There's nothing I love more (politically speaking) than a feisty liberal standing up to and demolishing right-wing attacks. It's even more delicious if the feisty liberal is standing up to a right-wing bully like Sean Hannity. In a discussion last week (3/9/12), Hannity hosted Fox News contributor and former student of Derrick Bell, Sally Kohn, to defend President Obama in Hannity's "race tape." The video has been widely ridiculed but Hannity is sticking to his racial guns that Obama's warm introduction of a tenured Harvard Law professor and a hug in 1990 proves that Obama shares what Hannity describes as Bell's anti-white radicalism. Kohn demolished every bit of Hannity's argument as "much ado about hugging" and finished him off by saying, “You and I have hugged, that doesn’t mean we agree on everything!" 

Since he's so concerned about President Obama's "radical associations," we’d like to hear Hannity’s explanation for sitting on the advisory board of a charity run by Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. We’ve got a video showing African American Peterson thanking God and the white man for slavery and comparing slave ships to riding coach in an airplane: “It’s a tough ride. But you’re happy when you get to your destination.” UPDATED.

Once again, the guest lineup on Fox News Sunday consisted of Republicans, only. Today the roster included Newt Gingrich and Sen. John McCain. There was a Democrat on the panel, Evan Bayh was squeezed between Republican Dana Perino, Republican Chip Saltsman and journalist Liz Marlantes. This week is just the latest in a growing list of Fox News Sunday programs without a Democratic guest. You can see our informal list after the jump.

The quote, When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and waving a cross,” could describe one of the most popular themes on Fox & Friends, a morning propaganda show that never wastes an opportunity to denigrate those evil Jesus haters who oppose this Christian symbol being placed on government land other than a cemetery. Fox & Friends has done many segments regarding cross disputes and in each and every one, only one side, the Christian side is represented. As Roger Ailes is very concerned about evil secularists who are "threatening to cut America off from its Judeo-Christian roots," it isn't surprising that this meme is a consistent feature on the "morning happy-talk show that Ailes uses as one of his primary vehicles to inject his venom into the media bloodstream." It also plays to the popular meme of Christian victimization which,as Jon Stewart says, is the "true genius of Fox News." This morning's Fox & Friends revolved around whether a court decision, which ruled that the placement of a Christian cross on public land is unconstitutional, is "another example of the war on religious freedom."  Funny, the issue of religious freedom was never invoked when Fox "News" was aiding all those who opposed the so called "Ground Zero Mosque."

Donald Trump was back on Fox News and once again treated like a respectable pundit despite a discredited record of birtherism and lies. That’s bad enough. But he had the audacity to make personal attacks on conservative pundit George Will – and host Greta Van Susteren didn’t seem to mind, much less point out the irony of Trump criticizing anyone else’s track record or credibility.

Fox is the mouthpiece for the GOP and patriarchal Christian right who want to take Americaback to the "good old days" when women knew their place and were happy to make cookies and lots of babies. Thus, it's not surprising that Fox & Friends,America's flagship show for old school family values, would discuss a Washington Post article in which a columnist had the audacity to criticize the "smug fecundity" of sainted GOP politicians. And who better to assist Fox & Friends them in their support for breeding patriarchal Republicans and their smear of he WAPO columnist than polymath and former "," Brad Stine, a Christian "comedian" who is also leader of a macho Christian men's group who "give thanks" to a very macho God for their testosterone. And we gals should be thankful for guys like Stine who will wean us of our evil, family destroying birth control ways in order to save heterosexual marriage and the nuclear family from evil liberals who are out to destroy the foundations of our Christian society.

Sean Hannity's race-based attacks on President Obama – over a hug he gave to a “radical” Harvard law professor in 1990 – has been widely ridiculed, including a devastating send up by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. Hannity's own colleague, Geraldo Rivera, called it a “sign of desperation.” But segregation-supporting Hannity isn't giving up on his efforts. In fact, last night, he spent most of his Fox News show doubling (or was it tripling?) down on his efforts to “prove” President Obama is a racist.

Count Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera as one of the many underwhelmed about Sean Hannity’s “exposé” into President Obama’s hug of Professor Derrick Bell 22 years ago via a post-mortem video clip from Andrew Breitbart. Rivera said that while Bell had some “far out theories,” it was “unfair” and “a sign of desperation” to try to turn him into a 2012 election version of Jeremiah Wright. 

Bill O’Reilly just can’t stop attacking Sandra Fluke. Fluke, as you probably know, exercised her American citizenship to testify before Congress on a subject she cared about – contraception coverage in health insurance – and the right has been going after her ever since. Rush Limbaugh’s shocking smears have cost him dearly in sponsors. But Fox News, which is largely ignoring the Limbaugh controversy, has gone after Fluke with its own smears, albeit less inflammatorily. So, for example, Bill O’Reilly implied Fluke is a slut instead of coming right out and saying so, as Limbaugh did. He followed that up with a convoluted conspiracy theory in which he “connected” Fluke to President Obama based on the fact that former Obama aide Anita Dunn works for the (large) PR company representing Fluke. Never mind that Dunn has already said she has nothing to do with Fluke’s account. Now, O’Reilly has some new information: Fluke’s boyfriend is the son of a “Democratic stalwart” who “has made at least 56 donations to many Democratic candidates or organizations.” Apparently, that’s proof enough that Fluke is some kind of Obama plant.

While much of the world awaits the HBO movie Game Change – the film about the 2008 election that has Sarah Palin fuming – Fox & Friends gave a nice little plug for the fawning documentary about Palin that will coincidentally run on the Reelz network at the same time. Gretchen Carlson introduced the segment by saying, “Now a documentary giving a more intimate look” at P alin. Carlson didn't mention the film was released last July and bombed.