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Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint on Monday said that he opposed a bipartisan plan for comprehensive immigration reform because "unlawful immigrants" could live "another 50 years" and take advantage of government benefits that they earned by paying taxes.

At a press conference on Monday, the Heritage Foundation released a report that claimed the immigration reform bill offered by the "Gang of Eight" senators would cost Americans $6.3 trillion.

"The number over the 50-year lifespan of an amnesty for unlawful immigrants, it's $6.3 trillion to the American taxpayer," DeMint told Fox News host Martha MacCallum prior to the press conference. "And we know over time that this is going to increase more debt, increase taxes. That has a depressing effect on our economy. And we know that unlawful immigrants -- once that they have amnesty -- are going to replace the jobs of many Americans and depress their salaries."

"So there is no way you can look at this and conclude that it's good for the American taxpayer, and that includes immigrants who are here lawfully."

MacCallum noted that most benefits would not be available to immigrants for 13 years under the proposed plan.

"I'll believe that when I see it," the former South Carolina senator quipped. "Even if they follow through, unlawful immigrants are already receiving many benefits. A lot of their children are legal American citizens, whether its public education or Medicaid. But if you just look at a 13-year window when the life expectancy of unlawful immigrants goes another 50 years and once they get on Social Security and Medicare -- I mean, the average cost of an unlawful immigrant is hundreds of thousands of dollars."

DeMint added that he was all for immigration reform as long as "lower-skilled, less-educated" immigrants were excluded from the plan.

"In 1960, the average immigrant had about the same education and skill level of an American citizen. Today, immigrants have -- they're four times less likely to even have a high school diploma. And now with all of our welfare benefits, the arithmetic for immigration is totally different."

(h/t: Twitter/@igorvolsky)

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Republican strategist Brad Blakeman on Friday said that President Barack Obama was complicit in encouraging criminal activity because he supported contraception for young women.

Last month, a federal judge ordered the Obama administration to make emergency contraception available to girls as young as 15 without a prescription. The Justice Department vowed to appeal the ruling, but the president on Thursday told reporters in Mexico that he was "comfortable" with giving girls access to the morning-after pill.

"This makes no sense at all," Blakeman opined to Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Friday. "You have to be 18 years old to buy a pack of cigarettes. And the president is also encouraging criminal behavior because in most jurisdictions in America, engaging in sexual intercourse at 14, 15 years old is statutory rape. So the president is somehow saying, 'If you engage in that activity -- criminal behavior -- that's okay because the government is going to provide you the out for your bad decision making.'"

Left-leaning Fox News contributor Julie Rodinsky, however, was more realistic, pointing out that "15 year olds and people who are older do have sex, and if they do have sex, isn't the whole point here to prevent them from getting pregnant? And this is the best way to prevent conception. This is not an abortion pill."

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As if this girl hasn't been through enough, Fox News on Monday aired the name of the underage victim of the disturbing rape in Steubenville, Ohio.

During correspondent Mike Tobin's report about the guilty verdicts in the Steubenville rape case on Fox News' America's Newsroom, the girl's first name was broadcast without being censored.

"We have not known, really, how the victim is doing, Mike," host Martha MacCallum told Tobin. "Is there any information on that today?"

"Well, a relative tells me that she spends a lot of time in her room," Tobin explained. "She has been back out playing sports, and through it all -- you'll be surprised to learn -- she made the honor roll one more time."

"A family representative says the remorse coming from the football players came too late," the correspondent added. "We saw their reaction yesterday."

At that point, the report cut to footage of one of the rapists, 17-year-old Trent Mays, apologizing to the victim in court on Sunday.

"I would truly like to apologize to [redacted], her family, my family and the community," Mays said. "No picture [of the rape] should have been sent around, let alone even taken."

Crooks and Liars has redacted the victim's first name from this report and the video above, but Fox News did not.

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I just want to say kudos to TPM's video editor, Michael Lester, for having the stomach to sit through enough hours of Fox to put this video mash-up together. It seems they couldn't even make it until Thanksgiving this year to start fearmongering over the drummed up "war on Christmas" over there.

Fox News Brings You The Scariest Christmas Ever (VIDEO):

In the days before Thanksgiving, Fox filled its shows with dire, sometimes terrifying segments about all the threats surrounding the merriest season of the year. There’s the eradication of free speech by atheist “loons,” the possibility of choking on our food, the diseases spread on airplanes, and the endless depression that comes from Christmas commercials.

If we even make it to Christmas, that is. Fox’s morning man Bill Hemmer charted the possibility that the “apocalypse” would arrive on Dec. 22, and just how sad it will be when we all get wiped out, leaving all those unopened presents under the tree.

