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And the clown car that is Sean Hannity's show continues. This Wednesday, after giving former disgraced Speaker of the House and current direct mail scam artist, Newt Gingrich way more air time than anyone in the public should be exposed to, Hannity played a clip with one of their correspondents, Ainsley Earhardt, going out and asking the American public if they understood what the "fiscal cliff" debate was all about. As one would expect, most of the people they interviewed who don't follow politics, or maybe they watch Fox for their news, didn't have a clue as to what they were being asked about.

So naturally guest Newt Gingrich took that as an opportunity to both praise St. Ronnie, or at least the version of Ronald Reagan that exists in most of their minds, but who couldn't make it though a GOP primary right now if they did bring him back, and to trash President Obama as being an "entertainment president."

HANNITY: I don't know whether to laugh or... you're laughing, but I'm crying.

GINGRICH: Well, first of all, it's a reminder how extraordinary Ronald Reagan was, that when he took a topic, he explained it to the country in Oval Office addresses where half of the country would tune in, because they took the president seriously. We now have an entertainment president, who operates... and who won the election... operating at the level of entertainment, and he has dealt with this entire issue at the very shallow level, and so nobody knows what it's all about.

And I think this is part of why when I see polls, I don't pay any attention to them right now. I mean, it's kind of like you'd go out and say to people, well would you like to tax somebody else. Well that would be okay.

HANNITY: I'm polled out!

What Gingrich completely ignores is the fact that organizations like Fox, or politicians, or former politicians like himself, might just have some responsibility in doing their part to inform the public about what's going on, instead of lying to them day in and day out, which is how Gingrich makes his living.

If Gingrich and Hannity want to know who is responsible for the number of clueless people they just watched who didn't understand anything about this so-called "fiscal cliff" and what the debates are actually over, they need to just look themselves and their parent company in the mirror.

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It seems Fox regular Angela McGlowan's comments yesterday weren't just a one off. Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan has apparently been repeating the same line out on the campaign trail. He just managed to do it without the same Palin-like word salad we got from McGlowan on Saturday.

Here's the clown crew at Fox & Friends from this Sunday, doing their best to carry water for Ryan. Ryan's got his Orwellian spin down painfully well.

MORRIS: And yesterday out on the campaign trail, this subject was not lost on the candidate Paul Ryan making the point yesterday that we need to change our strategy as it relates to our foreign policies. Strength, showing strength and resolve. President Obama has tried a more moderating approach in his outreach to the Middle East in talking about having a hand open, not a clenched fist – recall that from the 2008 election. How has that worked?

Paul Ryan in Florida had a take on it. Have a listen.

RYAN: We're seeing pictures of our President being burned, We're seeing our flags being burned in these foreign capitols all over the world and what we're doing as a result of the Obama foreign policy, by gutting defense, by showing we want to cut defense, by being equivocal, by not speaking up forcefully and clearly for American values of freedom and individual dignity and individual rights and religious freedom, we are projecting weakness abroad.

And if you project weakness abroad a vacuum occurs and it gets filed by people who do not like us. For the sake of our own peace and for the sake of our own security and prosperity, we need peace through strength. That means a strong military. That means a military that is indisputably the strongest in the world. And that is not what we're getting from the Obama doctrine.

The Fox & Friends panel went on to express their dismay over the fact that much of the world doesn't like us and that they're still burning American flags in the streets and to pretty much ignore that our foreign policy has been pissing off people in that region of the world for decades now. They also tried to pretend that any backing away from, rather than a continuation of some of Bush's policies is what has many so angry. Par for the course, it's always upside down land at Fox. Whatever promotes Republicans and neocons talking points is good and whatever supports Democrats is bad. And all of our problems started when President Obama got elected.

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Fox News host Eric Bolling is advising a black congresswoman to "step away from the crack pipe" because "you saw what happened to Whitney Houston."

In a segment Thursday on the Fox News morning show Fox & Friends, co-hosts Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Eric Bolling took time out of their morning to poke fun at Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for saying that banks were "shaking in their boots" at the prospect of her becoming the next chair of the House Financial Services Committee.

"The Democrats would have to then win the majority in the House," Doocy explained. "And I haven't heard many professional prognosticators say that there is really any good possibility that that's going to happen."

"This is also the same congresswoman who a year ago said that President Obama should line up the gangsters and tax the bankers out of existence," Bolling recalled. "She points out that if the Democrats take back the House and Barney Frank is going to retire, she's the senior-most member. She could invariably could be leadership in Financial Services, who thinks that we should tax the bankers out of existence."

"What is going on in California -- how's this? Congresswoman, you saw what happened to Whitney Houston. Step away from the crack pipe, step away from the Xanax, step away from the lorazepam because it's going to get you in trouble," he added. "How else do you explain those comments?"

"I'd only say, 'Stay classy, congresswoman,'" Doocy quipped.

This isn't the first time Bolling has created a controversy with racially-tinged remarks.

Last year, he apologized after charging that President Barack Obama had allowed a "hoodlum in the hizzouse" by meeting with president of Gabon.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg called Bolling's comment "open and revolting racism at Fox."

(H/T: Media Matters, Think Progress)

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A recent Gallup poll had Texas Gov. Rick Perry trailing former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney 4 percent to 13 percent among Republican voters.

But the hosts of Fox & Friends said Sunday that Perry would have an advantage if he decides to get in the race because Romney is "obviously not a Christian."

"Only 13 percent of those people said Mitt Romney is their guy," noted Fox News host Dave Briggs. "It looks perfect for someone like Rick Perry to get in."

"Well the Christian coalition, I think he could get a lot of money from that," host Ainsley Earhardt predicted. "Because Romney, obviously not being a Christian -- Rick Perry, he's always on talk shows -- on Christian talk shows. He has days of prayer in Texas."

"And Tony Perkins, the Family Research Council president, very well known in the Christian community. He is endorsing the governor, saying he hopes he gets in," she added.

In fact, Romney does consider himself a Christian.

"There is one fundamental question about which I often am asked," Romney said in 2007. What do I believe about Jesus Christ?"

"I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and the Savior of mankind."