Posted by Lee Russ on 8/14/2007, 4:10 pm, in reply to "Re: Columnist: To save America, we need another 9/11" Funniest thing you've ever written. You've accused God knows how many politicians (almost always or always Dems for some reason--???) of acting with purely political motive. The PNAC statements about America's place in the world come very close to expressly admitting that they see things like 9/11 as opportunities to change political course. It would be a lot easier to take Estrich seriously, by the way, if she did not do so many of things to other people that she complains about when they are done to her. She has a knack for basing political criticism on personal traits and behavior, which some (those she attacks) might well consider unwarranted personal insults. And it would be a lot easier to take her complaints about "boycotts and countervailing boycotts" and "Threatening advertisers" if she hadn't done those very things herself: Here's one for the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished file: On Feb. 13, the Los Angeles Times published a special Sunday opinion section featuring exclusively women writers in the first few pages. Two pieces were from the left: Science writer Deborah Blum regretted that that there are too few women scientists, while academics Caryl Rivers and Rosalind Barrett coauthored an argument against the notion that men are generally attracted to young, pretty women over high-achievers. Two were from the right: I suggested that perhaps women shouldn't be pushed against their will toward science careers (a longer version of this is up now at the Independent Women's Forum), and IWF coeditor Charlotte Allen lamented that feminist ideologues have replaced public intellectuals who happen to be women. In response, USC law professor and Fox News pundit Susan Estrich sent an angry mass e-mail the next day to her rich and powerful contacts; she urged them to complain to Times editors and boycott Times advertisers until the paper includes more women in the opinion section.
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"I'm glad that I can see politics with less devotion to only one side, than you have."
"But you're over the top, bordering on vilification and hatred."
Based on a belief that the White House and related neocons saw Iraq as a political opportunity? That's absurd.
"See Susan Estrich's column which I posted here."
I already saw it. Nothing that I posted here comes close to what she's talking about. I've seen what she's talking about, coming from both the left and the right. I've had it directed against me by some folks who are rabid right. None of it has anything to do with my post.February 17, 2005, 1:17 p.m.
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Susan Estrich et al. just don’t sound all that smart.
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