“Why is the Democratic governor of Michigan writing an op-ed in Fox News? Well, I want to share some personal things about myself that you may not know and that we may have in common. As American women, we have the power to change the outcome of the upcoming election for our daughters. I was raised in a bipartisan household. My dad served in Republican Gov George Romney’s (yes, Mitt’s dad) cabinet, and my mom worked for the Democratic attorney general.”
“At the dinner table, they encouraged my siblings and me to share our opinions and disagree without being disagreeable. That skill served me well in the Michigan Legislature, where I was in the minority the entire time. You may not know I was sexually assaulted in college. I didn’t talk much about it for a long time. Years later, someone said to me, ‘We are all like a lump of clay. When it’s hollowed out, it becomes a cup.’ When something is taken from you, what’s left behind can have a purpose,” writes Big Gretch on FoxNews.com, and we’re less intrigued by the question of why she wrote it than why Fox actually printed it. Is this some kind of a token paean to being “Fair and Balanced”?