If the avowed mission of the people in charge of accomplishing that mission hasn't been completed over a long period of time, the responsibility for that failure rests with them. Barack Obama is telling the truth when he says that the GOP's tactics and the Bush administration's actions since September 11 are to blame for the fact that Osama bin Laden has yet to be captured. No lectures from Republicans on national security, indeed.

It's nothing new for Fox to display its political bias, but in the last few weeks, comments by Fox analysts and anchors have crossed the boundaries of credibility and decency. Most recently, they used a term at once racist, sexist, and inaccurate to describe Barack Obama's wife.