Although hardly the liberal voice she’s billed as at Fox News, Greta Van Susteren does have her moments and tonight’s discussion with Newt Gingrich had one of them. In the middle of an interview mostly devoted to attacking President Obama and Harry Reid, she suddenly confronted Gingrich over his support for Rep. Todd Akin. 

But first, Van Susteren mocked Obama for not doing “his job” and meeting with world leaders. She then sat agreeably as Gingrich sneered about Obama with such tidbits as, “This is a guy… who, frankly, happens to be a partial, part-time president... He's not a real president. He doesn’t do any of the things presidents do. He doesn’t worry about any of the things presidents do… I suspect he’s pretty contemptuous of the rest of us.”

Instead of challenging that outrageous statement, Van Susteren went on to suggest that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was the real president because she’s doing Obama's work of meeting with the heads of state.

So Gingrich threw out a few more of his bon mots:

"Hillary Clinton actually gets up every day thinking about public policy. Barack Obama gets up every day thinking about Barack Obama."

"Why is Obama fixated on appeasing Muslims while attacking Catholics?"

"There’s no evidence that Barack Obama wants to have a relationship with anybody except those who are sycophantively his supporters."

Van Susteren disagreed with a point here and there but she didn’t offer a peep of concern about the hate-mongering, inflammatory nature of Gingrich's rhetoric.

But then, at about 11:55, she asked, “What in the world were you doing campaigning for Congressman Todd Akin, in light of what most people think was probably a pretty ridiculous position he had about, if you get raped ‘legitimately,’ you won’t get pregnant?”

Gingrich said that it was “a stupid thing to have said,” but that Akin “apologized for saying it.”

Van Susteren was not mollified. “It’s one thing to apologize for saying something stupid but I actually had the sense he believed it. And that’s a more serious issue.”

Gingrich said he thought Akin had believed it but “now knows he was wrong.”

“So he un-believes it now,” Van Susteren said, mockingly.

Gingrich went on to haplessly defend Akin before he finally acknowledged that he so can’t stand Senator Claire McCaskill, Akin looks OK in comparison.

In other words, Mr. Cheater is willing to overlook Akin’s heinous statements, which caused most other Republicans to pressure him to drop out of the race, because the rest of his politics are more palatable than McCaskill’s.

But Van Susteren dropped the subject. Apparently, she had met her liberal quota for the segment.