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No Shrinking Violet
small dead animals —
No Shrinking Violet Camille Paglia , an Obama supporter, gives Palin her due : Pow! Wham! The Republicans unleashed a doozy -- one of the most stunning surprises that I have ever witnessed in my adult life. By lunchtime, Obama's triumph of the night before had been wiped right off the national radar screen. In a bold move I would never have thought him capable of, McCain introduced Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska as his pick for vice president. I had heard vaguely about Palin but had never heard her speak. I nearly fell out of my chair. It was like watching a boxing match or a ...
Camille Paglia on Palin, Liberals and Feminists
QandO —
She’s been one of my favorite lefties for years. Some excerpts: How Palin impressed her: Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step ...
Silence of the Wolves
Hit & Run —
A trivial yet telling anecdote from the Sarah Palin Wars that have riven this country asunder: My wife updated her Facebook status with a throwaway line about how stay-at-home First Dude Todd Palin is a "dreamboat," and immediately multiple friends jumped down her throat, because that just ain't funny. Here's one thing to remember during this made-for-Camille-Paglia and largely substance-free news cycle, aside from the fact that it cements Tim Cavanaugh as a seer for his December 2002 reason piece about "the ...
Party on the verge of a nervous breakdown
Citizen Crain —
... and to say that he is "absolutely fine". It was only days after seeming to demand that Palin submit to a maternity test to prove that her youngest child was her own (he has since backed off such crazy talk). Camile Paglia, a partisan Democrat herself, said it best : The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. ...
Inviting Paglia
Vodkapundit —
On Sarah Palin, Camille Paglia writes, “Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism.” Brand new style? Really? Camille, I love you and always have. But you need to spend a little less time in the Northeast. Palin’s brand of feminism is nothing new — you’ll find gals just like her all over Alaska. Heck, you can even find them right here in Colorado. Providing you’re out in the real Colorado, and not holed up in Boulder or Aspen. C’mon out sometime and see for yourself. Tagged as: ...
Obama’s Outrage Shows His Unpreparedness
Stop The ACLU —
... Hussein Obama is nothing less than the same old product of the Chicago Democrat Machine. Change… He doesn’t know the meaning of the word. If he hopes to defeat Hillary Clinton for his Party’s nomination in 2012 then he’s going to have to learn how to deal with a hostile press and people taking what you say out of context because that is what the job entails - like it or not. Because he’s losing this election and even the most hardened Democrats are realizing this. Salon.com columnist Camille Paglia has even written… I must admit that McCain is currently eating Obama’s lunch. ...
The Daily Bric-A-Brac: I So Enjoy The Ghawker Website
The Atlantic Politics Channel —
... the start of the Republican campaign. Now, the Politico reports that Carol Khare Fowler reduces Palin's resume to her deciding not to have an abortion. Here's what that Ron Paul thing was all about. Campaigning against the earmarks one once loved.... Meghan McCain knows that her father has LOPed before. Rewriting the rewritten history: Sen. Jim DeMint on how Palin did stop the Bridge. Camilla Paglia: Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin ...
Camille Would Simply Adore Fries With That!
Sadly, No! —
Camille Paglia:
One reason I live in the leafy suburbs of Philadelphia and have never moved to New York or Washington is that, as a cultural analyst, I want to remain in touch with the mainstream of American life. I frequent fast-food restaurants, shop at the mall, and periodically visit Wal-Mart (its bird-seed section is nonpareil).
Oh, snapæ! I shall take Camille’s delightful rota of activities for maintaining one’s common touch under quite welcome advisement, as I fear I have been terribly remiss of ...
A New Kind of Feminism
PoliGazette —
... delivered the speech nearly flawlessly — though I was shocked and disappointed by how little there was about foreign policy, a major area where wavering voters have grave doubts about him. Nevertheless, it was an extraordinary event with an overlong but strangely contemplative and spiritually uplifting finale. The music, amid the needlessly extravagant fireworks, morphed into “Star Wars” — a New Age hymn to cosmic reconciliation and peace,’ Camille Paglia writes for Salon. ...