So, sit back and take in the best of Fox’s holiday doom and gloom. And as you endure the season, take a moment to think of all those over at Fox News, who clearly need a little cheering up.

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They just can't stop themselves from completely disrespecting this President, can they? Here's Queen Ann on Fox News in an interview which will air in full Wednesday, calling the President of the United States a child because his campaign has dared to call out her husband for lying his ass off during the debate last week. Way to keep it classy.

So much for Willard saying his wife's views were not "terribly relevant" to his campaign. She's been inserting herself more and more as time has gone on, without terribly wonderful results as we saw again here. She's just as much of a nasty piece of work as her husband, if not worse.

Ann Romney accuses Obama of showing 'poor sportsmanship' :

Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, equated President Obama's campaign to a petulant child during an interview Tuesday after being asked about charges from the president's campaign that her husband had "lied" during last week's debate.

“I mean, lied about what? This is something he’s been saying all along. This is what he believes. This is his policy, these are his statements," Ann Romney said in an interview set to air Wednesday on Fox News. "I mean, lie — it’s sort of like someone that’s, you know, in the sandbox that like lost the game and they’re just going to kick sand in someone’s face and say, ‘you liar.’ I mean, it’s like they lost, and so now they just are going to say, OK, the game, we didn’t like the game. So to me, it’s poor sportsmanship.”

In an interview Sunday with CBS News, Obama adviser David Axelrod said Romney's debate positions were "uprooted" from what he had said on the campaign trail.

"I think [the president] was a little taken aback at the brazenness with which Gov. Romney walked away from so many of the positions on which he's run, walked away from his record,” Axelrod said.

Ann Romney said she "knew right away" that her husband was winning the first presidential debate.

"I knew after the first question," she said. "I turned to my son after 50 minutes, and I gave him a nudge, and I said it’s 100 to zero right now. "

She added that she hoped his performance would attract the support of more female voters, a crucial demographic headed into Election Day and one that the president has thus far dominated.

Yeah, good luck with that. Hey Ann, if you don't want your husband called a liar, why don't you ask him to quit lying day in and day out on the campaign trail as well?

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Daily Caller editor-in-chief Tucker Carlson says that "professional race-baiters" like some African-American lawmakers and President Barack Obama are making a mistake by injecting race into the death of Trayvon Martin.

Fox News host Martha MacCallum played clips of Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) and Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) speaking out about racial profiling at a press conference on Tuesday before asking if Democratic lawmakers had gone too far.

"I used to cover crime," Carlson explained. "And the one thing you learn in covering specific crimes is you really don't know as much as you think you do."

"And so for people to weigh in, for professional race-baiters like the ones you just saw on television, and for the president himself to weigh in and make this a simple parable about white racism is very foolish because it may not turn out to bolster that accusation, for one. And for another, do you really want to have a conversation about who kills who in this country? Do you want to look at the statistics? This is not a conversation that political figures should be weighing in on at all."

Fox News contributor Alan Colmes interrupted to ask when President Barack Obama had weighed in and made the case about "white racism."

"The president stood up and said, this boy looks like my son would look," Carlson replied. "And that is clearly making the case that this boy was killed because the way he looks, and we don't know that all."

"Tucker, if we had a white president and a white boy had been shot and a white president had said that could have been my son, nobody would have said a word about it," Colmes pointed out. "The fact that Obama said this -- he took the exact right tone. He wasn't playing the race card at all."

"Alan, that's ridiculous," Carlson disagreed. "People are shot to death every day, tragically, and the president doesn't weigh in on it. ... There's a reason that the Congressional Black Caucus and the completely irresponsible congresswoman from Florida you just saw are weighing in on this, as is Al Sharpton as is the entire anchor lineups of a couple other cable networks, because they are making this into a case based on race."

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Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman won't be puckering up for Donald Trump anytime soon.

Huntsman, along with Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), has declined to take part in a Newsmax debate moderated by Trump later this month. Appearing on NBC Monday, the notorious birther slammed Huntsman as someone who wasn't going to win the nomination anyway.

Later on Monday, Fox News host Martha MacCallum gave the GOP hopeful a chance to respond.

"I'm not going to kiss his ring, and I'm not going to kiss any other part of his anatomy," Huntsman explained. "This is exactly what is wrong with politics. It is show business over substance. If he had any courage at all, he would be running for president of the United States of America as opposed to manipulating the process from the outside."

"The presidency of the United State of America is more important than these silly game shows and reality shows."

An obviously-bitter Trump had also assailed Huntsman in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd Monday.

