Letters to the Editor
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Time to close the book on Camille Paglia
Does anyone still read anything this hag has to say?
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It's time to close the book on Camille
Why does Salon insist on giving this gossipy crank ink? She is to Salon what Kristol is to the Times...an embarrassment.
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Thank you Dr. Paglia...
As a gay man I've often read Paglia as a woman who harbors a certain animus towards men. I'm glad she took advantage of this news opportunity to pile on both Clintons. I hope she was able to work out her feelings on some of her issues.
Is Paglia a qualified psychiatrist or is she just freelancing here? Does she feel the same way about John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt, other philandering Presidents, or is her bile flavored Clintonian only. Or is the difference here Bill Clinton's having taken advantage of "poor white" girls?
This article is really strange. I'm hoping Paglia riffs on this theme again. I think she does an excellent job of presenting evidence for a new mental malady.
You have to wonder why Paglia is so concerned about Hillary Clinton not having taken her advice to divorce Bill.
I think this article is an excellent example of what most Salon contributors have been denouncing of late.
I would suggest that Dr. Paglia write a paper on this new and frightening psychiatric malady associated with Clinton obsession. Perhaps, she might name it Pagliatonia.
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Finally, a woman with real balls...
...and a cogent writer. After reading a few vicious letters, I see that I am in the minority here. So let me ask a question: why was it OK to 'parse' Bill's upbringing and psychodrama but it is not OK to examine Hill's? No, don't answer that...she's a woman, so she gets a pass. Puhleeeese.
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I don't know why Obama supporters assume that he can end partisanship
What, as soon as he wins the nomination, the Republicans are going to be so dazzled by his serene optimism that they're going to declare a truce?
These are people that turned the war hero John Kerry into a coward traitor in the public eyes.
These are the people that ravaged their own man John McCain.
These are the people who called anyone who disagreed with them traitors and made the national discourse so shrill in the first place.
The Clinton's didn't start the partisan rancour in Washington, and the Obama's can't end it.
The only candidate who has a proven track record of neutralising the rabid right wing is Hillary.
Just ask Newt Gingrich or Bruce Bartlett or Christopher Ruddy
Or read this New Statesman article.
http://www.amconmag.com/2007/2007_10_22/index1.html
Obama and Edwards are fresh meat. They will be swiftboated. All that talk about hope and change isn't going to matter much when Clear Channel stations are playing "Barack the magic negro" around the clock and Fox news starts calling him Barack Osama.
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It's not "contrarian" compared to most of what's out there
Yes you see: Man has affairs, woman doesn't immediately divorce him, thus woman is pathologically damaged and needs tabloid analysts like Paglia to lay out how twisted and terminally sick she is.
First of all in Europe they'd find all of this insane right off that bat.
It's such a....coincidence! that these are the same views put forth by the rabid right, but here visited on us monthly by this... what was that word some of the Paglia supporters here use.. ah yes, "contrarian".
What I'm thinking is that if Bill O'Reilly were given a column in Salon, some of you would write to say hey, keep this guy, we need a breath of fresh air around here, he's a contrarian, not the usual echo chamber blather, etc etc.
I'm absolutely certain that you would in fact. And yes, it would all be true, in a sense, it certainly would be exposing us to badly-written, poorly-thought-out, boringly predictable knee-jerk views that aren't generally what people who read this zine are thinking.
The same kind of thing that fills the airwaves and printwaves virtually without pause, out there in mainstream land. This is why I read Salon, to avoid that sensationalist nonsense.
By the way, the extreme right LOVES Camille. They cite her columns all the time. "Look, even a "liberal" admits we're right!" they love to say.
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Feminazi. That's right, feminazi.
My God, how many reader posts have I read here that call Bush a facist, a monkey and a thousand other slurs. And yet most folks at Salon can't handle feminazi? Jeeze, get over yourselves. If you're gonna dish it out, kindly be able to take it.
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She makes a good point.
Regardless of what your personal opinion of Hillary is, what do her supporters really think would happen if she were elected?
Do they really think that the 43 per cent of the American people who actually hate her (and the 95 per cent of Republicans who do) will actually fall in behind her and make her the slightest bit effective as a President?
Feminists may want to elect Hillary to make a statement, but they might want to think of what the price to their Democratic party will be to make that statement.
Going after Paglia for saying what she says about Hillary is just killing the messenger to make up for getting bad news.
I am generally a wobbly, centrist, voter, like an actual majority of Americans, I believe. Guys like McCain, and Obama, attract me. People like Hillary and Huckabee, repel me.
The far left, and the far right can do what they want to make themselves feel good, but if you want to get something done, you ought to be thinking a whole lot more about what a Hillary presidency would be like as far as dealing with the Republicans. Unless, of course, the point is to make a statement rather than getting anything done.
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Close the Book on Hillary
I would agree w/your description of Hillary, however, Obama is a fantasy weaver. He has exhibited NO ability to lead, actually make a decision or solve problems; and his immigration stance is wrong and weak at the very least. As far as his powerhouse wife is concerned - do we need another "tag team" in the White House? We do not want another "big mouth", know-it-all (shades of Hillary). I'll be interested to see if the media asks the hard questions in the coming months. I believe the liberal, America-haters support Obama because they see him as their weapon of choice.