Letters to the Editor
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found quote
Here's the Paglia quote I mentioned in the last post. It's from Salon on 10/29/03.
"And the hair! All that faux-Kennedy stuff that Democrats like Kerry and John Edwards can't get rid of. They're so out of it! Don't they see that hair styles have changed and that flowing locks don't signal authority? Look at Bush's short cut -- it's a Roman general's style. Rush Limbaugh hilariously refers to John Edwards as "the Breck Girl" -- perfect! And Edwards' whole chirpy, boyish manner -- who thinks that's going to fly in the age of terrorism?"
So over 3 years later she's still harping on Edwards' hair and admiring Bush's "roman general" style! Nice priorities. NOT.
Limbaugh "hilarious"?! Can't wait for Ms. Paglia's next column on the new Fox news attempt to ape the Daily Show and SNL's Weekend Update. I bet she finds that hilarious too.
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Douchebag Loves Skinheads
Edwards is the real thing, an actual "American dream" kind of story, and he's one helluva trail lawyer. So, lettem think the fluffy hair means he's soft; they'll find out different. Camille's electronic best friend must have run low on batteries.
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600!
Where's my prize? Maybe Salon might realize the outcry about Paglia is not worth the trouble? Nah, who am I kidding, it's all about the green.
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I've really only been aware of her from "Sexual Personae"
I never listen to talk radio and hardly ever watch TV news other than PBS so I guess I wasn't really aware of how much right wing footwork she has been doing. I guess I can see why people other than Dworkinists don't like her.
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Pander-Mania
"At the Popeye's drive-through (where I was ordering Cajun wings), I blurted in agitation to the window lady, "Anna Nicole Smith just dropped dead -- tell everyone!" -- which she promptly did. The staff inside (all African-American) were startled and incredulous."
---And then the minimum-wage-earning, grease-stained, bottom-feeding, disenfranchised, reviled, ridiculed, uneducated and unwelcome members of America's congenital slavery-spawned underclass were so moved by your boundary-crossing gesture of pop-swill solidarity that they sang a gospel song of transcendance and redemption for the dead fat drug-saturated talent-free redneck cock-sucking white lady, right?
"…it was Sean Hannity's lively show that tipped me off to the Code Pink video with Hillary. And Rush Limbaugh, who fathered the radio boom, features Paul Shanklin's brilliant parodies -- such as his recent, full-throated version of Lerner and Loew's song 'They Call the Wind Maria' (pronounced 'Mar-eye-ah'), which became John Kerry singing 'They Call the U.S. Pariah.' I was in stitches."
---Because you're so fair-mindedly non-partisanly above it all that you aren't *nauseated* by the very voices of the venal, creepy, napalm-smooth cheerleaders of a slime-drenched cannibal/vampire junta responsible not only for hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths but also for the Stalinist zeitgeist of modern American 'life', and debasement of the notions of truth, freedom of speech and justice in the West, meanwhile destabilizing doomsday flashpoints around the planet and inspiring a virulent anti-American bloodlust in the middle east it will take centuries to neutralize, right?
"Though I am a professed atheist, I have been arguing for 20 years that the study of world religions should be basic to the university core curriculum."
---Because none of us sane, enlightenment-tutored agnostics have been through enough of a hideous flaming shitstorm of life-hating, pleasure-damning, terroristic onslaughts and cultural fallout from zealots of every possible nutjob Darwin-denying, woman-stoning, infidel-decapitating, child-shooting, nigger-hanging, abortion-clinic-bombing stripe for the past sixty years so we need it all rubbed in our faces as an institutionally-validated view of reality, right?
You're so COOL, you out-of-touch, phony, desperate-for-attention (and relevance) pseudo-intellectual yuppie muff-munching harpy shill!
(Is *that* what you wanted to hear?)
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If Edwards' hair doesn't matter
...he can shave it. If it's getting in the way of his message, then he ought to.
The fact is, Democrats like Edwards, Kerry, Clinton (Bill) like to present themselves with magnificent heads of hair and a certain lack of specifics. Clinton 'triangulated,' Kerry saluted, and Edwards goes on about compassion and caring. None of them really go around making arguments to the public, they go around posing to the public as basically nice guys--as nice guys with great hair, that is. And people are going to notice this.
George Bush too has better hair than real policies--in fact, he is really more of a poser than any of them, with his tough guy belligerence and his ranch without cattle and his bullshit high school slogans (remember, a reformer with results? A uniter not a divider?). The problem is that his tough guy act came off as more authentic to the public than the Democrats's favored nice guy act. Bad guys will always win in these games.
The media is going to notice things like Edwards' hair. People like Camille are going to notice these things. It does no good to say that nobody should speak about Edwards' hair when his hair seems to be exactly what is front and center about him. You can't blame the media for reporting what is true.
If Democrats want their message to be heard by the public, they are going to have to put thir message front and center before the public and dial back on the media stunts and the cute posing and the soulful eyes and the slick phraseology. No more great hair, saluting, suit shucking, tank riding, wind surfing, hunting, sighing, hugging, caring, kissing, whatever. Frankly, it just doesn't work for most Democrats--Kennedy may have been the last one. Just get the crewcut and get the message out.
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Find me one FAG
instead of a lesbian, who get's any airtime. (And I use the phrase loosely, including the internets, radio, TV, print.) Heteromerica loves lesbians. They blow om each other's tittiesss titties, to meta-phrase Dave Chapelle. Camille is Rush Limbaugh's lesbian loofah fantasy.
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Ann Omnious
Wow! You are the wind beneath my wings.
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She's a lit professor
at an art school. Doesn't that say enough about her competence? Would you really listen to a science professor at, for instance, Juillard?
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She's a Boomer
Anyone want to parse that? The self-regard, the nostalgia for the 60s, the self-aggrandizement at the expense of the common good?
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Go Ann Ominous!
More! Come on kids, let's keep this show on the road - we can hit 700. The country is so not about Camille Paglia anymore, and neo-fascist-skirting schtick. Nerdnam is right too: it's the message that's the medium now, at least until we peel the country away from frat-boy armageddons. Then we can get all complacent and frothy again, or not, and Camille wouldn't do so much damage.
BTW Camille, I think Edwards and Bush actually have the same haircut - it's called the Executive Cut, you can get it at Supercuts for about $10.95. It's just that Edwards has, let's face it, better hair. And Kerry's supremely healthy mop - don't get me started.