Eighty-four days to the election – Sean Hannity is counting. And last night, with a little help from Karl Rove, he did his best to help Paul Ryan breathe life into Romney’s uninspiring campaign. 

In case all the fawning over Paul Ryan's designation as Republican vice presidential candidate were not enough, Megyn Kelly did her best to turn him into the second coming of Ronald Reagan yesterday. She spliced together footage of Ryan and Reagan in a video and suggested that viewers would see the similarities in "conservative ideas, his optimism, even (their) language."

We still don't have a lot of details about the shooter at the Family Research Council headquarters today but Fox News is gearing up to use it against liberals. On the FoxNews.com homepage, the editors thought it important to include this in its thumbnail: URGENT: Gunman reportedly spoke of group's conservative policies before shooting guard at DC headquarters.

Sarah Palin may be so toxic that her own party doesn’t want her speaking at their upcoming convention or campaigning with their nominees, but that doesn’t mean she can’t offer up campaign advice to President Obama. She just wants you to know she doesn’t really want him to take her suggestion.

Yesterday, on America Live, Brit Hume spoke with Megyn Kelly to promote his exclusive interview with Paul Ryan on Special Report tonight. But first, she played a bit of a new ad that she “called the big story of the day” that “goes after the Obama team on the issue of Medicare.”

Remember when Fox & Friends created a video that looked more like an anti-Obama campaign ad than news? Now comes On The Record’s “report” on Paul Ryan in Wisconsin – full of stirring music and roaring crowds – that looks more like a “Ryan for (Vice) President” commercial than a news report.

Poor Bob Beckel. He's long been the metaphorical Fox News punching bag, especially on The Five, but when co-host Eric Bolling literally hit him in the arm, he didn't like it. He said, "You know, you do that one more time, you’re fucking (sounded like he was going to say 'toast')." You can hear the hosts gasp in the video. Bolling apologized.

Dick Morris appeared on Hannity last night and predicted that Mitt Romney is doing far better than the polls show and will win many of the swing states currently rated as up for grabs. It’s hard to be too pro-Republican for Sean Hannity but even he could not buy Morris’ crackpot analysis.

If, as Jon Stewart says, "conservative victimization" is the true genius of Fox News, Fox & Friend's perpetual parade of persecuted Christians makes it MENSA material. Whenever a Christian cross, on public property, is under fire, Fox & Friends has its back. Such was the case during last week's segment about a cross topped war memorial which is the target of a complaint from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. At one point in the discussion, Foxblonde, Anna Kooiman provided reinforcement of the persecuted Christian meme with the Fox message for the day: "Clearly, the right to have a faith and to believe and practice and worship is under fire at the moment."  Really?

Bill O'Reilly recently interviewed Professor of Politics at Occidental College, Peter Dreier, in order to discuss his charge that O'Reilly traffics in "right wing buffoonery." O'Reilly denied Dreier's previous charge that he had unfairly criticized Social Security and accused Dreier of not backing up his claim, making him look "intellectually deficient," and - wait for it - "perpetuating propaganda." When you've finished ROFLMAOing, check out Dreier's list, on Huffington Post, of some of Bill's "lies, distortions, and right wing buffoonery" which includes Bill's criticism of Social Security as something "close" to a Ponzi scheme. You might want to make of a copy of this for those family, holiday (ewww, my bad) dinners when your bombastic, right wing relative starts bloviating about the lies and distortions being promulgated by the buffoonish Bill!