Clownish Carol Moseley Braun wants Sun-Times columnist fired

On my way home from last night I heard WLS-AM report that former Illinois Senator Carol Moseley Braun is angry with Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg over his Monday column about her. She wants him fired.

Moseley Braun is running for mayor of Chicago.

Here's a snippet from that column:

Alas, after February we won't have Carol Moseley Braun to kick around anymore, and I for one will feel the loss. She represents the egomaniacal muddle that Chicago black leadership has slid into, where calls for imaginary and self-destructive racial solidarity trump minor concerns like reason or history.

Like Barack Obama 12 years later, Carol Moseley Braun was the last Democrat standing in a bizarre primary election that allowed her to cakewalk to victory against a weak Republican opponent in the general election. She was the Chosen One before Obama was the Chosen One. But the similarities end there.

Even before she was sworn into the Senate, her troubles began. Instead of attending an orientation session for new senators, she spent a month in South Africa, the home of her then-fiancee Kgosie Matthews. He was later accused of sexually harassing campaign staffers--which was quite ironic because anger among women over Anita Hill's accusations against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas greatly assisted her election win.

Her Washington staff was populated by Spinal Tap drummers--which means they weren't around very long.

Then there is Nigeria: Matthews was a lobbyist for the African nation--and Moseley Braun traveled there seven times during her six years in the Senate--Nigeria was then run by brutal dictator Sani Abacha. Meanwhile, the Clinton administration was trying to isolate Nigeria.

Accusations of Medicare fraud involving her mother and campaign finance improprieties are other Moseley Braun demerits.

The odd thing about Moseley Braun's ire about Steinberg is that none of these embarrasing episodes are mentioned in his column.

Rather than calling for his head, Moseley Braun should instead be thanking Steinberg for giving her butterfly-sneeze of a campaign much needed publicity.

Carol Moseley Braun? How about Carol Mostly Clown.