Dennis Miller picked up the Fox News ball of using the news that Boston bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had received public assistance as a means to smear social welfare programs. Just as Sean Hannity later used the information to suggest that welfare recipients are, or should be known as, enemies of good Americans, Dennis Miller got more specific and suggested that the Lifeline telephone program, misnamed as “Obamaphones” by Fox Newsies, is likely to become a tool for terrorists.

As part of their week long anti-Islamic hate fest, Fox News braying heads continue to bray about the dangers of "radical Islam." So it was interesting to see that their "news" programming would feature a man who is part of an all male religious group dedicated to extremist views that pose a real threat to women and doctors. No, I'm not talking about some radical jihadist mullah, but Catholic priest Fr. Frank Pavone who is part of an order of Catholic priests devoted to putting an end to safe, legal abortion. Pavone was last seen on Fox touting his daring "rescue" of a terminally ill Canadian child. Today, he was on Fox's "news" show "Happening Now" where he spoke about his desire to obtain the bodies from Gosnell's clinic so he can give them a Catholic funeral. While he seems benign enough, his writings say otherwise. But he's pro-life and that's all that matters on "fair & balanced" Fox News which is always happy to provide him with a pulpit for "pro-life" propaganda.  

As News Hounds Priscilla has pointed out, Fox has been exploiting the criminal case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell to advance its anti-abortion agenda and its “liberal” media victimhood. But nothing, in my opinion, has matched the howler of Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn – whose voting record earned her a 25% rating from the NAACP and 0% from NARAL – going on The O’Reilly Factor and pretending to be acting out of concern for minority women. Bill O’Reilly – who has his own dubious record on minorities and women – gave her a pass.

After a week of Fox News hate mongering and disrespect for the Constitution, all I can say is, thank God we have Jon Stewart on our side!

According to our legal system, rape is rape regardless of the perpetrators sexual orientation. But in the homophobic world of Fox Nation, not all rapes are created equal. According to one of its headlines, when a gay person is accused of rape, it's not just rape - but a gay rape as evidenced by this morning's "Blonde Teacher Busted for Lesbian Rape." Given the hostility of the denizens of Fox Nation towards the LGBT community, one wonders if this special designation is meant to reinforce the right wing belief that gays are scary, sexual predators and *pedophiles who shouldn't be allowed near children. Go figure! 

After having his speech, at a Grosse Pointe high school cancelled, Rick Santorum was subsequently allowed to give his address after the school was assured that the speech would be about leadership and not divisive social issues -  not, as claimed by Bill O'Reilly, because "The Factor" complained. The school's right wing "Young Americans for Freedom," however, asserts that the initial decision was due to Santorum's social views - something that the school denies. But as this allegation dovetails nicely with the Fox News meme about "liberal bias" in the schools, it wasn't surprising to see Steve Doocy, during a "Trouble With Schools" segment, interview a YAF student about liberal persecution, which OMG included a requirement that students get permission to attend the speech.  Aww... 

In a night of all hate all the time on Fox, the Hannity show’s segment with Bill Cunningham stood out last night both for the bigoted level he and Sean Hannity happily sank to in order to smear President Obama and for the fact that Fox passed off as legitimate opinion the preposterous allegation that Obama's caution in using the term "Islamic terrorism" has endangered the country.

On yesterday’s Your World, host Neil Cavuto and contributor Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal used the sequester and the FAA furloughing of air traffic controllers to try to make President Obama look bad. Noting that “some Republicans” must be getting concerned, Cavuto "asked," “It really isn’t the Republicans’ fault, is it?”

Just when you think Fox News bigotry can’t get any worse, it does. Yesterday, on The Five, Eric Bolling took a baseless swipe at Rep. Keith Ellison, calling him “very dangerous” and “the Muslim apologist in Congress.” The only person who challenged that disgusting statement was Dana Perino. “Liberal” Bob Beckel didn’t say a word.

Rather than actually hosting a book burning, so popular in repressive societies, Fox News provides a platform for "outrage" over school texts that don't conform to the right wing world view and which, OMG, actually serve to stimulate critical thinking, not popular in repressive societies. In 2009, Fox & Friends did a multi-month series, part of "the trouble with schools" in which a right wing professor vilified texts that he felt were biased. (Got irony?!)The happy friends even supported the Texas Board of Education's attempts to force textbook publishers to rewrite history according to the gospel of the right wing. Recently, they hosted a parent who claims that her son's curriculum blames the US for 9-11. (It doesn't) and this morning, following up on Todd Starnes "Outrage #1,878,001," Gretchen Carlson interviewed another conservative mom who, in this case, is outraged that her son's textbook is anti-Semitic. It isn't - but it fits the meme of the Fox defined "trouble with schools" so it's all good.