Bill O'Reilly presents himself as a devout Catholic which, as I recall from my childhood daily catechism lessons, does not preach a gospel of hatred. But that was a long time ago, so maybe things have changed because Il Papa Bill does seem to harbor hatred for HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. During his one man, nationally televised jihad against abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, O'Reilly claimed that Sebelius was "unfit to serve" as governor of Kansas because she didn't participate in the kind of anti-Tiller jihad that Bill was waging. The reality is that Tiller was found innocent of criminal charges brought against him by the disgraced former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline whose "dishonest and selfish" campaign against Tiller had Bill's imprimatur. Sebelius was recently invited to speak at one of Georgetown University's commencement venues. Not surprisingly, that prompted paroxysms of pro-life protest from O'Reilly who, as a devout Catholic (phone sex not withstanding), felt that her pro-choice views and her, according to Bill, defense of Tiller and support for "baby killing" disqualified her from speaking. Last Friday, Bill, in his words, "blasted" Sebelius. Other verbs such as demonize, vilify, smear, and attack come to mind!

Karl Rove was on the Fox News Sunday panel yesterday, where he was unequivocally opposed to Republicans using Rev. Wright to attack President Obama again. But today, Fox's golden-haired birther boy, Donald Trump, said the Romney campaign should "go after Obama" on the subject. Is this the start of a (new) GOP/Fox News Civil War?

The Trayvon Martin family attorney, Benjamin Crump, answered back Geraldo Rivera’s latest comments about Trayvon Martin during an appearance tonight on Geraldo At Large. You may recall that Rivera appeared on the O’Reilly Factor Friday night and announced that he thought it was reasonable for George Zimmerman to have racially profiled Martin based on his size, race and hoodie “thugwear.” Tonight, Crump compared Rivera’s comments to a justification for rape based on the victim wearing a short skirt. “You can’t have that in America. You just can’t.”

As proof that there is no conservative who can’t be painted as a victim on Fox News, Sean Hannity trotted out the Koch brothers' spokesman, Mark Holden, to whine that the billionaire industrialists who covertly bankroll many right-wing causes are nothing more than regular citizens exercising their right to participate in democracy – and being demonized for it by the cut-throat Obama administration and their allies on the left. Hannity even likened Charles and David Koch to Sandra Fluke. To top it all off, Hannity suggested President Obama invite the Koch brothers and Donald Trump to the White House to get some economic advice.

The homophobia of today's Christian right is very clear in their fear that the "gay agenda" is trying to force Jesus' very heterosexual clergy pals to perform same sex marriage. While this is patently false, it does give the American Taliban  conservative Christians an opportunity to reinforce their patented fear and loathing of the gay community and further divide godly Christian heterosexuals from the godless "sodomites." The Christian and very heterosexual GOP is submitting an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill that would prevent the military, under the rubric of "religious freedom," from penalizing chaplains who refuse to preside over same sex wedding - as pointed out by House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi who called it a "fraud" because they're currently not being required to do that. Fox & Friends, never wasting an opportunity to feature manufactured Christian "controversy," is on it with commentary from the official Fox priest, the Catholic and very heterosexual Fr. Jonathan Morris who, once again, did due diligence for the one, true faith of Roger Ailes and the GOP religious right.

On The O’Reilly Factor Thursday night (5/17/12), the “Culture Warriors” discussed the news that for the first time in United States history, there are more minority babies less than one year old than there are white babies. Culture Warrior Gretchen Carlson insisted she had no problem with the “racial aspect” of the change. No siree. Her concern was that these kids are more likely to be born to single mothers and therefore poor. And you know what that means – more welfare queens!

The Daily Telegraph and the Financial Times have reported that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is looking for ways to separate from its British newspapers in order to quarantine the phone-hacking and related scandals from the rest of the media conglomerate. But Murdoch is denying the claims.

Last week, Forbes on Fox discussed a letter sent by a group of CEO’s to the White House expressing concern about raising taxes. In case you didn’t know how to interpret that, host David Asman explained it with a “fair and balanced” Fox News Alert that began, “Hike taxes on investors and kiss a jobs recovery goodbye.”

Geraldo Rivera visited The O’Reilly Factor last night to discuss the mountain of evidence just released to the public by the prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case. A few days ago, O’Reilly sternly lectured Benjamin Crump, attorney for the Trayvon Martin family, “I think you agree with me, Counselor, no more jumping to conclusions on either side, on either side. Let’s let the justice system play out. That’s the fair thing to do.” But O’Reilly either has a very odd or a very selective sense of what not jumping to conclusions means. Because he had no objection when Rivera declared that “There’s no way you get a Murder Two conviction” for shooter George Zimmerman – and only the mildest objection when Rivera declared that it was perfectly reasonable for Zimmerman to have found Martin menacing based on his “strapping” size, his dark hoodie and, of course, his race.

Predictably, Fox Nation is using the latest developments in the Trayvon Martin case to inflame racial conflict, this time with a headline called, Limbaugh: Trayvon Martin Case Is ‘Duke Lacrosse Case All Over Again. Just as predictably, Fox Nation readers took the cue. But even knowing what we know about Fox readers' racism, we were shocked by the following comment from "IMPEACH_BOBO_THE_FLEABAGGER." (H/T A.M.)