Letters to the Editor
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Release The Hounds!
How telling, that before I even read this column, I scrolled to find out how many letters had already been posted.
Get busy friends, the letters are ALWAYS the best part!
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Typical Paglia
What planet is she on? Pelosi more accomplished than Hillary? A laughable assertion.
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Salon's very own Maureen Dowd
Meow! Nothing like a nice, nasty gossip to get the emotional juices flowing. Viragos, egos, nastiness. Paglia's little number reads--as it often does--like a Desperate Housewives script. Presumably it matches DH in fictionality as well.
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...--sputter ..;;
Feinstein "handles and deflects media queries with silky ease ... exuding both authority and compassion." Okay, Cam -- so THAT'S what's important. The pass on torture, the free ride for the telecoms; the racist Judge Southwick ... mere sideshows, I guess. You amaze me, really. Policy? Positions? Beliefs? All bullshit. Reels the mind.
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indeed
If Camille Paglia says something in a forest and no one hears it, is it still self-indulgent, shallow, and completely narcissistic?
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...Speaking of Madonna
"It's as if when the butch mask drops, there's nothing inside but a boiling candy kettle of infantile rage and self-pity..."
Funny. Sounds like what happened to Camille back in the nineties when Madonna never returned her phone calls.
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Forfeiting the right to bitch
Sorrry Camile: anyone old enough to remember 1968 and how the left gave us Nixon, only to support Ralph Nader in 2000 ("The White Luxury vote" - Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.), has automatically forfeited the right to bitch about whoever the Democrats put up. Period.
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Yes! She's back!
Camille's last several columns haven't been so edgy. This one is a treat (if not quite a feast)!
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The Camille Paglia Haikus
Camille Paglia
Inconsequential blather
Please give her the axe
Camille Paglia
Pretentious bloviator
Make it go away
Narcissistic hack
Same shit every bloody month
Camille Paglia
I’m sure many of you are much better poets so please feel free to add your Haikus!
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Paglia need a course in remedial English
Never have I seen a person get things so completely wrong.
If you understand the meaning of Hillary's words, far from being waffling and evasive, it is a very well thought out and coherent position. But we live in an era where journalists are stupid and pundits want to play gotcha.
Stanley Fish got it right in his recent Times article. People have trouble with Hillary because she gives answers with more than one part.
Joan Walsh deserves the harshest criticism for having this fraud write for Salon.
Shame on you, Joan Walsh.
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Say What?
Camille may be guilty of being "self indulgent" at times, but "shallow"? I'm sorry, she is anything but "shallow". Feel free to disagree with her -- hell she invites it every time she opens her mouth. Provocative is her stock in trade. But the "shallow" label just doesn't stick.
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Oh no! Camille Paglia's Uncomfortably Blurring the Conservative/Liberal Boundary!
Quick, cover your ears!
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It is getting hard to be a subscriber.
These Paglia pieces are getting quite tedious in their contrariness. They have me thinking of not renewing my subscription. Now if you could get LaPaglia to write something that might be refreshing.
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If you truly understand the meaning of Hillary's words...
you understand why she's rightfully been referred to as Cheney in a pantsuit...
Sure, she's a Democrat, but then so so is Ben Nelson or Diane Feinstein. As with so much in politics, the cognomen ofttimes does not match the reality.
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Oh, too funny
I love seeing all of Hillary's bitches come out to defend her. How anyone can fall for her transparent crap is beyond me.
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Yawn
Is this really the best Salon can do? Paglia had her 15 minutes in the 90s. Her writing sucks (you can hear the entropy whipping through it)and her thinking is unoriginal, uninspired and one dimensional. She's a bloodless never-was.... she doesn't even qualify as has-been. Ugh it's so depressing. On her greatest day on earth she couldn't hold Mailer's jock.
To paraphrase Mr. Hemingway: If I knew for certain that by grinding Ms. Paglia into a fine dry powder and sprinkling that powder over Mr. Mailer's grave, Mr. Mailer would shortly reappear and commence writing, I would leave for Philadelphia tomorrow morning with a sausage grinder.
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Dianne Feinstein as President? You gotta be kidding
Feinstein is one of the biggest enablers of the bellicose anti-Iran agenda in Washington. Does Paglia really want a leader whose first act as President would be to start a war with Iran?
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On Feinstein
"She handles and deflects media queries with silky ease."
I guess that is one way of describing dissembling.
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i Don't Understand why
I don't understand why all these women are so blind to the pitfalls of supporting HRC. As a woman, I would love to see a democratic woman as president. that is not Hillary.
She is the opposite of what I concider a real role model. She got where she is solely on nepotism. What a real lesson for all those young girls. marry the right man and your career is made. that is how you get ahead in the world. Back to the 1950s, I'd think.
Her lead is due in large measure to the compliant press who has given her a coronation and glowing coverage for a year. One bad night and watch the queen go off the edge. Yet democrats are fooled into thinking she is the best against republicans. If a candidate who got where she is by her marriage and cannot take one night of serious questions, how in world do they imagine she is best against the republicans?
And if over half of her own party will not vote for her, like myself, and independents and republicans are just as turned off by her, why do democrats think she is the most electable.
Camille, I suggest you do an article examining why democrats are so dense when it comes to picking candidates and think the most unlikable are the best picks. (mondale and dukakis come to mind as a blueprint for Hillary).
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I'm not a Paglia fan, BUTTTTT
she has nailed Hillary on this one. Her fans, the Hillary-bots, are relentless, humorless, and will not allow anyone to question the inevitability of Her Inevitabilityness. On the various blogs, the Hillary-bots are a plague.
WHenever I consider supporting Hillary, I read some trenchant, mordantly obtuse and flagrantly humorless diatribe from some Hillary-bot, and I realize that any candidate who attracts syncophantic robots like these turds has serious problems.
Chris Dodd's the man. GIve him a charisma transplant, and all would be well.