Letters to the Editor
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I Can't Stand This Broad
stuff her back up her own ass where she belongs
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Are you keeping track?
I vote against continuing Ms. Paglia's column.
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wow
I've only read a few things by this woman and after reading this couldn't decide whether to kill myself or take a nap. Seeing the over 100 letters on this article made me think for a second "oh dear god no, please tell me these are not letters of adoration and thanks" for this woman's return.
Thank god I see I am not alone in how this prattle makes me feel. I concur with others on the board - my subscription is almost at renewal and this makes me think twice about paying.
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Camille's BACK! But...
"But what dismays me about current conservative radio, which is intricately engaged with daily political news, is its clumsy stereotyping of Democrats, who are indiscriminately lumped with the "kooks" of "the lunatic left" and whose rational objections to the Iraq war are slandered as knee-jerk anti-Americanism. These verbal tics and clichés undermine the intellectual credibility of conservative critique."
Um, Camille darling? You're just catching onto this NOW????
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I didn't really miss you
I read your first two books and loved them. I spent time quoting from Vamps and Tramps to my PC and feminist friends just to watch them recoil with horror. I was even able to forgive the fact that you praised the intellectually lazy, bloviating gasbag, Rush Limbaugh, once. But when you started polishing Rush's knob with numerous columns, showering him with the kinds of gushing accolades I'd expect from a 20-something girl discussing the latest Hollywood heartthrob, I'd had enough. You'd either completely sold out to the wingnut fringe or your once razor-sharp observational skills had been dulled by too many years in the lime-light. At that point, it might have been fun to skim your columns looking for an amusing dagger thrown at so scrawny blonde actress; it was no longer destination reading. Your columns had become what you often criticized, mere entertainment, intellectual junk-food.
Let’s hope you can get past that.
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God Perserve Us
Please, spare us from this furiously-trying-to-be-trendier-than-thou, self-obsessed glory hound. Who in the world missed her?
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Count me too
I'm with the collective "blech." There are all kinds of writers who can bring real intelligence to cultural topics both high and low. Paglia ain't one of them.
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Thanks for coming back!
It's always good to see other points of view! Camille's brain should be donated to science after she dies. To contain so many seemingly disparate perspectives at the same time is a feat in itself. I'm loving it. She knocks all the tchatckis off the shelf in one fell swoop.
Viva democracy!
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Oh, Jesus
Because there just isn't ENOUGH self-absorbed windbaggery on the internets these days.
It's my opinion that Camille has been hiding out in Yonkers somewhere, waiting for Molly to die, lest she stick her head out and receive another asswhipping.
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that does it
First, the "uppity" thing, then - you call that an apology? Or even an appropriate explanation?? Now, you give that person space in your zine?? It's been nice reading you. Well, it used to be nice, anyway. It's too bad, because I'll really miss the War Room.
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How disappointing
Why, oh why. . .
Couldn't you have found some other fresh voices to give your limited space to? Paglia has nothing interesting to say. . .and never has.
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My goodness, aren't we cranky?
My my my. Did somebody wake up cranky this morning? All this little letter-writers acting like 2yos--pitchin' fits, stompin' their feet, whinin' and screechin', threatenin' to hold their collective breath and cancel their subscriptions unless Salon kicks the big bad Camille out of the sandbox. Looks like about 100 people need a collective time-out. Or a big nap.
I haven't paid much attention for Paglia for, oh, about 10 years because there's not been much to pay attention TO but, dang, maybe I missed something because if she can get so many people riled up so quickly she (o, Salon's editors) must be doing something right.
Time to read her new column...
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Hey, Where Are the "Editors Choice" Letters?
I noticed no red stars, so I checked under the "Only Editors' Choice" option for reading letters, only to get the message "There are no Editors' Choice letters to display for this article right now."
More than 130 letters and no Editors' Choice? Could it be because the editors aren't reading the letters their readers are posting in response to their decision to subject their subscribers to yet another tiresome round of Camille Paglia's onanistic scribbling?
What kind of response did the editors expect, hiring this paid driveler less than a month after Molly Ivins passed away?
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I'm not going to waste any more of my life reading her
and I'm certainly not going to wade through 139+ letters to see if anyone's already said this, so: What does she have on somebody to be given back a spot she, thankfully, exited years ago? Who the hell wants her back?
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Molly Ivins hit the nail on the head about Camille
Once in a blue moon, Camille will say something I actually agree with. Oh well, a stopped clock is right twice a day. And to Camille's credit, today she did get it right about Anna Nicole Smith. (When ANS was alive, I wasn't her biggest fan. However, the cruel attacks on ANS since her death are totally unwarranted.) Had it not been for the promised Anna Nicole comments, I would not have wasted my time reading this article in the first place.
But like the late, great Molly Ivins, I am also turned off by at least 90% of her commentary, especially about politics. She thinks that Mitt Romney will be our President someday. Please God, don't let that happen! If even half the stuff I've been reading about him is true, he will be as bad as the jackass we have in the White House right now.
Thank God that I let my paid subscription expire in January! I do not need to spend my hard-earned dollars on a web site that features a columnist I dislike. I can get plenty of aggravation else on the Web for free, if that's what I want.
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I thought she was dead...
Camille is like the Tony Danza of the brainy set, who forces people to ask, "why do we keep giving this guy work?" I honestly liked her absence and merciful silence.
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step up to the LoudMouth!
If you took Morton Downey, Jr., the angry talk show host of the 80s, and forced him through 10 years of grad school , you would have Camille Paglia (if you were unlucky).