Wingnut News for Wednesday.

BillO the Clown and Bernie the Hack honk their horns at "far left smear machine"
Bill O'Reilly decided to take off after his liberal critics Monday, devoting his Talking Points Memo to the "far left smear machine" -- ostensibly headed up by MoveOn.org and George Soros, underneath whom is David ("a guttersnipe") Brock's Media Matters. On the next tier are the evil liberal blogs, MSNBC, and the liberal media.

In any event, O'Reilly then brought on Bernard Goldberg, who proceeded to list the five top components of the "far left smear machine":

They are, in order:

5. "The Hollywood Glitzocracy"
4. Bill Moyers
3. Daily Kos
2. The New York Times
1. MSNBC

About Kos, there was this:

Goldberg: They have one of, if not the biggest, left-wing political websites. They are rabidly anti-conservative, yet its founder, Markos Moulitsas, has so much clout that not only does he get on the most mainstream of shows, Meet the Press, to talk politics, but the Democrats who are running for president of the United States went there and made speeches to the Daily Kos convention, that's how afraid they are of offending the Daily Kos.

O'Reilly: And it's about as hateful as you possibly -- you can't get a more hateful website than them.

Steele Attacks Obama’s Assault Weapons Ban After Previously Calling Such Weapons ‘Overkill’
Late last month, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama administration would be seeking to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004. “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons,” Holder said.
RNC chair Michael Steele sent an e-mail to supporters Monday criticizing the decision and claiming that it is “step one” in the Obama administration’s grand plan to repeal the 2nd Amendment:

The Obama Administration has revealed its intention to reinstate the so-called “assault” gun ban — Step One of their plan to repeal the 2nd Amendment.

Having already taken advantage of our country’s current economic woes to speed the largest, most pork-laden spending spree in history through the Democrat-controlled Congress, the Obama team is again using fear tactics to impose bad policy.

Attorney General Eric Holder announced his desire to once again deny law abiding Americans their 2nd Amendment rights, using the ongoing violence in Mexico as justification.

Sen. Bennett Lashes Out At Sen. McCain: ‘We Ought To’ Infest Arizona With ‘Mormon Crickets’
Recently, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has tweeted a series of top 10 lists of “porkiest projects” in the omnibus spending bill, criticizing “beaver management” and even funding for school construction. Last month, one of his tweets was an earmark in the omnibus spending bill for “mormon crickets”
@SenJohnMcCain: #6 $1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah - is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?

The line has since been embraced by the right wing as an example of wasteful spending. Tuesday, the earmark’s sponsor, Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) explained his rationale in a tense interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, who accused Bennett of abusing federal funds for pet projects. “Why is it an earmark to begin with?” she pressed. Bennett fired back at Kelly: “Okay, will you calm down for a minute?” The Utah senator then took a shot at McCain:

KELLY: The only debate I’ve heard is John McCain telling you that this is the sixth porkiest earmark he sees in the bill.

BENNETT: Well, that may be because the Mormon crickets only infest Idaho, Utah, and Nevada. Maybe we ought to shoot some of them over the border into Arizona. But they go wherever they go. And again, the authorizing committee that examines these things is fully aware of it.
Watch it:

So-called “Mormon crickets” are actually an invasive cicada species that decimates crops across the West regularly. In 2000, the infestations cost Utah alone $22 million in crop damages. The cricket infestation in 2003 caused at least $25 million in damages. “We are going to eradicate the crickets [with the funds]. And they infest at highest point 3.5 million acres — most of which is public lands. … The crops…are being destroyed on public lands,” Bennett explained.

First Beck smears British PM. Now he wants to apologize to him for Obama miscues
But only last Wednesday, while Brown was visiting, Beck himself ran a segment of his show featuring Brown as a "Comrade" tinpot dictator mouthing socialist platitudes:
Beck: Comrades! There is good news from the Western Front. Our glorious revolution is starting to take hold on a global scale. Just listen as Comrade Brown pounded our propaganda into the minds of the clueless capitalist pigs today. Listen up.

Brown: We should seize this moment. Because never before have I seen a world willing to come together so much. Never before has that been so needed. And never before have the benefits of cooperation been so far-reaching.

Beck: Ah, if we could just have the globe all together! Oh ho! How right he is!

Even Neil Cavuto thinks Glenn Beck is 'scaring people'
In return, Beck accused Cavuto of intentionally fluffing up his newscasts:

Cavuto: But when you -- and great show, of course I'm going to say that, because I love you dearly -- but you also bum me out. You bum me out, because you say in 2014, I think you said there will be like three people working and the Dow will be at 27.

Beck: Noooo. Neil, you know I have profound respect for you. Do you know that? You don't know that?

Cavuto: Well, I don't know, you scared me.

Beck: Listen to me. Neil Cavuto, I don't know if you know who this man really is. You may watch him on television -- do your homework on Neil Cavuto. You are an amazing man. Amazing.

Cavuto: That I know. [crosstalk]

Beck: You and I have a fundamental disagreement on something.

Cavuto: You think we're going to hell in a handbasket.

Beck: You believe that it is your responsibility to make sure that you say, 'Hey-hey-hey-hey everybody!' I believe you're playing music on the deck. I'm saying, 'Get into the lifeboats!'

Cavuto: No, no, no. I am a realist and I look at it -- No, no no no. You are scaring people. And here's what you're doing --

Beck: I'm not scaring! I am letting them --

Cavuto: I am a big enough appreciator of history to know that we always get through these things. Now the government cannot --

Beck: And I believe that too.

Cavuto: Then why are you doing this stuff in 2014 we'll all be eating lead?

Beck: [Looking skyward] Because when the market hit 14,000 I said, 'Get the hell out of the market!' And when --

Cavuto: You, you will say -- people watch you in droves. Your ratings are through the roof. You're radio rock star. So everything you say, when you say it, they're gonna say, 'Gee, well, Glenn just said, you know, we're all gonna be dead.'

... I just think that you're scaring people. I love you dearly, because you are a rock star. I'm just saying, I look at it, I watch it in my office as I'm getting ready for my Fox Business show ... and I watch, and I'm saying, 'Man, Glenn is scaring me.'

Beck: I watch you in my office. I watch you --

Cavuto: One night affected my appetite. I didn't get dinner. So you're actually good for me losing weight.

Beck: And terrible for me. I watch you and I get frustrated. Because I think you're putting on such a happy face.