I don’t read her often, because I don’t need to wade through leftist clutter to be amused by sophisticated wit and the occasional nugget of stunning clarity. Pejman Yousefzadeh gives me every bit the wit she could, he’s a conservative, and his intellectual well….let’s put it this way, it’s deep enough you don’t see pennies in the bottom.
Nonetheless, since Paglia chose today for a ridiculous and gratuitous dish on my boy Mark Davis, I deigned to put on the hip-high boots and take a stroll in lefty fantasy-land.
I wish I had not bothered.
According to her [bold = direct quotes]:
Conservatives repeating assassination jokes and “liberal” conspiracy theories on talk radio could be an ominous sign of things to come, but when Wanda Sykes calls Rush Limbaugh treasonous, and hopes he dies — to the smiles of Obama and the outright laughter and clapping of a roomful of majority media hacks who mostly said similar things about Bush — those are clumsy jibes. Mark Davis is obviously a glib horse’s ass, but Wanda Sykes is a feisty comedian…who is usually hilarious.
[the article was frankly full of self-contradictory pap, but I simply do not care to dissect it all. Just another example - I am generally happy with Obama's eagerness to tackle long-entrenched social problems, although there is sometimes a curious disconnect between what he says and what he does. -- shorter: he's bold, he just lies alot]
When the right starts making movies about an Obama assassination, when they start camping outside of Obama’s Chicago home with protests and signs when he drops by to rest and recharge, when they openly call him a liar and an America-hater on the Senate floor, maybe THEN we should hear about ominous signs from conservatives.
Just like ominous signs were reported about the left during Bush’s presidency.
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Oh wait…..
It is utter fatuous nonsense to ascribe to the right behavior which is sometimes found on the fringe but never in the mainstream — but which is found, by contrast, daily and prominently in the mainstream of the left. Not just lefty bloggers and pundits, but high-ranking elected Democrats. It is not possible to be more opposite of correct here than Paglia is. An intellectually agile person simply cannot come to a conclusion so completely bereft of any justification.
Color me exceedingly unimpressed. Maybe this was just a really, really bad column for her. But God knows, everybody on the right — be they politician, newsman, blogger, governor’s daughter, or plumber — gets judged by the absolute worst moment in his life that can either be discovered or invented. That’s the playing field the left created, so it’s tough noogies if you think Camille Paglia is all that and a bag of chips. If I were to judge her entirely by this one column, I would come to this conclusion:
At the end of the day, Paglia’s a garden-variety overwrought lefty pundit who could not find her elitist arse with both hands, a map, a compass, a GPS, and MapQuest™.
PS – to those on the right who want to get frantic and say “you can’t SAY that, she likes us sometimes”, or “but she’s so smart and clever!”, or “she’s big, she can squash you like a bug” [well, THAT one has some merit] I can only say:
Get ahold of yourself, man!
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the whole broken clock thing...
RJD (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 5:21PM EST (link)This column comes off like she is trying to defend her leftist bona fides.
“No, I’m still Liberal. Please stop sending me hate mail.”
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Sorry, wouldn't p** on Salon to put them out...
furious (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 5:40PM EST (link)…if they were on fire, much less surrender $3.00 for their stellar content; however, I did notice this on their subscribtion page:
Salon is owned by its shareholders, not a giant media conglomerate.
Umm, Salon Braniacs, by whom are media conglomerates owned?
–furious
“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
Did the link require something?
E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 6:08PM EST (link)I know I’ve never sent them $3.
Kill the Terrorists
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Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO
...did for me, but then I probably...
furious (Diary) Thursday, May 14th at 1:00PM EST (link)…double- or mis-clicked. I stand by my huffy utterance.
Speaking of shareholders, SLNM.OB hasn’t been very remunerative to their own.
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“I find your lack of faith disturbing.” — Darth Vader
When you click the link, the first page that comes up invites you to subscribe...
randy streu (Diary) Thursday, May 14th at 1:02PM EST (link)but there’s a link on the top right that says “continue” or something. click that.
