Sean Hannity spent two segments on his Fox News show last night with Jose Rodriguez, the former CIA officer with a new book defending the use of “enhanced interrogations.” Predictably, Hannity was not only downright enthusiastic about the techniques, he suggested those who differ (think President Obama, who banned them) are not pro-American enough.

On yesterday’s Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace seemed to take it as a given that the Supreme Court will rule against the Obama administration in both the health care mandate and the Arizona immigration law cases. So he opened the panel discussion segment by asking “how damaging” such rulings would be to Obama’s re-election efforts.

On Saturday’s Cashin’ In (4/28/12), the top story was an EPA official’s desire to “crucify oil companies” remark, sparking an investigation. Host Cheryl Casone – who almost surely knew that super-libertarian Jonathan Hoenig would provide an inflammatory, anti-EPA  response, asked him, “Is this EPA attack on energy companies a big clue as to why gas prices are high now and they’re probably going to go up?”

Fox Nation, the website supposedly dedicated to fair and balanced coverage of the news showed just the same kind of fairness and balance as its TV network when it reported on the White House Correspondents Dinner. In an article called Kimmel Kills, President Obama's speech was completely edited out. If reading the post was your only knowledge of the dinner, you could be forgiven for not knowing Obama gave one. Also, Fox Nation kindly edited Kimmel's jab at Chris Christie's weight and Obama's devastating (but hilarious) take down of Donald Trump. Funny, both were in the original article on which Fox Nation based its post.

The Fox News network provided almost non-stop validation for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops on their opposition to the HHS birth control mandate. This issue was front and center on both the Fox News "opinion" show Fox & Friends and official Fox "news" where Megyn Kelly also provided warm fellowship for the bishop's strident denunciation of the policy. Recently, however, the bishops have criticized the Paul Ryan budget as they feel that it hurts the poor. They have also spoken out against the Arizona and Alabama immigration laws because they feel that these laws infringe on the church's ability to work with immigrants. Apart from Foxpriest Fr. Jonathan Morris' reference to the immigration problem and a question from Fox News' Martha MacCallum's question to Rep. Paul Ryan, regarding the bishops' criticism of his budget, these issues aren't exactly front burner on Fox. Last week, Megyn Kelly hosted, once again, the homophobic, anti-Semitic, and blamer of victims of pedophile priests, Catholic League head Bill Donohue in order to discuss, once again, the bishop's position on religious liberty as it relates to the HHS mandate. Anything else was off the table. Wonder why. 

As the go to show for the Christian right, Fox & Friends never wastes an opportunity to showcase, as part of their patented persecuted Christian meme, how those who hate the baby Jesus are trying to tear his cross down at every opportunity. These lawsuits, based on First Amendment questions about a distinctly Christian symbol on public land, do not concern those who believe that the religiously diverse US is really a "Christian nation." The Christian warriors on Fox & Friends have provided coverage and support for the "Mojave Desert Cross" which was erected on government land but now, as a result of a court decision, will be turned over to a private veterans group in return for five acres of donated land. At one point in the coverage, Gretchen Carlson whined that evil atheists, Barack Obama, and the ACLU will soon be trying to get rid of crosses in veterans cemeteries. Kelly Shackleford, from the right wing Liberty Institute, has been the Fox & Friends point person for this issue. Yesterday, he appeared, once again, to talk about the recent court decision regarding the cross that is constantly carried on Fox & Friends.

You’d never know from watching his appearance on On The Record Friday night (4/27/12) that Allen West, the Tea Party Congressman from Florida, has come under a lot of criticism lately. Most recently, he proclaimed, “There’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party who are members of the Communist Party. It’s called the Congressional Progressive Caucus.” His inflammatory rhetoric is also why he’s been targeted for defeat by Democrats and facing a primary challenge in August. But the Republican Party is backing West and Fox News seems to be following suit.

Is there no subject that Fox News won’t turn to discredited birther Donald Trump as an expert? Fresh off his gig as an authority on Iran and the Keystone pipeline (not to mention his continuing “expertise” on President Obama and the 2012 election), Greta Van Susteren sought his insights into the killing of Osama bin Laden – as a thinly veiled excuse to attack Obama. But first, Van Susteren gave Rush Limbaugh’s hideous misogyny a pass and promoted him as a maven on the U.S. economy - i.e. other attacks on the Obama administration.

If you didn't see Jimmy Kimmel and President Obama's remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner, we've got the video here. I thought both Obama and Kimmel were very funny. Kimmel got in some good digs at Fox News and Obama got in a great one at Donald Trump.

Fresh off his “let them eat rice and beans” solution for hunger in America, Sean Hannity now has an answer for graduates swimming in student-loan debt: Count your blessings. According to Hannity and his all-conservative panel, being in debt and then paying it off is a great thing. “You feel empowered… These are things that make you feel good at the end of the day!” Panelist Jedediah Bila insisted.