After years of accusing President Obama of engaging in "class warfare," Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett finally struck back. Of course, the right wing is having a hissy fit.

Cenk Uygur did an excellent rebuttal of John Stossel's panhandling stunt in which he suggested that because he got money from people who reflexively gave to him, that was some kind of proof that panhandlers and other street people were just scammers too lazy to get a real job. Mediaite's Tommy Christopher wrote up Uygur's commentary and added some terrific points of his own.

I just love it when a feisty Democrat refuses to allow Fox News to set the agenda for a discussion. Tonight, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz took control of a segment that Fox tried to make about President Obama's electoral struggle in Florida. But Wasserman Schultz got in more Democratic talking points than a DNC ad.

Roger Ailes must be in a snit over the kind of publicity that's coming down the pike toward him. In the works is a biography by Gabriel Sherman, author of the exhaustive NY Magazine article about Ailes last year. You may recall that Ailes was so unnerved by Sherman's forthcoming book that he canceled Sherman's subscription to a suburban newspaper Ailes' wife owns. Now comes word that HBO is planning a movie based on Sherman's book. It sounds like the Roger Ailes edition of Game Change. But there's even more to ruin Ailes' day, if not his year. UPDATED: HBO has nixed the film.

On July 3, 2012, Your World, Neil Cavuto and his climate-change denying guest played the media victims over reports that scientists blame the wicked weather on global warming. But the real perpetrator of media bias and distortions of facts was this very segment.

Todd Starnes is quite the patriotic American. I'd call him a Yankee Doodle Dandy but as he's from the South, that's probably an insult. His love for America is shown in his loathing of all those evildoers, especially the "gay agenda," that seek to undermine the USA. And while his concern for our troops isn't evinced by commentary about issues like PTSD or veterans employment, he ferrets out examples of how the secular agenda is trying to keep the troops from Jesus. But even so, wouldn't ya think that, as a patriotic American, he would be concerned about GOP Congressman Joe Walsh's attack on a real American hero; i.e. former Lt. Colonel Tammy Duckworth who left her legs in Iraq. Think again.

If you're wondering what's hot (other than temperatures) in the "family values" land of God and guns, check out this Fox & Friends video in which the muy macho pastor Doug Giles talks about the "commandments" for anybody who wants to date his daughter Regis. Fox News Insider tells us that Giles ten dating commandments video is "hilarious" and is taking You Tube by storm. When the Jesus and gun loving Doug, who describes himself as a non-metrosexual redneck, was last seen on Fox & Friends he talked about how he is raising his daughters, one of whom was James O'Keefe's "ho," to - well - love Jesus and guns. He and Regis made an encore on this week's Fox & Friends where he talked about how he is protecting the 19 year old Regis' honor with these rules which, he says, are a "cudgel to ward off potential suitors." Christian patriarchy is just so funny....

Here's a little birthday gift from The Boss. May you all have a safe and happy July 4th holiday - whether you're left, right or center...

Those patriotic folks at Fox News must have hit a brick wall looking for ways to use the July 4^th holiday to smear President Obama. So they dredged up some old information about Obama’s memoir, Dreams from My Father, put a new coat of smears on it and called it an “objective news” report. Either that, or someone at Fox has spent the last few weeks scouring David Maraniss’ biography of Obama and finally found some petty discrepancies that are so mild Fox buried the story in a holiday news dump.

Remember back when anybody who dared to criticize Bush's Iraq war policy was deemed, by Fox News and the right, to be disrespectful of our troops? Support for the troops was and continues to be cannon for the uber patriotic GOP right and Fox News which, during the early days of the war, had a "wall of heroes" for those troops who fell in combat. So you might think that "America's Newsroom" would come to the defense of a female veteran, a Lieutenant Colonel, who lost both legs in combat and who is being attacked by a GOP congressman for talking too much about her service which, according to Rep. Joe Walsh, she is using as a "political ploy." Walsh, who never served, claims that she is not a "true hero." Where there would be, I suspect, outrage if a Democratic politician had said this - on Fox, so far, *crickets.