Posted 3:28 PM by Scoobie Davis

Alas, It Won't Be Hannity and Miller
In APJ, Steve Young suggests to Fox News chief Roger Ailes to replace departing co-host Alan Colmes of Hannity & Colmes with syndicated talk show host Stephanie Miller.

I don't think this is going to happen. The main reason is that Miller knows the score and a member of the left who knows the score is not what Roger Ailes is looking for. Salon's David Talbot pointed this out a few years ago:

Ailes was the king of cable and he was clearly reveling in his power. Alas, he couldn't squeeze us into the Fox News schedule, Ailes told us -- every show in his lineup was "kicking the competition's ass" and he was not about to mess with success by opening a hole for Salon. Though he didn't say it, there was also a clear implication that a regular dose of Salon might be too much for his audience, which Ailes described as age "55 to dead, like me" (he left out white and intolerant). Years earlier, when hunting for a liberal punching bag to pair with Sean Hannity, Ailes had tried out a tough Salon writer. He apparently punched back so effectively in his audition that Fox picked bespectacled milquetoast Alan Colmes instead. Fox likes its liberals soft and chewy, the better to eat them, my dear.

My guess: Kirsten Powers. She's (kinda) liberal; she's hot (something Ailes looks for); and she doesn't have a clue--the perfect Fox News Democrat. She's currently a Fox News Analyst and writes for Murdoch's crapsheet The New York Post (read her column denouncing the Obama campaign for throwing the Post reporter as well as the Moonie Times operative off the campaign plane).