I wonder, gentle reader, why the Screaming Right-Wing Brigade has cut the amount of saturation coverage they've been giving the “Benghazi-gate” story that they’ve been inflicting on us for weeks, in favor of a five-year-old video of Obama accusing the Bush government of shortchanging Katrina victims. I mean, the Libya story has murder and terrorists and threats to the free world; the Katrina video just has Obama praising Jeremiah Wright. Anyway, last night on On the Record Sarah Palin also brought up that 2007 Katrina video, and treated us to the spectacle of Palin accusing the President of playing chameleon and having no core convictions, while simultaneously cheerleading for Mitt Romney, the biggest chameleon in politics.

Sean Hannity is grandstanding over the release of his big race tape bombshell – showing Obama speaking at an event previously covered by Fox News in 2007 - but Hannity has quite a selective concern for race baiting and bigotry. While he displays an acute sensitivity to racial slights against whites, Hannithy is accepting – and often outright hospitable – to those against blacks. He also has a long history of palling around with bigots - including a guy who thanks God for slavery and compares slave ships to flying coach in an airplane.

Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan took a victory lap on the Hannity show tonight. Well into the interview, Hannity brought up Romney’s 47% video. “What would you have said if (President Obama) did bring it up?” Hannity asked. I’ve got to think Hannity knew that Romney wanted to address the matter. Otherwise, it’s way out of character for him to bring up something detrimental to his candidate at a time like this. Sure enough, it was time for some Romney Rehab - but in the form of a flip-flop. Suddenly, Romney is a man of the 100%.

Latino Fox has a recent article about media usage of the controversial term “illegal immigrant” in which it acknowledges that its own study found the term offensive to a plurality of Latinos. And yet, Fox News continues to use it anyway. (H/T Christopher S.)

On Monday (10/1/12) Special Report, Brit Hume delivered a commentary called Fact and Fiction of Obama Presidency.  In it, he discounted the role of President Obama’s stimulus package in reversing the economic decline and suggested that George W. Bush deserved the credit instead.

Sarah Palin sees something else besides Russia from Alaska: a new conspiracy theory about President Obama. And, of course, Sean Hannity ate it up without question.

FoxNews.com is trumpeting on its home page an article on FoxBusiness.com called, Romney's Odds of Winning Edge Higher. True enough. But Romney's edge only increased from dismal to poor. If you read the actual article, the first two sentences are, "GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney's Intrade odds of winning rose to 34%, 'back to where they were the day before the 47% video was released,' says Peter Boockvar of Miller Tabak, referring to the governor’s comment caught on video that 47% of Americans view themselves as entitled to government benefits. Boockvar adds the odds are 'up from 26% yesterday and 21% on Sunday.'"

Frank Luntz has a history of putting together focus groups that are skewed toward Republicans which he tries to pass off as fair and/or representative. So I was immediately suspicious when Luntz described tonight’s presidential debate focus group by saying, “13 of these 24 people voted for Obama in 2008, only 10 voted for McCain.” Notice that he didn’t say how many were Democrats, how many Republicans, how many independents or other. For all we know, those 13 people who voted for Obama were Republicans. And guess what? Every one of them said they were undecided about who to vote for before the debate. That’s not a representative sample of voters at all.

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As we know, Fox News believes that nutritious school lunches are a plot by a fascist Obama administration (and his evil wife) to take away the Jesus given freedom of American youth to stuff as much greasy crap down their gullets as possible which, in turn, is contributing to a childhood obesity crisis. It's a true testament to the bizarro world of Fox that they actually oppose efforts to make school lunches more nutritious. And now that kids are fighting the power and expressing their discontent with the good food, Fox is giving them the support that they didn't give to "Occupy." Jon Stewart exposes this Fox inanity and hypocrisy.