The public employees in Scranton, Pennsylvania are caught in the middle of a dispute between the mayor and the City Council which has left the city strapped for cash. In response, the mayor has cut all employees’ pay (including his own) to minimum wage.  None of the undoubtedly well-paid Fox hosts discussing the situation on Hannity two nights ago expressed much interest in the plight of workers whose pay had suddenly been drastically reduced through no fault of their own. Instead, the pundits were busy cheering on the defeat for public sector unions and  looking ahead to what they see as the rosy picture of things to come.

If you thought those patriotic folks at Fox News have high aspirations for America’s youth, think again. Today, Fox Business Network’s John Stossel told an approving Fox & Friends host that young people should be aiming lower in their job searches.

Fr. Jonathan Morris is a Catholic priest is a right wing mouthpiece "news analyst"/"news contributor" for Fox News. He seems to get lots more face time (and it's quite pretty) on Fox News (and Fox Business) than the few clergy from other denominations who appear far less frequently and regularly than Morris who even gets to do a weekly sermonette on Sunday's Fox & Friends. He was once a member of the troubled "Legionaries of Christ," an order founded by the reprobate Fr. Marcial Maciel whose colorful history included drug abuse, sexual abuse, and the fathering of several children while a priest. A number of other Legionaries have been accused of sexual molestation. The order, which pandered to the rich and famous, has been investigated by theVatican and reformed. Fr. Morris had a very high position with the Legionaries when he was plucked by Fox News; but Fox fans might not know that because Fr. Jonathan Morris' webpage and Fox biography is missing any reference to his prestigious position. Go figure.

Mitt Romney got booed at the NAACP convention today when he said he’d eliminate Obamacare. So where did he go afterward to spin it? Where else but Fox News? But it wasn’t all sweetness and light as host Neil Cavuto followed in the footsteps of Laura Ingraham and other Fox Newsies in giving Romney’s campaign some unsolicited suggestions.

Kirsten Powers went toe to toes last night on the Hannity show as she smacked down each and every criticism of President Obama's plan to extend the Bush tax cuts for everyone earning less than $250,000 a year. The "Great American Panel" segment was stacked two-to-one against her - with host Sean Hannity joining the opposition to make it three-on-one. But Powers mowed them all down and refused to be cowed.

That Fox & Friends appeals to the fat, sick, and nearly brain dead citizens of a growing (as in girth) America is reflected in their advocacy for those foods that contribute to growing health care costs in America. School administrators who support nutritional school lunches are attacked as food police. Schools that prohibit sugary flavored milk are denounced. FDA attempts to change sodium standards are seen as intrusions by the nanny state - in fact, Gretchen Carlson claimed that a study found that salt is good for you. (It didn't). But Fox & Friends' advocacy for unhealthy food choices reached a high point, this morning, when they just gushed over the awesomeness of Spam. Spam has very little nutritional value. Fox & Friends has no value. Nuff said.

One of Sean Hannity’s favorite African Americans, Michael Meyers, visited the Hannity show last night where he announced, “The NAACP has become a hate group in America.” That was bad enough. But what viewers may not have known is that Hannity had every reason to expect his guest to say such a thing – all the while feigning neutrality - if not sympathy - toward the group, himself. Even worse, Meyers was presented as the purported balance to conservative African American David Webb.

On the July 9, 2012 Your World, Neil Cavuto and Charles Payne – each also part of the Fox Business Network – felt the pain of the “middle class” whose taxes will rise under President Obama’s plan to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. The only problem? $250,000 a year is not middle class no matter how you parse it. Yet the two business "experts" insisted otherwise.

Since I wrote my last post about Fox News’ attack on Democratic Congressman Andre Carson, at least two more smear segments have been run against him, each with the obvious aim of making him look like some kind of radical and/or Muslim extremist. Mind you, none of the shows presented any actual research to report on just what kind of Congressman he truly he is. Instead, we got inflammatory sound bites and incendiary accusations.

When the government backed energy company, Solyndra, failed, Fox News was all over it. Across Fox media, there was a cacophony of braying about the evils of public investment in risky private ventures. Sean Hannity whined, while Michelle Malkin sneered, about how it was a "scam," "pay to play," yadda, yadda. But Hannity's tone was almost reverential when, in March of this year, he interviewed former Boston Red Sox pitcher and proud Republican Curt Schilling about Schilling's video game company. This business venture was subsidized, to the tune of a $75 million loan guarantee, by the state of RI and facilitated, in part, by a GOP Governor who is a big Schilling fan. Flash forward to June when Schilling's company, Studio 38, went totally toes up leaving the taxpayers of RI on the hook for more than $100 million counting principal and interest on the bonds. Will Hannity mention this failure of corporate welfare which is sending Schilling to the bankruptcy bullpen?