As New York City and much of the East Coast gets pummeled by Hurricane Sandy, Sean Hannity used much of his show to advance his hate mongering against all things liberal and/or Democratic. So it shouldn’t come as a total shock that even his interview about the storm was a thinly-veiled effort to push conservative talking points.

With their Benghazi witch hunt overshadowed by Hurricane Sandy, it was only a matter of time before Fox News figured out a way to use the Frankenstorm to attack President Obama. But have no fear, Obama haters, your wait is over. On this morning’s Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade and reporter John Roberts worked in three swipes at Obama in just over two minutes.

There's a lovely write up in the New York Times today about Sally Kohn, one of Fox News' few muscular voices for progressives. But at the risk of sounding nit-picky, the Times largely gave Fox a pass on the ways it limits Kohn's participation at the same time that it publicly lauds her commentating.

While much of the United States focuses on coping with a catastrophic storm that could affect 60 million people, Fox News made sure not to interrupt its Benghazi witch hunt what with the election so close and all. 

Can you imagine the indignant howls of Fox News outrage if an MSNBC or CNN host actively campaigned for a Democrat? It would be denounced as blatant media bias. Meanwhile, Fox's Mike Huckabee is out stumping for a Republican man who thinks that if a woman is impregnated by her rapist, her magic spermicide isn't working and she clearly was complicit in this non "legitimate" rape. But this kind of thing isn't a problem for Mike Huckabee who, while campaigning for Republicans, has found the time to cut a TV ad in support of Todd Akin whom he praises as a "good man with a Christian heart."

Today on Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace discussed the gender gap and Republican Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock’s comments about rape. Then Wallace asked Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) why a pro-choice woman should vote for Mitt Romney given his stance on abortion and Planned Parenthood. Johnson’s surprising answer was that nobody cares about abortion. But polling indicates otherwise.

Now that the election is getting closer, the Catholic bishops are doing all in their power to encourage their flock to vote Republican. Yet another bishop, Wisconsin Bishop Ricken, told Catholics that they will go to hell if they vote for those who support abortion and gay marriage. (Read Democrats and Obama) But there are some dissenting Catholic voices, covered by the evil, librul media, that the Church doesn't want their flock to hear. But because we live in a secular society, the men in black don't have the juice that they used to have. But who needs the Spanish Inquisition when a major "news" network can employ its resident priest to preach about those evil heretics and their nasty, enabling, and "biased" media - a meme that just happens to be an ongoing theme for the "fair & balanced" Fox News which provides a pulpit for Fr. Jonathan Morris to preach the gospel of the GOP.

Fox Nation readers are showing what stuff they're made of again and it's not a pretty picture. Today's example is the "compassion" they felt for Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after his motorcade was involved in a highway accident and he was hospitalized. As a whole, the readers voted the story "cool." Individually, the comments are sickening.

At the end of last night’s Hannity segment with Republican Congressmen Darrell Issa and Jason Chaffetz, a Romney surrogate, Sean Hannity dropped a question that made it clear the three of them were using the tragedy at Benghazi as political fodder. Just in case you had a doubt.

Last weekend, in a post I did on Crooks and Liars, I questioned the reasoning behind trotting out Peter Johnson, Jr., Roger Ailes' personal attorney, to make wild accusations against President Obama regarding the killings at the American consulate at Benghazi, Libya. Why not get a real expert in national security? And why would the presumably intelligent Johnson throw out what even he admitted was an evidence-free hypothesis - that Obama deliberately sacrificed American lives in order to appease Libya - on a subject that's not in his realm of expertise? My thinking was that Johnson was spreading the message Ailes wanted spread without the messy inconvenience of having his fingerprints on such an inflammatory accusation against President Obama. Well, an article in New York Magazine suggests I was right.