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February 19, 2005
"What ineffable twaddle!"
For a (brief) while I thought Susan Estrich was a good example of an honest liberal: unmistakably partisan but with a thin cord of reasonableness that kept her tethered somewhere near the vicinity of earth. But her statments during the recent campaign ("The trouble with Democrats, traditionally, is that we're not mean enough.") were disturbing.
The ongoing email dust-up with Michael Kinsley of the Los Angeles times has made it official: she's a certified left-loony. The Washington Examiner (via The Corner) details the latest round. What strikes me, notwithstanding the truly despicable reference to Kinsley's Parkinson's disease, is the blizzard of egomaniacal references to the powerful circles in which she moves.
... It is signed by approximately 50 women, among them some of the most powerful women in town...
... My friend Barbara Howar...
... NO one tried harder to educate you about Los Angeles, introduce you to key players in the city, bring to your attention, quietly, the issues of gender inequality than I did...
... and I am certain the many prominent women who have signed the letter would also agree. ...
... I now have powerful businesswomen and community leaders, professors and developers and talent agents and managers and journalists...
Sheesh...what a maroon. Her earlier comments during the campaign were an early airing of one of the persistent themes of the Democratic loss: "If we could got our message across more effectively, everyone (that's not an insane Nazi) would have voted for us." Estrich is still wallowing in Kael-ite miasma, i.e., all my powerful friends agree with me, therefore you must be wrong/insane/affected by your illness.
Are there more male opinion journalists than female? Undoubtedly. But Estrich's hysterical tantrum has done nothing to help shed any light on the subject.
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