After producing and directing the 2004 documentary Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism, filmmaker Robert Greenwald and his company Brave New Films partnered with several other organizations, including MoveOn.org and The Sierra Club, to act as an online watchdog group against FOX News and their “fair and balanced” reporting. This video from said watchdog group, FOX Attacks, is a side-by-side comparison of FOX News’ rhetoric leading up to the war in Iraq (much of which was inaccurate and misleading) and the current FOX News drum-beating about the dangers posed by Iran. Is FOX News trying to push America into another war? Boy, I hope so!

Frankly I’m not sure what Robert Greenwald is so worried about. I mean, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are going so well, I bet we could just pop over to Iran, knock that place into shape and be home in time for Leno. After all, we do have a massive surplus of fully trained, combat ready troops, just sitting around in their brand-new fully-armored Humvees with nothing to do. Sure, Iran is larger and more heavily populated than Iraq and Afghanistan combined, but after the easy KOs our boys scored in both of those countries I think they’re ready for a challenge. Also, look at a map -- Iran is right in-between Iraq and Afghanistan, so once we get Iran in line, we can just combine all three countries into one giant country called Irafraqanistan. Then all the problems in the Middle East will be solved and we can move on to bigger issues: like when is Robert Greenwald going to direct the film adaptation of the stage adaptation of his 1980 Olivia Newton-John roller disco musical Xanadu?

Get out your mittens, sinners, 'cause it looks like Hell may just have frozen over. Here, Fox News host Chris Wallace asks guest Newt Gingrich about Alberto Gonzales, "How damaging is it, in the middle of a war on terror, to have an Attorney General... who has so little credibility?"

Wait a minute. Did somebody on Fox News just say something that might be construed as... anti-administration? Nah. I must have misunderstood.

So Newt basically says that, yeah, wacky Democrats and their pesky questions aside, it really isn't so great for the country when the person who's supposed to be our quintessential representative of justice and fairness is being investigated to death and just generally being accused of being a big fat lying liar from Liartown, Lietucky.

And then Wallace says, "By the way, we invited White House officials and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend Attorney General Gonzales. We had (big snotty dramatic pause) no takers."

Woah. It's one thing when your administration becomes so unpopular that even the party hacks are trampling each other to get at a safe distance from you. But when Fox News starts to turn on you... sheesh. That's harsh.

I'm a bit of a rabble rouser, I'll admit to this. Although I did not attend the May 1st rallies in Los Angeles (because this city makes you oh so apathetic about anything other than traffic patterns), I am glad they happened. What surprised me was less the use of force on protesters, sadly this is not a shock anymore, but how the media was treated.

Being a troublemaker I am pretty anti-Fox News. I took a nearly obscene amount of joy in watching a Fox reporter in San Diego get punched last summer. However, in this circumstance I've got to hand it to them-- Fox's reporters literally took a beating and stood up to the atrotious treatment the media got during this protest. I understand that police, protesters, and the media need to find a way to coexist, but in my mind there is no excuse for hitting camera men or shoving reporters. And if you are going to do that, at least don't do it on film. At the risk of sounding just a little paranoid, it seems like a very bad sign when the police are willing to start hitting journalists.

If one good thing does come out of this event, it will be that the footage aired on a major network. Unlike Josh Wolf, who served 226 days in jail for refusing to turn over footage of a protest, this video aired in one of the country's largest media markets and on a network that (may be biased) but is certainly a "legit" news outlet.

"Fox And Friends" anchors discuss the revelation that Barack Obama tried cocaine in high school; apparently they forgot that President Bush spent most of his time at Yale in a frat house drunk and high. And, what about Miss. USA? She certainly had a run-in with her own bad habits but was allowed to keep her title (if not her dignity).

Just when I thought I'd be put in a position to vote for Hillary Clinton, along comes Obama with his fresh voice and face. Hearing he tried cocaine isn't exactly damning evidence against him, and those pesky "Friends" on Fox apparently reject the notion that a person can experiment in their youth and then make good. In fact, they seem to beat up on anyone who points out that our last two presidents have admitted to trying various illegal drugs. I know we all remember the famous MTV "I did not inhale" interview.

It isn't that illegal drug use shouldn't matter, it is that an experiment shouldn't matter all that much. Nobody is accusing the man of struggling with a drug habit. The Department of Justice statistics make it clear that many teens use some kind of illicit drug before they leave college. Almost half try marijuana and nearly 10% try cocaine. Cocaine use peaked in the late 1980s, according to the DOJ, so really that just makes Obama like the rest of us.

Fox News grasping at straws-- ahhhh... what a lovely way to begin 2007.