Fox News' Megyn Kelly debunked the right-wing media myth that President Obama will require doctors to ask their patients if they have guns -- a myth pushed by her Fox colleague Andrew Napolitano. In fact, as Kelly noted, Obama's provision simply reiterates that doctors may legally ask patients about a potential lack of gun safety in their homes.

On The O'Reilly Factor Thursday, host Bill O'Reilly discussed Obama's recent executive orders on guns, claiming that the “most controversial part of the president's vision” is a directive clarifying that doctors are not prohibited from asking patients about firearms. After airing clips of Obama and NRA president David Keene speaking about the directive, O'Reilly said that “if it's true that doctors and nurses are being directed by the federal government to make inquiries about guns in some cases, that's troubling.”

Guest and Fox News host Megyn Kelly agreed that such a requirement would be troubling if it existed, but explained that “it's not true.” Kelly went on to say that Obama's executive order only clarifies that “Obamacare does not prohibit the doctors from asking [patients] about guns” “if they want to ask.” She further noted that during the passage of health care reform, the NRA successfully lobbied to ensure the bill contained a provision “saying patients don't have to answer if they are asked by their doctor whether they have a gun.”

Kelly is right: Obama only announced that he would "[c]larify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes."

Fox judicial analyst Napolitano fearmongered over this executive action on Fox & Friends, claiming that the provision will lead to physicians' being required to report patients' gun ownership to the government.

Other right-wing media figures pushed similar distortions: Rush Limbaugh claimed that doctors are “being ordered, instructed to talk to patients and get information from them about gun ownership, where they are in their house, who has access to them, where the ammunition is kept.” The Drudge Report, below headlines on the executive orders, featured a graphic of Obama that read: