Letters to the Editor
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@Howard714
You seem to have a very convenient memory. Millions of women children and intellectuals died when we ran from Vietnam. To ignore that fact while advocating running away from a similar situation is disingenuous at best and at worst downright despicable.
-- howard714
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Howard, millions more people would have been killed in Vietnam if we had stayed. Your ignoring this fact of history is what is despicable. Another despicable thing you did is over-estimate the number of Vietnamese casualties. After the we left in 1975 there were no where near a million Vietnamese casualties. You are counting the deaths in Cambodia which right wingers like you wouldn't have done anything about anyway. In fact it was the Vietnamese who put a stop to the killing fields.
If we pull out of Iraq, the civil war will stop, and there will be fewer deaths. How do I know this is true? Because people like Howard say the opposite, and they have been wrong about absolutely everything.
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huh!?
The bright guys who used to be plumbers because they couldn't afford college are now doctors or lawyers. These professions do have strong unions to protect their interests, which explains why fewer and fewer working people can afford their services, and why socialized medicine is almost an inevitability.
By "these professions," I assume you mean the aforementioned doctors and lawyers. Really, they have unions!? What, precisely, is the name of the lawyers' union? The doctors'?
Your point about the trades, etc., is on target, but you're blowing serious BS with the above statement. And don't cry for the plumbers, electricians, etc. They're making good money, trust me. It's the framing carpenters, landscapers, janitors, etc., who need help.
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A cause they've long ago forgotten
Ms. Paglia asks "And what did that war actually achieve?" could be answered by reminding her that that after the Tet offensive in which the Viet Cong were totally destroyed, the dean of TV news Mr. Cronkite in his utter ignorance of the facts declared the war was lost, President Johnson allowed that if a TV pundit declared the war was lost it was lost and the democrats in Congress eventually cut off funding. This led to the entrance of North Vietnam's regular army into the war and the demcrats in Congress to cut off funding for American troops. The result was the communist domination of South Vietnam, the systematic murder of thousands of South Vietnamese and the the Pol Pot genocide in Cambodia in which several million innocent civilians were slaughtered. It is impossible to avoid a comparison of the negative reporting of today's liberal media acting as a Cronkite surrogate, the surrender democcrats led by "the war is lost' Reid and 'defund the war' Pelosi. Obviously none have read or understood Santayana's words "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it".
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Where are the black soap-opera superstars
"One huge problem, however, is that "All My Children," like most of the other major daytime soaps, has a deplorable record of integrating African-Americans into the cast.... And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? " Paglia
How amusing, criticizing all white soaps, while simultaneously demanding all black soaps. And I've heard people say you're smart. Wonder why, since this double standard is obviously a racist color judgment disguised as touchy feely Media-American double talk, that presumes self segregation over skin color differences is only racist for white people. I don't know any other Libertarian advocating either color judgment dependent self segregation or the racial discrimination inherent in its practice. You're the first. Looks to me, that what Rosie's doing for liberals and lesbians, you're doing for Libertarians.
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Here's How to get Camille of this Website
After months of reading Salon for free, I finally felt good enough about the quality to feel equally guilty about not paying to support it, so I got a subscription. After they let Paglia back on, I cancelled my subscription. I still, however, read the thing for free. This is the one example in the world where my boycotting of something to a political end has cost me nothing but a momentary inconvenience of waiting for the ad to play out...
so here's how you get rid of Paglia.
1. Everyone who wrote a letter against Paglia cancel your subscription. I guarantee that nothing will change except the money going into Salon's pocket.
2. Post a letter, list your sign on name and state: I just cancelled my membership. I will re-subscribe once you get rid of Camille Paglia's regular column.
Listen, its only 6 bucks a month. I wouldn't even notice it being taken out of my checking account. So its up to you Salon. I'll gladly support this thing if you get rid of her.
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oooh
Do I see the oh-so-tolerant liberals actually wanting to censor someone? Don't like someone or disagree with her? Silence her!
Yeah, I know you're the "smart" ones, but do you realize how stupid--and hypocritical--you all sound?
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Re: A cause they've long ago forgotten
Camille Paglia -
"This was an indictment of the contemporary Vietnam War, in which more than 58,000 American soldiers would die. And what did that war actually achieve?"
Vietnam was only one protracted battle of many against the Soviet Union during the "Cold" War. The Soviet Union is no longer in existence and that is what those 58,000 deaths helped to achieve. But those lives are still looked upon as "wasted" by those who exalt in tunnel vision, who inherited their unearned freedoms and wouldn't lift a finger to defend them.
Manion understood something Camille Paglia probably never will.
Ed
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Perhaps a useful observation?
I was just noticing that Paglia's column is operating on one thing and one thing only: Her own name.
If any first-year journalism student submitted this meandering bullshit to a professor, she'd get a C for arguments with no evidence, statements unfounded on logic, and ad-hom attacks everywhere you look. If any first-year creative writing student submitted this to the professor, the professor would be amazed at the complete lack of thesis-driven arguments or anything more than opinionated observation.
Apparently, Camille Paglia gets away with this verbal diarrhea for one reason and one reason only: She is Camille Paglia. We are supposed to stand in awe of her incredible powers of opinion. If there's one thing Paglia does well, it's tell us how right she is about everything, all the time, non-stop. This woman is a giant slimy ball of ego. What little talent she has would be put to better use in some kind of community college writing class where she could maybe relearn what it means to write meaningfully.
For comparison, look at Garrison Keillor's column. Opinionated? Always. Self-fawning drivel? Never. Keillor, as a cosnummate lover of literature, knows the difference between whining to his audience and telling them a story.
He also knows how to write a thesis.
Paglia is certainly not a journalist. What little else is left for her to be on an online journalism site, she's not very good at either.