Eleanor Clift's Extremism

I think of Eleanor Clift as one of the media wonder women of the Left.

Helen Thomas, Clift, and Maureen Dowd are the run amok voices of liberal extremism.

Depending on your politics, they can be considered either superheroes or the enemy's useful idiots.

Clift has an interview with Jimmy Carter in the upcoming issue of Newsweek.

There are some excerpts online.

Although Clift questions Carter about Ken Stein's criticism of Carter's new book and the allegations of plagiarism, it seems like Clift isn't being a tough reporter as much as she's serving as an enabler for Carter.

Noel Sheppard of NewsBusters has a stinging account of a column Clift wrote shortly after Tim Johnson suffered his health crisis, "Tim Johnson's health crisis is a reminder of the fragility of the Democratic majority. What the party should do now."

Clift begins her column:

The possibility that the Senate might yet remain in Republican hands is a godsend for President Bush. With his Iraq policy in shambles and the Joint Chiefs of Staff resisting a last call to arms, Bush must have been wondering whether the higher power he consulted before taking the country to war had abandoned him.

Word that South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson had suffered a brain hemorrhage that could leave him unable to serve out his term has repercussions throughout the body politic. On a human level, everybody hopes and prays for Johnson’s recovery. But this is Washington, and with the Senate poised to do real damage to Bush and his war party, not everybody’s prayers will be answered.

Sheppard comments:

I’m not kidding you, folks. That’s really how she started an article that was published roughly 24 hours after the Senator was rushed to the hospital. Frankly, I’m so disgusted that I don’t want to cut-and-paste any more of this disrespectful drivel. Those with a stronger stomach than I should click on the link above, but I’m outtie, for I need to go scrub this filth from my fingertips, hug my children, and imagine a world where people have more concern for their fellow man than Eleanor Clift obviously does.

Here's some more of Clift's "disresepectful drivel":

Just as Wellstone’s untimely death cost the Democrats a key Senate seat, Johnson’s illness should inject a sense of urgency into the Democrats’ agenda. No one would have put the robust-looking Johnson on an endangered list. Democrats have plenty of octogenarians and septuagenarians to worry about making it through to the next election. A health crisis that strikes without warning is a reminder of the fragility of the Democratic majority. With the direction of U.S. policy for the next two years riding on Senate control, Democratic leaders can’t afford to sit around figuring out how to position the party for ’08.

That's beyond bad taste.

She's so callous.

Clift certainly destroys the myth that libs are compassionate.

When I heard of Johnson's health emergency, I didn't think of control of the Senate.

I came to terms with the Dems being in control of Congress weeks ago.

It didn't even cross my mind to do anything other than hope and pray for a speedy recovery for him and wish his family the best at this difficult time.

Clift's fretting over all those Dem octogenarians and septuagenarians is postively ghoulish.

It truly creeps me out.

Politics trumps human decency for some of these libs. Disgusting.

Another disgusting Clift moment came on The McLaughlin Group this weekend.

In a discussion about the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group, Clift screeched that the war in Iraq is lost.

She said, "This is about managing defeat."

Why are these Lefties so bent on insisting that the U.S. has suffered a humiliating loss in Iraq?

It's as if victory isn't in the Dems' vocabulary anymore.

Did Truman look at Japan and approach the war in the Pacific as how best to manage defeat?

Clift and her defeatism is nuts.

By studying history, we can learn from mistakes; but we also can learn from triumphs.

The libs don't get that.