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They say love conquers all and this might just be the case with Susan Estrich. The normally liberal columnist seems to be absolutely smitten with Todd Palin. Her recent column sounds more like a love note to him than a political analysis: First Dude. That's what they call him in Alaska. It's OK. Todd's Ok. Whatever. He smiles at Greta Van Susteren. Not a touch of noblesse. More like plan old politesse. I always laugh a little when I see people who are very much not ordinary Americans in any respect (pay, fame, education or overall wealth, for starters) try...

"Many question Barack Obama's experience and are now recoiling a little bit at some of the tactics." Video at link

Spare me the true believers. I don’t mean the people who support Barack Obama for president. I support Barack Obama for president. I mean the people who worship him to the point that anyone who says anything raising questions about the inevitability of his rise to sainthood, much less the perfection of him and his wife and his campaign, is deserving of damnation. I wrote a column last week about how the Obama campaign needed to guard against the arrogance that many people tell me they have detected in dealing with them. I didn’t condemn the candidate. I didn’t say...

Think you've got problems? Consider the perils of Susan Estrich. Divorced, she has to eke out a living as a lawyer to support her two children. The demands of that job mean she doesn't get to see the kids as often as she likes. She is overweight and lacks the discipline to exercise regularly. Her house is a mess, and unethical rug cleaners wrecked her living-room floor. Wait, it gets worse. Her nanny lacks medical insurance because the application form is too confusing for Estrich to fill out. Estrich herself has health care, but complications from a recent surgical procedure...

LOS ANGELES — The other day, liberal talk radio host Randi Rhodes was reportedly out walking her dog when she fell and hit her head. She didn’t remember what happened, which led at least one of her colleagues, and countless bloggers, to speculate that she had literally been a victim of the Right-wing hit machine. Not so, as it turned out. No one hit her, Right wing or otherwise. She fell. The colleague who had ranted about the Right attacking her apologized and took it all back. End of story? Not quite. The next day, I appeared on Hannity and...

How much did this transformation cost her? Yes, this really is the same person. Spewing Hate on the Internet, Anonymous, With No Accountability Sunday , August 12, 2007 By Susan Estrich Most mornings, my assistant goes through my e-mail before I do, culling out the ones that are simply vicious, vindictive and mean, so I don’t have to see them. Our rule is that threats get reported to the police, while mere ugliness just gets deleted. But once in a while, I get up early or she gets in late, and I make the mistake of clicking on messages I...

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there were two frontrunners in the race for the presidency. On the Democratic side, it was Hillary Rodham Clinton; "the rock star and the rest" was the title of one memorable National Journal assessment of the race. On the Republican side, it was John McCain. We Democrats were actually pretty worried about McCain. He was old, but he didn't seem it; what he seemed was experienced, independent, his own man, the one candidate in the Republican field who had the advantage of having gone through the process before. It seemed sufficiently inevitable...

Ann Coulter is at it again. As the author of one of the anti-Godless books (mine is called "Soulless"), I suppose I should be happy, but I would happily sacrifice book sales to elevate the political discourse. To be honest, I had almost concluded that Ann had disappeared, at least from my radar screen, and if that meant less interest in my answering her outlandish charges, it was a small price to pay. No such luck. The occasion for Ann's return to white-hot prominence is strictly commercial. Her paperback edition of "Godless," the book that made headlines by ridiculing 9/11...

It should have taken five minutes. OK, maybe 10. I got my latest bill from Chase Credit Cards, and it included two things I'd never noticed before. One was a fee for $39, which was labeled my "Rewards Program Fee." I never knew Chase had a rewards program, much less one I paid a fee to participate in. I certainly don't remember signing up, or agreeing to another fee to encourage me to use their card. There was also a "Flexible Rewards Summary," telling me that in addition to the 39 points I would get for paying the fee, I...

FReep early and FReep often, to paraphrase Al Capone via hillary by Mia T, 3.19.07 s of this morning, thanks in large measure to the efforts of FReepers, there are over 20,600 view of the YouTube video (VOTE SMART: A WARNING TO ALL WOMEN ABOUT HILLARY CLINTON). Now is our chance to get the message out about the clintons' rape and predation 1... and about the clintons' willful terrorism failure. 2 By viewing the video, by commenting, and by voting, you will help to keep this very crucial message out front. So FReep early and FReep often, to paraphrase...

