Letters to the Editor
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Yuck.
"What a crass solipsist, clod and yahoo O'Donnell is -- and what a bad advertisement for both liberalism and lesbianism. I thoroughly enjoyed Donald Trump putting the shiv to her with his eye-opening insults of withering accuracy. The list of O'Donnell's faults overfloweth -- beginning with her stentorian humorlessness and her infantile rudeness to her cohosts and ending with her crackpot conspiracy theories and her constant flaunting of her banal regimen of antidepressants."
You've GOT to be kidding me! Cheering Donald Trump — who, near as I can tell, justified his tiresome henpecking of O'Donnell by calling her fat and unattractive — is about the grossest thing Paglia could've done. I've learned my lesson and won't be reading her banal, lazy trash anymore.
And that first sentence — Jesus! Projecting much, Camille? I used to love your shit, now I cringe when I see your byline.
Salon, can this clod. Give her salary to Greenwald.
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A Colorful Italian Entree For Thought..
What can I say, this is Paglia's editorial quality to provoke serious thought in top form. She continues to make us Italian Americans proud. Rock on!
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You Might As Well Have Renditioned This Line to Eastern Europe:
"Billing and spooning with Judy on Walters' show, he seemed like a puritanical poker coming up through the runny butter-cream frosting like a 5 o' clock shadow."
Yikes- talk about tortured prose. What does that even mean? Did this line come to you as you read the latest serialized Collier's down at the drugstore while drinking a butterscotch phosphate through a red-striped straw? It's like watching a seven year old try to walk in high heels.
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Excellent and to the point
Although I quibble with a few pararaphs the rest of this essay really resonated with me. Thank you so much for writing about classical music! No one ever does and I think neo-Romanticism is in.
I disagree about Donald v. Rosie--except Rosie can be a tough person to defend. I try, but really, she's such a crass, unhappy boob at this point that it is just pathetic.
As "good" as things are going for the Democrats, any honest Democrat must admit that when it comes down to brass tacks, ours versus theirs, you have to think the GOP is going to steal it again. Obama has the ability to project strength and calm and that is an extraordinary asset. And probably just what this country needs. But if Guiliani gets through the primary, he looks like the type of guy who wears teflon--they have a lot of them over there in GOP land--and in the end the scandals, the women, the burn-civil-liberties to-the -ground syndrome, may not matter. Americans might say "we like him. He was mayor on 9/11. and we need a butch tough guy." THINK America, think.
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Paglia must not read Salon
or she would have seen Glenn Greenwald's great reasons to immediately disqualify Giuliani and Romney from presidential consideration.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/04/01/romney_giuliani/index.html
Various Republican candidates attended a meeting of Club for Growth, and afterwards, National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru spoke to Cato Institute's President Ed Crane about what they said. This brief report from Ponnuru is simply extraordinary:
Crane asked if Romney believed the president should have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens with no review. Romney said he would want to hear the pros and cons from smart lawyers before he made up his mind.
Mitt Romeny can't say -- at least not until he engages in a careful and solemn debate with a team of "smart lawyers" -- whether, in the United States of America, the President has the power to imprison American citizens without any opportunity for review of any kind. But in today's Republican Party, Romney's openness to this definitively tyrannical power is the moderate position. Ponnuru goes on to note:
Crane said that he had asked Giuliani the same question a few weeks ago. The mayor said that he would want to use this authority infrequently.
It sounds like Giuliani is positioning himself in this race as the "compassionate authoritarian" -- "Yes, of course I have the power to imprison you without charges or review of any kind, but as President, I commit to you that I intend (no promises) to 'use this authority infrequently.'"
Two of the three leading Republican candidates for President either embrace or are open to embracing the idea that the President can imprison Americans without any review, based solely on the unchecked decree of the President. And, of course, that is nothing new, since the current Republican President not only believes he has that power but has exercised it against U.S. citizens and legal residents in the U.S. -- including those arrested not on the "battlefield," but on American soil.
What kind of American isn't just instinctively repulsed by the notion that the President has the power to imprison Americans with no charges? And what does it say about the current state of our political culture that one of the two political parties has all but adopted as a plank in its platform a view of presidential powers and the federal government that is -- literally -- the exact opposite of what this country is?
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mitt romney. Mormon.
All I can say is, calling Mormons non-christian may be sectarian tunnel-vision, as well as inaccurate.
But calling Mormons willing victims of one of the most egregious frauds ever created in the name of religion is probably about right.
Anyone who would actually take the origins of that religion seriously is not themselves to be taken seriously, pace Harry Reid (but not at all pace Orrin Hatch).
I know some will find this offensive. But before you get offended, do some deep reading about the origins of the LDS Church. Then tell me I'm wrong.
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Yay Camille!
More Camille!
Keep Camille!
That is all.
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Rosie & Camille: separated at birth?
"Solipsist, clod, and yahoo"--as Stan says to Ollie, "Like two peas in a pot."
Aside from having nothing to say (and she never did), Paglia's prose is decidedly slack these days. Sloppy syntax, gummed-up metaphors, lazily free associations, trivially banal observations. She's the reincarnation of Andy Rooney, and he ain't even dead yet.
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Pages torn from Paglia's diary...
Dear Editor,
Do you read over Camille Paglia’s columns before they go to print or does she get carte blanche to write whatever self-indulgent drivel that spills from her head?
Just curious.