On yesterday's The Five, co-host Gret Gutfeld said this about climate change: "It's good for human beings. If a polar bear dies, I don't feel bad."

Newt Gingrich had some choice words yesterday about the "fair and balanced" network he used to work for: “In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than FOX this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of FOX, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of FOX. That’s just a fact.”

How many times is Fox News going to play New Black Panther Party tape as part of its Trayvon Martin coverage and, at the same time, whine about other people inflaming racial tensions? I made a video mashup of just two episodes of Hannity and one of The O’Reilly Factor and came up with quite a few. It’s Fox News 101: Find a villain, portray themselves as victims in some way, and then use that victimhood to fan the flames of hostility further. The phony war on Ann Romney is another perfect example. But Fox’s NBPP game is especially toxic because the “fair and balanced” network is deliberately ginning up racial animosity in the middle of an already racially tense situation. Classy.

Given that Fox News has rallied its internet and radio content around Ann Romney, it wasn't surprising to see Ms. Romney being given the opportunity to address the multitudes via Fox's morning "news" show "America's Newsroom." This morning, in addition to providing a sweet and supportive platform for Ann Romney, Martha MacCallum was able to advance the Romney/GOP/Fox meme that Hillary Rosen, whose comment about Ann Romney has become a weapon in the Romney/GOP/Fox arsenal to be used against the Democrats, is connected to the DNC. She was also able to use the interview as a campaign ad for Mitt Romney. So, it was all good....

Despite the reality that there has been an epic attack on women's reproductive rights, the notion that there just might be a GOP "war on women" is denied by the right wing and several Fox News folks. Meanwhile, one unaffiliated Democratic advisor, NOT connected to the DNC, suggested that Ann Romney isn't qualified to speak about women's economic issues because she never actually worked outside the home and all hell has broken loose with accusations by the Romney campaign and Fox News that the Democratic Party is attacking the blessed GOP holy mother Ann. Got hyperbole?

In his latest effort to defend George Zimmerman, race bait against African Americans and tie it all up in a racialized attack on the Obama administration,  Sean Hannity suggested that the Obama Justice Department has willfully ignored George Zimmerman’s civil rights in favor of Trayvon Martin’s.

FoxNews.com has an article about the criminal charges entered against George Zimmerman. The first sentence paints Zimmerman in a sympathetic, innocent-looking light by describing him as a "neighborhood watch volunteer." Clearly, FoxNews.com knows its readership. And they responded with murderous racism in the comments. Warning: VERY SHOCKING AND DISTURBING (H/T Reader Chuckie). UPDATED WITH A SELECTION OF RACIST JOKES.

There's been some back and forth about whether or not Fox News found its mole who went rogue and has been posting on Gawker. But now there's no doubt that the mole has been discovered. His name is Joe Muto and he has been suspended from his job. He has also pubicly admitted guilt.

Last August, the Center for American Progress put together a report, "Fear, Inc.," on what it labeled "the Islamophobia Network - "a patchwork of scholars, foundations, and opinion-makers that has propagated negative impressions of Islam and Muslims in the United States." One of the groups cited in the report is the Center for Security Policy which is described as one of the “key think tanks led by scholars who are primarily responsible for orchestrating the majority of anti-Islam messages polluting our national discourse today." It is funded by right wing donors and headed by the Islamophobic Frank Gaffney, a "misinformation expert," who has a veritable cottage industry that manufactures fear of creeping sharia. His group was in the forefront of opposition to the "Ground Zero Mosque" - an opposition for whom Fox News provided an Islamophobic "megaphone."  So was it merely a coincidence that Fox's Roger Ailes won their "Pen is Mightier than the Sword Award?"

News is breaking that George Zimmerman is about to be criminally charged in the Trayvon Martin shooting. It's not known at the moment what charges are to be filed.