Fox News host Greta Van Susteren criticized her Fox colleague Erick Erickson for what she termed his “boorish” and “disrespectful” comments about Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis.

Erickson, who is a Fox contributor, has repeatedly attempted to smear Davis, demeaningly referring to her as "Abortion Barbie" and suggesting she is unfit for public office. He has gone so far as to question her "mental health," and recently attempted to portray her as an unstable and unreliable mother who left her “sugar daddy” husband when she no longer needed his money.

In a post on her blog, On The Record host Van Susteren condemned Erickson's Davis commentary, calling him a “jerk” and a “creep” who “has [a] pattern of being disrespectful to women”:

This posting is not about Wendy Davis.  It is not about her views.  This is about a man who has pattern of being disrespectful to women: 

We are a big nation with different viewpoints.   We won't always agree...but a strong debate is helpful when we disagree.  Sometimes if you are smart in your debate, you persuade someone who otherwise had disagreed with you.

And then there are the creeps who take cheap shots because they are too ignorant and small to engage in an important discussion.   The best they can do is make themselves look really bad.  No one should pay any attention to them - they are not persuasive, they are noise, and in some instances boorish and obnoxious.  I suspect this guy feels that he makes himself relevant or even important if he says or tweets like this.  I just roll my eyes and wonder what is going on in his head!

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When I read the above tweet I thought, I wonder how proud his daughter would be of him if she knew that he tweeted insults about women.

Greta concluded by noting that while she “read someplace” that Erickson is her colleague at Fox, “He has never been on TV with [her],” and noted that she previously criticized Erickson for a sexist tirade in which he claimed on-air that men should be dominant over women and lamented an increase in the number of female breadwinners in the U.S.

Erickson has a long history of sexist remarks. He previously directed liberals to a website selling coat hangers after Texas passed restrictions on abortions, stated that “the crux of the problem” was that “some women believe they can have it all,” and was widely criticized after he tweeted of the first night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, “First night of the Vagina Monologues in Charlotte going as expected.” Before working at Fox, Erickson also referred to the National Organization for Women as the “NAG Gang” who were “angry in their unibrows,” described feminists as humorless women “too ugly to get a date,” and called Michelle Obama “a Marxist harpy.”

UPDATE: Erickson responded to Van Susteren in a post on RedState, thanking her for the “diatribe” against him and claiming that if “someone is offended by me, thinks me creepy, or thinks me a jerk is fine with me as it continues to force them to talk about Wendy Davis, defender of the right to tear children apart”:

I appreciate Greta focusing on my tweets and find it instructive she chose specifically to not make it about Wendy Davis. Wendy Davis is a one issue wonder heralded by the press because she is a high priestess of the secular religion's sacred sacrament -- slaughtering children on the altar of Moloch. That Greta Van Susteren is offended by me, thinks me creepy and a jerk, and thinks I should not be listened to is of no harm or consequence to me.

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I have helped define Wendy Davis by a moniker that sticks, describes, and makes her the butt of jokes, while drawing out the shrill hysterics of her supporters. And there'd be more supporters of hers except for her and her supporters declaring open season on people under 40 weeks of age.

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Thank you Greta very much for writing this post and shedding more light on Wendy Davis by making her campaign about me. I do sincerely appreciate the exposure that it might, even indirectly, expose the Cult of Death's latest champion.