Rick Perry got 10 minutes on Fox News’ Your World not too long ago (5/3/12,) ostensibly to promote a Republican-centric view of job creation. But somehow, Mitt Romney’s platform for job creation took a backseat to Perry’s.

Recently, PBS' Frontline aired a documentary about the phone-hacking scandals at News Corporation, the role of the Murdoch family and the interrelationships with the police and 10 Downing Street. Every Frontline documentary is worth watching, in my opinion, but this one is especially relevant to the News Hounds community. (H/T Eric J.)

Sean Hannity has been fixated for months on exposing the “real” Obama, suggesting that there’s some monster hiding behind the façade of the “fake” one. And yet somehow, this big Fox News star has not been able to persuade his own news network to assign a single reporter to the task. Instead, Hannity has relied on hacks like the two Breitbart.com editors whose “revelations” about the “radical” professor whom Obama praised and hugged in 1990 had already been aired by PBS in 2008. Or Fox's Eric Bolling, who wrongly accused Obama of being a drug dealer and then apologized the next day (though Hannity has not aired a retraction). Friday night (5/11/12), Democrat Steve Murphy called Hannity on some of this baloney.

You may recall that in late March, Sean Hannity was so taken with painter Jon McNaughton's series of anti-Obama paintings that he announced on the air he was going to buy one, try to loan it to a museum and then attack the institution as biased if it refused to accept it. Unfortunately for Hannity, Stephen Colbert may have put a wrinkle into that plan. Not only did he mock Hannity but he eviscerated the paintings. I think it's safe to say that no museum board need fear rejecting any of them now. (H/T Crooks and Liars) UPDATED

What a difference a few years make! In 2004, Karl Rove mobilized evangelicals to George W. Bush’s campaign by playing on their fears of a godless liberal social agenda that included the horrific slippery slope of same-sex marriage. In 2012, he’s spreading the message that same-sex marriage is not a game-changing issue because Americans are more concerned about serious matters like jobs and the economy.

Rush Limbaugh - he of the dwindling advertising revenue - has, not surprisingly, spoken out against President Obama's support for same-sex marriage. With his typical brand of opinionizing, Limbaugh can't just voice an opinion but has to attack while he's at it. So, after Shepard Smith voiced his unequivocal approval of President Obama's stance, Limbaugh went after him.

Nobody skewers Fox News like Jon Stewart. Last night's target was Fox's evolution on gay marriage.

Yesterday, in response to the lengthy, multiple-sourced Washington Post article about Mitt Romney’s troubling behavior in high school, especially toward gays, Eric Bolling responded by announcing on both The Five and Hannity that Barack Obama had been a drug dealer. But this morning, Bolling tweeted a retraction and an apology. UPDATED

Given that the Catholic vote is up for grabs, it's not surprising that Fox, in the hopes of bringing more Catholics into the GOP fold, is bringing out its big guns in what they are portraying as a secular war on the Catholic Church. This bias was very apparent in Fox's extensive and supportive coverage of the US Conference of Catholic Bishop's claim that the HHS birth control mandate violates their religious freedom. Now that HHS Secretary Sebelius has been invited to speak at the Georgetown graduation, Fox has seized the issue which allows them to create their trademark "controversy," attack the Obama administration, and generate a feeling of "outrage" among Catholics. This newest "controversy," covered on "America Live" and "Fox & Friends," is now being advanced by Fox's very own, "Il Papa," who, during his crusade (jihad?) against murdered abortion provider Dr. George Tiller, attacked Sebelius because, as he told the nation, she was complicit in "murdering" babies due to her connection with Tiller. On last night's Factor, he continued his vicious personal attack against Sebelius and Tiller with the same lies and smears that contributed to a climate of hatred in which Tiller was killed and for which Bill earned his "Courage Award" from an American "hate group."

During his weekly session with “comedian” Dennis Miller on Wednesday (5/9/12), Bill O’Reilly suddenly went on a vehement rant about how he detests his fellow Americans – who happen to fall under his rubric of “far left.” Considering that O’Reilly once called us “off the chart left,” If you’re a regular News Hounds reader, that means you, too, are scum as far as O’Reilly is concerned.