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Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) on Wednesday explained that Al Gore and the United Nations get most of the blame for what he called a global warming "hoax," but filmmaker Michael Moore and billionaire George Soros deserved some credit too.

At a Environment and Public Works Committe on President Barack Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to be the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that he wanted the agency to listen to scientists instead of climate change deniers like Inhofe and Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY).

"What Sen. Inhofe has written and talked about is his belief that global warming is one of the major hoaxes ever perpetrated on the American people, that it's a hoax pushed by people like Al Gore, the United Nations and the Hollywood elite," Sanders told the committee.

"I think that is a fair quote from Sen. Inhofe. Is that roughly right, Sen. Inhofe?" Sanders asked the Oklahoma Republican.

"Yes," Inhofe agreed. "I'd add to that list MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore and a few others."

"That's exactly the issue," Sanders said, turning back to the committee. "Do we agree with Sen. Inhofe that global warming is a hoax and that we do not want the federal government, the EPA, the Department of Energy to address that issue? Because it is a -- quote -- unquote -- hoax, according to Sen. Inhofe and others? Or do we believe and agree with the overwhelming majority of scientists who tell us that global warming is the most serious planetary crisis that we face, and that we must act boldly and aggressively to protect the future of this planet? That is what the issue is."

(h/t: The Hill)

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Ah yes... somebody's got to look out for those poor, oppressed millionaires and billionaires and stand up to those evil union thugs and Occupy protesters: Malkin Reacts to Union Protests: ‘People Need to Understand That Big Labor Thugs Don’t Have Workers Best Interests at Heart’:

Unions are now flexing their muscle, targeting ports, airlines, and stores just as holiday travel and the shopping season kick into high gear. Adding to that, billionaire George Soros is reportedly urging people to join anti-Walmart protests on Black Friday, even if they don’t work for Walmart. Critics claim it’s all part of a massive effort to unionize Walmart’s 1.4 million employees nationwide, which could bring in billions in union dues.

According to Michelle Malkin, these strikes aren’t about protecting workers, but are about protecting entrenched big labor power. During an appearance on Your World, Malkin called the protests a “toxic combination of these left-wing activist groups funded by George Soros … along with a rag tag group of Occupiers across the country who’ve been fomenting this kind of agitation for agitation’s sake for more than a year now.”

She stressed, “People really need to understand that these big labor thugs do not have workers interests at heart.”

How many people think this hateful woman would ever put up with the conditions or the wages of those who are working these jobs at Walmart? She's got that wingnut welfare coming in which pays quite a bit more than those minimum wage workers make and she's more than happy to help Fox attack them in yet another day in upside down land on GOPTV.

Media Matters has more on their latest Soros conspiracy theory -- Fox Brings Soros Paranoia To Walmart Labor Protests:

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Bill O'Reilly's been on a hell of a tear this week attacking the Occupy Wall Street movement. On this Monday's show, he was calling them "terrorists" because a protester was giving him a hard time while watching a show on Broadway. Our friends over at News Hounds have more on that and O'Reilly's double standard when it comes to what sort of protesters he likes.

And never mind the hypocrisy of someone like Bill O'Reilly having the nerve to call protesters "terrorists" when he's done his best to inspire a few actual terrorists of his own as Dave Neiwert wrote about here: Bill O'Reilly has Dr. George Tiller's blood on his well-stained hands.

This Tuesday, he followed up as promised and here's how Fox's blog, Fox Nation promoted the piece tonight: The O'Reilly Factor: The Architects of The Occupy Movement:

Bill O’Reilly Asks: Who is Backing the Occupy Protesters and Why Won’t President Obama Repudiate the Movement?

Thousands of protesters and members of the Occupy movement hit the streets of Chicago during the NATO summit. 90 people were arrested and dozens were injured including a police officer who was stabbed. Tonight on The O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly looked further into who is really behind the movement, which he notes is now very well organized. He called it a “hardcore, far-left movement designed to cause as much trouble as possible.”

He found that the movement is being run out of Washington, D.C. in offices belonging to the Institute for Policy Studies. The director of the Institute is John Cavanagh, a longtime liberal activist and his nonprofit accepts money from George Soros through the Tides Foundation. O’Reilly also reported that the Service Employees International Union headed by Mary Kay Henry is paying rent for the OWS crew in D.C. at about $4,000 month.

O’Reilly stated, “It is long past time for President Obama to condemn the anarchistic element of the occupiers, which is now dominant. Instead, the president falls back on protecting freedom of speech platitudes. Sure, tell that to the Chicago cop who got stabbed, Mr. President.”

