Greta Van Susteren is going to stick up for her BFF Sarah Palin on her blawg, even if it means taking a hit in her own credibility. Today, The Washington Post made a comment about Sarah Palin's birthday wishes to Democrat Hilary Rosen on Greta's Fox news show: about how Palin was a "good sport" about well-wishing across party lines, though she managed to misspell Hilary's name (with two L's).

And Van Susteren just wants y'all to know, that wasn't Palin who had a mental slip on Rosen's name, it was the Fox News anchor herself.

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Well well well…the plot thickens. Howard Kurtz wrote his Washington Post article yesterday on Greta Van Susteren's overly "sympathetic" post-election interview with Sarah Palin. In it, he quoted television critic and Baltimore Sun writer David Zurawik, who called the Fox interview "overly friendly."

Welp, no one says that Greta Van Susteren is friendly and sympathetic and gets away with it. Greta promptly took to her GretaWire blog to make a post, but it was quickly taken down…whether by Greta or the execs over at Fox Online, it's hard to say.

Luckily, the guys over at Johnny Dollar were able to retrieve a hard copy, and took a screenshot.

See Greta rage, after the jump:

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Before Sarah Palin can continue her crazy career with a lucrative talk show deal, she'll have to prove that she can hold her own in front of other sympathetic hosts. So right now, she's getting courted by everyone from Babs to Oprah to suspender-wearing Larry King.

So far though, she's only accepted one offer, and the most obvious one to boot, Greta van Susteren over at the "sympathetic" Fox News.

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Surprise! After that big contract re-up, Bill O'Reilly gives Fox honcho Roger Ailes a spot on his Patriots/Pinhead segment. Guess which one Ailes was.

And yesterday, Greta Van Susteren thought Roger Ailes should be given one of those "Year of the Women" awards that went to Rachel Maddow, Katie Couric, and Campbell Brown.

Settle down you two…there is room on big papa's lap for two class favorites.

Oh, happy days, we've finally come as nation to a point where we can recognize women as strong, independent political figures, not only in the spectrum of legislation or the presidential race (but whoa, Sarah and Hillary!), but as the heavy-hitting inquirers of those politicians as well.

Just look! Salon named Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, and Campbell Brown as three of the central figures in "The Year of the Woman," as they call it. And that's great news!

Sort of.

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Live from Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren's blog —

Do you think there is a campaign - by some- to destroy Gov. Palin? (And of course I am not talking about the legitimate inquiry into her experience and her policies, etc. You know what I am talking about - a deliberate effort to destroy her.) [GW]

Um, yes?

No wonder Fox News spends its days sounding like your racist grandpop: he's the network's target audience. Fox's median age is 63.9, according to Nielsen. Hysterically, that must have been the demographic that Greta Van Susteren was gloating about in her blog yesterday.

But now that it looks like young people might be voting in huge numbers this year, you would think Fox News would cater some programming toward a younger demo to get those delicious, advertiser-friendly viewers during the election coverage. You would be wrong.

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To some, this is an ordinary hotel bed. To others, it is an ordinary hotel bed in North Korea. To Greta Van Susteren, this was home. Having just completed a trip to North Korea for On The Record, the host returns home with plenty of photo uploads from her trip. She is showing you pictures of her hotel to illustrate how much North Korea is stuck in the past, thanks for sanctions and self-imposed isolation, and hasn't even updated its hotel decor since the 1950s — not to generate cable news fantasies.

When you run your own blog, it's even easier to plant items in your favor than, say, calling up Page Six. So kudos to Greta Van Susteren for capitalizing on that strategy this morning — by semi-jokingly nominating herself for Brit Hume's 6pm timeslot.

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VanityFair.com, the website of the magazine that's gone from bad to unreadable in just a few short years, is usually best at reposting content from Graydon Carter's print pages that is sometimes worth blockquoting. Today, it is every left-y's homepage, with the posting of a whole gallery of Photoshopped Fox News figures. This photo spread arrives, of course, after FNC manipulated two pics, of New York Times media reporter Jacques Steinberg and television editor Steven Reddicliffe, and later had Bill O'Reilly say they were merely caricatures, not intended to be passed off as the real thing to audiences. Well, then it's appropriate O'Reilly himself kicks off the inanity, followed by some of his friends. Alas, because Fox News head Roger Ailes is not an on-air personality, there is no Bar Mitzvah caricaturist rendition to bring out his neck rolls.

It's understandable that in Greta Van Susteren's rants against Anderson Cooper — from firing back at AC360's claims she doesn't run a "news" program to calling attention to CNN's alleged gaming of the ratings — her favorite backhanded satirical phrase to explain her attacks aimed at the competition is "keeping them honest," as in, "I'm only trying to keep Cooper & Co. honest." Perhaps that's because it's Cooper's FAVORITE PHRASE EVER.

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Continuing her battle against Anderson Cooper, Greta Van Susteren takes to her blog once again in Round III of the bloodsporting she's been enjoying.

Van Susteren is relaying concerns from her own Fox News and MSNBC, reported by TVNewser, about CNN's decision to title its 10pm election coverage broadcast Anderson Cooper 360, which attaches to Cooper's show the ratings gains that the networks inevitably capture during election nights.

