Marc Lamont Hill, the liberal counterweight against the conservative line-up at Fox News was given his walking papers.

While both Fox and Hill have been quiet about the situation, but Huffington Post reports FOX was under pressure to remove Hill due to his “sympathies” for Mumia Abu-Jamal and Assata Shakur.

Hill is a professor at Columbia University.

Fair and balanced, eh.

We can’t make this stuff up. During a speech at the “How to Take America Back” conference in St. Louis, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said the the President is “an enemy to humanity.”

Hear it for yourself.

Today Franks explains that he was referring to Obama’s stance on abortion when he made his remarks.

From USA Today:

Bethany Haley, spokeswoman for Franks, said the congressman was referring to “unborn humanity” and should have clarified his statement. She also said that Franks meant to say that Obama’s abortion-related policies have no place in government, rather than that Obama has no place in government.

Haley said she spoke to Franks early Tuesday before he boarded a plane from Arizona to Washington.

“He was just referring to the way President Obama has set himself up as the most pro-abortion president in America’s history,” Haley said. She ticked off a list of the president’s policies and appointments she said were favorable to abortion rights.

Oh well, at least the Congressman didn’t use his Facebook page to do it.

Police Arrest Armed Man During Obama Address
U.S. Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man Wednesday they say tried to drive into a secure area near the Capitol with a shotgun and rifle in his car as the president gave his health care address to Congress, The Associated Press reports. Joshua Bowman, 28, of Falls Church, Va., was arrested around 8 p.m. Wednesday and charged with two counts of possession of an unregistered firearm and one count of unlawful possession of ammunition. Each carries a possible one-year jail sentence and $1,000 fine. Bowman’s intentions were unclear, said police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, but the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington decided against prosecuting him on more serious charges, said spokesman Benjamin Friedman. Schneider said Bowman approached a security checkpoint near the Cannon House Office Building in a four-door Honda Civic and told officers he wanted to park. People who want to drive into the area must have a permit and have their vehicles searched. The timing of the request raised an officer’s suspicion, Schneider said, and Bowman consented to a vehicle search. A shotgun, rifle and 500 rounds of ammunition were found in Bowman’s trunk, said Erica Stanley, a spokeswoman for the District of Columbia mayor’s office.

ACORN Accused of Giving Advice to Pimp Poser
ACORN, an advocacy group for the poor that has been targeted by conservatives because of its work registering Democrats to vote, has fired two workers who allegedly gave tax advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute. On a hidden video camera, obtained by FOX News Channel, a man and woman visiting ACORN’s Baltimore office asked about buying a house and how to account on tax forms for the woman’s income. An ACORN employee advised the woman to list her occupation as “performance artist,” Fox reports. When the duo tells the ACORN worker that they plan on hiring teenage girls from Central America as prostitutes, the employee suggested that up to three of the girls could be claimed as dependents, according to transcripts of the video posted online by conservative activist James O’Keefe. O’Keefe told FOX he posed as the pimp and that he was shocked by the ACORN employees’ helpfulness. Margaret Williams, a board member of the Maryland branch of ACORN, which stands for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, said that the video is merely an attempt by conservatives to smear her group. She noted that no tax returns were ever filed and no assistance provided.