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Camille Paglia Provides Much-Needed Intellectual Cred for Birthers (Going Mainstream?)
The Village Voice ^ | September 17, 2009 | Roy Edroso

Posted on 09/17/2009 12:18:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

And you thought birtherism was just for hillbillies and Republicans! David Weigel heard Camille Paglia on NPR yesterday, where the author of Sexual Personae and UArts professor told a no doubt astonished latte-drinking audience that "there are legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama's birth certificate. I'm sorry, I've been following this closely from the start." Indeed she has; we noticed her railing on the topic as far back as November ("simple questions about the certificate were never resolved to my satisfaction"). Now that they've got a genuine intellectual on board, the birthers just need a popular entertainer to carry their message to the sheeple. Come on, Toby Keith, what are you waiting for?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; bho44; biden4president; birthcertificate; birthers; camillepaglia; certifigate; corruption; cultureofcorruption; education; glennbeck; government; healthcare; islam; israel; military; obama; obamacare; obamanoncitizenissue; palin; politics; racism; sarahpalin; schools; talkradio; terrorism; usurper; veterans
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To: F15Eagle

Jeepers. That’s one messed up background that’s going to come out sideways someday. I kinda feel sorry for him. Sort of.

Good thing we didn’t do something stupid by giving in to our emotions and elect this person as President.

...

Ooops.


41 posted on 09/17/2009 12:54:59 PM PDT by kidd (Obama: The triumph of hope over evidence)
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To: Jude in WV

It seems to escape attention that if the exhibited on the Internet CoLB is actually a genuine Hawaiian CoLB, then the Fukino statement is self-contradictory because the CoLB lists father as an African which makes Barry ineligible because he would not be what Fukino asserted, he woul dnot be a natural born citizen by the very definition Barry signed onto with the McCain Senate resolution! Yet the fool quisling, Clay Land, blythly repeats the talking points he’s been instructed to cite as reason to dismiss and Orly fails once again to practice law.


42 posted on 09/17/2009 12:55:17 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

Maybe so, but the arrogance is in saying that there are no “true intellectuals” who are not already on board with the issue.


43 posted on 09/17/2009 12:56:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: bytesmith

Check out the brilliant Tammy Bruce ...


44 posted on 09/17/2009 12:56:57 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Dems, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when they are deceived.)
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To: FredZarguna
if his birth certificate says either that his father was “unknown,” or that his birth name is not Barack 0bama, it betrays him as a poseur.

Actually, 90 seconds of research betrays him as a poseur.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

45 posted on 09/17/2009 12:58:03 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: bvw
Many, many, many people complained before the election. We were told nothing could be done until after the election. They after the election we were told it was too late since it was already after the election.

Talk about a cowardly Catch 22!

I am DISGUSTED with Republicans! I don't care if it is Donald Duck or Goofy running the primaries I will vote for anyone who is NOT an incumbant!

By the way,...I am just as disgusted with the conservative media regarding Obama’s eligibility! They will **never** have my trust and respect again. They are nothing but big loud mouths with gonads the size of dust mites.

46 posted on 09/17/2009 12:59:06 PM PDT by wintertime (People are not stupid! Good ideas win!)
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To: Little Pig

Have my HP48 you can, when pry from my cold dead fingers you do!


47 posted on 09/17/2009 1:00:34 PM PDT by Crolis ("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
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To: FredZarguna

Love it! By the way, I hate the “meme” fad. Please add the current over-use of “narrative” to your list.


48 posted on 09/17/2009 1:02:26 PM PDT by balls (ABCNNBCBSNYT Obama Media Lies)
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To: wintertime

Yes, that is all so.


49 posted on 09/17/2009 1:03:59 PM PDT by bvw
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To: utahagen

Hey any other “lesbian atheist Democrats” out there that wanna join in? Helen? Rosie? ;-)


50 posted on 09/17/2009 1:05:50 PM PDT by thecraw (Follower of Jesus...American...Tennessean...Birther! You Betcha!)
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To: Crolis

Miss my HP11c I do


51 posted on 09/17/2009 1:12:34 PM PDT by Little Pig (Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, the ObamaBots on the left and the Obama Enablers on the neo-right are scared.

Camilie Paglia is a liberal, but not afraid to point out when a lib is “peeing on the carpet”. She had many critical things to say about the Clinton’s over the years.

With Paglia raising these questions...the ones who really look foolish are the neo-right (Ingraham, Coulter, Beck) who are smiting the Obama Birth question. I question everything these Obama Enablers say now...because they are aiding and abetting Obama’s quite probablt illegal holding of office


52 posted on 09/17/2009 1:16:09 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (America is still great....no matter what Globalists, Communists, Anti-Birthers, Terrorists think)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
Camille Paglia is an intellectually honest liberal. She has been a devoted Obamite from the start

Which is why I question either her intellect or her honesty. Intellectual honesty and devotion to Obama are polar opposites like matter and anti-matter. I'm waiting for her head to explode.

53 posted on 09/17/2009 1:16:34 PM PDT by Bernard Marx ("Civilizations die by suicide, not from murder" Toynbee)
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To: KarlInOhio

No doubt she’ll be tarred and feathered in the libtard press for betraying their heretofore successful campaign to portray birthers as illogical and uneducated. At the very least she’ll be called a racist.


54 posted on 09/17/2009 1:17:46 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Character, Leadership, and Loyalty matter - Be an example, no matter the cost.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Paglia is definitely in a class by herself. A true intellectual despite liberal positions and some personal idiosyncrasies about which the less said the better.
Offhand I can’t think of another left-leaning thinker who actually thinks, and of whom one could say, “sometimes crazy — but never stupid.”
Of course, I may have missed a column somewhere... :D
But if I had to get stuck on a desert island with a queer old lib, she’s the only one I’d prefer over a volleyball.


55 posted on 09/17/2009 1:24:08 PM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast ( If you have kids, you have no right of privacy that the govt can't flick off your shoulder.)
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To: Bernard Marx

Camille Paglia is a bit of a contrarian. She is brilliant, though, one of the few lefties I actually enjoy reading. I think the thing that keeps her in the lefty category is the fact that being a very “out” lesbian is part of her public person and she was considered somewhat of a gay activist (although she has criticisms for them, too).


56 posted on 09/17/2009 1:24:57 PM PDT by livius
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To: KarlInOhio
You called?


57 posted on 09/17/2009 1:26:17 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (FreepMail me if you want on the Bourbon ping list!)
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To: utahagen; 2ndDivisionVet; LucyT; Fred Nerks; Kevmo
This is very bad news for Obama. Camille Paglia is a lesbian atheist Democrat,
so she cannot be dismissed as some bitter right-winger. Paglia is also a fearless genius.


58 posted on 09/17/2009 1:26:42 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: wintertime
Why would a lesbian atheist Democrat question Obama’s eligibility?

Because Camille Paglia has a genuinely open mind, and she actually loves her country. Strange for a Democrat, I know, but true nonetheless.

59 posted on 09/17/2009 1:27:04 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: F15Eagle
It would be the greatest voter fraud in human history and several top Dems would have to had been in on it.

Yes, I think that's why they're holding the line on this. But that's a classic criminal technique: get other people involved with you (even if it was just by ignoring obvious discrepancies, for example) and you've got built-in protection.

60 posted on 09/17/2009 1:27:09 PM PDT by livius
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