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Susan Estrich Susan Estrich (born Susan Estrich December 16 1952) is a lawyer, professor, author, political operative, feminist advocate and commentator for Fox News.

Estrich grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts on Boston's North Shore.
, who has come to think of herself as a political guru on the dubious basis of her experience running Michad Dukakis's campaign in 1988, recently applied to become a columnist at the Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times

Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name).
. When the editorial page editor, Michael Kinsley, turned her down, she speculated that his brain might have been damaged by the Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease or Parkinsonism, degenerative brain disorder first described by the English surgeon James Parkinson in 1817. When there is no known cause, the disease usually appears after age 40 and is referred to as Parkinson's disease.  from which he suffers. I don't like to use the word "contemptible con·tempt·i·ble  
adj.
1. Deserving of contempt; despicable.

2. Obsolete Contemptuous.



con·tempt
" about any other human being, but I do not hesitate to apply it to Susan Estrich. Anyone who reads Kinsley's column knows he's just as smart as he ever was, and I've never known anyone smarter.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at Windmills; Susan Estrich
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2005
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