Witty and brilliant, Camille Paglia was born the same year as Hillary
Clinton. Almost any similarity between
the two women stops there. Almost. I was ‘introduced’ to Ms. Paglia by my mom
(who, like me, is an uber-conservative) when I was 17. Paglia is a fascinating, left-wing Libertarian who professes to be a registered Democrat. She is forthright and honest, totally opinionated and happy to express those opinions wherever and whenever asked. She was also an open lesbian long before it was cool. She once smoked a cigar
with Rush Limbaugh after a dinner event. She’s an atheist who doesn’t mind that
others are Christians. Paglia is probably the ONLY Democrat woman I could
sit through a meal with without screaming.
“In
1992, at the glittering 25th anniversary black-tie party for “60 Minutes” at
the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I dined at a small table with Rush Limbaugh. He
was a jovial, witty, commanding figure who offered me a cigar.
“Now,
I do not agree with Rush on most political issues — I voted for Ralph Nader!
But Rush transformed the media landscape in America. He resurrected AM radio.
From coast to coast, AM radio is buzzing and vibrant because of what Rush did.
He is a master broadcaster, a master of the microphone. Anyone who is a true
student of media should respect his achievements.” Camille Paglia. 2009
She has just done an ‘email interview’ with salon.com. Here are just two of her excerpts I found
funny and insightful from this honest Democrat.
Two words: Anthony Weiner. Your thoughts?
Two
words: pathetic dork. How sickeningly debased our politics have become that
this jabbering cartoon weasel could be taken seriously for a second as a
candidate for mayor of New York. But beyond that, I have been amazed by the
almost total absence of psychological critique in news analyses of the silly
Weiner saga. For heaven’s sake, Weiner is no randy stud with a sophisticated
sex life that we need to respect. The compulsion to exhibit and boast about
one’s penis is embarrassingly infantile — the obvious residue of some squalid
family psychodrama in childhood that is now being replayed in public....
Any hopes, fears or predictions
for the presidential elections in 2016?
As
a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to
emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with
executive experience would be ideal. It’s time to put my baby-boom generation
out to pasture! We’ve had our day and managed to muck up a hell of a lot. It
remains baffling how anyone would think that Hillary Clinton (born the same
year as me) is our party’s best chance. She has more sooty baggage than a
90-car freight train. And what exactly has she ever accomplished — beyond
bullishly covering for her philandering husband? She’s certainly busy, busy and
ever on the move — with the tunnel-vision workaholism of someone trying to blot
out uncomfortable private thoughts.
I
for one think it was a very big deal that our ambassador was murdered in
Benghazi. In saying “I take responsibility” for it as secretary of state,
Hillary should have resigned immediately. The weak response by the Obama
administration to that tragedy has given a huge opening to Republicans in the next
presidential election. The impression has been amply given that Benghazi was
treated as a public relations matter to massage rather than as the major and
outrageous attack on the U.S. that it was...
Read the entire
interview here:
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