Letters to the Editor
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Viva Monica !
I'm so glad someone American has decided to laud Monica Vitti - Italy's answer to ,say, Goldie Hawn (with maybe some Cristina Ricci mixed in).Thanks Camille - you sure know your movie stars.
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Wow
I don't always agree with you Camille, but always enjoy you. This time you've nailed it. Thank you.
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PHILLY LIBERALS OUT OF TOUCH, NATURALLY.
"If he has failed thus far to reach working-class whites, it's because he's a dewy and somewhat reserved newcomer on the national stage."
"...dewy...?" hahahhahahahhahahhhahhaha.
You tell a guy who's living in the suburbs, making over $100,000 a year with overtime from the GM plant, has an RV, a boat, a motorcycle, a $250,000 home with a two-car garage, kids in middle school, wife who is probably a nurse/teacher/office professional bringing in another $45,000 a year, who has 4 weeks paid vacation each year, can afford Disneyland anytime he wants it, that the reason he isn't cozying up to Obama is because Obama's still "dewey."
I want to be there for that conversation! lol
Obama will NEVER reach the so-called working-class whites because HE and YOU do not know who they are, but you suspect who they MIGHT be, and you don't want a damn thing to do with ANY OF THEM. I challenge anyone who thinks Obama is a "man of the people" in the vein of Jackson or Roosevelt. He isn't. And he has no track record to say otherwise. Actally, he has no track record at all, does he?
The so-called white working class of this country are the pragmatic voters who smell phoney-baloney at 20 paces. Obama supporters seem to be the elitist, navel-gazing, liberal asses that sit around falling in love with ANYTHING that is opposite the status quo, and, of course, everyone who is "just brilliant!"
Obama is right up Philadelphia's myopic, liberal, left-over Hippies from the 70's asses! You all have done such a good job of letting your city rot from the inside out with one-party corrupt rule. Why should any Democrat any place across America trust your judgment?
Philly: Where the liberal white players still treat African-Americans like children and use them to their own ends. Where everyone considers himself or herself "an activist" even if they haven't done a damn thing since 1980 except make money. Philly: The Democrats that gave the word "liberal" such a bad meaning, we had to go and find another word, "progressive."
Let's see: Where are all those feminists now when they finally get a chance to back up their 40 years of bitching? Shouldn't they be turning out in droves for HRC? Oh yeah. I forgot. They will back the black guy because it's so much more of a "liberal" statement than supporting the white woman.
Liberals, heal thyself.
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au contraire
Shawn WM: "Salon, get rid of her or lose me"
Thanks for the chuckle. Quick suggestion - if you know that you don't appreciate Camille's style of writing, how about this: don't read it. Unless you actually need a victim to target with your own vitriol, a common characteristic of many frustrated with the presidential election season.
Camille, I think you're a hoot, even a thoughtful one. The Limbaugh comment caught me off guard as it didn't seem in context with the rest of your line of thought. I personally view Rush as a self-inflated blow bag, but that's because in my reality he exists to be the target of my... vitriol.
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Victimists for Hillary
Bravo. It's about time someone spoke the truth. People say that Obama supporters are starry-eyed. CLinton supporters are just plain blind. Wake up people! She was the wife of a serial philanderer who took credit for the internet bubble! That's her experience! That and empowering Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld to commit a disasterous war. What's incredible is how Clinton supporters will forgive in Hillary the same bullshitting they decry in Bush. Again, WAKE UP!
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Written from a Country Schoolyard
Camille is a beautiful elegiac writer, always full of pictures and images. She usually includes what amounts to an old song, which I especially enjoy.
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Camille the Writer
Whether you like her or not, you'd be hard pressed to find a better writer than Camille Paglia.
I'm not surprised by the letters from readers of this article who threaten to stop reading Salon.com because of Camille. They probably mean it, too. I suspect they mean it every 2nd Wednesday of the month--in the wee hours--after having tip-toed to their computers to see what that nasty Camille Paglia has said to piss them off this time.
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BE A REAL WOMAN - LIKE CAMILLE.
As woman in America these days, we just can't win with you, can we, Camille. You are just too smart for us. How nice that you have it all figured out so the rest of us can just lap it up. And we're so impressed that all the women you idolize are European. And how can we disagree with your take on Hillary Rodham Clinton? I mean, you know her personally so well, right? I guess we all cannot aspire and achieve Pompous Ass status like you, Dearie.
Interestingly, many of us who have been raising children (and not neglecting them for lesbian affairs, by the way) have been watching now for over 30 years how corporate-greed and indifference have been reducing our femaleness down to nothing more than another shade of lip gloss. And yes, we watch in horror as yet another Hanhah Montana-like marketing phenom is created to tap into our pocket books.
And yet even YOU hold out actors as the real heros to be imitated, copied, and worshipped - and the only difference is your list is from another era and country. Were these women the same off the screen as on the screen? No.
Neither you and your intellectual crap, or Hollywood, have the market cornered on defining feminism or what should be female. Thought we had that debate decades ago?
In the words of today's misguided youth, "Bitch, please!"
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Camille Piglia
Is just one more reason to vote for Hillary. Apparently, Senator Clinton is mulling over whether to add free-to-the-pubilc 'de-programming' in her health care platform. Heaven knows the healing will be needed.
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I'm rolling around, sniggering
at the nonsense.
somebody actually wrote the following sentence...
have been watching now for over 30 years how corporate-greed and indifference have been reducing our femaleness down to nothing more than another shade of lip gloss.
The ultimate 'victim' screed. 'Femaleness' is so wimpy that an imaginary enemy has whittled it down to a tiny red nub.
I concur with CP, European women ARE better. They do not act all 'victimmy' and they do not aspire to imitate plastic dolls either. They understand men better than American women could imagine even if they wanted to.
And it is the most UNSEXY thing for women to declare themselves victims of a marketing initiative. It means you have the spine of a wet noodle. How is that sexy?!?