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So ridiculous:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/05/13/7_days_in_may/index.html

i'd pull out quotes, but the whole thing is idiotic. The basic thrust is that Paglia thinks right-wing radio has gone a tad bit over the top and she's slightly disappointed.

Here, here's one quote:

"The degree to which Obama is or is not a stealth socialist remains to be seen."

Here's another:

"Well, the one-year anniversary is approaching in late May of my slide lecture ("Varieties of the Erotic in 20th Century Art") at the Teatro Castro Alves in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil"

Whenever I've read her, starting all those years ago, I could never tell if she was joking or not - I still can't.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/07/08/reader_letters/

Callers coming fresh from her rallies are always heady with infectious enthusiasm.

Of course you'd never know that from reading hit jobs like Todd Purdum's sepulchral piece on Palin in the current Vanity Fair. Scurrying around Alaska with his notepad, Purdum still managed to find comically little to indict her with. Anyone with a gripe is given the floor; fans are shut out. This exercise in faux objectivity is exposed at key points such as Purdum's failure to identify the actual instigator of Palin's extravagant clothing bills (a crazed, credit-card-abusing stylist appointed by the McCain campaign) and his prissy characterization of Palin's performance at the vice-presidential debate as merely "adequate." Hey, wake up -- Palin cleaned Biden's clock! By the end, Biden was sighing and itching to split.

Whether Palin has a national future or not will depend on her willingness to hit the books at some point and absorb more information about international history and politics than she has needed to know in her role as governor. She also needs a shrewder, cooler take on the mainstream media, with its preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags. The Northeastern media establishment is in decline, and everyone knows it. Palin should not have gotten into a slanging match with David Letterman or anyone else who has been obsessively defaming her or her family. Let surrogates do that stuff.

Hey, wake up!

god salon is so awful

preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags

hmmm who does this remind me of...

The Beatles?

"Ringo was always the preening one."

preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags

Ringo, George, John, Paul...

still lollin @ HI I AM THE AMAZING RANDY

I forgot how loco this thread got.

RIP Vision

camille paglia's the political and social version of chck delcaring amy grant's heart in motion better than nevermind

challopae

sauteed challops

Glad to see much-loved poster "Vision" back under a newly portentous moniker

are you sure the quotation marks are around the right word?

please don't be serious, what do I need to killfile?

lol I'm not being serious but what is it with ppl called things like Vision or Freedom or Spectrum or thirdalternative

I'm sure if you start a thread about this it will go exceptionally well. ...

Breitbart also began to reconsider the education that he had received in Tulane’s American Studies department, where, in his off-hours from partying, he had been exposed to critical theory. “I wanted to read Mark Twain and Emerson and Thoreau,” he says. “And I remember moments in class where I thought my head was going to explode, going, What the fuck are these people talking about? I don’t understand what this deconstructive semiotic bullshit is. Who the fuck is Michel Foucault?” He came across the work of Camille Paglia, and was captivated by her analysis of the takeover of academia by the left.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/05/24/100524fa_fact_mead?currentPage=5#ixzz0oDZlrFwc

preening bullies, cackling witches, twisted cynics and pompous windbags

paul, yoko, john, george

Breitbart, who is Jewish, grew up in Brentwood, an affluent part of Los Angeles. He seems a familiar bicoastal type until he starts explaining his conviction that President Barack Obama’s election was the culmination of a plot, set in place in the nineteen-thirties by émigré members of the Frankfurt School, to take over Hollywood, the media, the academy, and the government, with the aim of imposing socialism. “He’s a Marxist,” Breitbart says of Obama. “His life work, his life experience, his life writings, and now his legislative legacy speak to his ideological point of view.”

the frankfurt school won, guys. but now, thanks to camille paglia, and andrew breitbart, it will lose.

breitbart and justin beiber should form a policy think-tank.

one doesn't get the concept of german, the other doesn't get german concepts

if paglia is responsible for breitbart, it could be she's the worst human being in the world

we don't have a breitbart thread i guess?

anyway this article is a treasure trove

His companions were similarly urbane. One of them was Kurt Loder, the former MTV News anchor, with whom Breitbart found intellectual kinship after discovering that Loder had participated in an event hosted by Reason, the libertarian magazine

"hahaha i am stupid and a terrible writer" http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/opinion/27Paglia.html

this piece is so bad

not to mention sort of racist

every sentence of this is a piece of shit. what a dimwit.

never read any of paglia's books, was she always just a troll basically or did she get stupid later?

i couldn't tell you tbh, i've never read her book-length stuff either, just her opinion work over the years.

my sense is, like a lot of old people, she writes as if the positions she's been arguing for years have to be accepted as true. "as i conclusively proved in my magnum opus years ago..." is the invisible clause beginning each paragraph, basically.

don't understand how the piece ended up talking about rock music

I read bits of Sexual Personae in college, but yeah she's always been a troll

I do wonder if Mike Karnon ever found his book.

Best one-time poster we ever had?

man i hate camille paglia

she's always been a troll

― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:18 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this, basically

calling her a troll is giving her too much credit imo. the kids on 4chan are more provocative than she is.

no, i think calling her a troll is pretty accurate.

oh hai, sarahel

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/files/2010/01/tommy.jpg

i mean, trolls can be effective or shitty ... but for most of the 90s she made a career out of trolling the Ivy League

I just wouldn't overstate the influence she's had on the Ivy League (or graduate humanities in general). I've never run into her thoughts in a classroom or even in a discussion with a colleague. The first time I heard about her was from a friend who had majored in Lit in undergrad, but never pursued any kind of graduate work and I haven't seen her impact elsewhere. Tho I wasn't in the academe in the 90s, so maybe she was floating around the discourse more then.

I just wouldn't overstate the influence she's had on the Ivy League (or graduate humanities in general).

Agreed. She was more about ridicule and attempts at discrediting it in the court of popular opinion. Her name and ideas didn't really have much traction in the classroom, kinda like canonical rockism on ilx in a way. Maybe?

she owes her entire career to the 90s mania re: "political correctness"

basically, on the rare occasions someone would bring her up, the professor would roll his/her eyes, and say something diplomatic along the lines of, "I'm sorry, we only have a limited amount of time here. If you sincerely feel Camille Paglia merits discussion, you can do so outside of class."

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― Vision, Sunday, September 14, 2008 12:44 PM (1 year ago)