According to the Center for American Progress' Report, "Fear Incorporated," there is an "Islamophobia Network" dedicated to fomenting fear of Islam and Muslims. The report cites Fox News as an "echo chamber" for this Islamophobia in that many of its guests promote anti-Islamic talking points, especially the baseless notion that the US is being taken over by Sharia law. Chief among these purveyors of paranoia is Pam Geller who was a prime mover in the Fox enabled protest against the so called "Ground Zero Mosque." She was closely involved with a child custody battle, closely covered on Fox, involving a Muslim teen. The group that she founded, "Stop Islamization of America," has been labeled a hate group by the SPLC for its defamation of Muslims. She has occasionally appears on Fox where she promotes her vile and bizarre views about "creeping Sharia." So on Friday, BEFORE THE COFFINS OF THOSE KILLED IN LIBYA HAD ARRIVED AT DOVER, Geller was back on Fox where her toxic views were warmly received.

A study by the National Hispanic Media Coalition found that people who watch Fox News share more anti-immigrant and anti-Latino views. Seventy percent of Fox viewers have an unfavorable view of “illegal alien,” more than NPR, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, or talk radio.

Bill O’Reilly is mad as hell over the situation in Egypt and he’s rallying his TV-nation troops to boycott Egypt just like they boycotted France. O’Reilly doesn’t even want the American airlines to fly there. Never mind that French exports to the U.S. increased during O’Reilly’s boycott of that country. And never mind that we export about three times as much to Egypt as we import from them.

Alan Colmes visited his old stomping grounds last night, the show formerly known as Hannity & Colmes. It’s pretty clear that the break up has been good for Colmes, at least as far as his debates with Sean Hannity go. And you know what? Hannity was left in the dust.

Apparently Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace took that whole "fair and balanced" thing a little too far on Fox & Friends this morning. In a discussion about the violence in the Middle East, Wallace dared to criticize Mitt Romney. Doesn't he know that's what the "liberal media" does, not Fox?

As your humble servants have already reported, Fox News is going all out to slam Obama for the situation in the Middle East, and last night's Factor was no exception. Bill O’Reilly spent a good part of his program hammering home to viewers that Obama’s approach to the Muslim world - that of reaching out a friendly hand to governments who weren't our friends - has failed, and that there should be “punishment” instead.

Once again Sean Hannity proved that partisanship trumps patriotism – and any other concern he may have for his country – as he diminished Senator John McCain’s analysis of the tense situation in Egypt and Libya - and elevated Sarah Palin’s. Palin, of course, was completely on board the Use-The-Crisis-To-Bash-Obama Fox News Express. But McCain made the shocking decision to put real foreign policy concerns first. The result was a bit of fireworks and an abrupt ending to the discussion.

Earlier this week, Bill O'Reilly said, after a rant about the evils of Planned Parenthood, that he might be wrong but that he's "very rarely wrong." That bit of bombastic bloviation is both amusing and ironic given that Bill was wrong on several statements that he made during that segment of The Factor which was heavy on the Sandra Fluke slut shaming. So seeing that fact checking is all the rage and I love to be au courant, let's do a little fact checking to see just how wrong Bill was.

Poor Bill O'Reilly just doesn't understand why "militant women" say there's a "war on women" because he just doesn't see any war happening. But the war on reproductive choice, which includes limiting access to birth control via making it costly, is happening as we speak. So given that Bill needs to be educated about this supposedly non-existant war, I submit the new Missouri Law which allows employers to deny coverage for birth control if it violates their religious beliefs. (Viagra not a religious problem but then that's about man needs) In other words, if you're a non-Catholic woman, working for a Catholic or other Christian employer who objects to contraception, you're shit out of luck and depending on your prescription, you could end up paying up to $50 a month. As this law is an attempt to trump federal law, a suit  has been filed. And O'Reilly doesn't think there's a war on women. Really?

Although Fox Nation claims to be "committed to the core principles of tolerance, open debate, civil discourse, and fair and balanced coverage of the news," their headlines indicate that their bigger commitment is to hate mongering against President Obama. As the United States faces thorny problems in the Middle East, Fox gives you the idea that the only real enemy is President Obama.