Planet Wingnut News for Saturday

Karl Rove calls Joe Biden "a liar" and "serial exaggerator" -- then lies about him
Apparently Karl Rove was so close to George W. Bush that he heard every word every spoken to him during his tenure as president.

On Fox News , he called Vice President Joe Biden a liar for telling people he'd had a sharp retort to Bush during an Oval Office visit.

Here's what Biden has been saying:

"I remember President Bush saying to me one time in the Oval Office .... 'Well, Joe,' he said, 'I'm a leader.' And I said: 'Mr. President, turn and around look behind you. No one is following.'"

Rove's retort last night on Fox News with Megyn Kelly:

Rove: It didn't happen. Look, Joe Biden does this. I remember this a couple of years ago when he made a similar claim. Joe Biden said, for example, that he spent hours with the president. Joe Biden was never alone with the president for more than a few moments. There were staff in the room at all times. He never said these kinds of things.

I hate to say it, but he's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind I would say he's a liar. But it is a habit he ought to drop.

You'll notice every one of these incidents has the same structure: Joe Biden courageously raises the impudent question, the president befuddledly answers, and Joe Biden drives home the dramatic response. I mean, it's just -- it's his imagination. He ought to get out of it and get back to reality. He's making this up out of whole cloth.

Rove added:

With all due respect to the vice president: These are the kinds of things you can get away with if you are a U.S. Senator or a backbencher in the House of Representatives. You should not exaggerate and lie like this when you are the Vice President of the United States.

Glenn Beck -- "I'm President Obama" -- douses actor with gas-can contents, holds up lit match
That was pretty much what Glenn Beck told his Fox News audience yesterday. Actually, it was more blatant than that:

Beck: And President Obama apparently feeling like -- ah, I'm pretty much done, not a lot more to do, you know? I got all those things done. You know what?

Why don't I work on immigration reform? Later this year he hopes to create a path for the estimated 12 million illegal aliens here in America to become legal.

But yet, we haven't fixed the border and shut the water off! What a sweet, sensitive guy he really is.

Here's one thing I think the media is missing. I don't know about you, but when I saw that story last night, I did this: Wha-? You've gotta be kidding me! Let me, let me just ask you a question. Maybe I'm alone, but I think it would just be faster if he just shot me in the head! You know what I mean? How much more -- how much more can he disenfranchise all of us?

We have Bill Schultz here, he's from Red Eye. And I'm just going to demonstrate at least how I feel, all right? I feel, when I read this story last night, I don't know about you -- let's say Bill is the average American here, and I'm President Obama. This is the way I feel. I feel like President Obama is just saying, 'You know what, I've got that $3.5 trillion budget here ...'

O’Reilly Claims That NBC News And ‘Internet Haters’ Have Hired ‘Guys’ To ‘Hurt’ Him Personally »
Thursday on the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly brought on fellow Fox News personality Glenn Beck to celebrate the two shows’ “huge ratings.” They then talked about the downside to their fame — criticism being leveled at them from “Internet fanatics” who are allegedly blaming them for the recent mass murders.

“It’s absurd,” said O’Reilly. “It is hateful, obviously.”

O’Reilly and Beck then became upset that at times, they feel personally threatened. Beck said that he has had to have two police cars outside of his house, and O’Reilly said that NBC News — driven by GE and “Internet haters” — have “hired guys” to personally “hurt” him and Beck:

BECK: [W]hen the ratings first started, you pulled me aside and said, “Buckle up, they’re going to come after you.” And they have. […]

O’REILLY: Because Immelt and Zucker, the two villains at NBC, have directly ordered this. They’ve hired the guys to do this. And they’ve done it because they have no other way to compete.

Now, both of those men are in trouble. They could be fired at any time, because the performance of General Electric and NBC is so abysmal. But they did it, so then, “Let’s see if we can drive Beck and O’Reilly to do something crazy. Let’s see if we can do — hurt them personally. Terrorize their families.”

BECK: Can I tell you something? When you have to explain to your 5- year-old why you have two police cars in front of your house for days. […]

O’REILLY: That’s driven by two elements. Internet haters, all right, and the General Electric Corporation.