Camilla Paglia joins the ranks of the birthers.

[cali]

I've always loathed her.

Camille Paglia Provides Much-Needed Intellectual Cred for Birthers
By Roy Edroso in Featured, PoliticsThursday, Sep. 17 2009 @ 10:20AM 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?

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[rockymountaindem]

1. I know next to nothing about her but I understand Pagila is a pretty divisive figure

Any chance she's just doing this for attention?

[wryter2000]

6. You could take it to Vegas

She made her bones by being a pseudointellictual anti-feminist.

[roguevalley]

35. she is, to quote the president, a complete and utter jackass. I would

have to look if that self inflating shithead told me it was raining outside.

[pnwmom]

56. There's 100% chance she's doing it for attention. n/t

[Brickbat]

2. Oh, good, yet another reason to dislike her.

Not that I needed another one.

[Cha]

3. Instead of camille paglia giving much needed

intellectual cred to the birthers..I think the birthers have pulled camille down to their level.

Facts are facts and if you don't want to bother with them..what does that say about camille?

[roguevalley]

36. she was always down there with them.

[The Magistrate]

4. Poor Thing Must Be Getting Lonely, Ma'am

The cache of the bullwhip photograph wore off long ago.

[wryter2000]

5. I have two things to say to her

Shut. Up.

[dionysus]

7. didn't she go insane because he beat out hillary? i vaguely recall her name popping up here in the

primaries...

[Cha]

11. Seems it's only been eating at her

ever since. Can't get much more bitter than birfer.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

29. Thats not whats eating at her. She has always been a nut

and has hated Hillary for years now but is oddly identified as a democrat. hence use of word nut.

[LisaM]

19. No, she hates and detests Hillary Clinton

She hates anyone who is a true feminist. She gave her hand away a long time ago.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

27. She hates hillary. Clearly, you know nothing of Paglia.

[dionysus]

31. no i don't. what's her deal?

[dionysus]

33. i just looked it up, i had it backwards. wierd thing wiki says she supported obama...

so it adds to the WTF of it all...

[La Lioness Priyanka]

34. i dont think she really supports dems anymore. she is just loony these days

i believe she ended up supporting palin

[tishaLA]

8. what's a nut job fake feminist to do

when nobody cares about what she says about gender? Apparently birferism is the last refuge.

[katandmoon]

9. She is vile

[WCGreen]

10. This one gets to me...

Clinton not resigning over the Monica Lewinsky affair led directly to 9/11...

[mitchum]

12. When Paglia is a movement's representative of "intellectual cred"...

one can only say
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

She's just a half-bright attention whore...from the last century

[zulchzulu]

13. Paglia is a Palindroid as well as a Birther

She has about as much credibility as a sloth. I'd like to completely embarrass herself with the list of "legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama's birth certificate".

That would be comic gold and perhaps then the University Of The Arts could just tell her to get a gig at a crack house in Camden.

[quiet.american]

14. Oh NOES! Say it ain't so! (lol) nt

[kestrel91316]

15. Camille, do you know how to fucking read????

Ok, then READ THIS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified_copy

President Obama has provided a certified copy of his legal birth record from Hawaii. The matter is closed. And there isn't a court in the land that wouldn't consider it closed based on a certified copy.

[Cha]

17. Her bitterness has clouded her

eyes.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

47. she is bitter that palin lost though in the hillary/obama primaries

she supported obama marginally

i dont think bitterness is her issue. i think wanting to be contrarian is

[DevonRex]

16. I don't even know who that is. Probably a good thing, eh? nt

[YOY]

18. OH SHIT! WE'RE FUCKED!!! THE JIG IS TOTALLY UP!!!

THEY BROUGHT OUT THE "INTELLECTUAL" BIG GUNS!!!

..."intellectual"

[Ajaye]

20. She is NOT an intellectual

She is a self-professed liberal and intellectual.

But in fact, she is NOT a liberal and NOT an intellectual.

No "intellectual" could listen to a steady stream of right wing radio and find it refreshing, lively and reflective of mainstream thought.

The woman is ridiculous and Salon.com is WRONG to give her a forum.

[Jennicut]

21. She is still alive? I thought she dropped off the face of the Earth years ago.

Or at least I had hoped...

[jonnyblitz]

24. were you here during the primary? There were several Paglia

articles TRASHING Hillary posted here back then.

[Jennicut]

28. Yeah but I guess I missed that part.

Here is what she said about Sarah Palin...just found this on google:

“We may be seeing the first woman president. As a Democrat, I am reeling...That was the best political speech I have ever seen delivered by an American woman politician. Palin is as tough as nails... Good Lord, we had barely 12 hours of Democrat optimism ... It was a stunningly timed piece of PR by the Republicans.”http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_amer...

What an idiot.
And she calls herself a Democrat?

[JCMach1]

39. She helped define jumping the couch circa about 1997

[Beaverhausen]

22. "intellectual cred" - LOL!!!

[Nuclear Unicorn]

23. Paglia is a Birther & O'Reilly Endorses the Public Option?!?!?!

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WORLD ANYMORE!!! Is this a sign of the coming Apocalypse? Dogs and cats sleeping together?

