Donald Trump visited On The Record last night where he repeatedly made the ludicrous claim that he’d prefer to be discussing business, not birtherism, and that it’s really the media’s fault that he keeps getting asked about it. Host Greta Van Susteren could have and, in my opinion, should have cut him to shreds over that but the job she did do was not too shabby. Still, since she clearly doubted much of what Trump told her, you have to wonder why she didn’t question Trump about the results of his investigation in Hawaii he boasted about last year.

Bill O'Reilly is an aging Catholic "traditionalist" who uses his show, on the "Fair & Balanced" Fox News network, to promote his and his fellow "pro-lifers" hatred of Planned Parenthood, an organization that serves the health needs of low income women. As a self proclaimed fighter for the rights of the unborn (women, not so much), he has unabashedly promoted the sting videos of Lila Rose, the virginal diva of the anti-choice movement who specializes in "sting videos" which purport to show Planned Parenthood workers in violation of the law. As documented on Media Matters, the videos of the well funded Rose, who started her "sting" career with the human slime video journalist James O'Keefe, are hoaxes which have not resulted in any criminal prosecutions. Her group, "Live Action" just released a video that had all the anti-choice crazies in high dudgeon. Once again, it's a bogus, manufactured controversy. But that didn't stop "baby saver" Bill from showing a little love for Lila whose ineffective crusade to shut down Planned Parenthood dovetails nicely with pro-life "Courage Award" winner Bill O'Reilly.

Donald Trump has doubled down on his birtherism of late. Just as Mitt Romney is about to clinch the Republican nomination – and on the same night that Romney will be fundraising with Trump in Las Vegas. But that’s no biggie to four out of five co-hosts of The Five. It was barely worth a thought. In fact, if it weren’t so disturbing watching them fall all over themselves thinking of ways to praise Trump without endorsing his birtherism, you might be doubled over in laughter listening to them gush about his “pizzazz” that nonetheless “connects with the modern man.” 

On the right wing list of things most loathed, President Obama is right on top. Following close behind is the LGBT community which, according to today's radical right, is imposing a nefarious agenda meant to destroy heterosexual America as we know it. As the mouthpiece for the right, Fox News never wastes an opportunity to bash Obama and his administration - and that, sadly, includes mocking the transgender community. Last week, alleged official Fox "news" host Bret Baier, demonstrated that there is no depth to which Fox News will not sink when it comes to smearing Obama and, in the process, attacking an innocent American who was just fighting for her rights.

FoxNews.com ran a story entitled "Global warming sleptics as knowledgeable about science as climate change believers."  According to the article "people who are not that worried about the effects of global warming tend to have a slightly higher level of scientific knowledge than those who are worried.” But Fox failed to note that the questions asked by the study it was citing had no relation to climate change and that the study considered more variables than Fox decided to mention.

Donald Trump is back in his birther boy saddle again. And he's scheduled to appear on On The Record tonight. Will "liberal" Greta Van Susteren challenge him on this? Indications so far suggest not.

This weekend's Fox News Sunday joined our growing list of programs without a Democratic guest. This week's guests were not just non-Democrats, but Republican John McCain and Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who "explained" why some Catholic organizations are suing the Obama administration.

...The mainstream media lets them. Crooks and Liars found a perfect example of Fox News getting a pass on one of its more egregious lies: Roger Ailes told a whopper during a recent speech, saying that Fox News employs only one conservative vs. 24 liberals. But on CNN's Reliable Sources, Howard Kurtz somehow missed that - along with several other outrageous Ailes statements - in order to focus on a smear of the New York Times... which Kurtz noted, a Fox spokesman walked back for Ailes. 

There's a new American twist to the Murdoch scandals. Reuters reported a few days ago that the name of American financier Robert Agostinelli turned up as a "blagging" target of private investigator Steve Whittamore, working on behalf of the Murdoch tabloid News of the World - which shut down in the wake of the phone hacking scandals that have engulfed the Murdoch empire. "Blagging" is a British term for obtaining information under false pretenses. In this case, someone misrepresented him or herself to get a copy of Agostinelli's hotel bill. (H/T Eric J.)

Sometime in June, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare” to Fox News believers). As the time approaches, the war of words is heating up on both sides - though judging from Friday’s “On the Record,” it’s the liberals’ fault because they’re trying to bully the judges into upholding the bill.