The girl has the knack. Hats off to Ann Coulter for playing us like a piccolo. Yes, she's done it again. Fools r we. A week ago, she was almost invisible, lying low since taking on the 9/11 widows. The only news about her seemed to be related to that pesky problem she had in Florida figuring out where to vote. You know how it is in Florida. Haven't you noticed? They're out to get tall, thin blondes. But that was before she compared former Democratic Senator and current presidential candidate John Edwards to a you-know-what. The nastiest word you...

The war is George Bush's Monica Lewinsky. It is his undoing — the public playing out of his fatal flaws, and the reason his second term will come to naught. It is the product of this president's arrogance and insecurity, as surely as an affair with an intern was the reflection of Bill Clinton's needs and denial. But unlike the last president's foolish affair, which he paid for dearly, we pay for this one. The difference between sex and war is the difference between a mistake even his wife can come to laugh about, and one that is an abiding...

his is not the way the system is supposed to operate. Prosecutors are supposed to be out for justice, not blood; committed to the truth, at all costs, not winning, without more. Prosecutors aren’t just morally obliged but legally required to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense. Prosecutors aren’t just one side in a battle. You can’t come across the smoking gun covered with fingerprints on it – come across it because you have the power of the state to collect all the evidence – and then decide to ignore it because they don’t match the fingerprints of the...

From the Worcester Country (MA) Telegram & Gazette: Two high-profile lawyers join Islamic charity caseOct 10, 2006First Amendment issues in case will be arguedBy Kevin Keenan TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFFWORCESTER— A pair of nationally recognized lawyers have been retained to argue First Amendment issues in a criminal case involving an Islamic charity and two of its officers who are charged with misrepresenting the charity’s work.Susan R. Estrich, a lawyer, author and media pundit, who managed Michael S. Dukakis’ 1988 presidential campaign, and Harvey A. Silverglate, a noted Cambridge criminal defense lawyer, entered appearances Thursday as counsel for Emadeddin Z. Muntasser...

      OK, who body doubled for Susan?

Lefty sow Susan Estrich, attorney to Leona Helmsley, Claus von Bulow, and Michael Milken, now snorts for your attention in an incalculably tasteless and repulsive way. Her new book, SOULLESS - designed to look EXACTLY like Coulter's GODLESS - claims not only to excoriate Ann but also "cast(s) a light on 'the Anns', 'wannabes' like Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck". On the cover, Estrich stretches the seams of a black cocktail dress and sneers knowingly at the camera. Yep, the book looks just like Ann's, and she's dressed up to look like a bloated, wrinkly version of Ann... Except for...

Susan Estrich just summed-up the Left's attitude toward today's NY Times' publishing top secret info on the Justice Department's bank record monitoring of terrorists' financing: 'The US Constitution absolutely protects a reporter's and a paper's right to publish top secret military information.' Further: 'One of the reasons Bush is low in the polls is that the president has lost the respect of the press.' This is the party that plans to retake Congress. Utterly clueless and angry enough to destroy us for spite.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is one lucky fellow, which is to say he’s smart enough not to make the same mistakes twice. If I were a betting woman in this bluest of blue states, I’d put my money on the Terminator to win re-election, no small feat when you consider that every single other statewide office here is held by a Democrat. Let me make my biases clear at the outset. I’m a Democrat, but I don’t have a horse in this race. I’ve known Phil Angelides, one of his opponents, since 1988, when he was an early supporter of my presidential...

Helen sez - "Too many democrats being moderate democrats", calls most democrats "Republican Lite".(Less Filling, Tastes Bad) "They are behaving like Republicans, caving in to them and they have no "plan"" . Susan says the democrats, like Richard Nixon, have a "Secret Plan", which means no plan at all. Helen agreed and wants to use the phrase. Helen and Susan bashing moderate and conservative democrats, insulting their manliness and are saying they are afraid to engage the President.

IS DICK MORRIS AN IDIOT? OR IS HE STILL ON THE CLINTON PAYROLL? by Mia T, 12.12.05 Pirro, he said, also fell into the trap of making a central issue of her campaign that Clinton harbors presidential ambitions and won't finish a second term, a claim that, even if true, doesn't seem to matter much to most New Yorkers. Jeanine to disa-Pirro from race vs. Hil ( Pirro Dropping Out of Race Against Hillary )NY Daily News | 12/12/05 | JOE MAHONEY   Former President Bill Clinton's thesis, articulated on "Meet the Press," is that "large" figures in their...

