Well played!
She’d been doing her crazy liberal Harvard professor feminist bitch shtick on local Boston news and PBS for about five years before Dukakis tapped her to drive his campaign into the tank. This was back in old days when TV was BIG. And mostly broadcast.
I have to say, I was surprised how well her shtick played on the road. She was always something of a freak show attraction locally, someone you could *absolutely* count on to make whacky ex cathedra pronouncements for the Church of the Most Holy Feminism coming from the Vatican of loony leftism, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.
I always thought it was something of a put on. And who in their right mind would ever mistake her for truly intelligent? Obsessively deluded, fanatical, yes, but intelligent? I wouldn’t hire her to run a candy store, much less a national political campaign. (I know Dukakis did, but I qualified my question by asking who in their right mind, which clearly excluded President Dukakis. Psst: don’t tell him he lost, we still haven’t told him. He thinks they moved the White House to Brookline.)