House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan appeared on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning to discuss the White House’s decision to cut and ration Medicare spending. “The President and his party leaders’ rhetoric never match up their agenda,” Ryan told host Gretchen Carlson, adding that he thinks things will be just fine for Republicans “once the dust settles” on budget discussions concerning Medicare.

Friday’s encouraging jobs report has resulted in predictable agita from Republicans, who are scrambling to figure out how to sell themselves, in an improving economy, to sane America. On Monday morning’s Fox And Friends, Eric Bolling conspiratorially asked “Are they playing around with the numbers?”

The liberal blog Raw Story is accusing Fox and Friends of “inventing” a conspiracy around the jobs report, but that’s not true; Bolling simply neglected to credit the inventor of this silliness, Rep. Allen West (R-FL).

Those of you who didn’t use Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime performance as an excuse to go out and buy another bag of Extreme Buffalo Chili Cheesesteak Pizza Doritos might have noticed that singer M.I.A. — one of the 812 performers who joined Madonna onstage for her medley — saw it fit to give viewers the middle finger during her performance.

Socialite and celebrity muse Punxsutawney Phil woke up this morning to the sound of his name, looked down at his “I Hate Mondays” T-shirt, and considered going back to sleep. He’d grown tired of the routine, weary from the pressure, disillusioned with his celebrity. But Phil is nothing if not a dutiful little groundhog, and so he allowed himself to be pulled out of a bed on this brisk February morning.

On Friday morning’s Fox and Friends, during a lively segment, Fox News political analyst Angela McGlowan had some tough words for President Obama and other liberal policymakers’ political rhetoric in invoking taxing the rich in the lead-up to the 2012 elections. “That’s what Liberals do,” McGlowan exclaimed. “They do race-baiting and class warfare.”

The Factor‘s Bill O’Reilly looked into the lawsuit filed against TV host Jay Leno for a joke he’d made about GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.

Following his “prebuttal” of the President’s State of the Union Address yesterday, Mitt Romney appeared on Fox and Friends this morning to give his “postbuttal” (What? That’s just called a “rebuttal”? Oh, I see). However, the conversation soon turned to Romney’s highest polling opponent in the GOP nomination race, Newt Gingrich. And, while Romney seemed more interested in talking about President Obama.

The singing of The Star Spangled Banner at sporting events has long been fodder for viral video moments, and Sunday’s NFL Conference Championships were no exception. While Aerosmith‘s Steven Tyler did his very best impression of a Wookie being castrated, San Francisco 49ers fans showed their true colors by booing New York Giants players as they appeared on the stadium Jumbotron…while Kristin Chenoweth sang the National Anthem.

Appearing as part of a panel on Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, talk show host Jerry Springer lit into Fox News for bashing President Obama on a daily basis. “We’re here on Fox News,” Springer began. “Every single day, in fairness, you guys, every single day, bash President Obama. Every day!”

Karl Rove is a regular on Fox & Friends, both the weekday and weekend editions (which have different hosts). It had been a while since he had been on either– not since 2011, in fact– and so he had prepared a cute New Year’s Resolution joke about how he would promise to protect the female host from the other two jokers, except it appears he prepared it for the weekday edition. And so, this morning, he mistakenly promised Alisyn Camerota that he would protect Gretchen Carlson from her co-hosts. Oops!

Friday morning, Fox and Friends showed a video of Occupy Seattle protesters throwing bricks, shooting flares, and tossing bags of paint at Seattle Police in a standoff between the two factions. Eleven protesters were arrested, and later claimed that police used unnecessary force against them. The police department stood by the force used, saying police felt they were in danger.

Wednesday morning, Time magazine named their annual “Person of the Year” live on Today. The choice? The Protester. “From Arab Spring to Athens, From Occupy Wall Street to Moscow,” the cover reads. Coming in second place was Admiral William H. McRaven, the man who organized the SEAL Team Six raid that led to the death of Osama bin Laden.

On Friday’s Fox and Friends, the three defenders of the Yuletide were lamenting yet another alleged assault on Christmas, when Gretchen Carlson speculated it was only a matter of time before local authorities forced residents to have to take down their own decorations. Co-host Brian Kilmeade was reading a viewer email that said if “you and your children want to see Christmas displayed, put one up in your own yard. Nobody’s stopping you.” “Well at least not yet!” Carlson exclaimed, spurring off-camera chuckles. “Just wait for the town ordinance when you can’t have it!”

