Estrich Gets Ugly with Kinsley
I recently welcomed Susan Estrich to the enjoyable pastime of regular L.A. Times criticism. Now I’m starting to regret that I did. It has surfaced that Estrich wrote Michael Kinsley an e-mail that said, among other things:
People are beginning to think that your illness may have affected your brain, your judgment, and your ability to do this job.
Kinsley, of course, suffers from Parkinson’s.
Estrich should have never made this ugly comment; having made it, she should have immediately retracted it and apologized. Instead, she is apparently THREATENING A LAWSUIT in capital letters.
Her campaign against the L.A. Times looks like it’s headed the way of the Dukakis campaign, only nastier. If her comment to Kinsley is any indication of how she is going to behave, I want nothing to do with it.
She is still mad that she put Dukakis in that tank!
Comment by Flap — 2/22/2005 @ 5:55 pm
Good GRIEF she’s a nasty piece of work. I just read her website (URL *not* provided here by design); she’s whining about how the LAT doesn’t have a woman main page editor while there are others that do. So, should _every_ newspaper have a woman as a main editor? How is that different than a rule that they shouldn’t?
I’m glad Dukakkis lost. Now it’s time for her to get lost, too.
Comment by steve miller — 2/22/2005 @ 6:23 pm
She is still mad that Dukakis put her in that tank!
Comment by jreid — 2/22/2005 @ 6:24 pm
“THE NEW EDITOR, AN OLD “FRIEND” OF MINE, REFUSED TO ANSWER MY EMAILS, RETURN MY PHONE CALLS, CANCELLED EVERY TIME I TRIED TO GET TOGETHER…”
– Susan Estrich, Feb 21 2005
“But I just send you emails, suggest you carry others like Arianna every week, and invite you to dinner, and try to tell you about some of the important things happening in this town, because I don’t want to embarrass you. And you don’t respond to the emails. You cancel dinner, don’t call (your secretary does), don’t reschedule even though we call three times, nothing.”
– Susan Estrich, Feb 13 2005
From this, it sounds like Susan would make a poor contestant on The Bachelor as well.
Comment by Ladainian — 2/22/2005 @ 7:23 pm
Like a Blogtard, Only Without the Blog
Susan Estrich has completely lost it. And it gets even worse….
Trackback by damnum absque injuria — 2/22/2005 @ 10:15 pm
Does it strike anyone else that this whole hissy fit between a couple of liberals is just perfect for that rag, the L.A. Times?
Comment by russ — 2/23/2005 @ 5:00 am
After reading the background material you linked to, including her blog, I have to wonder if Estrich isn’t seriously unbalanced. And her lashing out at Kinsley over his illness is about as low as anything I’ve ever seen.
Comment by Tom Carter — 2/23/2005 @ 3:32 pm
Estrich is but another example of a spokesperson for the left who does more to drive away prospective followers than persuade them to enter the fold.
Comment by Bachbone — 2/23/2005 @ 5:50 pm
“I write and I call and you never return my letters or my calls…”
If I didn’t already know who Michael Kinsley and Susan Estrich were, I’d swear Mr. Kinsley had himself a bitter, smitten stalker.
In which case I’d recommend both a TRO and a daily brake-line check!
–furious
Comment by furious — 2/23/2005 @ 6:44 pm
Parkinson’s does not affect one’e mind. But Estrich is a “Journalist”, after all.
Comment by J. Peden — 2/23/2005 @ 8:45 pm
You gotta give Estrich credit for one thing. She accomplished one thing that as recently as two weeks ago I would have thought impossible: she managed to get both you and me to take the L.A. Times’s side of a public dispute.
Comment by Xrlq — 2/24/2005 @ 2:13 pm
Susan Estrich used to be a fairly sensible person. I don’t know what’s happened to her. Possibly her Parkinson’s comment represents a little pot calling kettle black — maybe she’s got some early-onset Alzheimer’s? That would explain a lot, as the first symptoms are often a decreased awareness of what is socially appropriate and a tendency to mindless purposeless paranoid anger.
Whatever it is, I regret the manifest decay of what was once a fine mind.
Comment by OC Dad — 2/25/2005 @ 6:11 pm
I liked the all caps quote from her e-mail, compaining about the L.A. Times opinion staff: “TWENTY-FOUR MEN AND ONE WOMAN IN A THREE-DAY PERIOD.”
I am personally terrified of women in their periods, but is there something particularly dangerous about a “three-day period”?
Comment by Tom Hynes — 2/25/2005 @ 8:35 pm