President Obama has come out in favor of marriage equality - a concept that about half of Americans now support. But the "real" Americans at Fox Nation know that gay marriage is an evil Satanic plot to undermine the most awesome country that Jesus ever created. So the title of their big, fat lede is "Obama Flip-Flops, Declares War On Marriage." Really? Only in the bizarro world of the rabidly right wing Fox Nation, which is supposed to be for "those opposed to intolerance" is same sex marriage considered an attack on marriage. (Funny, all those married gays haven't affected my marriage in the least.) The Fox Nation thread links to a Yahoo article that factually reports this development with nothing at all about a "war on marriage." (Is this in the same category as the "war on Christmas?) Allow me a Lewis Black moment - ARE THESE JOKERS FREAKING CRAZY?! And BTW, I wonder if Fox Nation knows that Mitt Romney's position on gay marriage (and abortion) has also flip-flopped. But Obama is declaring a war on marriage - okaaayyy....

Update - Fox Nation's headline is now "Obama Flip-Flops on Gay Marriage." Interesting...

It was predictable. As soon as it was announced that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius would be speaking at Georgetown University, the forces of reactionary Catholicism swung into action. And right (pun intended) on cue, Fox News jumped into the fray as they did prior to President Obama's commencement speech at Notre Dame which was also opposed by the same reactionary forces. So it comes as no surprise that Fox News, as the media mouthpiece for the Catholic Church's opposition to the HHS birth control mandate, would engage its new BFF, the anti-Semitic, homophobic, pedophile priest defender, and head of the Catholic League, Bill Donohue in a discussion of Sebelius' invitation. During Fox's extensive and supportive coverage of the contraceptive mandate, Donohue provided his misogynistic take on this issue to the welcoming Fox "News" anchor Megyn Kelly. Last week he brayed about "religious liberty" to a welcoming Megyn Kelly. And yesterday he launched another hate filled tirade against Secretary Sebelius which included an attack on abortion provider Dr. George Tiller who was assassinated amidst a climate of hatred stoked by the Fox News network's Bill O'Reilly. Megyn Kelly was very welcoming.

Senator Rand Paul visited Your World yesterday to cheerlead for discuss Republican austerity measures. Neil Cavuto was all ears.

Neil Cavuto seemed to subscribe to the “domino theory” of nutritionist invasions when he hosted nutritionist Rebecca Scritchfield on Your World to discuss the link between drinking soda and obesity. Two minutes in, Cavuto asked “Let’s say all your intentions are good, and they always are… but you creep into our lives like, you know, Velcro, and you won’t leave. It’s one thing with the soda, and then fatty foods at McDonald’s, and they better get salads on board and yogurt on board. So they do. That’s not enough… Then we go on and on to the pizza makers and who puts too much into their crust and who doesn’t. In other words, you never seem to be satisfied.”

In October, 2010, Bill O’Reilly assured Deepak Chopra that if Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam of the so-called Ground Zero Mosque, came on The O'Reilly Factor, dedicated the project to peace and condemned the 9/11 attacks, O’Reilly would stop badmouthing the project and “come down there with a saw and a hammer and help ‘em” Last night, Rauf tried to get O’Reilly to make good on that promise only to find that O’Reilly added a new condition: that the project had to be a few blocks away – which it always has been. O’Reilly also had a rather different recollection of his commentary about the project than the commentary we actually documented.

There’s been a lot of internet buzz about Kirsten Powers’ confrontation with Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson over his shockingly misogynistic statements in a video that we first posted about on March 15, 2012 (our own Priscilla found it).  As awful as those comments were, this seems a good time to remind people that Peterson has also made shockingly bigoted statements on Fox, especially on Sean Hannity’s shows. Yet Peterson keeps getting invited back. And Hannity continues to sit on the Advisory Board of Peterson’s charity.

Fox News blatantly regurgitated Republican talking points yesterday as they “asked” how President Obama’s policies “stack up” to the newly-elected socialist president of France, Francois Hollande. Host Megyn Kelly pretended to be posing a real question but later, she tacitly admitted to have echoed a Republican meme. This, during a show that Fox touts as part of its “objective” programming. (H/T Bob M.)

Bill O’Reilly is still hot on the case of the two white reporters attacked and beaten by an indeterminate number (somewhere between five and 100) of black youths in a housing project in Norfolk, Virginia. He’s intent on proving that it was a racially motivated assault and that the reporters’ own newspaper, the Virginian Pilot, covered it up out of liberal political correctness. Last night, for the fourth night in a row, he used his show to hammer us over the head with the case.

A Fox News article dated May 7, 2012, deliberately suggests that President Obama's focus on equal pay for women is a campaign ploy with no merit. Fox News reporter Angle leads you to think that the reason women make less than men is because of lifestyle choices. While that's true to some degree, Angle somehow left out the news that even in fields where women work in men's jobs or vice versa, men still make more. (H/T John P.)

One trend I noticed recently with FoxNews.com is just how often the n-word can be found in their comments. Not long ago, I found two stories where Trayvon Martin’s name appeared, although not directly tied to anything in that case. One was about the arrest of Alton Hayes III, who claimed that anger over Trayvon Martin was a motivation for attacking and robbing a 19 year-old white person. Hayes admits that race was a factor in his crime, and the article says he was charged with a hate crime.