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A host of the Fox News show The Five was so angry that the Justice Department had investigated one of the network's reporters that she told her viewers on Thursday to find anyone who voted for President Barack Obama and "punch them in the face."

"Fox said, we're targets, clearly Media Matters and others have put us on a target list," Fox News host Andrea Tantaros explained on the Thursday edition of her radio show. "And they said, 'Oh, Fox is just crazy! They're just paranoid!' Really? Are we?"

"This is what is happening to our press! This is Obama's America! It's like the Soviet Union," she continued. "He said he would change the country. He said it. And a lot of people voted for him."

"And if you see any of those people today, do me a favor, punch them in the face."

After a commercial break, a caller from South Carolina told Tantaros that he hated Obama, but worried that telling people to punch Obama voters in the face was sending the wrong message.

"To be clear, I didn't say punch Obama in the face," the Fox News host pointed out. "You're going to get me arrested with this type of government."

"If someone voted for him!" she insisted to the caller. "If anyone that you know who voted for President Obama, smack 'em down."

(h/t: Media Matters)

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With Fox in full blown Muslim-bashing mode following the Boston Marathon bombing attacks, we all had to know this was coming. Heaven forbid they might ever pass up another opportunity to attack Rep. Keith Ellison.

Fox's Bolling: Rep. Ellison Is "The Muslim Apologist In Congress" And "Very Dangerous":

While calling for profiling of American Muslims, Fox News host Eric Bolling attacked Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), calling him the "Muslim apologist in Congress" and describing him as "very dangerous."

On Fox News' The Five, Bolling called for profiling of Muslims following the attacks of the Boston Marathon. During the segment, Bolling criticized Ellison, asserting that he's "very dangerous" and has been "the Muslim apologist in Congress for a long time." After calling him dangerous, Bolling noted that Ellison "raised his right hand and took the oath of office on the Quran":

Bolling's attack is part of a long line of smears directed at Ellison. Fox host Sean Hannity attempted to link Ellison to Louis Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam. Hannity also compared Ellison's use of the Quran for his swearing-in ceremony to using "Hitler's Mein Kampf, which is the Nazi bible."

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I'm not sure how someone this stupid manages to find employment anywhere, much less on a television network with millions of viewers, but it's Fox, so this is the sort of idiocy we've come to expect from that network. On this Friday's The Five, guest co-host and O'Reilly ambush specialist Jesse Watters took offense to regular Bob Beckel pointing out that there was genocide committed against Native American Indians.

The segment was in response to another hit piece by Judicial Watch and Breitbart's site over some USDA "sensitivity training" where one Samuel Betances apparently gave a presentation where he told their workers that the "Pilgrims were illegal aliens." This of course has the right, that could care less about billions of dollars being wasted on our military industrial complex and starting wars freaking out about "government waste" and political correctness, which you can find many, many examples of here.

But back to the segment, here is the back and forth between Beckel and Watters after some of the others weighed in on their latest drummed up scandal to obsess over:

BECKEL: That's right, this is way out of their area of expertise, but I will say this again, the English, the Europeans came over and threw the Indians off their land, exterminated them, threw them into reservations...

WATTERS: Exterminated!! (crosstalk) So let me get this straight Bob. America's Founding Fathers, they came over here, colonized America and made it the great land that we are today. You're saying they exterminated a whole race of people?

BECKEL: I see you must have been educated in Chicago...

WATTERS: You don't really believe that, do you?

BECKEL: ... because the Founding Fathers came here a hundred years after the Pilgrims came here.

WATTERS: The colonists, Bob and all the principles that came over on the Mayflower... freedom...

BECKEL: What do you think they did with the Indians? What do you think they did with them?

WATTERS: What do you think they did with who?

BECKEL: Those Indians that occupied that land.

WATTERS: They ate corn and they had Thanksgiving.

BECKEL: Oh, I see. They all did that. I guess they had turkey, a little stuffing...

WATTERS: And they dressed (inaudible) and they wrapped themselves around blankets. Yeah. And they sang kumbaya.

I didn't think it was possible to lower the collective IQ of the hosts on The Five any further than they are already when regular Greg Gutfeld is on there. I was wrong. How dare anyone tell their audience anything other than the revisionist history we love to repeat about our treatment of Native Americans.

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Fox's Andrea Tantaros, who recently made jokes about living off of the food stamp program as a dieting technique, actually had the gall to attack Sandra Fluke as a "terrible person to elevate" after Fluke's nomination by Time for Person of the Year.

Of course, attacking Fluke is nothing new for Tantaros, who went after her this August as well, saying that "no woman should aspire to be" Sandra Fluke.

And now that Fluke has received her nomination, Tantaros isn't the only one over at Fox or in the right wing media going after her -- Right-Wing Media Launch Attacks After Sandra Fluke Nominated For Time "Person Of The Year" .

Tantaros continued the tradition of lying completely about Fluke and what she was advocating for and after watching this I can say one thing. Fox and their Republican allies don't look like they learned a damned thing from the losses they just took among women during the last election. Keep it up wingnuts.

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Scarce edit: If you'd like to vote for Sandra Fluke you can do so at this link:

Sandra Fluke as Time's Person of the Year

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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Leave it to the good folks at Fox News to find the humor in trying to survive off food stamps. Stuart Varney brought up the subject after Newark Mayor Cory Booker accepted a challenge to live off food stamps for one week.

