Ruh-roh! I reported earlier that Steve Doocy and the Fox & Friends graphics department embraced the Chevy Volt this morning as if they had loved the car all along. But it looks as though Fox Nation didn't get the memo. Its top "fired up" story is now More Problems For The Chevy Volt. Even worse, Fox Nation is reiterating talking points that were debunked just a few hours earlier on Fox News.

You can hardly watch a Fox News segment on energy without hearing a knock on the Chevy Volt, an electric vehicle, as some kind of example of the Obama administration run amok. But suddenly – and without explanation – Fox & Friends Steve Doocy couldn’t say enough good things about the car, now that a conservative PR guy was there talking it up.

Why is Johnny Dollar (real name: Mark Koldys) obsessed with me and this blog? For at least the third time, he’s got my photo posted on his site. He has two quotes from me on his “about” page and has made God knows how many tweets and other posts about me. He has been stuck on News Hounds pretty much from our beginnings in 2004. We banned him from posting here numerous times but that has not stopped him from poring over every word and semi-colon in the hope of pouncing on any possible misstatement or mistake and then trumpeting us as liars or some other “pet” name. 

I will admit that Geraldo Rivera has a point about the perils of minority youngsters dressing like gangsters. But everything about his scolding that Trayvon Martin’s hoodie was “as much responsible for his death as (shooter) George Zimmerman” smacks of opportunism – his own and Fox News’ – more than any concern for preventing any similar tragedies in the future. It’s certainly not likely to help the Martin family – or any of the millions of Americans feeling sympathy and solidarity with them – during their hour of grief. More likely, it will help Fox News move the narrative away from a host of pitfalls for its conservative agenda (gun violence, racism, police malfeasance toward people of color) and back to the more comfortable ground of blaming minorities for their problems. Oh, yeah, and it’s gotten Rivera a lot of extra attention, too.

In the wake of Geraldo Rivera's comments that Trayvon Martin's death was caused "as much" by his wearing a hoodie as by the man who shot him, BuzzFeed noted that FoxNews.com sold these dangerous hoodies. However, in solidarity with Rivera, Fox seems to have stopped selling tthis "gang paraphernalia." (H/T Think Progress)

We were recently contacted by singer/songwriter Lee Coulter, Sirius/XM's "Discovery of 2011." If you have Sirius/XM, you may have heard him on the Coffee House Channel. Lee wanted to let us know about a song he wrote, called Monster, that was inspired by Fox News.

Greta Van Susteren hosted an interview with Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on March 14. But instead of eliciting information from him, she spent most of the interview eliciting attacks on President Obama.

Dr. Monica Crowley announced smugly on Your World Wednesday (3/22/12) that she would vote for a pineapple over President Obama. She thereby proved once again that having a Ph.D. does not preclude anyone from being a dolt.

Geraldo Rivera was on The O’Reilly Factor last night where he continued to blame Trayvon Martin’s hoodie for his death. Bill O’Reilly at first acted as though he were merely probing Rivera’s thoughts and why they caused such an uproar after he brought up the subject in both a Fox Latino column and on Fox & Friends earlier in the day. But soon O’Reilly made it clear he was in solidarity with Rivera because O’Reilly, too, had been misunderstood over his comments about the way a rape and murder victim had dressed – comments that O’Reilly now refashioned.

Sean Hannity’s slavery-apologist pal, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, has offered his thoughts on the Trayvon Martin shooting – and not surprisingly they are not sympathetic to the African Americans who have expressed grief and outrage: “It’s about getting even with whites and gaining political power.”