Letters to the Editor
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Drop Paglia
Publishing her without at least a laughtrack or tiny 'total egotist shit sandwich' icon/ pointers alongside is simply offensive. Whatever your rationale is, it's defintely wrong and there's got to be a better alternative.
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What scares you?
She said:
Since when did any nation -- even America, which I love -- become...
I ask:
Amazing isn't it?
Why is it that when these wingnuts decide to criticize America they have to first express their undying love and admiration for America? Who or what are they afraid of? Who is it that they feel they have to impress?
Oh oh... watch out, here come the PATRIOT police....
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Word Limit Please!
Next time you let Camille just dump her inbox onto your sight could you give her a word limit?
I ask because its kinda fun to watch her disassemble every month into her nested loop of tired themes (like which has-been actress she’s twiterpating over this week, the dazzling genius of Rush Limbaugh, etc.) but it’s just too damn long when you give her eight pages!
I’m not asking you to give her the axe, just limit her to three or four paragraphs so we can get a chuckle in before moving on to serious writers like Greenwald and Kamiya.
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Now this is very odd. She's seems to be growing on me a bit.
I read all the way to page 7. I disagreed with almost everything she said except her thoughts on the Second Amendment and on Waco.
However, I found her more readable. I am not one of those people who gets upset when I disagree with someone or they with me. I think she is more readable because answering letters forces her to organize and focus a bit.
What rather confused me was her take on the Mormon Church. She seemed to be saying that Mormons were Christians because they came from the same root. By this reasoning, Jews are pagans, Christians are Jews, and Muslims are Christians. Somehow, I don't think they would agree with that.
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Glenn Greenwald just vomited
The public will not look favorably on Congress (already rock bottom in the polls) tying itself up in knots with endless investigations and show trials.
Polls show that the public is in favor of more investigations. But I suppose Camille in her infinite wisdom knows best. After all, she did talk to some black employees at Popeye's so she clearly has her fingers on the pulse of America.
I wonder how Joan Walsh can run a smart guy like Glenn, then run an idiot like Camille who does everything Glenn rightly points out is wrong with media today? And this is the same Joan who said that Imus being a shock artist was not an excuse but part of the problem.
The letters and their responses with both awful as a rule.
And how long is Camille going to pretend that she was against the Iraq War? Really it boggles the mind.
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Wes
Camille pontificates, "Western values of individualism and free expression would be obliterated under the fundamentalist regime sought by militant jihadists."
Western values of individualism and free expression would be obliterated in the event of a Martian invasion as well. That's about as likely as a fundamentalist militant jihadist regime coming to power in America. Unless it's Christian jihadists you're referring to...
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THANK GOD FOR SANE SALON READERS!!!!!!
Short on time here. Agree absolutely with every word of every single person who posted about this latest Paglia crap - in fact, all of it. Joan - I watch you on TV and am most impressed, but what are you thinking here? This fake person really needs to take a hike - a LONG ONE!!!!!! s staples
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Paglia's alternate realities
"I feel very sorry for the Iraqis, who have been brutalized by decades of tyranny and strife. But quite frankly, as an opponent of the war, I feel no responsibility for them. They must resolve their own thousand-year history of sectarian violence."
American air strikes have killed tens of thousands of Iraqis, the overwhelming majority of them civilians. Possibly the numbers are in the hundreds of thousands. I invite Camille Paglia to look at Michael Schwartz's writings in this area.
We have plenty of responsibility for creating this war, as well as for the somewhat less brutal decade of sanctions beforehand-- even if Ms. Paglia thinks she has none.
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Roll me over.....
And just today I was dreaming our long, dark night of the Camille was finally over at Salon, and now this! When is this woman's contract up? Somebody make it stop!
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Rotten egg
When I was kid in high school, I plagiarised an english lit paper written by my sister, then a freshman in college who had won freshman honors for the paper I had copied word for word. The nun who was my english lit teacher, gave "my" paper an F. Naturally, I was pissed but couldn't explain why. So when I went to see her I groused that she had marked up only the first few pages, and accused her of reading only the first few pages.
Her answer to me was: "You don't have to eat the whole egg to know its rotten."
This is precisely the feeling I got, deep in my gut, reading Paglia's responses to the letters she cites. I couldn't get past the second page.
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NO more
Stop... just make her stop. Starts to read like some cheesy effect from an old Dr. Who episode. While sometimes fun to watch... we've all moved on... and she should too...
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"James Randall" makes even her sound reasonable by comparison but is it really possible
for an actual human being to really believe sincerely in this compilation of half witted talking points; it literally reads like someone did a search of a database of all Bush & Cult speeches of the past 7 years and printed out the 10 most frequently occuring phrases.
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Dear Editor,
Thirty four letters to the editor so far:
33- virulently loathe Paglia (the majority being subscribers)
1- saying they disagree with her but find her style more engaging this time around.
0- positive letters
Does that tell the editors anything? How much longer are you going to hold your readers in contempt?
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Here's one positive letter
I must differ with the onslaught of hate letters posted here today. Having found Paglia way off the rails often in the past (although consistently challenging and entertaining, which is a good reason why Salon should keep her), I've found this time her answers to the letters (even those hysterical ones) sharp, sensible and amusing.
Good work Camille!