Fox "friend," Gretchen Carlson, is an uber Christian warrior princess who is constantly outraged about how the forces of evil, secular darkness are trying to make life miserable for Christians. Gretch is in a constant state of righteous Christian indignation about the outrageous atheistic forces of "political correctness" that are trying to take Christ out of Christmas, crosses out of cemeteries, bible verses off of army gun sights, and prayer out of places where the Supreme Court says it shouldn't be. Yet, the former Miss America and decorated Christian soldier seems to have a problem with Sikhs whom she suggests are oversensitive about their religion. Oh, the irony! Oh, the hypocrisy!

Sean Hannity is worried that Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich won’t smear President Obama enough. Hannity suggested to each of the Republican candidates last night that they should make sure to bring up President Obama’s “past” and named Bill Ayers and Rev. Wright as examples. But you can bet your "fair and balanced" that what Hannity was fishing for were racially-tinged characterizations of Obama as a black, America-hating radical.

I no sooner finished posting “Eric Bolling’s Hypocrisy Knows No Bounds” when I learned that Rep. Allen West would be appearing on the curvy couch with the curvaceous Fox and Friends.  Because nothing gets ratings more than a controversy, and because Bob Beckel is a regular punching bag on The Five, right off the mark the Foxy Friends played some of Beckel’s comments and asked Rep. West to respond.  West demanded an apology from Beckel for not calling him “Representative.” If Beckel apologizes to West, will Bolling apologize for calling the President of the United States of America “Barry”?  Stay tuned. 

You’ve got to give it to Eric Bolling, he of the “Do as I say, not as I do” School of Fox “News” “Journalism.”  It takes massive cajones to criticize Bob Beckel for doing something he does himself on a regular basis, and does worse.  Furthermore, Bob Beckel was so lost in his righteous anger over Rep. Allen West’s recent comments (described by Ellen here, here and here), that he either didn’t catch Bolling in the hypocrisy, or just didn’t care to, even though it’s something he criticized Bolling for in the past. 

Newt Gingrich’s fortunes may be on the slide, but at least some people at Fox News are giving him an opportunity to try and recoup them. 

Frank Luntz did a Fox News special yesterday that purported to be a “Florida Primary Preview” but was more like a Republican candidate jamboree. After bringing on the presidential candidates, Luntz trotted out Rep. Allen West who just so happens to be up for re-election in what Luntz suggested would be a tough campaign. I’ll assume that the show was recorded before West made his hideous comments the night before saying that President Obama and other Democrats should “get the hell out of the United States of America.” But West already had a history of unhinged attacks on Democrats. When one of Luntz’ audience members confronted West on it, Luntz jumped in to maneuver the conversation so as to make West look good.

Fr. Jonathan Morris' upward mobility shows that he's quite the mover. While he seems like your average parish priest, he is hardly that. In 2002 he was ordained as a priest in the wealthy and secretive Legionaries of Christ which was founded by the disgraced Fr. Marcel Maciel. By 2005, in addition to a cushy assignment as the rector of the Legionaries' seminary in Rome, Morris had joined Fox News. He subsequently left the Legion and ended up at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral and not in some poor church in the outer boroughs. So he's got a daytime job and he's doing all right. I joked, in an earlier post, about how his friendship with NY Archbishop Dolan shows that he has friends in high places. It seems that that he has another friend in another very high place - no, not "the big guy" in heaven, but the "big guy" at God's own network, Fox News. Could it be that Roger Ailes hearts Fr. Morris? Hmmm.....

You could be forgiven for having missed it.  For one thing it took place on the rarely seen Fox Business Channel.  For another, it was lost amid all the Fox “News” Phony War On Christmas hysteria late last year.  However, back in early December Bully Boy Eric Bolling went out on a very shaky limb and asked, “Is liberal Hollywood using class warfare to kind of brainwash our kids?” and “Where are we, Communist China?” when he intimated that The Muppets were Commie Pinkos, who created generations of Manchurian candidates, remarks he was eventually forced to walk back.  While walking it back he challenged Kermit and Miss Piggy to a Donald Trump moderated debate; a brave move since he knows he has no hope winning such a one-sided match against sock-puppets.  Still, The Muppets still took the high road and did not respond to Bolling’s troll bait.  However, at a recent press conference the question could not be avoided.  Both Miss Piggy and Kermit were asked about Bolling’s remarks and their answers demonstrated why they have been trusted by generations of parents to entertain their children: They spoke inconvenient truths without sugar-coating it.  The ball’s now in the Fox “News” court.  Watch:

Sarah Palin visited Justice with Judge Jeanine Saturday (1/28/12) where she simultaneously promoted Newt Gingrich’s candidacy and pretended she was not endorsing anyone. As she lectured about her reasons for wanting the primary to continue and what she thought of the candidates, she ridiculously claimed that Gingrich and Romney were “very close” in the polls in a match up with President Obama. “The math is the math,” she claimed – and then got that math very wrong.

If Atlanta’s Fox Five News reporter Chris Shaw thought that painting crackpot birther Orly Taitz as a legitimate lawsuit plaintiff would get him noticed at GOP News HQ, aka Fox News, he did a fine job on Friday (1/27/12). Shaw’s biased, unbalanced reporting about a hearing in one of Taitz' numerous lawsuits earned him a place on FoxNews.com’s “Featured Videos.” Check out all the subtle but unmistakable cues that Shaw used to impart credibility to the widely discredited Taitz and cast doubt on President Obama’s legitimacy. Sadly, some of the same tactics were later used by Bret Baier on Special Report.