(CNN) -- Who says the media aren't interested in good news? Fox News has been broadcasting lots of it for Mitt Romney this week. Never have so many gray clouds had silver linings as those hovering over the hapless Republican candidate and his deflating campaign. I bring you this report after having ventured into Bill O'Reilly's "No-Spin Zone," and believe me, his initial shout-out urging viewers to exercise "caution" before watching is fully, if unintentionally, appropriate. Apparently in Fox World, "no-spin" means "I am now going to share my news-based fantasies." The Wednesday broadcast featured Dick Morris, Karl Rove and Dennis Miller, an a-cappella chorus humming O'Reilly's favorite tunes: that the mainstream media is rooting for Obama; that the polls consistently misrepresent a race that is still a dead heat; that Romney will re-emerge from this autumnal swoon by winning the October 3 debate through his superior if often-invisible oratorical skills; that Romney is in decline simply because voters don't yet understand the necessity of top-end tax cuts, the sanctity of corporate profits and the horror of social welfare spending run amok.
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Howell Raines: Fox News has been contorting to deliver good news for Romney's campaign
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He says commentators' spin attributes Obama gains to media distortion, voter ignorance, etc.
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Raines: Bill O'Reilly says evenhanded things for deniability if spin is wrong, Romney fails
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Raines: It will be interesting to see Fox spin if campaign should begin to reek of defeat
O'Reilly's newest hedge, unveiled with @placeholder's bleak new poll, is that the "likability" factor gives Obama an advantage with "uninformed, casual voters."