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Jon Stewart took the talking heads at Fox to task for their defense of Rush Limbaugh and his sexist attacks on Sandra Fluke and the false equivalencies when comparing Limbaugh to Bill Maher and other comedians and the fact that they tried to play off Rush Limbaugh being a comedian with their defense of him.

Stewart had it exactly right with his finish here after he showed some of Sean Hannity's hypocrisy with his love of Ted Nugent:

STEWART: Ted Nugent didn't get boycotted. That was the Dixie Chicks for saying on stage they were ashamed President Bush was from Texas. But that makes sense. The Nug was actually sentenced for his diatribe, to having to jam "Catch Scratch Fever" with Huck.

And by the way, I'm not saying speech should be policed and censored and boycotted or that people don't have a right to say crazy things, or to boycott them. I don't believe that's true. I think speech should be much freer.

But here's the one thing I do believe. Fox... shut the f**k up about how victimized you, and you alone are. Nobody cares!

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The Young America’s Foundation’s Vice President, Kate Obenshain, introduced Sarah Palin at their conference celebrating the anniversary of what would have been Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday at the Reagan Ranch. Obenshain started out by comparing Palin to Reagan and playing the victim card for both of them, portraying both of them as being unfairly demonized by that evil liberal media that just wants to keep conservatives down.

Obenshain then proceeded to give us this bit of gag-inducing history revisionism on the grifter half-term Governor Palin. Someone needs to direct Obenshain to Jon Perr's post where he broke down what today's conservatives would actually have thought about St. Ronnie. I also think Obershain might be spending a little too much time hanging out with the likes of John Ziegler. If not, they both have definitely been reading off of the same set of talking points.

OBENSHAIN: Now in 2008 conservatives felt again that we had lost our way. We had strayed so far from the vision of Ronald Reagan. The media and many on the left even declared the end of conservatism. Then seemingly from out of nowhere another leader emerged. A woman from humble origins, self made and hard working, an entrepreneur married to her high school sweetheart; a woman who has taken on the establishment time and time again and won.

She had become a mayor and then governor, not for the glory, but because this busy mom saw jobs that needed to be done and she knew how to do them. So she sacrificed an easier way because she loved the state and she loved her freedom more than she loved her comfort. Because of her courage and her ingrained sense of right and wrong she stood tall for freedom even when she was told to sit down.

Time and time again she ignored the establishment on both the left and the right and she did what she believed was right for her family and her country, without even intending to, she led the largest spontaneous grassroots movement our nation has ever seen. She brought other hard working, tax paying, law abiding, god loving Americans who have never even considered being civic activists to their feet saying “Enough is enough.”

And in large measure because of her courage and the fire she sparked in others our nation sent a profound philosophical message that transcends party lines to its leaders, “Change course.”

What thanks has she gotten? Those feminists who claim they want to see more women in leadership positions, they’ve led the charge in the most stunning assault of the character of a good and honorable person that we have seen in the public sphere. For her outspoken courage, for her beliefs in those founding principles that Reagan championed, she along with her family have faced scorn and derision. But it hasn’t stopped her. It has just made her stronger.

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CNN's John King asks his guests James Carville and Mary Matalin to fact check these statements by Michele Bachmann in her response to the State of the Union address yesterday.

BACHMANN: Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which lightbulbs to buy and which may put 16,500 IRS agents in charge of policing President Obama's health care bill.

King actually bothers to start pointing out that her statement about the IRS agents is just not true and when he asks Matalin to weigh in, she pulls out the pity card for Bachmann and claims that liberals are attacking her because they just want to shut her up. She also asserts that it's the Democrats that are propping her up on some equal footing with the president. Sorry Lady McCheney, but it's the tea partiers and your network that decided to do that when airing her response. I agree with your husband, keep her crazy ass out there talking.

They also never bothered to point out that it was George Bush, not Barack Obama that signed the energy bill that changed the standard on lightbulbs. Matalin was too busy pulling out the victim card for Bachmann.

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Looks like someone's none too happy about Fox being called out for their race-baiting. Brit Hume does his best to attempt to turn ClusterFox into the victim and claims Shirley Sherrod "got off easy" after they got caught helping Andrew Breitbart push his doctored tapes of her speech at the NAACP.

HUME: As victims of unfair media treatment go, Shirley Sherrod got off easy. Within 24 hours or so, from her forced resignation from the Agriculture Department, she'd been apologized to, offered a new job and later even, as Bret mentioned, got a call from the president himself. All of this a consequence of a truncated Internet videotape that made it appear she had once done less than her best for a white farmer because of his race. It was unfair and the apologies were deserved, but the initial rush to judge Sherrod was not the only rush to judgment in this affair.

Consider: Sherrod herself say she was ordered last Monday to resign immediately by a senior agriculture official who said Sherrod was going to be on Glenn Beck's FOX program that night. In fact, Beck did not say a word about Sherrod until the next night when he defended her. Bill O'Reilly called for her to step down on Monday but by her account, she had already quit before he spoke. And O'Reilly apologized the next night.

Indeed, Shirley Sherrod was not mentioned on FOX News Channel or on foxnews.com either until after the Obama administration had forced her out. And no news as opposed to opinion broadcasts on FOX ever accused Sherrod of racism. But she blamed FOX and accused the network of racism. So did numerous others, including the NAACP and former Democratic Chairman Howard Dean on "FOX News Sunday," though it became clear from Chris Wallace's questioning that Dean had no idea what the facts where.

You might think all these would be the stuff of further apology. But somehow I'm not holding my breath -- Bret.

BAIER: So, Brit, do you think this is the end of this?

HUME: Well, I think it's the end of the Sherrod case, you know, except for whatever she decides to do. She's in pretty good shape right now. As whether it's the end of this kind of hurling about the charge of racism willy-nilly, I have my doubts. For example, last week, we saw in these stories and accounts of the journal list web communications among basically liberal journalists, some of them in the mainstream media. And one of them suggested at one point during the Reverend Wright affair affecting Barack Obama's campaign that they ought to just call some conservatives, Fred Barnes, Karl Rove "Who cares" this journalist wrote, a racist. With that kind of use of the term "racist," willy-nilly is a weapon. I don't think we've seen the end of it.

BAIER: OK, Brit, thanks.

HUME: You bet.

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Rachel Maddow takes Karl Rove to task for his op-ed in the Wall Street Journal complaining that he's been "wronged by the press for years" and it's time for the press to own up for their mistakes about him. Rachel rehashes Rove's role in the US Attorney's scandal and tells Rove, good luck with your complaints.

Someone needs to ask the Obama Justice Department why they're not doing something about getting rid of these "Bushies" that are still in place in the Justice Department, and why Don Siegelman hasn't seen any justice yet.

MADDOW: In the opinion pages of today`s "Wall Street Journal," there is a startling claim by former Bush senior advisor Karl Rove. According to Mr. Rove, he has been wronged by the press for years and it`s time for the press to finally own up to its mistakes about him.

Specifically, Mr. Rove rails against allegations to the U.S. Attorney scandal, that he manipulated the judicial process for political reasons. He says in "The Journal" today that his role in the firing of U.S. Attorneys was minimal and entirely proper and that critics should just let up on him about these demonstrably untrue allegations.

You know what? The press actually doesn`t need to let up on Mr. Rove at all. Let me explain. In his article today, Mr. Rove emphatically disputes the claim that, quote, "The judicial process had been manipulated for political reasons."

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