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Who knows how much truth there is to any of this, but I'm rather enjoying watching House Speaker get thrown under the bus by his own: Laura Ingraham: ‘Well-placed conservative voice’ says Paul Ryan in line to replace Boehner:

On Friday night’s “The O’Reilly Factor,” fill-in host Laura Ingraham said her sources indicate a coup may already be underway in Congress.

“I had a well-placed conservative voice today on the Hill email me and said he’s beginning to hear rumblings — I already gave something away, ‘he’ — he’s beginning to hear of a move to replace the speaker of the House,” Ingraham said. “We’re in the middle of this tussle with the Democrats, more than a tussle, and is that the right time to put that out there? And people are floating the name of Paul Ryan to be House speaker. But Ryan did support … Plan B.”

And for anyone who wasn't fully aware of just how big of a debacle Boehner's attempt to get his "Plan B" passed was, Robert Costa over at The National Revue filled their readers in on all of the ugly details this week here: Inside the Meltdown.

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Anyone remember the talking heads over at Fox showing the same outrage over drunken Dick Cheney shooting his hunting buddy in the face? Didn't think so. Fox proves once again that they can find a reason to crank up the feigned outrage machine over almost anything as long as you're a Democrat.

From Think Progress -- Fox News Guest Attacks Hillary: It’s As If She Was Auditioning For ‘The Jersey Shore’:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is having quite a month. After a photo of her spawned its own internet sensation, new images from a nightlife hotspot in Colombia that show Clinton sipping on a beer and dancing have ignited a fresh wave of gossipy commentary.

The New York Post ran one photo on its front page under the banner headline “Swillary,” apparently upset that she imbibes the same liquid as much of the rest of humanity.

But perhaps the best reaction to the shocking news that Hillary Clinton can have a good time goes to Nile Gardiner from the Heritage Foundation, who appeared on the Fox News show Your World with Neil Cavuto to attack Clinton for “embarrassing” herself:

Hillary Clinton is a public servant, she’s out to serve the American people, to advance U.S. interests. And I think that conducting herself in this way, as a senior U.S. official on the world stage, doesn’t advance American interests in any way. In fact its downright embarrassing. It’s as though she’s auditioning for the sixth series of Jersey Shore rather than representing America on the world stage as the Secretary of State.

As Adam noted, they did bring in GOP strategist Dee Dee Benkie who defended Clinton and said she ought to be allowed to have a few beers after work and unwind if she wanted to. Uncle Rupert just gave us a taste of the kind of stupidity we'd be in for if Clinton would change her mind and ever run for president.

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Leave it to Fox to host a panel loaded with a bunch of Republican consultants and operatives but paint them as just an ordinary "focus group" of "Republican voters", but that's exactly what Megyn Kelly did during this Friday's America Live.

Fox didn't choose to identify any of them in the chryon although Kelly did mention their names as she called on them. I didn't figure out who all of them were, but here are the ones I managed to identify.

Jay Townsend -- Republican political consultant.

Tony Sayegh -- Republican political consultant and Fox contributor.

Dee Dee Benke -- Birther.

Penny Nance -- Chief Executive Officer and President of Concerned Women for America.

Tracy Davis -- Former George H. W. Bush speechwriter.

Leave it to Fox to try to pass them off as just a bunch of ordinary Republican voters. If anyone figures out who the rest of them are, feel free to leave the information in the comments section and I'll add it to the post.