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The "those bad republicans scare me" meme is becoming a constant among the Lefty pundits, for two reasons:
randy streu (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 6:10PM EST (link)First, because they are pansies.
Second, because, like them or not, those crazy loony lefties KNOW how to control the rhetoric. This is the political equivalant of sitting in the back of the van and slapping yourself, then blaming it on your brother. It is classic manipulation, and they are damned good at it.
The real trick is to keep calling them on it.
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This was 2nd or 3rd piece by Paglia I'd read
BAW Wednesday, May 13th at 6:11PM EST (link)I think it was linked at Drudge and the headline included “Gibbs should be fired” which would explain why I read it. I always thought Gibbs cavalier attitude about the flyover incident was indicative of the administration’s insensitivity.
But what really jumped out at me was her reference to “susceptible minds” in the part about Davis reading Feherty.
“…Feherty’s vile fantasy, was an inflammatory political act that could goad susceptible minds…”
The woman is simply blinded to reality if she is more concerned about the “susceptible” minds on the right than on the left. Not just because the crazies on the left are mainstream but also and more importantly because followers of the left are such sheep. They are not independent thinkers, they are incapable of reasoned debate, they believe what all the crazies say and last but not least they are angry, screaming, profanity spewing lunatics.
The fringe on the right might very well be dangerous but they have no support and they are not encouraged by the mainstream.
I know I’m not as smart or refined as Paglia but I’m satisfied I’m more rational because of her huge glaring Liberal Blind Spot (Liberals good, conservatives bad).
This may be part of the turning point.
Flagstaff (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 6:21PM EST (link)Until yesterday, I felt that the ardent democrats were at worst ignoring facts and bringing up opinions as they defended each other and the Obamanation. That changed as I saw and heard Lannie Davis (on Hannity) defend Nancy Pelosi with the “She was attending classified briefings. Of course she couldn’t tell us what she heard” canard. A classic Clintonian gambit. No attempt to confront the facts, just an end around following a complete misrepresentation of reality. No only is his statement a non sequitur, it attempts to derail the discussion with a red herring.
Now, we find that Camille Paglia has signed up for the campaign. Damn the truth, full prevarication ahead.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Lannie Davis is like Joe Isuzu
kyle8 (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 6:39PM EST (link)He is a horrible little lying shill for every evil democrat machination, but for some reason all the right wing talking heads seem to love him.
Man does he have them buffaloed.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
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Maybe it's because he's so transparent
Flagstaff (Diary) Thursday, May 14th at 12:43AM EST (link)ly partisan and wrong. He’s easy to refute.
When we bother.
But Hannity AGAIN missed the opportunity to correct the record–we did NOT prosecute any Americans for waterboarding prisoners after WWII, and what the Japanese did to their POW’s was NOT waterboarding–it was sadistic torture-murder, from which nobody walked away.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
How would Camille like something like this about Obama?
Beaglescout (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 8:49PM EST (link)Death of a President (trailer) and entire movie about the assassination of George W. Bush, released in 2006? Hailed by the left…
Who is hateful and deranged again?
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Try reading the comments on her article
Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 10:32PM EST (link)They’re pretty uniformly derisive and all criticism is from her left, sometimes way to her left.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Well, actually
Finrod (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 11:02PM EST (link)Reading further, it seems about 1 in 10 are actually fairly conservative comments. Still, it’s overall pretty heavily tilted.
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Think Paglia would ever read the comments at Salon?
Erick Brockway (Diary) Thursday, May 14th at 2:37AM EST (link)If she did, she would find her own left is in fact MORE hateful than anything she would hear from the right.
Even the despised (by the libworld) Rush Limbaugh actually talks and gets along with Camille Paglia.
Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.” -Ronald Reagan
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I still like Paglia for the most part
bk (Diary) Thursday, May 14th at 7:18AM EST (link)regardless of how much we differ on politics.
She still hasn’t gotten over her infatuation with Obama however. She’ll criticize everyone around him but not the guy who placed them there.
If liberals were more like her instead of ready to just lie about anything and everything, we’d be a lot better off.