a Denver Post journalist accused O'Reilly of gay baiting the CO House Speaker because of the Speaker's opposition to O'Reilly's pet legislation, Jessica's Law. The writer appeared on The Factor and despite O'Reilly's delusional claims of having bested the man, his presentation was calm and articulate. But because Bill always needs to have the last word, he's now turning his wrath on the editor of the Denver Post who is being called a "Pinhead" for supposedly turning his paper into an arm of the Democratic Party. (And this is being said on Fox News, Oh, the irony!)

Bill O'Reilly's stalker/ambush producer, Jesse Watters was a guest co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend this morning where he bravely did his part to save Easter from the evil forces who want to ruin it with "spring egg hunts." He was helped with that endeavor by birther and affirmative action foe, Professor Carol Swain.

Bill O'Reilly and his boys, Bernard McGuirk and Greg Gutfeld have so much in common. Not only are they devout, pro-life Catholics who revel in their homophobia and misogyny, but all three are former altar boys. For those of you of a given age and religious background, you know the type - the wise ass jerks beloved by sistah who doesn't know that they are passing around their dad's used Playboys. One wonders if sistah would be proud of those saintly, little Catholics, now grown up, who agree that the bogus "war on Christmas" is caused by "misanthropic heathen atheists," slutty sluts who have abortions, and, ta-da, the gay agenda. That was during a December "Factor." Flash forward to March 15 when the boys did some more atheist and gay bashing as well as advancing the popular persecuted Christian whine that Muslims get better treatment than Christians. I don't know if they're getting time off in Purgatory for their efforts in fighting the forces of evil secularism; but it sure does make their Fox fatha, Bill O'Reilly, mighty happy!

We've been keeping an informal tally of Fox News Sunday shows that exclude Democratic guests. We can add today's guest roster to our growing list. Today's guests: Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) followed by a debate on same-sex marriage with Republican Nicolle Wallace and American Values' Gary Bauer - also a Republican. The panel discussion included Democrat Evan Bayh and quasi-liberal Juan Williams but they were balanced by Republican Newt Gingrich and conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin. Fair and balanced? I don't think so!

Sean Hannity is still calling waterboarding "dunking." So why, then, has he not fulfilled his promise to prove that point and undergo it himself for charity? It has been nearly four years -or 3 years, 11 months and 2 days - since Hannity made that vow to Charles Grodin on April 22, 2009.