Posted on 06/22/2017 10:15:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During an interview on Sean Hannitys radio show yesterday, Camille Paglia destroyed Democrats, the media and journalists for their collusion and bias against Republicans and President Trump.
Its obscene, Pagilia said. Its outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. Theres no journalism left. Whats happened to The New York Times? Whats happened to the major networks? Its an outrage.
Paglia called what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism absolutely grotesque and warned it would take decades to recover.
Im a professor of media studies, in addition to a professor of humanities, OK? she continued. And I think its absolutely grotesque the way my party has destroyed journalism. Right now, it is going to take decades to recover from this atrocity thats going on where the news media have turned themselves over to the most childish fraternity, kind of buffoonish behavior.
One prime example circulating is this photo from Tuesday night as CNN announced the winner of the Georgia special election: Republican Karen Handel.
In her latest interview with the Weekly Standard, she speaks out on the 2016 election: First of all, I must make my political affiliations crystal clear. I am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and for Jill Stein in the general election. Since last Fall, Ive had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.
She addresses the fairness of the election and the attacks on Trump as a sexist.
Donald Trump won the nomination fair and square against a host of serious, experienced opponents who simply failed to connect with a majority of GOP primary voters. However, there were too many unknowns about Trump, who had never held elective office and whose randy history in the shadowy demimonde of casinos and beauty pageants laid him open to a cascade of feverish accusations and innuendos from the ever-churning gnomes of the cash-propelled Clinton propaganda machine. In actuality, the sexism allegations about Trump were relatively few and minor, compared to the long list of lurid claims about the predatory Bill Clinton.
Who is to blame for losing the 2016 race?
My position continues to be that Hillary, with her supercilious, Marie Antoinette-style entitlement, was a disastrously wrong candidate for 2016 and that she secured the nomination only through overt chicanery by the Democratic National Committee, assisted by a corrupt national media who, for over a year, imposed a virtual blackout on potential primary rivals.
In an abject failure of leadership that may be one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the modern Democratic party, Chuck Schumer, who had risen to become the Senate Democratic leader after the retirement of Harry Reid, asserted absolutely no moral authority as the party spun out of control in a nationwide orgy of rage and spite. Nor were there statesmanlike words of caution and restraint from two seasoned politicians whom I have admired for decades and believe should have run for president long agoSenator Dianne Feinstein and Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi. How do Democrats imagine they can ever expand their electoral support if they go on and on in this self-destructive way, impugning half the nation as vile racists and homophobes?
On Trumps performance as President:
The initial conundrum was: could he shift from being the slashing, caustic ex-reality show star of the campaign to a more measured, presidential persona? Perhaps to the dismay of his die hard critics, Trump did indeed make that transition at the Capitol on inauguration morning, when he appeared grave and focused, palpably conveying a sense of the awesome burdens of the highest office. As for his particular actions as president, I am no fan of executive orders, which usurp congressional prerogatives and which I was already denouncing when Obama was constantly signing them (with very little protest, one might add, from the mainstream media).
I fail to see the chaos in the White House that the mainstream media (as well as conservative Never Trumpers) keep harping onor rather, I see no more chaos than was abundantly present during the first six months of both the Clinton and Obama administrations. Trump seems to be methodically trying to fulfill his campaign promises, notably regarding the economy and deregulationthe approaches to which will always be contested in our two-party system. His progress has thus far been in stops and starts, partly because of the passivity, and sometimes petulance, of the mundane GOP leadership.
There seems to be a huge conceptual gap between Trump and his most implacable critics on the left. Many highly educated, upper-middle-class Democrats regard themselves as exemplars of compassion (which they have elevated into a supreme political principle) and yet they routinely assail Trump voters as ignorant, callous hate-mongers. These elite Democrats occupy an amorphous meta-realm of subjective emotion, theoretical abstractions, and refined language. But Trump is by trade a builder who deals in the tangible, obdurate, objective world of physical materials, geometry, and construction projects, where communication often reverts to the brusque, coarse, high-impact level of pre-modern working-class life, whose daily locus was the barnyard. Its no accident that bourgeois Victorians of the industrial era tried to purge barnyard language out of English.
Last week, that conceptual gap was on prominent display, as the media, consumed with their preposterous Russian fantasies, were fixated on former FBI director James Comeys maudlin testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Comey is an effete charlatan who should have been fired within 48 hours of either Hillary or Trump taking office.) Meanwhile, Trump was going about his business. The following morning, he made remarks at the Department of Transportation about regulatory relief, excerpts of which I happened to hear on my car radio that afternoon. His words about iron, aluminum, and steel seemed to cut like a knife through the airwaves. I later found the entire text on the White House website.
Excellent read. Thanks for posting.
Democrats. Ruin.
Yeah.
“nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood”
Is a great description.
It’s academia that has does it, too.
They go to journalism school.
They know nothing and have no experience.
How could they report, even if they wanted to.
I knew there was an intellectually honest Democrat !
Everything they touch!
First of all, I must make my political affiliations crystal clear. I am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and for Jill Stein in the general election. Since last Fall, Ive had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.
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There are severe boundaries to Paglia’s intelligence.
And I know she's a lesbian, but she would have been fun to wake up to.
I’ve heard her say something to the effect that she really likes and appreciates men to the point of seeing the world through what she assumes men’s eyes would see and thinking like a man, but no desire to actually be a man, she’s happy with herself as she is, she just loves the feminine more. Sort of a rare bird.
Very.
As for her emphasis on her Democrat bona fides, I suspect she might have calculated how ineffective she would be at changing Democrats' minds if she openly changed parties.
Camilla, a sane feminist that does not hate men. Good thing the Democrats and the progressives treat her with disdain and do not listen to her.
The old dreams of the revolution die hard. She’s still in love with the idea and the vision. Practical reality has been hitting her over the head for a while now, though. She’s sounding more outraged than she has in going on twenty years, if she’s going to have an epiphany it’ll come during the Trump administration, imho.
The dem primary campain of 2016 was the equivalent of running the preserved corpse of Lenin vs. Stalin.
Also haggy “my turn now” hillary was pathetic compared to the somewhat more animated kindly acting socialist uncle grandpa.
Hillary single handed repulsed many on the dem side by confirming their fears that the party is more of a dynasty than an sctual democratic party.
Every now and then a liberal blindly reaches into the candy dish for a hot tamale and ends up eating a red pill.
Camille Paglia has red pilled countless people since the 90’s, she’s so lucid, cutting and quite honestly brilliant, but she never seems to red pill herself.
You’re correct. Won’t be long til she’s off Harris’ vapid bandwagon, but, sadly, she will jump to the next liberal with star potential.
Too bad Camile can’t do a full Scott-Adams. I’d cry-with-joy if she introduced Trump at a 2020 rally.
Rush has been advocating lately that the Democrats take their cues from the MSM, it is the media that is responsible for their demise. It’s the old tail wagging the dog analysis.
When she is on her game as she is here she is a wonderful writer.
Thanks for posting this.
Jimmy!
I agree. She’s smart, articulate. Speaks and writes well. Although I don’t agree with her politics, I enjoy reading her stuff. If she were straight, I’d bang her!
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