Hold me. I'm so very, very cold and scared.

[YOY]

38. You're surprised that some dipshit who would support Palin is a birther?

and who's only real objective in supporting Hillary was to cause a rift in the democatic party might not be a "liberal"?

It's like a surprise that the women who everyone was calling crazy at the Democratic national convention (and started screaming that she is "hysterical" when nobody called her "hysterical" as if she is some kind of fucking victim) voted for McLAme.

Really? REALLY?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

43. OK, this is new data to the equation

Sorry, I always heard Paglia was a founding feminist. I s'pose that means she supported Palin out of solidarity's sake.

...

...urm...um...yeah...

...

...OK, you just gave me the willies.

ugh

[YOY]

44. If someone votes for a person just because they are a woman and not because they stand for women.

Doesn't mean that they are necessarily a feminist.

Now, if the person who they vote for is a woman and stands against women's rights??? That person is not even close to being a feminist. They're basically dumber than boxes of hammers or advertising for those who can be swayed by arguments from people who are dumber than boxes of hammers.

Speaking of Box of Hammers...just what happened to that dumb ass Palin anyways? Oh yeah...currupt as they get.

Founding feminist? She's not fit to lick the ashes of Gloria Steinem's bra.

[asdjrocky]

25. I'm embarrassed to say,

up until a few moments ago, I had no idea who this person was.

I need to get out more.

[LiberalAndProud]

40. I am feeling woefully uninformed as well.

Leave it to DU to educate me.

[kenny blankenship]

26. What a surprise.

Not.

[Canuckistanian]

30. Rush Limbaugh likes her

That's all I need to know about Camille Paglia.

[burning rain]

32. Saying "shocking" things is most of her shtick.

Paglia's entertaining for a little while--until you realize she's mostly inane.

[Neecy]

45. Exactly.

She's always dropping little turds like this to get her name in print. She gave up her intellectual cred a long time ago in order to be a celebrity.

She needs to go back to her Madonna obsession - it was tedious, stupid and juvenile but at least it wasn't insane.

[burning rain]

57. Paglia had a good run with Madonna, but Madonna's passe.

Paglia needs something new, and her ideal subject is something superficially piquant but fundamentally inane. I suggest she write a fat tome, WILF: The Rise of the Hawt Con: Palin, Bachmann, Coulter, & Malkin. (The W is for "Wingnut.") That's something she could get enthusiastic about, and that would appeal to her fans.

[Yavin4]

37. People Like Paglia Think That They're Far More Important Than What They

We have an entire class of chatterboxes who think that their thoughts and opinions matter in some regard. This is just another example of the narcissistic and immature American culture.

[BeyondGeography]

41. Look at me! Look at me!

This will get me on the teevee!

[Piwi2009]

42. Wow, the birthers are letting pro pornography atheist lesbians speak for them.

They ARE in trouble, aren't they.

[Pendrench]

46. From Wikipedia:

Molly Ivins wrote a scathing review of Sexual Personae in which she accused Paglia of historical inaccuracy, demagoguery of second-wave feminists, egocentrism, and writing in sweeping generalizations.

Ivins concluded her review with this passage: "There is one area in which I think Paglia and I would agree that politically correct feminism has produced a noticeable inequity. Nowadays, when a woman behaves in a hysterical and disagreeable fashion, we say, 'Poor dear, it's probably PMS.' Whereas, if a man behaves in a hysterical and disagreeable fashion, we say, 'What an asshole.' Let me leap to correct this unfairness by saying of Paglia, Sheesh, what an asshole."

[lukasahero]

50. I miss Molly.

and

[mrbarber]

48. LOL

Anyone who believes in the birthers nonsense has no business being called an "intellectual".

[Metric System]

49. Paglia never got over Madonna's rejection. I think it's what caused her to crack. Seriously.

[mzmolly]

51. I'm not sure why this would come as a shock to anyone?

Paglia feigns an open mind, but most of us know better.

[noel711]

52. Paglia has no cred....

If she's still at U of Penn, I credit them for their tolerance.
She's the icon of pseudo-high-intellectual faux feminist...
She's more of an 'artiste' than a serious scholar.

She spews word salad a la Palin... probably thinks Palin is
the flavor du jour.. but Paglia has no credibility in
honest academic circles. She was once hot but has lost any
sense of stability.

Paglia fawns over the celebrities: considers Madonna a goddess,
and Clinton was the heir apparent.
She had it in for Obama when he won over Clinton.

[jesus_of_suburbia]

53. She didn't support Hillary in the Primaries!!!!!!! She supported Barack!

She was praised on DU for her Hillary bashing at the time.

[Piwi2009]

58. This lady is all over the place

She supported Barack Obama but says he didn't quite prove his citizenship. She's a prochoicer, but says abortion is murder and the antichoicers have the moral upper hand. The world's most elastic substance isn't rubber, it's her.

[VMI Dem]

54. Try again. Blind Clinton hate is a hell of a drug, no?

[question everything]

55. And this should surprise us, because?

She is another Ann Coulter, a mad woman seeking to remind the world that she exists and if she can squeeze some bucks of it, so much the better.