The presence of free radicals is considered a primary cause of the aging process.
Posted on 03/25/2005 9:10:01 PM PST by CHARLITE
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 – most of them the wives or ex-wives of multi-millionaires like Michael Huffington, Bud Yorkin and Larry David. They’re the sort of ladies who, because they might have undocumented maids, nannies and gardeners from Mexico and Guatemala working for them, not only favor open borders, but believe they’re in line for canonization. These are the knuckleheads who support NOW and the ACLU, and who yammer about fossil fuels and the ozone layer while they gad about in SUVs and private jets.
Perhaps not as wealthy as some of her cohorts, but equally self-deluded is Susan Estrich. Today, she’s a law professor at USC; in the past, she was the campaign manager for Michael Dukakis. Somehow, Ms. Estrich has turned an annoyingly nasal voice, a painted-on smirk, and a ton of attitude, into a secondary career as one of TV’s talking heads.
Recently, she declared a jihad against the Times because she had decided that they don’t publish nearly enough female columnists. She even had the chutzpah to assign her college students to keeping track. Apparently – assuming that her law students are able to count – the Times was publishing men four times as often as they were publishing women.
The editors, fools that they are, took the charge to heart. In their lame defense, they countered the accusation by pointing out that they published women more frequently than did such liberal citadels as the New York Times and the Washington Post. Ms. Estrich and her cohorts replied that what other papers do or don’t do is no defense for what the Times does or doesn’t do.
Then, when she realized that the Times wasn’t about to knuckle under to the ladies who lunch, she stooped to suggesting that perhaps editor Michael Kinsley’s brain had been adversely affected by his illness. The man suffers from Parkinson’s.
At one fell swoop, Estrich not only struck a new low in debating tactics, but by trying to score points off the man’s illness, proved that in her case at least it’s compassionate liberal that’s the oxymoron.
The fact is, if anybody should be complaining about being under-represented on the paper’s op-ed page, it’s not women, it’s conservatives. By way of tokenism, once-a week they run something by Max Boot. The rest of the week, they run letters-to-the-editor from readers berating Boot.
If women get to sound off 20% of the time in the Times, I’d say that’s roughly ten times as much space as writers from the right receive. Of course, I’m only guessing.
Unlike Professor Estrich, I don’t have a cadre of eager coeds to do my counting for me.
The worst thing about Estrich and the other members of her overly-pampered platoon is that they’re hypocrites. It’s not really female writers they want to see in the Times, it’s female left wing writers. I guarantee if Ann Coulter, Tammy Bruce and Michelle Malkin, started showing up on a regular basis, these wealthy, self-important, elitists would be descending on the Times armed with tar and feathers.
The truth is, with this gaggle of geese, agenda always trumps gender.
Comments:Burt Prelutsky@aol.com
Dear Char--I am delighted to find such a response to my piece about Estrich. Never having seen that truly terrifying photo of her before now, I fear I may not be able to get to sleep tonight. And, whoops!--there goes my dinner.
Regards, Burt Prelutsky
"I've always thought she looks and sounds exactly like Chewbacca the Wookie!"
Personally, her voice has always reminded me of the old Burgess Meredith version of the Penguin on the 60's Batman TV show...Wauuuughh, wauuughh, wauggghhh...
Compassionate Liberal. Right up there in the Hall of Fictions with Tolerant Liberal.
The article last Sunday was penned by a feminist-hater I have never heard of, nor probably have you, by the name of Charlotte Allen... her only book was about Jesus and religion written eight years ago, and as far as I can tell what she does is to edit a blog for the Independent Womens Forum which is a group of right wing women who exist to get on tv and get in newspapers attacking the likes of us. Wendy Kaminer did a wonderful piece a few years ago, pointing out how this group, which has no members, no constituency, no events, no nothing except media contact sheets-- (a lot of them turn out to be the wives of the guys you see on right wing talk shows)... was created to give these women something to put under their names so they could get into the media. Since they have no jobs, standing, professorships, etc.... they put the IWF. It certainly works with the boys at the LATimes.... (a google search produces nothing else on this woman other than co-editing the blog for the Independent Womens Forum; her most recent entry comes close to celebrating Susan Sontag's death....
Incidentally, if she is going to attack these women, she could at least refrain from lying about them. Maybe this has something to do with why she is having trouble getting her tirades published?
Here is a link to her entire email if you'd like to read it. A real doozie.
http://cathyseipp.journalspace.com/?entryid=489
That idiot Susan who's always wrong, when she says a republican's going to lose I get excited because then I know the republicans are going to win.
reading so much free republic has burned that imagine of susan into my brain. What a hideous, nightmarish image. Even worse are all the helen thomas pictures you people post, no mercy.
Meanwhile, the LA Times readership is spiraling into the toilet.
Fine by me, as long as she's in an Iron Mask and they keep her clothers on :)
Thank God I'm on a dial up connection right now and used the "Toggle Images" feature to turn off pictures.
Has Ms. Estrogen been on Hannity's show since she lit into Kinsley? I think not. Could be she crossed Hannity's line. And why not... she's crossed everyone else's.
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