It's been CNN and FNC's standard practice to retitle this programming as "special coverage," so Nielsen doesn't award viewership spikes to a show that's not actually airing in its normal form.

Following the Nielsen conference call, 360 executive producer David Doss called his competitors' stance bullshit: "It’s an absurd argument. It’s not as if the primaries are staged for CNN’s benefit. It’s the biggest news of the day. Of course it counts."

Our take? Who cares if it should count. Just make sure there's enough material to keep this Greta-Anderson mudslinging action a'coming and we'll be v. v. happy. Thanks!

A little after noon this Independence Day, Greta Van Susteren was not cooking up burgers and hot dogs with her family, as any patriotic American is supposed to do. She was spending her July 4th blogging, and really, what's more embarrassing than that? However, Van Susteren's sin is forgivable — because once again she was on the attack against CNN's Anderson Cooper 360.

Last time it was for 360's stealing the Rev. Al Sharpton as a guest. This time, she's taking the bait from a dig launched by Cooper's camp.

And this is just the latest tete-a-tete from a lengthy fight between these two kiddos. Whee!

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On Wednesday, Fox News popinjay Greta Van Susteren picked a fight with on-air foe Al Sharpton over the reverend's supposed ditching of her show Tuesday night, less than two hours before he was supposed to appear, to go on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 because Barack Obama's campaign supposedly asked him to. Now, because we paid attention the first time around, we must also chronicle what happened next. Namely, a round of he-said-she-said.

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Seven hundred sixty-five comments later, it's still unclear whether, ahem, Barack Obama's campaign is booking for CNN. That's what Fox News host Greta Van Susteren was asking on her blog GretaWire yesterday when the Rev. Al Sharpton pulled out of a 10pm appearance on her show less than two hours before he was supposed to go on, so he could instead pop up on Anderson Cooper 360. His excuse? The senator's campaign asked him to appear on CNN on his behalf.

Nevermind that this is sort of a non-item — guests cancel segments all the time (bookers do too!) for one reason or another, and a phone call from Obama's camp, which Sharpton vehemently supports, isn't a light request. But our favorite part of Greta's complaint is the set up, where she gets away with planting an item out of her duty to viewers: "I debated whether to tell you this or not…but I did promise behind the scenes information here on GretaWire….so here it is." (Not that we're complaining about any addition to a gossip war.)

Let's not forget, however, than Ms. Susteren and Mr. Sharpton haven't always seen eye-to-eye.

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Aaron Brown, who was removed from CNN to make room for Anderson Cooper in 2005, quietly ran out the remainder of his contract behind the scenes. Now that his tenure there is up, he's moving to PBS, and he gave New York his exit interview, where they asked: "Do you have psychic scars from CNN?"

Replied Brown: "Mostly I laugh about it. In my time there, they paid me to go away, they paid Connie Chung probably a lot to go away, they paid Paula Zahn to go away."

Funny, because Greta Van Susteren, who also left CNN, had an entirely different experience. She, in essence, paid them.

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• Elizabeth Spiers discusses what she would do as acting president of Time Inc. Better still, it's not part of her infamous stand-up comedy routine!

• Time Warner president may be in trouble for quietly covering up HBO prez's habit of accidentally choking the women he's screwing.

• Ron Burkle is now in another bidding war. For Stuff magazine. Seriously.

• Calling CollegeHumor "sophomoric" is like calling McDonald's "greasy." You know, because both are so delicious—in a low-brow, cheap thrills kinda way.

• Don Imus is just itching to jump back in the insult-radio saddle.

• Greta Van Susteren follows Rudy G.'s lead, challenges the Dems to debate on the fair and unbiased Fox network.

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For a massive media company, CNN certainly does move quick. The cable news network is firing back at Fox News' Television Week ad touting Greta Van Susteren (and calling Anderson Cooper the "Paris Hilton of television news") with this little note about what's on The Coop's resume. Sadly, missing from from this cheat sheet of accomplishments are any swipes at FNC.

Looks like someone's learned how to bash the competition without promoting them gratis.

Fox News' ad in in this week's Televsion Week:

CNN's chart-rific response:

Sure, the Coopster might be making ratings gains on Greta, but he was compared to a Valtrex prescription card carrier. No amount of bar graphs is going to defend against that.

Always one to self-congratulate, Fox News tossed "fair," "balanced," and "and" to the wayside last night to throw itself a 10th anniversary bash. The red carpet was rolled out in front of headquarters at 1211 Sixth, and underneath a glammed-up tent Rupert Murdoch held court over minions Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Shep Smith, Bill Hemmer, Greta Van Susteren, Brit Hume, and Laurie Dhue. But there was more star wattage inside: Donald Trump, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Governor George Pataki, Ann Coulter, Tiki Barber, and NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly all showed up to pay their respects. And so did we: Jossip loves a party that celebrates raping the competition into submission, so we grabbed photog Matthew Krautheim and hit the soiree. (Meanwhile, if there's a missing Fox News pillow, don't blame us.)

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