Anyone who has liberal friends who hate Fox and disparage it as a Republican propaganda channel should have taped the Greta Van Susteren interview of Bill Clinton last night. It wasn’t as fawning as she might have naturally been at her old home on CNN, but it wasn’t what you’d call challenging, either. The part I saw before going back to the NBA featured a chat about where civility has gone in politics. Clinton predictably found the bitterness started in Republican disappointment over Vietnam and their belief that Nixon’s impeachment was wrong. He also attributed it to “the rise of NCPAC” in 1980. Liberals were apparently never bitter. Or they were bitter over the defeat of liberal politicians, beginning with Carter, McGovern et al in 1980.

A balanced interviewer would have asked him about “hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” and other taunts of the radical left. But most of all, a balanced interviewer would have noticed the way Clinton and his team waged Total War on his enemies. They could have discussed the civility of the Clinton White House on Ken Starr, Linda Tripp, Billy Dale, Paula Jones, Newt Gingrich, and so on, and so on, and so on. Instead, Fox looked like they were glorifying Clinton as a statesman last night.