THE DANGER OF RUNNING VICARIOUSLY: Bill O'Reilly chews up and spits out the hillary clinton candidacy by Mia T, 10.27.05   (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) the principal being more worthless even than its phantom proxy, both alike unsubstantial, and the former shapeless to boot --Samuel Taylor Coleridge   or the most part, missus clinton operates in absentia, by proxy. You rarely see her. You almost never hear her. (Think of it as the hillary! 2000 'listening tour' extended ad nauseam.) And in those rare instances where she does actually speak, the 'event' is always prearranged,...

What could be more ridiculous than to have the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice turn on her answer to a questionnaire filled out in 1989 when she was running for the Dallas City Council? Does that really determine whether she is qualified to serve on the nation's highest court? It proves almost nothing about her, and everything about her critics. Harriet Miers has yet to speak publicly, but her critics have clearly shown their hand. The opposition to the Miers nomination has nothing to do with qualifications and everything to do with ideology, narrowly defined. Conservatives wanted one of...

Did anybody see The O'Reilly Factor tonight? Bill had on Susan Estrich, who was there to promote her book, The Case for Hillary. Whether your a fan of Bill or not, it was him at his best.Bill asked Susan where Hillary stands on Iraq, the border, and health care. Estrich couldn't give a straight answer to any of Bill questions and sounded horrible!BILL: Why does Senator Clinton support the war in iraq? SUASAN: Well, you know, that's an interesting question ......BILL: What about illegal immigration? SUSAN: She has taken a much tougher stance there as well. BILL: Susan, Susan, what's...

the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape, according to Susan Estrich by Mia T, 10.21.05   Susan Estrich is the Democrat political operative who put Dukakis in a tank and would put hillary in the White House. Amazon.com sales rank suggests another tank for Susan: Following her sales pitch on Hannity and Colmes tonight, her book, The Case for Hillary Clinton went from bad to worse, (It instantly sustained a 10% decline to #8517.) Ms. Estrich also wrote Real Rape, a book about the clinton-clinton-Broaddrick kind of rape. But that was before she was tapped by the clinton machine to cover for......

RUSH: Eric in Destin, Florida. Hello, sir, welcome. CALLER: Dittos, Rush. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: Yes, sir. Susan Estrich is floating a trial balloon in her latest book that if Hillary loses the '08 election that it sets back the women's movement more so than Judge Bork ever could have. And I just wanted to get your opinion on that. RUSH: I've grown to like Susan Estrich, but I just think it's poppycock. I think what set the feminist movement back is feminism. The feminist movement has already been set back. The feminist movement, we're going to be overturning Roe...

ESTRICH IMPEACHED BY HER OWN WORDS, EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMENmy amazon.com review (please FReep) by Mia T, 10.14.05 The usual clinton rube arrogance rooted in stupidity. The clintons figured that Estrich in their corner would make clinton serial rape and predation just disappear, not understanding that her presence would only intensify the scrutiny and that her 'expertise' and prior utterances would be used against them... and her. Indeed, by twisting her own scholarship, Estrich indicts the clintons just as surely as the twisting double helix on that blue Gap dress. "America's once-in-a-lifetime chance to break the world's...

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: ED KLEIN AND SUSAN ESTRICH AGREE ABOUT HILLARY [FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!] by Mia T, 10.14.05 National Review Online: In a sentence, what is "the truth about Hillary"? Edward Klein: Hillary is not a victim (not of sexism, not of her husband, and certainly not of this book); she's not a moderate (despite her effort to re-brand herself in the Senate). Even my sources on the left admit she's positioning herself as a victim and moderate in order to win the White House. Interrogatory NRO's Q&A June 20, 2005,...

ESTRICH BOOK EXPOSES STOCK HILLARY PLOY: EXPLOIT WOMEN(even as ABC's "Commander-in-Chief" exposes ploy's premise as false) by Mia T, 10.12.05     It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. G. K. Chesterton   While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times. These are not...

My fans are angry with me. I'm supposed to be fair and balanced. I'm a Bush critic, not a Bush Hater. I'm the one who always smiles and laughs. So why am I so tough on the Man? To say that I've been getting a lot of mail lately is an understatement. Most of it makes certain points that are, of course, valid. Yes, I know: -- that Bill Clinton didn't build the levees to withstand more than a Category 3 storm, either; -- that both the governor and the mayor are Democrats; -- that they were responsible for ordering...

Did an ABC staffer insert the following lines in an email sent by celebrity antiwar mother Cindy Sheehan? ''Am I emotional? Yes, my firstborn was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel." That is what Sheehan is claiming. If you don't believe that explanation -- if you don't believe an ABC staffer set about to put anti-Semitic words into Cindy Sheehan's mouth -- then your hero, my liberal friends, is a raging, ignorant anti-Semite. Sorry, but what are...

I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally – the one who's usually smiling because it's television, not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event. Besides, why shouldn't I be smiling? Prior to working for Fox, I worked for ABC and NBC, spent a lot of time at CNN and almost ended up at CBS. I worked for a bunch of local stations in Los Angeles and had a talk radio show at KABC for six years. Story Continues...

If Susan Estrich wants to improve America’s opinion pages, she should stand up for more diversity of thought. She assumed he would understand. But he didn’t. Emailing the head of Op-Ed at the Los Angeles Times to protest the unjust treatment of women writers seemed like a good idea -- until the rest of the country found out, igniting a firestorm of feminist tetchiness and good-natured derision. She never expected to find a fellow female columnist calling her campaign “crazed” and “nasty.” This wasn’t good, and she knew it. “Depending on the day or the paper,” wrote Susan Estrich, professor,...

Like many women of a certain age, I have a bad habit, first learned in the 1960s and '70s. Whenever I'm in a professional setting, I count the number of women in the room. These days there are occasions when I don't have enough fingers and toes to do the job. Which brings me to the present, and an ugly little spat that is roiling the waters of opinion journalism in the same way that Lawrence Summers's comments about the dearth of women in math and science rocketed through the academy. Op-ed pages, the accepted wisdom insists, don't carry enough...

Out here, in L.A., we have recently been treated to a colossal hissy fit that had liberals gunning for other liberals. One would think that any right-thinking conservative would happily sit back and watch the blood run in the gutters. But even in a battle royal that pits lefties against their own kind, a fair-minded person can’t help taking sides. On one side, you have the knee-jerk liberal editors at the L.A. Times wearing the white trunks or, in this case, at least the white hats; on the other side, you have the idly rich women of the Westside –...

Out here, in Los Angeles, we have recently been treated to a colossal hissy fit that had liberals gunning for other liberals. One would think that any right-thinking conservative would happily sit back and watch the blood run in the gutters. But even in a battle royal that pits lefties against their own kind, a fair-minded person can't help taking sides. On one side, you have the knee-jerk liberal editors at the L.A. Times wearing the white trunks or, in this case, at least the white hats. On the other side, you have the idly rich women of the Westside...

Last Sunday, Maureen Dowd lamented the dearth of women on the opinion pages of America's newspapers. She herself is the only female op-ed columnist at The New York Times. The Washington Post has but one. Bloggers, all opinion all the time, are overwhelmingly male. Dowd's reflections were sparked by University of Southern California feminist Susan Estrich. Last month, Estrich attacked Michael Kinsley, comment pages editor of the Los Angeles Times, for refusing to publish her submissions. Cattily undermining her case, Estrich penned a scathing ad hominem to Kinsley, suggesting the Parkinson's disease that afflicts him "may have affected your brain."...

This week I had planned to write a column about Sinn Fein, the political front organization for the Irish Republican Army, whose leaders have recently been linked to acts of murder and grand larceny. I chose the subject because I wrote often about the IRA while living in Britain in the 1990s, because I've worked as a reporter in Belfast, because it's timely -- tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day -- and because there might be lessons in the story for Hamas and Hezbollah, terrorist groups that may or may not be able to make the transition to democratic politics as...

I have rarely been this royally ticked off. However, nothing prepared me for the statements of Fox News analyst and law professor Susan Estrich calling for a feminist campaign against the Los Angeles Times. Ms. Estrich's grievance is that the newspaper has failed to publish enough articles by women (like her own syndicated column) on its editorial page. Described in the press as "belligerent" and "semiliterate," Ms. Estrich's tirades became increasing unhinged after it became clear that Mr. Kinsley would not yield to her ultimatums. Indeed, Ms. Estrich went to all caps in offering Mr. Kinsley "ONE MORE CHANCE BEFORE...

On Thursday, The Examiner printed an e-mail by University of Southern California professor Susan Estrich accusing the Los Angeles Times of sexual discrimination against women writers. We also ran a rebuttal by Michael Kinsley, opinion and editorial editor at the Times. Since then, they have been e-mailing each other back and forth - CCing David Mastio, The Examiner's editorial page editor, in the process. We are running them virtually unedited.Run my letter - or else From: Susan Estrich To: Kinsley, Michael Subject: RE: my letter to the editor I am sending over my letter this morning. It is very, very...

Why Men Prefer Pretty Faces So you think beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Think again. According to new research from the University of Exeter in Great Britain, the preference for pretty faces over ugly ones is embedded in our brains from the moment of birth and possibly prior to birth. Newborn babies come fully equipped with built-in preferences, including a preference for an attractive face, that help them make sense of their new environment, report the BBC News Online and Newsweek magazine. The Exeter researchers showed more than 100 infants two images that were placed side by...

Borrowing a page from President Bush, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told a Boston audience this week that prayer has always played a meaningful role in her life - though accounts from her days as a student radical suggest that's probably not true. "I've always been a praying person," Clinton told a crowd of more than 500, including many religious leaders, at Boston's Fairmont Copley Plaza. According to the Boston Globe, the newly religious former first lady "invoked God more than half a dozen times" as she urged society to accommodate religious people who "live out their faith in the...

It'll never happen, but at some point over the next 48 hours or so, President Bush [related, bio] really ought to publicly acknowledge and thank the one group most responsible for making the Bush dynasty possible. Namely, the Massachusetts Democratic Party. Let's face it, without Michael Dukakis and John Kerry [related, bio], there wouldn't have been one, let alone three, Bush administrations. These two ACLU crybabies from the Bay State go down in history as the Laurel and Hardy of American politics, human sacrifices who to this day can't figure out why Americans didn't want to vote for Ivy League...

You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends tell us that the two are cheering Sis on and say she's making all the moves to get ready for the race--presuming she is re-elected by New Yorkers in 2006.

On the eve of President Bush's second inauguration, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is blasting him as the "fear factor" president who tries to sell his irresponsible agenda by scaring the voters. "The fear factor has become the overriding strategic approach that this administration uses," Clinton complained to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. The likely 2008 presidential candidate told the paper that Bush has used scare tactics to rally public support on issues ranging from U.S. policy in Iraq to privatization of Social Security. On Iraq Clinton griped that Bush had even botched the election process, saying that regional balloting...

Hillary Clinton on Environment Supports oil reserve release & fund conservation Q: Do you support conserving energy?A: I’ve spoken about an energy policy that would include conservation tax credits that the Republicans have blocked. The administration has put forth an energy policy that we couldn’t get through that Republican leadership that my opponent is part of. We need a new Congress. I was pleased when the president did release some oil from the reserve. So we have work to do and it needs to be led by Democrats who understand that we shouldn’t be beholden to big oil. Source:...

WASHINGTON - Tomorrow night, with the nation's capital awash in inaugural events, Sen. Hillary Clinton will be delivering a high-profile speech in Boston about politics and youth. She is the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for a group headed by outspoken Boston minister, Rev. Eugene Rivers. Aides to Clinton, a possible Democratic presidential contender in 2008, said she agreed to give the speech a long time ago and said nothing should be read into the timing.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

NEW YORK, January 12, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Abortion crusader and New York Senator Hillary Clinton condemned US President George W. Bush Tuesday, claiming his withdrawal of funding from organizations that commit or promote abortions is harming women. Speaking at an International Women's Health Coalition-sponsored dinner, Clinton claimed that "reproductive health care and family planning service is a basic right," and said this was based on decisions reached at the 1994 U.N. Population Conference in Cairo, as well as the 1995 U.N. women's conference in Beijing, where Clinton gave a keynote address. She argued that the Bush administration has failed to...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson praised New York Sen. Hillary Clinton yesterday as "Sister Hillary," after Clinton cited his efforts to overturn the presidential election by challenging the Electoral College vote in Ohio. Speaking at his annual Wall Street Project fundraiser, Jackson said "Sister Hillary" had been an important ally in his fight for those "traumatized by what happened to us as a people and a nation in Ohio." He called Clinton "a light in dark places," who has "stood on the right side of history," according to quotes picked up by the New York Sun. The praise for Clinton came...