SUSAN ESTRICH RESPONDS TO JUANITA BROADDRICK'S OFFER TO SPEAK ABOUT HER RAPE -- "not interested"

email from Susan Estrich | 10-21-05 | Doug from Upland

[doug from upland]

At 11:37 am this morning, I received an email from USC professor of law, Susan Estrich.

After hearing Estrich discuss her new Hillary book with Sean Hannity on October 11, I was a little upset. Estrich was essentially calling our friend Juanita Broaddrick a liar. She had spoken with her friend Bill Clinton, and, of course, Bill denied that he raped Juanita. That was good enough for Estrich. Bill could lie to his wife, lie to his daughter, lie to his attorney, lie to his secretary, lie to reporters, lie to his cabinet, lie to the court, and lie to the American people while pointing his finger at us, but by some cosmic mystery that is beyond human comprehension, Bill would not lie to her. Okay then. So, Juanita was not telling the truth. She is a liar. Unfortunately, this teacher of law students, this officer of the court, this person who purports to be so fair and open-minded, had not heard the other side of the story. She has never spoken with Juanita. Yet, Juanita is a liar. A known liar and perjurer told her so. Well, something needed to be done about that.

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An initial conversation was held with Ms. Estrich's secretary at USC inquiring about the willingness of Estrich to speak with Juanita if it could be arranged. That was followed up with an email.

Juanita then contacted me through FReepmail with the good news -- she wanted to meet with Susan. She had some things she wanted to tell her. Certainly, Estrich, as a fellow rape survivor, would be interested in speaking with Juanita, right?

Another phone call and email to Estrich's office gave her the good news. Apparently, it was not very good news to Estrich. Here is the email received from her this morning ---

What? She is not interested? A fellow rape survivor wants to speak with her after comments were made on a radio show and Estrich is not interested?

If she were honest, rather than merely being a Bill Clinton sick-o-fant, here is the email she should have sent to me ---

If anyone is interested in taking some action, I would appreciate your help. Until Estrich speaks with Juanita and hears her story, why would any talk show host on our side have the sick-o-fant on the air to sell her book? If you participate on blogs, please spread the word.

We all know why Estrich won't meet with her. She is afraid to hear the truth. If she heard the truth, it would be an incredible moral dilemma. How does a rape survivor side with a rapist against a fellow rape survivor and dare show herself on television ever again?

Just imagine her course of action had the rapist been named Newt Gingrich, Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, or George W. Bush.

Susan, I once had some respect for you when you and I had good discussions on your Los Angeles weekend radio show. Now, the sight of you and the sound of your voice simply make me ill. You are a phony.

SUSAN ESTRICH CONTACT INFORMATION

Susan Estrich
Robert Kingsley Professor in Law and Professor of Law and Political Science

Phone: (213) 740-7578
E-mail address: sestrich@law.usc.edu

[Calvin Locke]

Maybe Dan Rather would like to break this story?

[doug from upland]

I don't know if it is normal. Susan has been given the opportunity to speak with Juanita and hear her side. Too bad that she refused.

[Yaelle]

While Clinton did the alleged act and deserves the punishment, it certainly says a LOT towards Hillary's character that she sought Juanita out at that event and gripped her hand for too long, THANKING Juanita. It means Clinton himself must have told Hillary at least that he attacked or got very rough with Juanita, and all Hillary wanted (needed!) was for Juanita to shut up.

Thus Hillary cares little about releasing a (repeat?) rapist into society (on Air Force One, yet). Cares less about women who are true victims. But cares most about her own political power, even if she gets it riding on the boxer shorts of a man.

[doug from upland]

You beat me to it. This is the story that he an Mary Mapes should have chased for six years.

[Question_Assumptions]

Rape is a crime of sex AND violence or sexualized violence. While it's important to point out that rape is motivated by violence and not love, the sexual nature of the assault should not be dismissed.

[wideminded]

I never followed the details on the Broaddrick rape story, so maybe you could summarize:

1. Is there evidence other than her word that this happened?
2. Why did she not go to the police?

[doug from upland]

Totally agree. Some feminists try to make people believe it is only violence.

[shining_city]

You are right -- Bill and Hillary have never had to answer for either Bill's rape of Juanita, much less the intimidation of Kathleen Willey, etc.

Did you hear about the tour of the Clinton Library that Juanita and Kathleen Willey are doing next Wednesday?

If folks here on FR and in the blogosphere draw enough attention to this, it will make it much more difficult for the Klintoons to get away with continuing to avoid answering for this.

[doug from upland]

Shortly after the assault, Norma Rogers, her roommate at the conference, came back to the room and saw her with ripped clothing, bloody swollen lip, and in shock. Who had been in the room? The bellboy? No. The chef from the restaurant? No. The concierge? No. The maintenance man? No. The person who had just been in the room was the attorney general of Arkansas.

It was 1978. She did not come forward because who in Arkansas would be believed? A woman or the attorney general?

[Question_Assumptions]

I think Christopher Hitchens is fairly convinced that Bill Clinton is a rapist. At one point, he insisted on referring to Clinton as "the rapist" on Bill Maher's old show Politically Correct and Maher couldn't get him to stop. You might want to give Hitchens a heads up on this. He might find it interesting. Hitchens, unlike Estrich, is an honest man, even if I don't always agree with him.

[doug from upland]

Candace Jackson knows about this. I hope she can make use of it at the Lie-brary next Wednesday.

[Spyder]

Wasn't she one of the talking heads on Fox who thought Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan (again)?

[Monkey King]

Let me ask this - In light of a post just made by Yaelle- could we plan this to take place, oh, say - right at the beginning of HILLARY!'s campaign for President?

"What did she know and when did she know it?" sort of thing.

A "Clinton Rape Camp" at every campaign stop.

Hmm.

[doug from upland]

If she was, I'd like to see a quote.

[doug from upland]

Indeed. This must be used against Hillary.

[Ladysmith]

Oh, that's next week? For some reason I thought it was this week...Doesn't matter, they are incredibly courageous women to do this after all they've been through.

Prayers of God's strength for each of them.

[Biblebelter]

If I watched Fox News, I would call them to account for paying this liar as a Fox News consultant. But as I understand it Fox News settles O'Reilly phone sex bills when he uses Fox's paid employee producers for phone sex. Besides Estrich is just too UGLY to being taken seriously.

[yarddog]

I remember seeing on one program that she had in fact told several close friends about Clinton raping her while she was still publicly denying the rape.

I also remember when NBC did the story, they decided to investigate every detail such as her description of when it happened, what buildings were visible, where Clinton was on that date, etc.

Every detail held up.

[doug from upland]

Lisa Myers was convinced. Dave Schippers female rape investigator policewoman was convinced.

[krunkygirl]

outrage BUMP