The Institute for Policy Studies' John Cavanagh responded to O'Reilly's attacks on their organization and Occupy Wall Street later that same evening here: The Nonsense Zone:

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Color me not shocked that Bill O'Reilly was terribly upset that the likes of George Soros or MoveOn.org or labor unions are being supportive of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Naturally O'Reilly thinks that their support equals some Socialist conspiracy to turn the United States into Cuba if anyone heaven forbid might want to see this millionaire's taxes go up a few percentage points.

Apparently O'Reilly does not know the difference between groups lending their support to an actual grass roots movement and big monied interests starting one, like Fox and CNN did with the AstroTurf "tea party movement."

O'Reilly was extremely outraged over this statement by the protesters on Wall Street, offering it as proof that those protesters just want to destroy capitalism in the United States if heaven forbid anyone speaks out against the fact that the only ones getting ahead these days are the ultra-rich, like O'Reilly and would like for there to be some shared prosperity for everyone:

We want to voice our belief that the American dream will live again, that the American way is to help one another succeed. Our voice, our values, will be heard.

Apparently O'Reilly isn't so happy with that "help one another succeed" statement because god forbid, it might mean he's got to give up a few thousand dollars out of those millions he's making every year. The horror!

I'm sure O'Reilly made a few gains here with the "I've got mine and screw you crowd" that probably watches his show, but I've got to wonder just how many people he thinks this whole "income redistribution" argument is appealing to these days when we've got some of the greatest income disparity in the United States right now since the Gilded Age. He's probably counting on the fact that a lot of them can't afford cable television to begin with and if they could, they wouldn't watch his show.

As we've already noted here in a number of posts at C&L, both Fox and CNN after throwing their weight behind those AstroTruf "tea party" protests, have had nothing but disdain for an actual grass roots protest that's tired of the greed and our politicians looking out for the wealthy while ignoring the poor and the middle class.

If these protests continue to pick up steam and more people showing up who are tired of the status quo, it's going to be interesting to say the least in how these corporate "news" organizations handle their coverage. Billo just gave us another example of what we're sure to see more of here, which is to attack those protesting. That or they'll eventually end up ignoring them completely if they think they can get away with it like they did with the protests in Wisconsin.

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On Fareed Zakaria GPS, George Soros responded to the attacks being made against him by Glenn Beck and Fox News and he weighed in on the so-called "tea party" members being duped by the big monied interests pulling their strings. Sadly the network this aired on isn't far behind Fox with the propaganda and the promotion of this astroturf Republican rebranding effort called the tea party.

ZAKARIA: So, George, Glenn Beck has been on this kick that you are actually the mastermind who is trying to bring down the American government. How do you react when you see this kind of thing?

SOROS: Well, I would be amused if -- if people saw the joke in it, because what he is doing, he is projecting what FOX, what Rupert Murdoch is doing, because he has a -- a media empire that is telling the people some falsehoods and this -- and leading the government in the wrong direction.

But, you know, by accusing me of doing that, it kind of makes it rather hard to see that it's really, he is working for the man who is doing it, which is FOX News.

ZAKARIA: But it's very personal. I mean, he talks about you as a 14-year-old boy and he accuses you of -- of essentially helping to round Jews up -- you're Jewish yourself. You've lost --

SOROS: Yes.

ZAKARIA: You lost many, many people in the holocaust. How did you feel when you heard that?

SOROS: Well, look, FOX News makes a habit -- it has imported the methods of George Orwell, you know, newspeak, where you can tell the people falsehoods and deceive them. And you wouldn't believe that at an open society and a democracy these methods can succeed.

But, actually, they did succeed. They succeeded in Germany where the Weimar Republic collapsed and you had a -- a Nazi regime follow it. So this is a very, very dangerous way of deceiving people, and I would like people to be aware that they are being deceived.

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CREW's Melanie Sloan who called for an investigation into Christine O'Donnell for campaign finance fraud earlier this year responds to O'Donnell's accusation that the federal criminal probe looking into just that is nothing but a left wing liberal conspiracy by people who are out to get her.

O'Donnell: Fed Probe Ginned Up By Biden, Soros And Disgruntled Staffers (VIDEO):

Former Republican senate candidate Christine O'Donnell took to the airwaves of at least five morning shows today to fight back against the "thug politic tactic" being used against her by way of the federal criminal probe into allegations of improper use of her campaign funds.

But you really only needed to watch one of her appearances to get the gist of what she said: that Vice President Joe Biden's allies were using the FBI to conduct a campaign against her, the ethics group which brought the complaint is funded by George Soros and the former campaign staffers who have charged she misused campaign cash are disgruntled.

O'Donnell never really got around to the substance of the complaints against her, which the president of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) told TPM could center on exactly how much money O'Donnell is found to have misspent (more on what exactly O'Donnell is accused of here).