"By the way, Mr. Huntsman called my office a number of times trying to set up a meeting," the billionaire claimed. "I didn't have a meeting with him and then he went on the debate and said, 'I didn't meet with Mr. Trump like everybody else in the room.' So, you know, I'm sure he'll tell the truth about that because he's a Mormon."

In a statement to Think Progress, Huntsman spokesman Tim Miller didn't address the religious attack, but did dismiss the meeting claim as something that had been "litigated in the press before."

"You’ll be surprised to find out that it's Mr. Trump who is not telling the truth," Miller said. "We never requested a meeting. We are focused on issues that matter not presidential apprentice."

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Fox News host Martha MacCallum said Thursday that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) didn't deserve five uninterrupted minutes to announce his resignation.

As Weiner was announcing his intentions to step down at a press conference Thursday afternoon, he was mercilessly heckled. One man shouted "pervert" and several other lewd comments.

"Boy, a lot of anger in that room," MacCallum announced as Weiner left the podium. "Did you hear the heckling? Sometimes it was almost difficult for Anthony Weiner to get his sentences out. There was a very strong reaction in that room which is emblematic of the way things happen everywhere this man goes. He evokes a lot of response in everything that he does."

"The heckling was really extraordinary," National Review editor Rich Lowery told MacCallum. "Given the abuse and the humiliation that's been heaped on this guy, you could at least give him five uninterrupted minutes to sing a swan song."

"But you know what, Rich?" MacCallum asked. "The problem is that he never gave anyone else five uninterrupted minutes. You know, you think about the way he talked to those reporters in the room when he came out of his office that day and he was berating them."

"Let's pile on, shall we?" radio host Allen Colmes said sarcastically.

"All I'm saying is that the energy in the room came right back at him," MacCallum insisted.

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If there was any doubt that Michele Bachmann's formal entrance into the GOP 2012 presidential primary race might have just sucked up all the oxygen out of the room for the snow-billy Palin to still throw her hat in there, if she was ever going to run, this segment on Fox might be one example of why she likely won't.

Not only does she take her place with the Evangelical Christian and "tea party" crowd, she's also got the talking heads over at Fox immediately playing the victim card for her as well as we saw in this segment with Megyn Kelly fill-in Martha MacCallum and right wing flame thrower and radio host Mike Gallagher.

They've both apparently decided that since she gave a good showing after I'm sure being heavily coached for this week's GOP primary debate, that all of those terrible things those on the left have said about her are unwarranted or untrue.

What's sad is I don't think anyone on the left should actually discount her completely or any of the rest of them for that matter. This is after all, a country that managed to allow George W. Bush steal two elections because they were close enough that they could be stolen.

All we have to do is look to what's going on in Wisconsin and other states right now with voter disenfranchisement and the Republicans proving they're willing to continue to win at all costs no matter what it takes to see what we're going to be in for in 2012. They've quit pretending that they care what the public thinks about their willingness to steal elections openly and they've got their propaganda machine in the media willing to aid and abet them as well.

If we're unfortunate enough to see Bachmann start winning some primary races, expect more segments like this from not only Fox, but our other "news" networks as well.

I just hope they are countered equally by segments like Cenk ran this week as well on Bachmann, but I'm not holding my breath.

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A leading Tea Party candidate in Delaware claims she is getting support from an unexpected group -- the PUMAs.

Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell seems to believe that supporters of Hillary Clinton are now backing her.

"I'm excited that the Tea Party has gotten behind us," O'Donnell told Fox News host Martha MacCallum Monday. "But I do want to point out that we have broad-based support."

"We've got a lot of Hillary Democrats working behind us -- with us -- because they're frustrated with what this administration is doing," she said.

A new survey shows O'Donnell enjoying a three point advantage over Rep. Mike Castle. Delaware Republicans go to the polls Tuesday to make their choice.

But "Hillary Democrats" may not be useful to O'Donnell in that primary. "She didn't say if she's gotten those Democrats to actually switch parties, since the primary tomorrow is closed and you must be a Republican to take part," noted Talking Points Memo.

Dirty tricks by Tea Party groups may prove to be more of an asset to O'Donnell. The Hill reported that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) -- who was defeated with help from the Tea Party Express -- called Castle to tell him she learned from experience to "be careful" of the activist group.

"She told me to be careful, because [The Tea Party Express] will come at me with everything they've got," Castle recounted. "They're certainly not above misrepresentation."

Castle said while he took Murkowski's warning to heart, he was already taking the primary challenge from O'Donnell seriously.

"We understand what we're up against and we're not taking this lightly," Castle said, bemoaning the involvement of the Tea Party Express. "This is the first election I can remember in Delaware where a campaign is being funded almost entirely by out of state interests."

The chair of the Delaware Republican Party received a death threat last week over his support for Castle.