During a more than 17-minute lapdog interview with Mitt Romney yesterday, Neil Cavuto didn’t just ask whom Romney might have in mind for a running mate but actually suggested Marco Rubio as a possible good choice because “maybe your running mate should be a little younger, a little looser.” Romney’s response? “I don’t know if you’re available, Neil.”

While they hate the gay community, today's rabid right Christian right really hates the ACLU because this organization has the audacity to fight against incursions of Christianity into taxpayer funded areas where it doesn't belong. While America's Christofascists conservative Christians worship the Second Amendment, they loathe the first - except when they feel that their First Amendment rights are being violated. If so, they appear on Fox News which never wastes an opportunity to showcase a persecuted Christian who is represented by Jesus' best friends in groups like the Alliance Defense Fund, The Thomas Moore Society, and Liberty Counsel. As media mouthpiece for the Christian right, Fox News never wastes an opportunity to bash the ACLU. So it was no surprise that Dana Perino, at the end of a "The Five" segment during which a church/state issue was discussed (and Greg Gutfeld "joked" about transgender parents), whined about that nasty ACLU wasting taxpayer money. Isn't this the same Dana Perino who worked for a president whose unnecessary invasion of Iraq cost American tax payers dearly in blood and treasure?

To end Your World on Wednesday (5/9/12), Neil Cavuto offered up his “Common Sense” prescription for Greece’s economic woes: Commercialize its antiquities. It was hard to tell just how serious he was or was not. “You’ve got temples like they’re going out of style… All this talk that you can’t pay your bills? …You, my friends, are sitting on a gold mine. I say, start sponsoring it… Slap company logos on it. Each and every antiquity part of it.”

Mitt Romney appeared on Hannity Tuesday night (5/8/12) for a two-part softball interview. As Media Matters noted, Hannity failed to ask Romney about his controversial claim to take "a lot of the credit" for saving the auto industry. But what struck me was Romney's obviously-scripted show of concern for those less fortunate than he. Did he not look like a rich guy hamhandedly pretending he's in touch with everyday Americans?

For the last several days, Bill O’Reilly has been making a big deal out of a “racially motivated” beating of two white reporters for the Virginian Pilot by some black people (their race seems to be more important than determining their numbers, as far as The O’Reilly Factor’s reporting is concerned). All in a day’s work of “looking out for you,” especially if you think white victims are discriminated against by the media. But, sadly for O’Reilly, it seems Virginia doesn’t appreciate his efforts on their behalf. Not only has the local news reacted less than favorably, Virginia’s Republican Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, a frequent friendly face on Fox, more or less told O’Reilly to mind his own business during a contentious interview last night.

When President Obama was invited to speak at the Notre Dame's graduation, Fox News was on it like flies on you know what. Fox & Friends gave it their usual - ahem - unbiased treatment with Gretchen Carlson asking her Catholic priest guest if it was "prestige over principal" and, in a question to the other guest who supported the invitation, echoing the priest's comparison of Obama's speech to a Holocaust denier speaking at a Holocaust museum. In another segment, famous Catholic theologian, Steven Baldwin, provided his trademark incisive exegesis on the issue. Flash forward to 2012 and Georgetown University has invited HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to speak at one of their commencement venues. Fox "news" wasted no time in getting self proclaimed Catholic crank spokesman, Bill Donohue, to rant about this on Megyn Kelly's alleged news program. Not surprisingly, Fox & Friends gave this new "outrage" their usual - ahem - unbiased treatment.

Is there anything so laughably hypocritical as Fox News’ sudden concern that Obama flip-flopped on the issue of gay marriage? Now that Mitt Romney – a flip-flopper extraordinaire if ever there was one – is the presumptive Republican nominee, it’s hard to find any criticism of him for flip-flopping on Fox News. But with President Obama it’s a different story. Not only is Fox blasting his support for same-sex marriage as a flip-flop, but using it as a meme for the network’s framing of the event.

Shepard Smith, perhaps the only Fox News host without a political agenda, nevertheless gave his seal of approval to President Obama’s support for gay marriage today. Introducing a discussion about Obama’s groundbreaking statement, Smith said, “The President of the United States, now in the 21^st Century.”

Bill O’Reilly is still in dogged pursuit against discrimination against white people – as evidenced in the “racially motivated” assault in Virginia he’s been up in arms over. Our Margarita has done some excellent analysis of how O’Reilly’s has been showboating to promote his own agenda of protecting whites from the ravages of a media (and you know who they’re in bed with!) that’s overly sensitive to blacks. Last night, O’Reilly attempted a sensitive look at why the media has been ignoring the Virginia case – and he came up with this conclusion: the media and politicians’ fear of African Americans has led to injustice for white people.

President Obama has come out in favor of marriage equality - a concept that about half of Americans now support. But the "real" Americans at Fox Nation know that gay marriage is an evil Satanic plot to undermine the most awesome country that Jesus ever created. So the title of their big, fat lede is "Obama Flip-Flops, Declares War On Marriage." Really? Only in the bizarro world of the rabidly right wing Fox Nation, which is supposed to be for "those opposed to intolerance" is same sex marriage considered an attack on marriage. (Funny, all those married gays haven't affected my marriage in the least.) The Fox Nation thread links to a Yahoo article that factually reports this development with nothing at all about a "war on marriage." (Is this in the same category as the "war on Christmas?) Allow me a Lewis Black moment - ARE THESE JOKERS FREAKING CRAZY?! And BTW, I wonder if Fox Nation knows that Mitt Romney's position on gay marriage (and abortion) has also flip-flopped. But Obama is declaring a war on marriage - okaaayyy....

Update - Fox Nation's headline is now "Obama Flip-Flops on Gay Marriage." Interesting...