Greta Van Susteren is mad as hell and she’s not gonna take it anymore.

On her FOX News Channel show, "On the Record," last night, Van Susteren took The Washington Post’s "Sally Quinn" and others to task for shamelessly bashing not only Sarah Palin, but Palin’s children, as well. Meanwhile, Bristol Palin’s baby’s daddy, Levi Johnston, has his own theory about why Sarah Palin announced her resignation from the Alaska governorship: money. More on that later.

Van Susteren said last night:

"Why is Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn gratuitously trashing Gov. Palin? Quinn even accuses Palin of exploiting her children, specifically Bristol and little Trig, little Trig, who has Down’s syndrome. And David Letterman — he also can’t stay away from the governor, either."

Letterman made another sexually tainted joke about Palin this week, saying: "Is it just me or is anyone having naughty thoughts about Sarah Palin and those waders," referring to the fishing outfit she wore when talking to reporters this week while defending her resignation.

In an interview on MSNBC Thursday, Quinn, founder of the Post’s "On Faith" blog, said:

Well, clearly, she has not put her family first … And these children have, it seems publicly, to have been exploited by her in a, I think, really unfortunate way … She brings them all to the convention, including Trig, the baby. She brings the pregnant daughter with the boyfriend who clearly didn’t want to be there. She then travels around with the children, using them as sort of photo ops … she brings the children up when she needs them to shore up her own image.

Think what you want about the Alaska governor, but it’s likely many women think these kinds of slams are just inappropriate.

"This is wrong because, first of all, they are attacking her parenting skills. And why we are debating whether or not she should have had her kids up as late as she did on the night of the nominating convention is just borderline bizarre, particularly because we don’t ask that question of any of the guys who bring their children to big political events," former Massachusetts Gov. Jane Swift, a Republican who also had young children in office, said on "On the Record." "But even importantly, don’t we have more important things to be discussing in this country? And activities, we could move on to things that actually impact the millions of families who don’t have a job or don’t have paid maternity leave, things that are legitimate public policy issues."

Meanwhile, Levi Johnston, Bristol’s former fiancée, told reporters Thursday that he once heard Palin talking about how she could have a better life in which she could spend more time at home with less stress, and could accept high-paying offers coming her way. After all — she is the Republican everybody’s talking about at the moment. Johnston said that in December Palin "had talked about how nice it would be to take some of this money people have been offering us and just run with it, and saying forget everything else." Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton had a quick comeback for that, saying: "It is interesting to learn Levi is working on a piece of fiction while honing his acting skills."

It’s no secret the Palins and Johnston have become, well, more distant in recent months as Johnston has taken to the press to criticize Alaska’s first family, and to talk about how much visitation his family should have with his son, born to Bristol, December 28.

Watch Van Susteren and Swift below: