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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?

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...