Susan Estrich: A Liberal's Defense of Fox News (barf alert)

[DemBeans]

LOS ANGELES – I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's TV, not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.

Besides, why shouldn't I be smiling? Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN, and almost ended up at CBS. I worked for a bunch of local stations in Los Angeles and had a talk-radio show at KABC for six years. In other words, I'm fortunate enough to have been around, and Fox News is the best place I've ever worked.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0621/p09s02-coop.html

This is some of the most stomach-churning tripe I've read in months...

[BamaLefty]

1. She Wrote That With A Gun To Her Head

lol

[DemBeans]

3. she wrote it for the money in her wallet

DC Media Girl has an excellent rebuttal:

http://dcmediagirl.com/index.php?entry=entry20050621-195004

[BlueEyedSon]

5. The "carrot" and the "stick"....

[ibegurpard]

7. Ouch!

Although I doubt it will affect her in the slightest. If she had a conscience or integrity she wouldn't be where she is to begin with.

[BamaLefty]

12. Damn, she rocks!

She backed all of it up with solid facts too. Awesome article. Thanks for posting.

[Inland]

2. "My defense of Fox: They pretend I'm important, give me air time."

Scott Peterson could have said the same thing.

[Demit]

4. Steve Gilliard smacks her down right well too--

"Let me translate: Roger Ailes owns me. He owns me from roots of my hair to my toe nails. I will do anything he says. It's like prison, you need a daddy to protect you. Without that connection, you would be vunerable to any predator which came along.

Let's be honest, without Roger being my daddy, I would be an obscure academic and failed politician. Just another of the hoi polloi.

But as the Fox house liberal, I can betray my principles and get paid lots of cash. Why the hell do you think I went to law school? To be poor? Shit.

Look, I was the worst campaign manager in 20th Century history, worse than McGovern's and he sucked, and when you suck like Gary Hart, you need someone to protect you. I mean, CNN wasn't going to do that. They got humiliated by Jon Stewart on their own show. My ass would be dead there. MSNBC? The snarky network? Consigned to daytime TV? Are you fucking kidding? No, Roger is my daddy and I stick with him. Roger is a big daddy, and a winner. Who wants to be with the losing team. What? Wait for Al Gore's network? Fox got money and I love money. Coppola's Special Reserve is a $100 a bottle. Law professors can't afford that. But I can, thanks to Roger. ..."

more at http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/06/fox-democrathonest-used-car-salesman.html

[ComerPerro]

6. Wow. A paid commentator defends Faux News

What a suprise.

[DemNoir]

8. The perfect FOX liberal

Weird looking, weird sounding, total failiure, weak minded, backs down easily.

[CottonBear]

10. You've hit the nail on the head.

I can't stand that woman. I can't stand to listen to her vovie most of all. She does seem "weird", just like Colmes.

[Ksec]

11. exactamundo

thats not an accident

[Ksec]

9. in other words

they pay me to say this garbage.

[KamaAina]

13. Is that Estrich, or Ostrich?

:spank:

[ibegurpard]

14. That's good.

lol

[DaveinMD]

15. this is the woman

who ran the worst presidential campaign in modern history. She was the campaign manager for Dukakis.