"It's gotten to the point that I can hardly listen to my favorite shows"

By Kathy G.

Camille Paglia's latest excretion has some real beauts. To wit:

Meanwhile, conservative talk radio, which I have been following with interest for almost 20 years, has become a tornado alley of hallucinatory holograms of Obama. He's a Marxist! A radical leftist! A hater of America! He's "not that bright"; he can't talk without a teleprompter. He knows nothing and has done less. His wife is a raging mass of anti-white racism. It's gotten to the point that I can hardly listen to my favorite shows, which were once both informative and entertaining. The hackneyed repetition is numbing and tedious, and the overt character assassination is ethically indefensible. Talk radio will lose its broad audience if it continues on this nakedly partisan path.

Comments

[Low Key]

Stop shitting me. You are making this up.

[SqueakyRat]

Yeah, the level of discourse on wingnut radio just isn't what it used to be, Camille.

[El Cid]

Yes, because if there's anyone whom we need have lecture us about insanely uninformed and overgeneralized assertions made without the slightest bit of evidence or systematic reasoning, it's Camille Paglia.

[Judith]

Camille Paglia's points of view on a variety of subjects are at times in conflict with the views I hold near and dear. Nevertheless, I do find the woman's intellect to be exceedingly brilliant and fascinating. I believe it is her very brilliance that poses the stumbling block for many who read her commentary. As with others whose IQ and intellect dwell in the upper reaches of measurable and beyond, Paglia has that ability to observe and describe in a manner that many of us simply misunderstand.

Personally, I liked her recent piece, "Obama's best veep choice". Though, unlike Paglia, I've never enjoyed listening to the "right wing-nut" talk shows. I do agree with her assessment of Hillary Clinton's endorsement speech on Obama. Frankly, I couldn't believe the MSM was oohing and awing over it for although Hillary called out Obama's name numerous times in her effort to encourage her supporters to support him, to me it seemed half hearted as she still used that speech to toot her own horn.

[aw]

I do hope that Camille's 220 IQ helps her get to the bottom of the Vince Foster enigma!!!

[bacaangel]

These conservtive talk radio shows are nothing more than Hate shows and they are the Real Anti-Americans! It is anti-American to spew hatred, to not be of aid to one's neighbor, to not be concerned about the huddle masses! What more people can do who listen to this hatred and divisive speech of these hate masters is to call their Sponsors and let them know if they continue to support them you will stop buying their products.

[mcmc]

it seemed half hearted as she still used that speech to toot her own horn.

OMG! No candidate has ever done that before, of course. Usually they commit ritual suicide.

It would be hard to believe that Paglia still getting published, if the media's taste for contrarian nut cases weren't so well known. I can hardly wait until she's moth-proofed and warehoused with Coulter, and they bring on the next generation of fresher, less compromised loons.

[mcmc]

Oops, my italics disappeared.

[GayAsXmas]

You missed the line in the third page where she blames American women and Sex and the City for turning lots of lovely talented men gay.

I say Item 3 of the Homosexual Agenda has been rumbled!

[El Cid]

I believe it is her very brilliance that poses the stumbling block for many who read her commentary. As with others whose IQ and intellect dwell in the upper reaches of measurable and beyond, Paglia has that ability to observe and describe in a manner that many of us simply misunderstand.

That prior comment must be a joke. Many of Paglia's arguments don't appear to be half-baked and trite because we're all too stupid to get what she's really saying.

Further, it's an insult to brilliant women who actually work very hard to construct reasoned and evidence-backed arguments to suggest that their disagreements with Paglia are perhaps due to their lack of IQ.

[El Cid]

Note: Tried to blockquote the 1st para from Judith above. So the 1st para is a quote. My low IQ obviously blinded me to the particular formatting rules of this blog.

[Sir Charles]

It is sad, indeed, that the once informative Rush, Hannity, and Wiener Savage shows aren't what they used to be. Why there was a time when they resembled Socratic dialogues, leavened with wit and wisdom and a sense of bonhomie -- now there is a hint of the ugly. What an unpleasant and sudden shock this must be, even if you have an IQ of 1200.

[johnbpt]

Camille Paglia: still crazy after all these years.

[tlsintx]

Camille is a mystery. That's good.

[Joey Giraud]

"As with others whose IQ and intellect dwell in the upper reaches of measurable and beyond, Paglia has that ability to observe and describe in a manner that many of us simply misunderstand."

Wrong. The most brilliant people with high IQs have the ability to observe and describe in a manner that's crystal clear.

I.Q. and education don't guarantee clarity of thought; I've known many brilliant fools, and Paglia is one.

[isaac]

judith is your real name, camille?

[MattF]

Poor Camille. "The world is what it is and not some other thing".

[tlsintx]

the sad fact that rush, hannity and wiener savage have "radio shows" at all convinces me that camille should continue to speak.

[Cathexis]

Too many in the MSM seem to have accepted the Kool-Aid that anyone who is not Right (i.e., if they are Center or further Left) is officially "Far Left" and anyone who dares question or criticize is "the Angry Left" (and thus, dismissable).

Basically, I believe it is their craven attempt to shift the goal posts to make people think that "Standard Right" is the new Center.