“The gravity of this case was unfortunately overshadowed by feisty comedian Wanda Sykes’ clumsy jibes at Rush Limbaugh the next night at the Washington Correspondents Dinner.”
Paglia is actually trying to do the same thing that Sykes was doing in that her article implies that talk-radio conservatives are the equivalent of terrorists. While Sykes (or Obama) have never apologized for their nasty remarks of course David Feherty had the decency to apologize for his comments but making that comparison is ignored by Paglia in her article and she even goes so far as to make her own excuse for Sykes nasty comments against conservatives.
“Rabidly Bush-bashing Democrats shouldn’t have done it to the last president either, but that’s no excuse for conservatives, who claim to revere our institutions, to play schoolyard tit for tat.”
Of course she even goes on to claim that there is no excuse for a conservative to talk this way implying that there is an excuse for liberals to do so. (And yet it is the democrat KKK party that has engaged in acts of terrorism against their own country)
Paglia to her credit is pretty consistent. In fact, over the years she has more often criticized Democrats. She is wrong to criticize talk radio for its criticism of Obama but she is right to smell a rat. Talk radio was totally asleep at the watch from 2001 to 2009 when Bush and the GOP pushed through the most rapid increase in big government in decades.