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.

The men of today's patriarchal GOP have become quite the experts on rape. While there have been a number of offensive comments made by various male Republican candidates, the winner, up until last week, was Todd Akin's claim that women who are being "legitimately" raped produce a magic spermicide which "shuts down" pregnancy. But a new contender has emerged in the contest for most disgusting Republican rape comments with a claim, by US Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, that pregnancies resulting from rape are a very special gift bag from Jesus. While this has been discussed in the evil, librul media, Fox News seems to have put a cone of almost total protective silence on the issue. Bill O'Reilly and Laura Ingraham, however, during a segment promoting the view that women are starting to show some love for Mitt Romney, did mention Mr. Mourdoch. But rather than address the offensiveness of the comment, they brushed it off because Mourdoch has no connection to Mitt Romney. Scuse me? Really?

Of all the awful things I’ve witnessed on Fox News, one of the worst has been to watch journalism-icon Bob Woodward palling around with the likes of race baiter and hate monger, Sean Hannity. Woodward has appeared several times on the Hannity show recently (and he was also on Fox News Sunday) and acted as though he were there to participate in a legitimate discussion about President Obama. Meanwhile, Woodward seemed oblivious to how Hannity used him for the express purpose of assisting in his anti-Obama crusade and to beef up his own cred.

Earlier today, I posted about Geraldo Rivera’s heated debate on Fox & Friends in which he spoke out passionately against the politicization of the tragedy at Benghazi. Tonight, Rivera visited The O’Reilly Factor where he got into it with Bill O’Reilly. Rivera was still a strong voice speaking out against the politicization but this time, Rivera made sure to highlight suspicious behavior by the Obama administration.

Neil Cavuto spoke to Ross Perot, Jr. yesterday on Your World about his father’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. Cavuto asked, “Part of the debt commission calls for some revenue enhancements, taxes for want of a better word. How do you feel about that?”

Stephen Colbert responded to Donald Trump’s birther “challenge” to President Obama with just the kind of counter-challenge Trump deserved: Colbert said he’d write a check for $1 million to the charity of Trump’s choice, “if you will let me dip my b*** in your mouth.”

Just as predicted, Greta Van Susteren acted as though former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice never told her that there was no reason to jump to inflammatory, accusatory conclusions about the attacks on the American consulate at Benghazi, Libya. Instead, just 24 hours later, Van Susteren trotted out Donald Rumsfeld, of all people, to point more fingers at the Obama administration.