STUART VARNEY (HOST): Could you live on $133 per month for food?

TANTAROS: I should try it because do you know how fabulous I’d look? I’d be so skinny. I mean, the camera adds ten pounds, it really does. I’d be looking great.

h/t Think Progress

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A senior adviser to Mitt Romney on Sunday said that every woman she had talked to was turned off by Vice President Joe Biden's debate performance because it was "awful and obnoxious."

During a panel segment on Face the Nation, Bay Buchanan extended a recent conservative line of attack that attempts to paint Biden as a sexist-type personality because he was aggressive and interrupted Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan.

"That's where the vice president really hurt his ticket," Buchanan explained. "Because as women looked at that debate, there's nothing that is more offensive to us than to see a man just constantly interrupt and be offensive and boorish in his behavior and have no respect for somebody who's trying to have a legitimate debate."

She continued: "I haven't talked to a woman who's looked at that debate and not just responded and said that was just awful and obnoxious."

"Bay, I actually talked to a lot women who didn't have that reaction, including my mom," Mother Jones Washington bureau chief David Corn interrupted. "So, let's not be over the top. You're drawing out what you want to draw out to make your point."

"I talked to a lot of women who are apolitical," Buchanan insisted. "I just know that women do not like that."

Conservative Fox News host Andrea Tantaros made a similar point in her debate analysis on Friday.

"You know the guy that puts his finger in your face, the guy that sort of dresses you down, who knows more than you do -- hey, honey, go make some coffee," Tantaros said. "That's how I took it. You know what I thought? If he's gonna behave that way in public with millions of people watching, how does he behave in private?"

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From Monday night's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart went after Mitt Romney and his fellow right-wingers like Lou Dobbs, for their priorities on deficit reduction where PBS, which is a minute portion of the budget would get slashed, but heaven forbid we can't touch those subsidies for the oil companies, because those amounts would be almost meaningless -- or so says Dobbs and his faulty math.

After pointing out the obvious and that it really can't be the deficit they're concerned about, Stewart made a mockery of the talking heads over at Fox for their attacks on Sesame Street as some kind of evil socialist indoctrination program that's harming our children by teaching them things like how to share.

Jon and his Daily Show senior correspondents, Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver had some suggestions for how to make Sesame Street more palatable to conservatives, like putting Ayn Rand on the recommended reading list for the kids.

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From this Thursday's The Five on Fox News, regular and Caribou Barbie fan-girl Andrea Tantaros, after an entire segment bashing President Obama and Democrats as being the ones really waging the "war on women" decided to take a cheap shot at Obama supporter, Sandra Fluke, saying that "no woman should aspire to be her."

There's nothing like Fox to bring us a huge, heaping, helping of false equivalencies and projection with the attacks leading up to this one, and the talking heads on Fox pretending that Republicans would not be ones happy to take us back to the fifties with women's reproductive rights.

And to add insult to injury that was followed by one of the many women who are making a living as eye candy for the Fox misogynist channel, simultaneously doing a leg shot for Fox, while attacking Sandra Fluke as someone "no woman should aspire to be."

Sorry Andrea, but I think the law student who hasn't reduced herself to being a sad joke and an attempt to make sure horny old men who watch Fox want to stay tuned in and hasn't reduced herself to the leg shot in four or five inch pumps on the left side of the screen wins this one.

If there's a woman the rest of us should be aspiring to be, it's the one who decided to work hard and hope it leads somewhere by getting an education. It's not the one that has to count on her looks until she's tossed aside for the latest model with better legs and little regard to whether there's a thought in her head by Rupert Murdoch.

h/t Media Matters

And for more on how Fox treats the women who appear on their network, check this article out: Foxy Ladies: Why one network applies so much makeup.

h/t Fran

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On this Saturday's Fox News Watch, after showing some polls on whether the media has sufficiently covered the economic woes of those in the United States or not and whether our politicians are connected to the realities of those same Americans and what should be done about Greece's problems, we ended up the panel members Alan Colmes and Andrea Tantaros arguing about whether it was Bush or the Obama administration that have caused those problems.

That was followed by panel member Jim Pinkerton weighing in, who rattled off a few whoppers himself following Tantaros refusing to admit we were hemorrhaging jobs at a horrendous rate when George W. Bush left office.

His first big lie was that John Boehner has actually managed to get some bipartisan legislation on jobs passed in the House and he was ranting about how that has completely been ignored by our media, when obviously it deserves to be ignored, because their so-called “jobs plan” is nothing other than recycled failed policies we've seen out of them before. And getting a few rotten, corrupt Blue Dog Democrats to vote for something in the House doesn't equal anything having any kind of wide bipartisan support.

He then went on to play the absolutely heartless “the unemployed still aren't poor enough” game with his opining that the poor really aren't poor because many of them still have “color T.V.'s and VCR's and a lot of them have cars and houses and so on.”

To her credit, Judith Miller countered him and said a lot of them don't have food. I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with Judith Miller about much of anything, much less praising her, but I have to give her credit for not allowing this one zombie lie at Fox go unchallenged during this segment, which is that the poor in the United States aren't quite poor enough to actually be considered poor unless they're living on dirt floors with no electricity.