Reading
this defense of FOX News from Susan Estrich, you would get the idea that she bears the cross and marches into work every day to get out a progressive message in a hostile environment.
If only. Susan Estrich serves the same purpose as
Alan Colmes: To provide a bipartisan veneer for the channel's ideological assumptions and strengthen the contention that they represent not right-wing talking points but universally acknowledged common sense. She revels in
heaping scorn on Fox's liberal target of the day as much as she revels in self-righteous claptrap about how open-minded she is and how much abuse she takes from all her liberal friends for it. Her role on that show is as a fig leaf posing as an olive branch.
Josh