When Far Leftists Attack…

Michael Dukakis’ Campaign Manager. Believe it or not from Susan Estrich’s recent column on Fox:

Most mornings, my assistant goes through my e-mail before I do, culling out the ones that are simply vicious, vindictive and mean, so I don’t have to see them…

It’s the unbridled ugliness that gets to me, the people who don’t disagree but hate, don’t criticize but attack with a sledgehammer, use language I wouldn’t use with my worst enemy. Often, very often actually, the subject of their ire isn’t even anything I say, but the mere fact that I say it or write it on Fox News.

That’s right, the woman who ran ultraliberal Michael Dukakis’ campaign is attacked for the leftist heresy of appearing on Fox. This unhinged behavior isn’t limited to e-mails though:

Some years ago, I was in a ladies room, straightening out my skirt, when a famous celebrity I had long admired began berating me mercilessly for working for FOX News. How can you do such a thing, she asked, rhetorically, because of course she had no interest in my answer.

It was clear that she didn’t want to hear my arguments about reaching an audience that could prove decisive, as opposed to the pleasure of singing for the choir– much less the fact that some of the people I work with at FOX are actually decent people who value dialogue and reward personal loyalty. She was right because she was sufficiently famous that clearly no one had ever told her otherwise.

As she slammed the door in my face, though, I got in the last word: If you don’t like FOX, start your own network. Put your money where your mouth is. Now, whenever I see her, I smile, and she looks away.

While, the Internet is the focus of her headline, the problem is an unhinged lefty movement that despite all it’s talk of tolerance isn’t very much at all tolerant with someone who doesn’t go along with their gameplan. She even said some e-mail refers to her as a “traitor.”

This is the face of the far left and those folks driving the Democratic Party and it is ugly.