There is no depth to which Fox & Friends will not sink in its efforts to smear the president. Before the extent of Hurricane Sandy's impact was fully known, on Monday morning, Gretchen Carlson pimped yet another Fox & Friends right wing conspiracy. Forget "poll trutherism." The newest conspiracy is an iteration of the Fox advanced conspiracy which claims the Obama administration is doctoring the employment figures. According to former Miss America and Fox "friend," Gretchen Carlson, the president could use the hurricane to delay Friday's jobs report until after the election because, presumably, he doesn't want bad job numbers to affect the election.  Her proof - er - nothing.

Fox’s faux Democrats, Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen, may have outdone themselves last night on the Hannity show as they didn’t just speak disdainfully of President Obama but actively urged Mitt Romney to attack him more forcefully over Fox’s favorite faux scandal, Benghazi. For good measure, they went after Governor Chris Christie for praising Obama’s response to Superstorm Sandy.

As they discussed the effect of Superstorm Sandy’s effect on the upcoming election yesterday, Fox News contributor Tucker Carlson argued that Sandy would hurt President Obama on many levels. First, he said that natural disasters tend to hurt more than they help candidates. Then, he added, “Typically people don’t blame the candidate for, any candidate, for the storm itself. Although one of these candidates did promise to lower the level of the ocean and obviously that didn’t work.” (H/T Eric J.)

Bernard Goldberg visited the O’Reilly Factor tonight where he said, “only half tongue in cheek” that he thought reporters wished Hurricane Sandy had hit swing states because President Obama’s disaster relief efforts would be more politically profitable.

If you’re Sean Hannity neither rain nor snow nor floods nor massive power outages can stop you from your goal of smearing people you disagree with. While some might see a national emergency like Monster Storm Sandy as a time to come together, Hannity saw it as just another day to hate monger against his political foes.

Fox’s “objective reporter,” Ed Henry, might just win a Fox News award for Most Creative Way To Use Benghazi Against President Obama In 2012. In a report yesterday that was supposed to be about how President Obama was handling Monster Storm Sandy, Henry began by saying, “The President took a lot of heat for how he reacted to Benghazi so they are struggling and scrambling to stay on top of this storm with rain and winds still whipping around here in Washington." UPDATED

Republican Governor Chris Christie – who was recently criticized for talking more about himself than about Mitt Romney during the RNC convention’s keynote address – almost certainly did nothing to redeem himself with those critics when he appeared on Fox & Friends this morning and said President Obama is doing “a great job for New Jersey” in the wake of Monster Storm Sandy. To add insult to injury, when asked if Mitt Romney would be touring the state to assess the damage with him, Christie shot down the question by saying, “I could care less about any of that stuff.”

In their desperate efforts to smear President Obama, Fox & Friends frequently hosts right wing entertainers and radio hosts to push whatever right wing propaganda needs pushing. So while it's bad enough that these folks have political credibility, it's sad enough that, in their desperation, they are now resorting to interviewing the has been (actually never was) host of "The Love Connection," Chuck Woolery. But while Woolery, in his former incarnation, was benign; his new incarnation as a GOP activist is not. At the last CPAC convention he said not only gays don't deserve civil rights, but blacks don't either. Figures that as a washed up game show host, he'd get stranded on the shores of Fox News where Steve Doocy provided validation for more toxic flotsam that is Fox & Friends!

It was disgusting enough that Sean Hannity could not forego hate mongering against President Obama even as a good chunk of the United States was being pounded by Hurricane Sandy. But it was beyond the pale that he did so by exploiting the family of a SEAL who died at Benghazi.

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.