Posted on 09/15/2008 5:12:59 AM PDT by The_Tick_01
Let’s be honest. The down-to-earth, at times radical, and always controversial libertarian Camille Paglia — nicknamed “Hurricane Camille” because of the blasts she still aims at the liberal feminist establishment — favors Obama/Biden over McCain/Palin.
However, despite her Democratic leanings, Paglia stands out as one of the nation’s most important voices in exposing the perversity, danger, and superficiality of liberalism, a fact powerfully exemplified by what she has to say about Sarah Palin in a recent “Salon” piece.
We wouldn’t expect Camille Paglia to regurgitate the liberal reaction to Palin — from the arrogance, hypocrisy, and superciliousness spewed by the liberal elite (epitomized by ABC’s Charlie Gibson) to the vicious, misogynistic Clintonian “bimbos” spewed by liberal commentators to the reeking filth that flows on websites such as the “Daily Kos.”
And she doesn’t. Instead, she offers her first impression of the remarkable woman from Alaska with the following words:
“Palin [represents] an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism . . . [that combines] male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. [She is] somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist [in a manner completely opposite of] “the prissy, victim-mongering, philistine feminist establishment.”
Say what you want about Paglia, but she’s intellectually honest and she tells it like it is. I may or may not agree with her, but I find her writings to at a minimum, be very thoughtful, which is more than I can say for 99.99% of the left.
I feel the same way. I agree to disagree with much of what she writes, but she is at least thoughtful and thought-provoking with her words.
Plus, she can’t stand Naomi Wolf, which is always a plus in my book. :-)
Methinks that attending some of her college courses would be most informative. And definitely beyond the ability of the Pelosis and Obamas of this world to pass.
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