Palin unhinges feminists on the Left
neo-neocon —
... that appeared at the website “On Faith,” under the aegis of Newsweek and the Washington Post. It was written by Professor of the History of Religions Wendy Doniger, who teaches at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and it contains the following astounding line referring to Palin [emphasis mine]: “Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.”
Thankfully, there are a few feminist voices who beg to differ. Camille Paglia is one:
Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an ...
Frontier Sarah
Ben Smith's Blog —
Joe Klein and Camille Paglia, who don't always agree, have strikingly similar takes on Sarah Palin's narrative appeal.
Paglia:
The gun-toting Sarah Palin is like Annie Oakley, a brash ambassador from America's pioneer past. She immediately reminded me of the frontier women of the Western states, which first granted women the right to vote after the Civil War -- long before the federal amendment guaranteeing universal woman suffrage was passed in 1919. Frontier women faced the same harsh challenges and had to tackle the same chores as men did ...
Palin: “They hate her because she is not a victim”
The Anchoress —
... . I’ll link to other Palinsanity further down, but now I recommend you take the antidote to The Weird Sisters by reading in full Camille Paglia’s exquisitely reasoned and written exposition on this descent in to madness, what does and means to feminism, and to women; how it exposes their fears and insecurities and - most importantly - how their inability to discuss abortion with intellectual and emotional honesty will be their ruination. As well as Paglia articulates it all, even she cannot get into the sickness fully enough. Still, she gets closer than anyone and this is a ...
Bashing God by Dissing Sarah
The American Spectator —
... power of the state as an object of worship, this is taken as a serious, gut-level threat. A threat to the existence of their own very carefully structured non-religious secular value system. They may say they are opposing Sarah Palin. What they really want to defeat is the idea of God. The Governor also quite vibrantly exemplifies something else, a something else that rattles the American left to its very core. She is indeed a feminist. In the words of Obama supporter and feminist Camille Paglia , Palin represents "an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Decline and Fall of the Obama
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Two superb essays on the ongoing collapse of the Annointed One's campaign. From last week, Camille Paglia's meditation on the savaging of Sarah Palin and what it revealed about the democrats and their MSM allies. From today's WeeklyStandard.com, Michael Weiss' "Losing It: Democrats Despair As Obama's Campaign Falters ." Desperate Dems are now clinging to market woes as a sort of life preserver, as though a major financial crisis recommends the community organizer who has never spent a day running anything other than his flailing campaign. The defection ...
Hugh Hewitt: The Decline and Fall of the Obama
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
Two superb essays on the ongoing collapse of the Annointed One's campaign. From last week, Camille Paglia's meditation on the savaging of Sarah Palin and what it revealed about the democrats and their MSM allies. From today's WeeklyStandard.com, Michael Weiss' "Losing It: Democrats Despair As Obama's Campaign Falters ." Desperate Dems are now clinging to market woes as a sort of life preserver, as though a major financial crisis recommends the community organizer who has never spent a day running anything other than his flailing campaign. The defection ...
Palin Punishes Women for Reporting Rape
Politicol News —
... The women attracted to Sarah Palin's candidacy and the brash Annie Oakley figure described by Camille Paglia are not discouraged by Palin's positions on feminist cultural issues. But these same women are tired of a government that ignores the constant violence against them. ...
Paglia answers questions on Palin
protein wisdom —
... which did seem to fly by in fragments at times but are plainly ready to be filled with deeper policy knowledge, as she gains it (hopefully over the next eight years of the Obama presidencies). This is a tremendously talented politician whose moment has not yet come. That she holds views completely opposed to mine is irrelevant. Even if she disappears from the scene forever after a McCain defeat, Palin will still have made an enormous and lasting contribution to feminism. As I said in my last column , Palin has made the biggest step forward in reshaping the persona of female ...
Worst American Birthdays, vol. 48
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
... ) -- while heralding the rise of Sarah Palin as some sort of divine revelation, a Jungian archetype of the sort that fuels Paglia's unreadable, self-parodying academic work. No, really: ...
Camille Paglia Documents Obama's Mess of the Month
Weekly Standard Blog —
... Camille Paglia is a woman after my heart. First, there was her delicious and unexpected tribute to the "muscular American feminism" of Sarah Palin. Then, there was her ...
