Beam me to Planet Gore !
lol....Seriously. I can't read past that. lol
And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC's "Today" show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric's small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric's TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz.
That is a humble opinion, to be sure. Congressional Dems need Obama more than he needs them. He's their meal AND re-election ticket. Secondarily, nothing about this will be interesting. Instead, it's going to be very predictable.....to those with eyes wide open.
I’ve given Ms. Paglia the honorary title “Mistress of Smart”.
Don’t always agree, but don’t have to in order to appreciate her brilliance.
Camille,
If you ever decide to give up women, give me a call.
What a bunch of tittering lemmings the urban elite have become in this country.
Well, they elected a President. And declared him, at various points, a King, a Lincoln, a god among men. I'm not surprised that Paglia is retching at the sheer, saccharine, mind-numbing, lockstep conformity of the whole thing. It's going to be fun playing with the Obots in the meantime, though. Minority has its distractions, one of which is poking pins into the pomposities of the majority. And this one's inflating before our eyes like a pig at a Pink Floyd concert.
I may need a stomach pump before the 21st of January rolls around and the Anointed One is safely ensconced in office. After that, well, the game's on.
She’s always interesting. Thanks for posting this!
Obama is not a leader, period. He has no leadership experience and exhibits no leadership skills. And that will make for a disastrous four years in these dangerous times. Eloquence derived from a telepromter will not suffice when that 3 am call comes in.
Camille usually get things right, but here she seems to have drunk too much of the Obama Kool Aid, or maybe her news sources did not provide her with some of the many non-stitched together examples of his stumbling and bungling over his words off teleprompter.
The first really stark example I noticed was a press conference from Jordan (or Israel) during his Grand Tour. It was awful, embarrassing, and there were plenty more after that.
At least she acknowledges how vacuous his stump speeches were, but I also failed to see much to be impressed about during the debates.
I like this lady. A liberal that you could have a civil discussion with and reach some common ground or agree to disagree without hysterics. I wish they were all this way.
Great section from a write-in and Camille Paglia about Sarah Palin and a nice diss from Camille to Katie Couric!
For the Palin Pingers:
Dick Cavett is someone whose column I almost always enjoy very much. But I agree that he put down Sarah Palin’s use of language for no good reason. The example he cited (she was discussing Darfur and what Alaska had done in view of events there) was an almost perfect example of coherent thought on her part if you recognize that a longish sentence includes a parenthetical aside.
Here is the bit he cites in his column: “My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.”
Here is my own very minor rework of her sentence (rework in italics): “My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue (as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there where we see the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent), the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars.”
When she spoke, the sense of what she meant was clear, and a minor edit makes the sentence good enough for a print medium.
No doubt she can be attacked in several areas on substance, but it is interesting and strange that instead people engage in elitist attacks on her for being a hunter or for the way she talks. In point of fact, she is a very able communicator, as time will bear out, I am sure, and yet the number of people on the left who recognize her political gifts is very small.
Cavett will come back and entertain me again soon, I am sure, but this is one case where he’s just lost his objectivity and comes off sounding like a prig.
Blaine Walgren
Excellent analysis! You have cut the entire ground out from beneath Dick Cavett’s lofty claim of grammatical superiority to Sarah Palin by exposing his inability to sense a simple parenthesis in a spoken passage. I laughed heartily at your e-mail, for which I am most appreciative.
As I have repeatedly said in this column, I have never had the slightest problem in understanding Sarah Palin’s meaning at any time. On the contrary, I have positively enjoyed her fresh, natural, rapid delivery with its syncopated stops and slides — a fabulous example of which was the way (in her recent interview with John Ziegler) that she used a soft, swooping satiric undertone to zing Katie Couric’s dippy narcissism and to assert her own outrage as a “mama grizzly” at libels against her family.
Ideology-driven attacks on Palin became clotted liberal clichés within 24 hours of her introduction as John McCain’s running mate. What a bunch of tittering lemmings the urban elite have become in this country. From Couric’s vicious manipulations of video clips to Cavett’s bourgeois platitudes, the preemptive strike on Palin as a potential presidential candidate has grossly misfired. Whatever legitimate objections may be raised to Palin on political grounds (explored, for example, by David Talbot in Salon) have been lost in the amoral overkill that has defamed a self-made woman of concrete achievement in the public realm.
And let me take this opportunity to say that of all the innumerable print and broadcast journalists who have interviewed me in the U.S. and abroad since I arrived on the scene nearly 20 years ago, Katie Couric was definitively the stupidest. As a guest on NBC’s “Today” show during my 1992 book tour, I was astounded by Couric’s small, humorless, agenda-ridden mind, still registered in that pinched, tinny monotone that makes me rush across the room to change stations whenever her banal mini-editorials blare out at 5 p.m. on the CBS radio network. And of course I would never spoil my dinner by tuning into Couric’s TV evening news show. That sallow, wizened, drum-tight, cosmetic mummification look is not an appetite enhancer outside of Manhattan or L.A. There’s many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz.
...but with less gravitas.
I love Camille Paglia, but the idea that the Obama team is deft is totally daft.
His team is made up of people all with only thumbs and left feet. Due to his hermetically-sealed bubble and the syncophantic media, Obama has had to face few challenges. Where he has faced challenge, he has gone through a similar pattern: Silence, denial, ridiculous explanation, modified limited hangout and finally, when he has taken the maximum amount of damage, he throws the thorn under the bus.
The Rev. Wright went through this. Most times, the process doesn't get to the end, because the media and spineless Republicans back off.
You could say SHE is too long winded. How many words is this article?
Hasn’t she ever heard the saying “Brevity is the soul of wit”?
I think that the most important part of her column was her discussion of the origin of sodomite-behavior. She knows that it is purely environmental, not biological. If it weren’t for the radical activists putting a clamp on psychological studies over the past 40 years, this probably would have been definitively documented by now.
I learned something today. MDS on the part of many FReepers is even less warranted than I thought.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172649/posts
it is important not to let leftists frame the argument. ask the mod to put “censorship doctrine” in parentheses next to the title.