Neil Cavuto used his Common Sense editorial Monday (4/30/12) to smear the Occupy movement's May Day protests and paint the one percenters as the victimized social benefactors of the shiftless, hypocritical protesters.

This is looking like another bad week for Rupert Murdoch. First, a UK commission found him "not fit" to run News Corporation, his media conglomerate that has been mired in phone hacking scandals. Today, the deputy prime minister echoed those findings, saying they raised "serious questions of basic corporate governance in the Murdoch empire", which allowed its journalists to engage on illegal invasions of privacy on an "industrial scale". But wait, there's more. (H/T Eric J.)

Sean Hannity interviewed Dutch politician Geert Wilders last night about his new autobiography. Hannity made a big deal out of the death threats Wilders faces and the security he lives with. But somehow, Hannity forgot to tell the “we report, you decide” network's viewers that Wilders is an anti-Islamic extremist. Instead, Wilders was painted as some kind of free-speech (Christian) martyr. Even worse, Hannity used the opportunity to suggest we're on the verge of a World War III version of a holy war.

The Mitt Romney Channel otherwise known as Fox News has a new excuse to denigrate Obama's killing of Osama Bin Laden: accusing him of politicizing a national security event.  It's infuriating to hear Fox News complain about anyone else politicizing anything but one big comfort is how Stephen Colbert (also Jon Stewart) can perfectly nail it, cut it down to size and make us laugh, all at the same time. 

Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers had an epic confrontation with Sean Hannity's misogynistic and racist pal, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson tonight. You may recall that Peterson was recently found on video saying “most women” are “little whores.” Believe me, that's the tip of the iceberg as far as Peterson's misogyny is concerned. He's also quite a bigot who has thanked God for slavery and compared slave ships to flying coach. Peterson responded to Powers' confrontation by doubling down on his accusations against women.

In case you didn't have enough proof that Barack Obama is a socialist, Fox Nation has generously provided you with more. Only hours after the President unveiled his new campaign slogan, "FORWARD", the Nation joined the right-wing bandwagon to scream that the word has long-standing ties to Communist and socialist causes.

Bill O'Reilly and Bernard Goldberg sat down to deliberately trash veteran newsman Dan Rather last night. Rather has a long, distinguished career in journalism but ever since he dared to report that George W. Bush went AWOL during his time in the Texas Air National Guard, he's been a GOP Fox News pariah. Even if you believe (which I do not, by the way) that Rather got his AWOL story wrong, compare the treatment of him to Andrew Breitbart and his series of discredited reports.

The screen grab from the home page of FoxNews.com pretty much says it all. President Obama's surprise visit to Afghanistan is discussed in small letters. But a headline many times larger "asks," PLAYING POLITICS WITH THE COURAGE OF OUR HEROES?" It's worth noting that, as NewsHound Alex pointed out in a comment, Shepard Smith and Studio B took a very even-handed approach to this story. But I'll bet dollars to doughnuts (as my mother used to say) that O'Reilly, Hannity and Van Susteren will follow the FoxNews.com lede.

Remember how last week Bill O'Reilly told stalker/producer Jesse Watters to cough up the video he insisted he had of Van Jones saying that Republicans want to poison children? We were supposed to see it on yesterday's Factor. Not only did we not see it, there was no explanation as to why we didn't.

Sean Hannity spent two segments on his Fox News show last night with Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA officer with a new book defending the use of “enhanced interrogations.” Predictably, Hannity was not only downright enthusiastic about the techniques, he suggested those who differ (think President Obama, who banned them) are not pro-American enough.