It hasn't been a great week at Fox News.

Days after host Eric Bolling used scripted news teases and online graphics to portray hip-hop artist Common and the president of Gabon as a couple of the “hoods” that President Obama hosted in “the hizzy,” an image of Obama appeared onscreen during the Monday episode of Glenn Beck at the exact moment Beck asked, “Why would you get a gun?”

Earlier in the episode Beck claimed that “others,” including President Obama and financier George Soros, were “preparing” for “tough times.” He also warned of food shortages, natural disasters, and E. coli; stoked fears that world leaders would conspire to “make it harder for you to get a gun”; and asked, "Why would you get a gun?" As Beck asked the question and pointed to a monitor, an image appeared showing President Obama and White House advisor Cass Sunstein. “To prepare for tough times,” Beck said. “That's why.”

It's astounding that it needs to be said, but answering the question, “Why would you get a gun?” by pointing to a picture of the president, is unacceptable.

That outrageous -- and clearly scripted -- stunt comes right on the heels of Fox's use of seemingly scripted news teases and pre-produced, on-air graphics to accuse the Obama White House of hosting “hoods” in “the hizzouse” - that is to say, the White House.

Bolling offered a hollow and dishonest apology for those remarks, claiming to have gotten “a little fast and loose with the language.” Never mind the news teases and graphics. But Fox News can't hide behind its hosts and claim they are going off message when the mounting evidence makes clear that those hosts are simply following the script.

And a repugnant script it is.