Planet Wingnuttia News for Tuesday.

Fox News' ambush crews: A flagrant abuse of media power
Here's the report from O'Reilly's own sector of Planet Wingnuttia:

O'Reilly: Now, for the evil part. Last month, after the charitable event was announced, a bunch of far-left loons picked up some propaganda from the hate group Media Matters, that said I am unsympathetic to the plight of crime victims -- a preposterous lie. Along with America's Most Wanted, the Factor has done more for the victims of crime in America than any other television program on the air. The loons pointed to a Radio Factor episode from three years ago. We've posted the entire commentary on BillOReilly.com.
Elements at NBC News then encouraged the loons to protest the Alexa Foundation, causing Alexa and her family major grief.

That's right: O'Reilly is claiming that these reports actually harmed rape victims, since the Alexa Foundation was probably acutely embarrassed by the reports. So to prove his sensitivity to rape victims, he sent out a news crew to stalk a woman on her private weekend getaway.

Stoopid right wing and Villager outrage of the day: Obama dared to laugh
It's the Faux Outrage of the Week -- cooked up, as always, by the right-wingers and Media Villagers: President Obama's laugh on 60 Minutes. How dare he try to be a little lighthearted when going over the tremendous challenges that he inherited from George Bush and his court of merry neocons and CEO's? Steve Croft of 60 Minutes was dutifully upset:

Andrea Mitchell brought this latest Faux Outrage up yesterday and on MSNBC:
Mitchell: You watch him day in and day out, does he have to worry about seeming a little too cavalier or is this us nitpicking him to death. He's laughing, it's a normal human being instinct.

Chuck Todd's instant response:

Todd: Republicans sit there and look and say, if George Bush had done that, he would have been roasted....When you're at a 30-35% job approval rating, yea, that's what happens. When you're at a 55-65% job approval there seems to be more forgiveness there. President Bush saw that in '01 and 02, where no matter what he said, if he made a gaffe, nobody cared. He was the popular guy and that never happened so that's where some of the Republican-conservative criticism is coming. This is who he is. Everybody comments, he seems like a cool customer. He doesn't seem to get too high or too low.

Mitchell: Yeah, and George Bush in the first year or two could do nothing wrong so --

Todd: That's right.

Mitchell: I think this is going a little overboard. Who knows.

Barnes Claims Iraqis Are Giving Bush ‘Credit’ For Feeling Secure
Unlike a large majority of the country (and the world), the Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes loves former President Bush. Last month, Barnes declared that Bush is just like Abraham Lincoln (despite what historians think). “Not only was [Lincoln] America’s greatest president, I think he was America’s greatest political leader,” he said. “You know what was more like Lincoln in his presidency? George W. Bush.”

Barnes picked up on this delusion last weekend during Fox News’s “Beltway Boys” program. When co-host Mort Kondracke said Bush deserves credit for declining to criticize President Obama last week, Barnes claimed that Bush will eventually get credit for “his Iraq intervention, which worked.” And like Kondracke, Barnes added that Iraqis have given Bush credit too — for “feel[ing] secure”:

BARNES: There’s one group, that I haven’t heard of until recently, is giving Bush credit and that’s the Iraqi people. Look, a recent poll of over 2,000 Iraqis shows 46 percent say they feel secure where they live, which is in Iraq. Last March, only 20 percent could say that. Pretty impressive, huh? I thought so.