As Ryan at TPM noted, of course she didn't have any evidence that Biden was behind the probe, but when has a little thing like facts ever gotten in the way with this woman? As Melanie Sloan pointed out, she already admitted to misusing her campaign funds. It's just a question of the dollar amount.

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Rachel Maddow asks fear monger Glenn Beck to leave the IAVA the hell alone. Glenn Beck painted the non-partisan veterans group as an evil union supporting, George Soros, radical, communist organization that is "duping" people into supporting our veterans returning home from war. It's just shameless what Beck did and Rachel who normally doesn't want to weigh into the fray of Beck's madness finally had enough of it and spoke out on her show this week.

MADDOW: Thank you so much for standing guard against these communists masquerading as a veterans organization, that are using you for their communist purposes. Thank you for standing guard against these communists who are duping you; these communists over at Iraq and Afghanistan's of America.

There are people all over America today who listen to Glenn Beck who know believe that IAVA is a communist front group because Glenn Beck said so. IAVA is not a communist front group. They do not feed veterans who march in parades with them as part of a communist plot to dupe veterans into becoming communists.

They do not take money from Move On or any other Fox News boogy men more boogiesh than me. But even if they did it would still be the patriotic equivalent of a mortal sin to do what Glenn Beck did this week when he randomly and at length and in totally made up tale, launched this 100% false attack on Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, a nonpartisan group that does nothing wrong and does nothing like what all of Glenn Beck's listeners now think they do.

I generally try to be of good cheer when it comes to people being dumb in the media but this is more than dumb. This is disgusting. Leave... the... veterans... alone.

What's really pitiful is that the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the right wing hate talkers are allowed to continue to pollute our airways instead with no push back so their listeners are aware that they're lying to them. I really believe we need some new form of The Fairness Doctrine out there that does not stifle free speech but instead points out the lies if that's possible in the age of media consolidation.

Better yet if our politicians actually cared about having something that resembled a free press in America, these media companies that control everything would be split up, and yesterday would not be too soon.

Glenn Beck tells lies about Soros because he's Rupert Murdoch's rival. There; I said it, and it's more true than anything Glenn Beck has ever said from his doom-bunker. At Netroots Nation, the largest conference of liberal and progressive activists and organizers on the planet, I actively searched for the hand of Soros and didn't exactly find it.

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Man oh man... Bill O'Reilly's show was one major freakout over the firing of Juan Williams from NPR this Thursday. He went from having Williams on to Karl Rove to Laura Ingraham to Megyn Kelly and then on to Glenn Beck to opine over how unfair it was that Williams was fired and how the evil 'librul" media was just out to get him for appearing on Fox. O'Reilly and Bush hatchet man Karl Rove had themselves a little pearl-clutching session here that can only be rightfully described as a major case of something called projection.

Bill O'Reilly asks Rove what he thinks about Williams' firing, and Rove is outraged!... outraged I tell you! Shame on NPR for firing Williams! Rove wants us to believe that Juan Williams is an "honest liberal" instead of just another lackey for Fox who goes on there week after week and justifies the day's talking points from the likes of Bill O'Reilly or Chris Wallace or whatever host of whatever show they decide to bring him, all so they can pretend he represents anything that should have the word liberal or progressive attached to it.

Rove -- ironically, after working for the Fox propaganda channel -- now thinks that NPR and public radio should have their funding cut off for proving that they're too left wing by Williams' firing. I'd say that the one thing NPR did wrong was that if they had a problem with what Williams was doing, they probably should have fired him a long time ago. He's been making a mockery of them for a long time now with his appearances on Fox.

O'Reilly and Rove then went on to complain about NPR receiving a donation from George Soros and claim that he's "buying up the media" with his donations to NPR and Media Matters.

That's pretty laughable, considering any donations there are a drop in the bucket compared to the money pouring into Rove's little "American Crossroads" group and the fact that Fox News has some foreign ownership as well.

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Glenn Beck may be mocking reports that he was the inspiration for a violent shooting in California by telling viewers that a donation to the liberal group that made the report has left him fearing for his life.

After years of denying an association with billionaire George Soros, Media Matters announced Wednesday they would accept his $1 million donation.

"Despite repeated assertions to the contrary by various Fox News commentators, I have not to date been a funder of Media Matters," Soros said in a statement. "However, in view of recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence, I have now decided to support the organization."

Now Beck is saying that it's Soros' "minions" that may actually incite violence against him.

"Mr. Soros, let me just tell you one thing," Beck said on his Wednesday Fox News show. "If anything happens to me... blood will be on your hands, sir."

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