Fake Progressive (FP) has become an American Institution with her very popular website, whose origin was a desire to answer to the Right Wing and to elect a Democrat to the Presidency. She has been a decided success but there are questions about her methods, such as her promotion of the idea and practice of something called ‘Citizen Journalists’.  Now, the central concern is that these ‘Citizen Journalists’ provided content for her web site gratis, without pay. But in the face of the astronomical sale price of her site to AOL and her assumption to an executive position: doubt has entered the minds of many of her former supporters and political allies, fueled by FP’s defensive even combative stance, when confronted with the reality of her own behavior and how that helped shape her policies. Is she really a political ally and follower of Milton Friedman? Is FP simply another Empire Builder, a tradition in American Life?  Or are these questions  superfluous; too little, too late?