Tell Us How You Really Feel: Camille Paglia Unloads On Hillary
Many of you of may groan to hear us say this, but here at Philebrity, we’ve always regarded Camille Paglia as one of Philly’s most notably awesome exports. Sure, she’s a lightning rod. Sure, some of her theories are robust flights of fancy. And yes, she is everything America fears and dismisses when it comes to feminism. That’s kind of the point. We missed it last week when it aired, but we’re listening to the archive now of Paglia on Radio Times With Marty Moss-Coane on May 23rd. Paglia was brought in to comment on the status of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and much as she didn’t in her column on Salon the week previous, Paglia also pulled no punches on the Marty show, either. Here’s a sampling:
The only way she is succeeding right now is to sow racial divisiveness [...]
The Clintons are so used to the sycophancy of the mainstream media that they are baffled that turning the same spotlight on her as everyone else [...]
Everything seems scripted, and that is why the media has every right to dissect her. She’s not a natural person, everything seems to be done by rote formula, agreed to, the message of the day. The message of day, her accent even, changes from audience to audience. Many people should be repelled by the condescention of the way Hillary treats the rubes of the countryside when she drops her G’s and adopts a different dialect for every different part of the country that she speaks to.
From there, Paglia expressed her extreme distaste for the arrogance of the Clinton campaign, how much the Hillz candidacy is setting women back, and more, more, more. And this, she was careful to remind the listeners, was coming from someone who once really, really liked Hillary.
Listen here in Real Audio [via WHYY]
May 27th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
LOVE her.
(I mean Camille, not Hillary.)
May 27th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
In other Camille-related news, she lavishes po-mo praise on a video posted online by a local group, formerly known as The Danbury Shakes, currently known as The Crystal Club (featuring your friends and neighbors of former and current local musical luminaries). Camo mistakenly refers to the Cali group who we realized had already beat us to the domain name, hence the moniker switch.
” Toronto’s National Post has been running a fascinating series by Lawrence Solomon on global warming dissidents, who don’t get much press in the U.S. My own philosophy about earth’s titanic, humanity-dwarfing operations is contained in a curious video I recently found on YouTube.com. Clips of volcanic eruptions and magma flows are set to the abstract “psychedelic” music of a California rock group, the Danbury Shakes. This eerie fusion of lurid natural images with a distorted, clashing soundscape is richly evocative of a 1960s vision that has been lost. The ’60s revolution, as I’ve argued elsewhere, was about much more than politics. Fanaticism about global warming reduces the eternal terrors of nature to a banal political melodrama.”
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/06/13/gore/print.html
Dig it.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I adore her. I especially admire her ability to cut through any kind of PC touchy-feely bullshit surrounding the concept of feminism, and lay it out the way it is.
I don’t share her total dislike of Hillary, but I think 99% of the points she makes are exactly on target.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
re: “I adore her. I especially admire her ability to cut through any kind of PC touchy-feely bullshit surrounding the concept of feminism, and lay it out the way it is.”
now *that* is funny.
May 27th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Care to elaborate?
May 27th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
attn: intelligentsia
Break, Blow, Burn - the official Paglia website:
http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/paglia/
highlights include:
Camille’s Top Ten
LIST #1: The World’s Best Sculptures
LIST #2: The World’s Best Disco Classics
LIST #3: The World’s Best Movie Quotes
LIST #4: The World’s Top (Not Best) Political Events of Western History
LIST #5: The World’s Best Paintings
LIST #6: The World’s Best Wonders of Nature
May 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Still failing to see a point here.