On yesterday’s Your World, guests Charles Payne and Elizabeth MacDonald defended Walmart’s plan to nix 3 stores in Washington, D.C. if a living wage bill passes. It’s doubtful either of them live on anything close to the $12.50/hour that is being proposed and I’d love to know how much they shop at Walmart but when it comes to choices for the poor, they knew what was best – and it wasn’t the living wage. Host Neil Cavuto joined in the pile on by suggesting that such a wage was way too generous.

Right now, the lawyers and judge involved in the George Zimmerman trial are discussing and negotiating instructions and charges for the jury. But those "fair and balanced" folks at Fox News are making their own closing arguments on behalf of George Zimmerman. You don't even need to watch the "fair and balanced" channel to know whose side they're on.

Fox's America Live is part of the official Fox "news" block and is, supposedly "fair & balanced." So you'd think that in the discussion about the Texas abortion bill, the show would host - oh, say -  spokespersons from groups who oppose the bill like- oh, say - doctors with the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists or a pro-choice legislator. Oh wait, Megyn Kelly did host liberal radio talk show host, Leslie Marshall, who debated an anti-choice right wing radio guy. So it's all fair & balanced, right? Um, maybe not because, in total, America Live hosted three other segments in which all the participants and, of course, Megyn Kelly, spouted anti-choice propaganda. But Kelly did interview a doctor, so it's all good. Right? Um, maybe not because the doctor is a tea party, anti-choice ophthalmologist. On Monday's show, Michelle Malkin pushed more pro-life propaganda. Unlike Megyn Kelly, Alisyn Camerota actually challenged her. But as far as guests, the score is still rather, um biased?

Apparently, one noted bigot to analyze the George Zimmerman trial was not enough for Sean Hannity tonight. After one segment with Mark Fuhrman (who’s a regular analyst of the trial on Fox), Hannity added Pat Buchanan to the mix. I guess Paula Deen wasn’t available

A day after Rush Limbaugh was forced to explain that he hadn’t been telling a caller not to watch Fox News - just not to watch  the liberals on Fox News - he and Fox continued their mutual damage control, with Rush calling in to the Five, ostensibly to discuss the “news of the day” but really, I think, for a nice cozy session of Bonding and Fawning in Front of the Cameras.

While the killing of a NYC gay man was officially designated as a hate crime and a gay friendly Minnesota Christian church has been repeatedly vandalized, you won't find any outrage about that on Fox News. But when a Christian pastor, of the God hates fags genre, is attacked at a gay pride parade, Fox is all over it like the product that they produce on a daily basis. As the mouthpiece for the homophobic and perpetually victimized Christian right it doesn't come as any surprise that Fox Nation would feature, for an entire day, the banner headline "Shocking Video, Christian Preachers Assaulted at Gay Pride Festival." And given that Bill O'Reilly seems to have some issues with teh gay, it wasn't surprising that he would advance the Fox meme that the LGBT community is intolerant and violent towards Christians. Monday night, O'Reilly scolded the gay community about the aforementioned incident when the perps don't appear to be gay. Funny, O'Reilly doesn't scold the straight community for hate crimes against gays. Go figure!

Sarah Palin told Sean Hannity on his radio show yesterday that she's considering running against incumbent Senator Mark Begich (D-AK) and suddenly the media believes her. Just like they believed her phony tease about running for president. Fox News is also trumpeting this myth, even though Palin just un-quit the network less than a month ago and told the viewers that she's very busy writing a book that's "kind of a legalese how-to push back" on the War on Christmas.

Sean Hannity, Fox News Master Baiter Of Race, once again stuck his finger in the eye of African Americans tonight with the blatantly insensitive use of Mark Fuhrman as an analyst of the George Zimmerman trial. But even worse, Hannity specifically asked Fuhrman to opine about how likely it will be that African Americans will riot if when Zimmerman is acquitted. As if a noted racist like Fuhrman would have any insight into African Americans in Florida. Yet Fuhrman used the opportunity to take a thinly-veiled swipe at the black community.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck will be leaving The View tomorrow and joining Fox & Friends in September, when Gretchen Carlson will get her own show.

During the Gosnell trial, Amanda Marcotte wrote an interesting article about how anti-choice forces were "gaslighting the media and the public." She explains that gaslighting refers to "emotional abuse where the abuser deliberately denies reality and tells blatant lies" in order to disorient the victim who eventually can't recognize reality. This strategy, she notes, was inherent in right wing media Gosnell coverage which tied Gosnell to legal abortion when the reality is that lack of access drove desperate women to Gosnell.  As an example of media obfuscation, she cited Fox contributor Kirsten Powers' anti-choice rhetoric - despite Powers' claim to be a Democrat. Fox's coverage of the Texas abortion law involves more gaslighting in that their focus on the supposed reasonableness of the 20 week ban obfuscates the greater issue of lack of access to reproductive health care which Powers thinks is no big deal. On this week's Fox News Sunday, the gaslighting continued with Nina Easton's anti-choice propaganda which even used one of Powers' bogus talking points as well as the now standard Fox attack on Wendy Davis.