Appearing on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning, Sen. John McCain questioned whether Donald Trump‘s planned debate on December 27 would be a good use of candidates’ time, and encouraged the GOP contenders to get their rest instead. “It’s their decision, but I believe that on December 27 on an obscure network, I wonder if that [...]

Fox & Friends held a debate Monday morning between George Giuliani, the Director of Hofstra’s Graduate School Program in Special Education, and Brad Stine, the conservative stand-up comedian who has become a bit of a fixture on the show. The topic? Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Rankin/Bass stop motion Christmas classic.

Back when Mediaite was still in its infancy, when all the writers you know and love were adorable baby versions of themselves being cared for by a mysterious, sock-wearing woman named Nanny, a tradition was formed. Whenever the holidays would roll around, the Mediaite brain trust would choose the big pop cultural event of the year and find all the media counterparts for the various characters. At the time, back in the sepia-toned days of 2009, that cultural event was Harry Potter. Well, now it’s 2011…

On Tuesday morning’s Fox and Friends, Michele Bachmann was discussing her new memoir and how her family lived in poverty, when co-host Gretchen Carlson revealed the Republican presidential candidate was her babysitter when she grew up in Minnesota. “When I was 12-years-old, I had to get a job babysitting and I paid for my own glasses, my own clothes, my lunch at school. We just didn’t have anything.” “Speaking of babysitting, one of the families you babysat was my family,” Carlson disclosed. “That’s right!” Bachmann exclaimed. “One of the best families ever.”

Signs that the holiday season is well underway: Discounted Halloween candy collecting dust at your local pharmacy, WHAM’s “Last Christmas” playing in every store (as well as in the apartments of certain bloggers), and, most of all, Bill O’Reilly discussing the War on Christmas.

On Tuesday’s The View, Elisabeth Hasselbeck confronted Bill Maher over a joke he made about her in February, suggesting that America send her to Egypt in exchange for Lara Logan. The confrontation was a little awkward and her co-hosts — most notably Joy Behar — kind of left her out to dry.

On Thursday morning’s Fox and Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson took White House Press Secretary Jay Carney to task for a “Bible Blunder” while responding to a question about President Obama‘s “In God We Trust” zinger. Carney quoted the Bible as saying ““The Lord helps those who help themselves,” and while Carlson rightly points out that the phrase does not appear in the Bible, she fails to note that the White House issued a correction hours later.

The daughters of Jon Huntsman appeared on Fox and Friends Monday morning and discussed their goofy new parody of Herman Cain‘s bizarre viral video that “shamelessly promotes” their dad. “This is kind of fun, we’re all about humor and fun” explained Liddy Huntsman, the one who came up with the video and as her sister described, “the troublemaker of the group.” Host Gretchen Carlson then asked why their father wasn’t registering with the American public?

On Monday’s Fox and Friends , Gretchen Carlson and Brian Kilmeade reported on the “all out assault on Halloween.” “Schools across the country are doing everything from banning costumes to even removing the holiday because it may offend immigrants,” Kilmeade exclaimed. Carlson lamented the fact that schools were “cracking down” on Halloween. “I’m sad, I have two little kids and I’m wondering if they’re not going to ever see the American traditions that all of us had.”

Thursday, we reported on a Fox and Friends story that contained enough whole cloth to start its own garment district. Among other things, Fox and Friends falsely reported that a WikiLeaks diplomatic cable showed that President Obama proposed a visit to Hiroshima to apologize for the WWII atomic bombing of that city, and of Nagasaki. We contacted Fox News about the inaccuracies in the story, and they promised us that they would “address” the story Friday morning.

On Thursday morning’s Fox and Friends, the titular chums revealed a doozy about the WikiLeaks cable that’s getting a lot of attention now. The cable mentions a Japanese official calling an apology for the bombing of Hiroshima a “non-starter,” but contains nary a mention that an apology was ever offered, by President Obama or anyone else in his administration. But hat didn’t keep co-hosts Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson from saying it was a White House idea.

President Obama took a few minutes, during his recent Florida trip, to sit down with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and four unemployed workers for a round of beers. Fox and Friends reported, this morning, that one of the men the President broke liquid bread with Tuesday night was arrested for DUI five years ago, and questioned whether anyone at the White House “vetted these guys?”

Co-host Gretchen Carlson also lamented how unfortunate it was that the man, Mark McKim, would “get a lot of publicity about this.”