Is Greta Van Susteren Delusional?
FNC’s Greta Van Susteren took time out from her busy schedule of “reporting” on Natalee Holloway to give the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz a couple of quotes for his Monday (7/25) column. In the process, she provided readers of that column with a couple of real howlers. Kurtz’s column, The Supreme Challenge: Zero Visuals Times 9, was about why the legal programs on cable news networks aren’t covering John Roberts’s nomination to SCOTUS &, more broadly, why they don’t generally cover SCOTUS. Here’s Van Susteren on Roberts himself: “He’s distinguished himself in his career, but there’s no novelty associated with him,” Van Susteren says. “We’ve had white men who’ve gone to Harvard and been at the top of their class and are smart.” Comment: So, according to GVS, a SCOTUS nominee who has no “novelty” associated with him isn’t worth covering. Let’s assume she’s correct about Roberts being un-novel. Isn’t that interesting in & of itself? But wait! It gets better! Here’s Van Susteren explaini