In their desperation to maintain a system which sanctions anti-LGBT discrimination, the homophobic religious right claims that official non-discrimination policies, which include sexual orientation, are a violation of religious liberty - in this case, the liberty to discriminate because, you see, God hates fags. As the mouthpiece for the homophobic religious right, Fox News provides validation. The allegedly "fair & balanced" Shannon Bream peddled a bunch of lies about the San Antonio Non-Discrimination Ordinance, not once, but three times. During one of the propaganda sessions, she was joined by a spokesperson from the SPLC designated homophobic hate group, The Family Research Council. Not to be outdone was Fox's resident homophobe and "shit-stirrer" Todd Starnes who tweeted a bunch of junk about this ordinance. But reason prevailed and the ordinance passed. In a tweet, Starnes wrote that he fears that this granting of special status to gays (lie) will cause reprisals against Christians. Poor Toddles.

Next to the Bible and guns, Jesus loving, atheist hating, conservative Christians fetishize the American flag and the Pledge of Allegiance. Any attempts to take the phrase "Under God" (added in the 50's at the behest of the Catholic Knights of Columbus) from the Pledge are seen as treasonous. But lawsuits involving "Under God" are red meat for Fox News which, in covering them, gets to push patriotism and the popular Fox meme about how evil atheists are ruining it for patriotic, Christian Americans. Yesterday, Peter Johnson Jr. and Steve Doocy were close to tears about a Massachusetts lawsuit in which the atheist plaintiffs are contesting that "Under God" is discriminatory towards atheists. Not surprisingly, some of the good Christians on Fox's "The Five" sold some of that red meat which, as usual, was pretty rancid. 

On Fox News, MSNBC is normally Enemy #1 on the Axis of Evil Liberal Media. But, apparently, there's one thing Fox hates more than MSNBC and that's a (black) Democratic president.

While Fox News advances the meme that those who dare to advocate for minority rights are part of the "grievance industry," they provide a platform for any and every right wing group claiming to have been aggrieved by the forces of evil secularism and the evil liberal agenda. Fox & Friends, in particular, is always eager to host a pity party involving persecuted Christians, patriotism under attack, and so forth. And when young Republicans have a grievance, the gang on the curvy couch is there to provide warm affirmation. Such was the case, this morning, when yet another aggrieved young Republican whined about how those nasty, bad liberals, at the University of North Carolina, have cut their funding while nasty, bad liberal groups get more than their fair share. That, of course, wasn't really the full story; but then, this is Fox & Friends. Anyway, poor conservative students. Somebody call me a whambulance!

Donald Rumsfeld is back and Fox News has not just forgotten how he resigned in disgrace as Secretary of Defense in the last Bush administration but is actively rehabilitating him as some kind of sage with standing to criticize President Obama’s Syria policy.

Yesterday morning, John McCain smacked down Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade’s ignorant Islamophobia over the phrase “Allahu akbar.” By coincidence, a team of Fox News talking heads attacked John McCain. But not one of them proved McCain wrong when he said that rather than being some radical Jihadi phrase, it merely meant the equivalent of “Thank God.”

Ann Coulter reprised her role as a Middle East war expert on Fox News last night. Once again, she treated a serious and grave situation, with potentially wide-ranging ramifications, as little more than a springboard for her childishly inflammatory “wit.” But something tells me that a lot of viewers were laughing at her and not with her as she wished that military action in Syria would be the same kind of “magnificent success” the Iraq war was - until President Obama botched it.

I suspect that if - say - some godless librul pundit had insulted John McCain, during the 2008 presidential race, Todd Starnes would have declared that said person was dishonoring an American war hero. But flash forward to 2013 and Starnes (despite his awesome machismo and extraordinary patriotism never served) is attacking Sen. John McCain as President Obama's "water carrier." True story. McCain has earned Starnes' wrath because the Senator recently schooled Brian, "all terrorists are Muslims, Kilmeade about the real meaning of Allahu Akbar which, in Starnes Jesus loving, homo hating, Islamophobic world is an Islamic war cry and not, as described by McCain, analogous to "Thank God" which is, of course, what good Christians say when abortion doctors get killed. Yesterday, on Fox News Insider, good Christian Toddles not only mocked McCain; but encouraged readers to do some serious trash talking about the senator. Praise Jesus?!  

Much has been made, by pundits from across the ideological spectrum, about Miley Cyrus' performance at the VMA awards. But Bill O'Reilly's take is interesting in that it not only exposes his patriarchal sexism; but a double standard regarding sex and race, vis-à-vis the entertainment industry and society at large. O'Reilly has long been obsessed with Cyrus's actions and even wardrobe. While it seems consistent with his patriarchal misogyny, his verbal spankings, from a Freudian perspective, raise some serious questions. Not surprisingly, O'Reilly's commentary about Cyrus' performance at the VMA's was a reflection of his own paternalistic views in that he scolded Cyrus' father for not scolding Miley. Meanwhile, he ignores Robin Thicke's grinding against Cyrus while singing a song that is degrading to women. There is another double standard. O'Reilly doesn't feel that the actions of the white Miley Cyrus have any implications for white society - but in denigrating the African-American community, he blames, in part, rap music. 

If ever you needed proof that Fox News reflexively opposes whatever President Obama stands for, regardless of the underlying issues or ethics, check out judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano’s flip-flop on the subject of whether or not President Obama should seek Congressional approval before a military strike.