Posted on 06/22/2017 10:15:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
During an interview on Sean Hannity’s radio show yesterday, Camille Paglia destroyed Democrats, the media and journalists for their collusion and bias against Republicans and President Trump.
“It’s obscene,” Pagilia said. “It’s outrageous, OK? It shows that the Democrats are nothing now but words and fantasy and hallucination and Hollywood. There’s no journalism left. What’s happened to The New York Times? What’s happened to the major networks? It’s an outrage.”
Paglia called what she said the Democratic Party had done to journalism “absolutely grotesque” and warned it would take decades to recover.
“I’m a professor of media studies, in addition to a professor of humanities, OK?” she continued. “And I think it’s absolutely grotesque the way my party has destroyed journalism. Right now, it is going to take decades to recover from this atrocity that’s 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, I’ve 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 ago—Senator 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 Trump’s 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 on—or 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 deregulation—the 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. It’s 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 Comey’s 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.”
“…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.”
Paglia always thought provoking andv intellectually honest. She and I are worlds apart politically but I respect her.
(Comey is an effete charlatan who should have been fired within 48 hours of either Hillary or Trump taking office.)
She sure has a way with words! I would suggest one minor correction - hillary was disastrously wrong, not just for 2016, but just wrong PERIOD.
She is what the old liberals used to be. The label no longer applies as modern lieberals are hack leftists of blinded ideology which resembles deeply vicious propagandists where truth, logic, reason and respect for freedoms of thought have been discarded.
Can you imagine trying to bowl in lanes without the gutters?
The gutters have a purpose, actually several. First they are a clear indication that your ball is out of bounds, second it keeps your ball in your own lane and not wandering off into other lanes, and last they keep you focused on the purpose of the game, knock down the pins in YOUR lane.
The left believe it is a good thing that they have so much support in the media. Not only getting their message out, but running any interference from the opposition.
But like trying to bowl without gutters, trying to rule without any opposition allows the Democrats throw the ball anywhere they want, even where it does them no good or hurts others.
Poor analogy but my point is, the Democrats have no outside control to keep them from acting on their most insane ideas.
They have attracted every extremist and dis-satisfied minority in our nation and promised each of them (even when their goals conflict) to solve their problems. The (the Democrats) can not solve their problems and at the same time they can not tell their constituents they can not solve the problem, so the only thing left is more hate towards conservatives.
More hate and violence towards those that don’t agree with them will not get people to vote for them. It is a circle they can not break. They are now in a lose - lose situation.
And the lapdog media along with crazy Hollywood is not helping matters. Camille Paglia understands this and is giving a warning but like Cassandra, her warning will not be heeded. Eventually the Democrat party will implode onto itself.
Bump
HOORAY Paglia (not FAKE)
FAKE news and the FAKE party (’rat crime syndicate) work hand-in-hand.
Yes, she may come to realize that the Democratic Party left her long ago, just as it left countless others before her.
IS - IRS
Camille Paglia and the last Chris Hitchens are two liberals in my book that oftimes display flashes of brilliant sanity.
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Probably 1st ever I agreed with her.
The Democrats are master of making a nasty mess and convincing the populous the Republicans did it
The Democrats are masters of making a nasty mess and convincing the populous the Republicans did it.
We can blame the Democrats but in reality it is the people’s fault. They do not have to believe the nonsensical rhetoric the Democrats spew out. They do not have to elect the Democrats to office. And they can very easily turn off the news and do not read their papers. Do not think for a minute the media and the Democrats will not get the message. You can only brainwash a willing subject
She’s one of my favorite flaming Libs.
There is no “chaos” in the White House, only the forced perception of chaos by those who wanted you to believe he didn’t inhale, you could keep your doctor and he didn’t deserve to die because he was actually a 7 year old honor student with a bright future ahead of him.
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But not her mouth. The woman spews out words like a garden hose.
The Craziness of the Daily News
https://youtu.be/JmSFWklVtv0
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