Girl Fight! Girl Fight!

Myrna Blyth pulls Susan Estrich's hair:

Estrich, best noted for her crackly voice, strident pitch and perpetual sneer whenever she appeared on Fox during the presidential campaign (her astute analysis usually went something like:“ Nah-nah-nah, Sean, you’ll get yours when you learn how smart my friend John Kerry is — - ” ) started it all, of course, with her vicious e-mail attack and her outraged and outrageous call for a jihad against the L.A. Times and its advertisers.

That was followed by some reporting by Editor and Publisher about the real paucity of female voices on editorial pages, a report that everyone picked up. Wrote Howard Kurtz in the Washington Post, “In the first two months of this year, about 19.5 percent of op-ed pieces at the California paper were by women, 16.9 percent at the New York Times and 10.4 percent at the Washington Post. Only a handful of female columnists — Maureen Dowd, Ellen Goodman, Molly Ivins — are nationally known.” Of course, Kurtz didn’t bother to mention what we all know — that three out of three of those nationally known columnists are liberals and two out of three had, during the past year, written Bush-bashing best-sellers.