Greta Van Susteren hosted RNC chair Reince Priebus last night for a bash session discussion about what she called Harry Reid’s “dirty” tactics in citing an unnamed source to accuse Mitt Romney of not paying taxes for a decade. Van Susteren said, “It’s one thing to name names so it can be investigated to see if it’s true. It is another thing to just stir up gossip and rumor by throwing around explosive and poisonous allegations.”  That is, unless such allegations come from a Fox fave like Donald Trump or Sarah Palin. Or even Priebus who right then and there went on to make an unsubstantiated and poisonous allegation about President Obama to which Van Susteren offered no challenge.

Stephen Colbert did a hilarious send up of Mike Huckabee's Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day last night. Colbert postulated that Chick-Fil-A may have hit on a new business strategy: "Just associate your product with a divisive political position and then wait for the cash to roll in."  He went on to give Huckabee some comedic props by thanking him "for cementing in the minds of nonbelievers just what my religion stands for."

While the secular and libral faith communities welcome the Obama administration's birth control mandate, which also provides other potentially live saving services to women, the GOP and the Catholic bishops are in a total tizzy about this supposed affront to religious freedom. In an awesomely batshit crazy comment, GOP House Rep., Mike Kelly, compared the mandate to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He added that the day that the mandate began was the day that freedom died. While most folks would burst out laughing at Kelly's comments, Gretchen Carlson reported them solemnly. And as the mouthpiece for the GOP and the Catholic bishops, Fox News has been providing ongoing validation of the anti-Obama, anti-contraceptive policy talking points which include the lie that it includes abortion drugs. Sunday, Fox priest, Fr. Jonathan Morris was back for what looks like his ninth anti-Obama, anti-birth control propaganda pushing appearance on Fox. Morris, who still hasn't given his life or gone to jail in fighting against the mandate, used part of his weekly sermon to lie about abortion inducing drugs. Meanwhile, pro-mandate clergy have yet to give a Sunday sermon on Fox News! (Guess that would be heresy?)

Sean Hannity aired a two-segment interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney tonight. In the first part, Cheney spent a lot of time explaining his recent remarks that John McCain made a “mistake” in picking Sarah Palin as a VP candidate because she was “not ready to take over.” In the second segment, Hannity made sure to elicit comments from Cheney that President Obama is also not qualified to be President – and did his best to suggest that Palin would have been more qualified.

President Obama’s “broken promises” was the purported topic of the special on Hannity Friday night (8/3/12) but it wasn’t long before Hannity’s “studio audience” – little more than an accumulation of Fox News hosts and regular guests – used the subject to accuse Obama of deliberately sabotaging businesses in order to wreak his agenda of destroying the country and putting people on welfare.

Fox News' Liz Trotta - she of the "Now, what did they expect (when women joined the military)?" remarks about a rise in sexual assaults in the armed forces - has some new insights into women. This time, she passed comment about the "real reason" Ann Romney has not gotten favorable coverage in the media. Female journalists are envious that she "managed to do exactly what their mothers' told them, although they would never admit it. Marry a good, preferably rich man. Raise your children full time. And dress like a lady."

On Saturday's Cavuto on Business (8/4/12), Charles Gasparino wrongly said about the 1981 Reagan tax cuts: "Tax revenues went up after the Reagan tax cuts." Guest host Charles Payne did not correct him, even after panelist Ben Stein tried to.

For those of you who have been fortunate enough never to have seen his appearances on Fox News, allow me to sum up Steven Crowder for you. Crowder is a mediocre shock jock whose hateful rhetoric has earned him many posts on News Hounds  - which he tries to pass off as jokes. On the August 2 Fox & Friends, he “joked” that the difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals maim and rape people. Hahaha. (H/T Raw Story)

Our friends at Brave New Films (with whom we have long been associated) have a new video from their Cuentame campaign about gun smuggling to Mexico. There's also a petition to President Obama that is also sponsored by the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence and other groups.

Rupert Murdoch tweeted this morning that "every voter should read" the anti-Obama book written by Ed Klein, an author so discredited that even conservatives have denounced him - on Fox News. This is just the latest in a number of steps Murdoch has taken to insert himself into the U.S. presidential campaign.