[beaversmom]

As a former Leftie I can tell you this is a tactic cunning Lefties use to talk over someone. It’s what I find unlikeable about her. Orwell had a word for it in ‘’1984’’, ‘’duckspeak’’.

I don't disagree with the essence of what you are saying, but I disagree that Paglia engages in this. What I find the leftists do, and some on the right, unfortunately, is engage in shoddy debate tactics. The left reverts to this because most can offer no substance on why they think the way they do. Paglia is leaps and bounds away from this. She's a thinker. Her mind is going 1000 miles an hour and she wants to get it all out at once. I've seen the interviewer from Reason before. He's a pretty good interviewer, and I'm not trying to slam him too hard here, but I wish he had just let her go. If anything, I found her to be on quite a roll and was interested in her "train" of thought, and he interrupted her. But, granted, she would be a hard interview because ya gotta jump in sometimes. Ted Nugent is another one like this. I heard him on the Dennis Miller Show one time. Dennis Miller is never a loss for words, but he was pretty much so with Nugent...either that or he just sat back and enjoyed it with the rest of us. As Denver Pyle playing as Briscoe Darling said on the Andy Griffith Show, "Just jump in where you can and hang on!"

[jmacusa]

I can get going on a roll pretty good myself, trust me. I'm a former rock ‘n’ roll drummer and a singer and I know how use language at speed. What I find interesting in myself is that when I was a Leftie I used to listen to her all the time. That is as much as one could prior to the Age of The Internet and cable tv. Now as a conservative, I dunno, I find her annoying. She reminds me of New Yorkers I used to work with. Jealously maybe?