Estrich's Anti-Clinton Column Spiked

Newsmax.com ^ | 5-15-03 | Carl Limbacher

[Paul Atreides]

A column urging Bill and Hillary Clinton to leave the national stage so that Democratic presidential candidates won't have to labor in their shadow has apparently been spiked by news editors who regularly carry Hillary's Creators Syndicate essays.

A LexisNexis search Friday morning turned up not a single published version of the Estrich screed, in which the liberal Democratic operative implored the Clintons to "shut up" and predicted that Hillary would never be president.

Still, millions of Americans learned of Estrich's analysis from Rush Limbaugh, who spent several segments of his top-rated radio talk show on Thursday discussing Estrich's bombshell remarks.

Fox News Channel hosts Sean Hannity and John Gibson also gave Estrich, a regular contributor to the top-rated cable news channel, TV airtime to explain her concerns.

By Friday, after it became apparent that no mainstream print outlet had carried the controversial column, Limbaugh publicly protested the media censorship.

"Nowhere on the Internet can you find Susan Estrich's column from yesterday," he told his audience. "Now, that just doesn't happen - a column to be spiked everywhere."

"I'm sure Susan's still scratching her head," Limbaugh added. "What have I got to do? I write a column, I send it out and on this one column, everybody that runs it spikes it."

To read the Susan Estrich column the mainstream media doesn't want you to see, visit the Creators Syndicate Web site at: http://www.creators.com/opinion_show.cfm?columnsName=ses

[jackbill]

I wonder just how many newspapers carried it in the first place? Not many, I'll bet.

[EggsAckley]

RE: excerpting. I agree with all of you about the excerpting that's been going on. I mean, why FORCE us to go to the source, anyway? If the source is posted we will go there if we want.

I think Ben's onto something. I've been thinking the same thing lately. It is MOST annoying.

[Paul Atreides]

Dear Susan,

PIG BUBBA IS WATCHING YOU

[colorado tanker]

Susan's lucky that only the column had a spike stuck in it.

[hellinahandcart]

Don't know, but it was posted here from the St. Petersburg Times yesterday, and it is gone today...

Wonder if Blumenthal threatened to sue?

[Paul Atreides]

If I was Susan, I'd be watching my back, only fly big commercial airlines, and wear a fire-retardant suit when cranking my car. Oh yeah, the pets would start sleeping in the house.

[My2Cents]

Separated at birth:

[cgk]

Don't know, but it was posted here from the St. Petersburg Times yesterday, and it is gone today...

FReeper shortstop grabbed it before they took it off their website and posted it Here.

[demkicker]

"I wonder just how many newspapers carried it in the first place? Not many, I'll bet."

I really do want to know which newspapers normally carry her column. This is great. Good ol' Susan is witnessing first hand how her beloved party stomps on freedom of speech. This is SOOOO rich, I might have to diet tomorrow!

[colorado tanker]

LOL!

[martin_fierro]

I want to hear from all of the "dissent is being stifled" whiners.

If Estrich protests by posing nude on some magazine cover, I'm holding you responsible. <|:)~

[Gritty]

Who ever knew Susan Estrogen wrote a column? I thought she was just hired as a shrieking head to give "balance" to sit opposite anybody with a brain that Liberals in management thought needed to be talked over.

"What have I got to do? I write a column, I send it out and on this one column, everybody that runs it spikes it."

Poor Susan! She's just had a glimpse of what is was like trying to say anything against the clintons back in the 90s. In fact, she may seriously consider not visiting any dark alleys at night.

The next time she wants to see one of her witless columns published, she needs to say something fawning about the clintons. Then she'll get printed all over the country!

In fact, she better do it quick, while she still has unbroken fingers capable of typing!

[drstevej]

Susan might just find herself sunbathing here...

Hillary believes in pay back!

Fort Marcy Park, Fairfax Co., Virginia

 

[Revolting cat!]

If Estrich protests by posing nude on some magazine cover, I'm holding you responsible

The cat, on the other hand, will be thankful for small favors - if they could put the fat Dixie Chicken's photoshopped head on a georgeous model's body, they can surely do that to this Ostrich witch!

[drstevej]

[hoot2]

"The Clintons are back."

c'mon...larry nichols tol the world...
they're NEVER goin' away...

[Mama Shawna]

that is toooo good! I always thought she looked familiar, but could never quite place it. This Christmas when I see the Grinch again, I will only be able to think of her! LOL, spewing my Friday night beer funny!!!

[Domestic Church]

" She was talking about this article yesterday on TV, and today...article go POOF...the tree fell in the wilderness..."

And next Estrich will go POOF.

[mo]

....."the power the Clinton's have over the mainstream press" -at some point we Freepers need to start a thread concerning the details of major media ownership-with respect to foreign owners, 501c3's,trans-national corporations etc...then we can email questions re what happened to Susan Estrich's column past the editors to the owners..