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Dr. Camille Paglia: Democrats Are Colluding With The Media to Create Chaos
Washington Examiner ^ | May 18 2017 ast | by Emily Jashinsky

Posted on 05/19/2017 11:14:18 AM PDT by drewh

Camille Paglia is much more worried about the media than about the steady string of Trump-related scandals they claim to be uncovering.

In an interview with the Washington Examiner, Paglia excoriated the press for its coverage of Trump's decision to fire FBI Director James Comey and his alleged sharing of classified information with Russian officials.

Fresh off a spirited panel with Christina Hoff Sommers hosted by the Independent Women's Forum, the iconic feminist dissident, who serves as a professor of media studies at the University of the Arts, accused journalists of colluding with the Democratic Party in an effort to damage the Trump administration.

"Democrats are doing this in collusion with the media obviously, because they just want to create chaos," she said when asked to comment on the aforementioned stories. "They want to completely obliterate any sense that the Trump administration is making any progress on anything."

The popular author, whose latest book was released in March, pointed to early struggles experienced by previous presidential administrations to illustrate the media's bias against Trump. "Obama's administration for the first six months was chaos," Paglia recalled. "Bill Clinton's was chaos for six months. Nobody holds that against a new person."

"Those two guys had actually been politicians!" she continued, noting Trump's relative inexperience with government operations.

Paglia's assessment of media bias in the Trump era leaves little room for optimism. "I am appalled at the behavior of the media," she declared. "It's the collapse of journalism."

As the Examiner reported in April, Paglia, who cast her ballot for Jill Stein last November, is predicting Trump will win re-election in 2020. "I feel like the Democrats have overplayed their hand," she said at the time.

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Though the news cycle has moved through plenty of additional scandals in the past month, it appears as though Paglia's assessment of the president's prospects has not changed.

"I'm looking forward to voting Democrat again," the acclaimed philosopher explained. "But the point is I feel that the media has so utterly lost its credibility that I think people are going to vote against the media again."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: coup; deepweb; freshcamel; media; mediabias; msm; paglia; trump
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To: butterdezillion

The continued freedom of London Horiuchi proffered in support of your thesis. B@$t@rd should be just now getting out of Federal prison for what he did at Ruby Ridge.


41 posted on 05/19/2017 2:42:40 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: drewh

DOHHHH!!!! No sheetsky sherlockie..


42 posted on 05/19/2017 2:50:04 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: Vic S

Limey is Louise Mensch


43 posted on 05/19/2017 3:05:45 PM PDT by scbison
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To: drewh

Harvard Study: Media Coverage of Trump’s First 100 Days Sets ‘New Standard’ In Negativity
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/laurettabrown/2017/05/19/harvard-study-media-coverage-of-trumps-first-100-days-80-negative-sets-new-standard-compared-to-past-3-presidents-n2329249?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=

Rosenstein: Comey Routinely ‘Usurped’ the DOJ
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2017/05/19/heres-what-rosenstein-told-house-members-n2329264?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=


44 posted on 05/19/2017 3:14:13 PM PDT by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: Vic S; drewh

bump


45 posted on 05/19/2017 3:42:13 PM PDT by floozy22 (Edward Snowden - American Hero)
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To: ballplayer

Yep, need to do much more than just bitch about it

Calling all Patriots . . . start exposing


46 posted on 05/19/2017 3:48:28 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: Vic S

Bfl


47 posted on 05/19/2017 3:57:25 PM PDT by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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To: I want the USA back

Well... Duh!


48 posted on 05/19/2017 4:01:46 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: drewh

Ya think??


49 posted on 05/19/2017 5:52:45 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: miss marmelstein

No, she has her PhD from Yale.


50 posted on 05/19/2017 7:22:31 PM PDT by Enchante (Searching throughout the country for one honest Democrat....)
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To: drewh
""Democrats are doing this in collusion with the media obviously, because they just want to create chaos, want to create an air of inevitability."

Well that is what they did for almost two years with illary?

51 posted on 05/19/2017 7:23:37 PM PDT by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: NorthMountain
Big Media is the propaganda arm of the National Socialist DemocRAT Party ... technically it’s not collusion.

I don't believe that anymore.

Like Sinn Fein, I believe the RAT party is the political arm of the Institutional Left.

The center of gravity has shifted.

52 posted on 05/19/2017 7:33:44 PM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: drewh

Another six months of this and the DNC Media Complex will tank the economy, but then maybe that’s their intent.


53 posted on 05/19/2017 7:39:45 PM PDT by heights
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To: drewh

Another six months of this and the DNC Media Complex will tank the economy, but then maybe that’s their intent.


54 posted on 05/19/2017 7:40:02 PM PDT by heights
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To: heights

Rushbo calls this a "silent coup". I disagree. It is the noisiest coup that I ever heard.


55 posted on 05/19/2017 9:06:46 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: heights

Rushbo calls this a "silent coup". I disagree. It is the noisiest coup that I ever heard.


56 posted on 05/19/2017 9:07:19 PM PDT by vannrox (The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
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To: miss marmelstein
Love Camille. I don’t think she’s a doc, though. She quit school after earning her Masters with Sexual Persona.

"She laid out her ideas on matriarchy, androgyny, homosexuality, sadomasochism and other topics in her Yale PhD thesis Sexual Personae: The Androgyne in Literature and Art, which she defended in December 1974."

I presume she defended successfully.

I sent her an email admiring her intellectual honesty, once upon a time. She responded, favorably. :)

"She's a babe", I wrote chauvinistically.

57 posted on 05/19/2017 9:27:11 PM PDT by kiryandil (Americ)
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To: ballplayer; A_Former_Democrat

We’re preparing for The Million Rope March, of course...


58 posted on 05/19/2017 9:31:39 PM PDT by kiryandil (Americ)
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To: SMARTY
Since Democrats are assured nothing they do or say will be challenged, they do and say whatever they want...never mind HOW groundless, irrational or laughable their behavior and language is. Their friends in the MSM will accept and amplify everything to the nth degree...No questions asked.

This is why Twitter is AWESOME.

I labored for nearly two decades at FR to use "clues" in the Democrat Media "reporting" to uncover their bias.

And now, they're just spilling their biased guts on Twitter social media.

All for the privilege of "virtue signalling" to their seditious Lefty pals...

59 posted on 05/19/2017 9:39:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (Americ)
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>> Democrats colluding with the Media

So your neighbor's kid continues to dump dog crap on your lawn. And you continue to yell at the kid.

63 million Trump supporters... imagine the impact they could have on the kid's parents...

60 posted on 05/19/2017 11:01:17 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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