Appearing on the O'Reilly Factor last night, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly went on and on about scary Muslims, as is their custom. At one point, Beck stressed that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh didn't kill in the name of religion:

Beck was trying to differentiate between McVeigh and the 9/11 killers. But what Beck forgot to mention was McVeigh's motivation. Why did the right-wing, government-hating McVeigh unleash his deadly plot to kill innocent Americans?

On the two-year anniversary of the Waco inferno, militia admirer McVeigh drove his rented 20-foot Ryder truck and parked it across the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, the truck's three-ton ammonium nitrate bomb detonated and sheared the north side off the Murrah Building, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.

McVeigh later wrote, “I reached the decision to go on the offensive -- to put a check on government abuse of power.”

And this:

Borrowing a page from US foreign policy, I decided to send a message to a government that was becoming increasingly hostile, by bombing a government building and the government employees within that building who represent that government.

McVeigh's mass murder was an act of insurrectionism. It was a declaration of war against the United States' federal government. I'm surprised Beck doesn't know that. Or maybe he just doesn't want to say it out loud.

UPDATED: Looks like Beck's not the only Fox News employee who needs a McVeigh refresher. Or was the Oklahoma City bombing not an act of terror?