Eric Bolling has been trying to fill Glenn Beck's shows ever since the announcement that the rodeo clown was being booted off of his Fox show. For as much as the Fox Business reporter tries to be the New Wingnut King, he'll never come close to the Vicks Vapor Rub phony. Bob Beckel, one of the hand full of "liberals" on Fox, smacked him down by simply telling the truth.

"On your show, all you did was run about the tea party"

Fox News created the tea party phenomena, but now they've served their purpose and Roger Ailes has been basically shedding them since the midterms. They aren't finished as a group yet, far from it. But the presidential election is in high gear, so they needed to be put in the basement as much as possible since their extremism won't sell in a general election and Ailes is wise enough to understand that.

He'll bring them out again if Romney, Cain or Perry start to slide in the polling, because he'll go to any lengths to win. A real populist movement terrifies the likes of Roger Ailes and Eric Bolling. Doug Schoen played his role for a nice paycheck and should be ashamed of himself. Congratulations.

On Monday, when the stock market lost over 600 points after the S&P downgrade, which was obviously going to happen, Fox News went ballistic. Of course. But when the markets rallied the following day, Beckel wondered why that was ignored by the producers on the set of The Five.

Wingnut Judge Napolitano had these words for Bob:

Bob, it's not good to attack the producers.

He knows they won't boot him unless he mutters a couple of George Carlin's seven dirty words. Remember, he likes the flat tax.

I'm sure Fox News will go ballistic again today as the market opens down.

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This week's edition of the Stossel show on Fox Business News hosted a mock debate on budgets that cut the deficit for the almost the entire hour. Five sets of budgets put out by five different think tanks were the focus. Two supposed liberals (from the Roosevelt Institute and from Demos), two conservatives (from American Enterprise Institute and the Heritage Foundation), and one bi-partisan (from BiPartisan Policy Center) (the Center for American Progress would not participate with their new budget because of bias on the show).

The Stossel show also included a panel of Bob Beckel, David Asman and "neutral" Fox Business reporter Sandra Smith. They were asked to question each think tank and then vote for one of them, but the audience would have the deciding vote. Bob Beckel is a longtime "liberal'" on Fox News who believes in the flat tax, and first he apologized to Hillary Doe for putting up with the crowd and then said he was the only liberal on Fox, so he's used to it. After Stossel told him there were others on the network, he said this:

Beckel: I want to congratulate you for putting up with this (audience booing), and with all due respect... being the only liberal at Fox, I can get a pretty thick skin.

Stossel: Well, you're not the only liberal at Fox!

Beckel: There's damn few of us, we all of us can caucus in a phone booth, let me put it that way to you. ...

Alan Colmes is a featured liberal on FNC, but Beckel is right on the overall truth of his claim that the amount of real liberals on Fox can barely fill a phone booth. I wonder how Roger Ailes will take that bit of honesty since it bucks his "fair and balanced" slogan?

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Has anyone else noticed that a lot of WorldNetDaily nutcases are showing up on Sean Hannity's show these days? First it was Jesse Lee Peterson, spouting crazy talk about Obama destroying America. And then, last night, it was WND's managing editor, David Kupelian, hawking his new book, How Evil Works: Understanding and Overcoming the Destructive Forces That Are Transforming America.

And just who and what is evil? Why, President Obama and the Democrats, of course:

Kupelian: I think we have a terrible problem right now, Sean. Basically, what we're looking at is -- let's say it. Can we say it on national TV? -- We're looking at an attempted socialist coup d'etat in Washington, D.C. And people are really, freely unhappy about it.

And you know, the thing about Barack Obama -- you know, 53 percent of us voted for him. Sixty-nine million Americans. But this is a guy -- I know it sounds crazy, but here's a guy who has been steeped in Marxist ideology for the past thirty years.

Things proceed as they usually do on Hannity's show with these "All American Panel" -- with Bob Beckel trying to bring some touch of sanity to the conversation, while Hannity readily agrees to the nutty stuff coming from his far-right guests. (They all agree at the end that Obama is "the most radical" president in American history.)

Finally, Beckel -- who gets used mostly as a football on these shows, much as Alan Colmes once was -- reaches his limit:

Beckel: Let me jsut say this. I've tried to be a nice guy tonight and be all the rest of that -- let me tell you something. The idea that the President -- you call the President of the United States a Marxist -- is, as far as I'm concerned, it's worse than Joe McCarthy calling people in the State Department a Communist. And you ought to apologize for it.

Of course, because it's Fox, no apology is either forthcoming or even considered necessary.

Obviously, Hannity is doing his best to keep up with the competition from Glenn Beck. So it looks like he's meeting his wingnuttery quota by calling on his new friends at WND, and its resident nuts are going to become regular fixtures. How lovely.