Salon : Camille speaks!

[Manix]

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This Iraq adventure is a political, cultural and moral disaster for the United States. Every sign was there to read, but the Bush administration is run by blinkered people who are driven by ideology and who do not feel the largeness of the world and its multiplicity of religions, ethnicities and customs. Despite the multicultural ambitions of higher education in the last 25 years, there has been a massive failure in public education. Media negligence also played a huge role in this cataclysm.

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I don't personally hate Bush. I think he's sincere and well-meaning. But I feel very sorry for him. Every time I watch him, I feel his suffering, and I suffer with him. But he's out of his depth in this job. His view of the world is painfully simplistic -- like a Wild West video game where the good guys wear white hats and always win. But he's surrounded by manipulators -- like Vice President Dick Cheney, the invisible man, the shadowy puppeteer.


The person I do hate is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who is out of control and who has trashed what should be the professional cooperation between the State Department and the Pentagon. Rumsfeld is lost in some delusional state. He's like Newt Gingrich in the grandstanding narcissism department. Both Rumsfeld and Gingrich show how narrow-bore thinking can turn high I.Q. into colossal stupidity.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/10/29/paglia/index1.html

[Paschall]

1. Last I read Paglia's comments on the Bush administration...

...she was creaming in her jeans over what she called the intelligence and chutzpvah of Condi Rice. And that's when I stopped reading her column.

What a dimbulb!

[Capt_Nemo]

2. Sorry Camille, too late for a U-turn

You didn't have a clue about diplomacy and geopolitics, but all the
same you chose to parrot the neo-con worldview.

FUCK YOU!

In the future stick to your pet issues since more than half a brain
is required to understand politics.

[JeebusH]

3. I think this is Paglia's attempt to disavow the banner ....

sorry, it ain't working with Dumbya and it ain't working with you ... I hope you enjoy the 2004 campaign when that "sincere and well-meaning" man demonized gays and lesbians like you

[Hand]

4. Good god...

Who the hell needs Camille Paglia, anyway? Every third word out of her self-absorbed yap is "I", and the rest is just a shallow rehash of uninteresting and unoriginal ideas that were better articulated elsewhere and long before.

She's as phony as three-dollar bill, and worth about as much.

[maha]

5. Camille speaks -- and she's an idiot!

I already sent a long email to Salon asking why they waste bandwidth on the bitch. Occasionally she spews out something that is coherent, but it's like the 10,000 monkeys in a typewriter warehouse. One of them will type a sentence eventually.

[The Zanti Regent]

6. Gee, I ran out of Milk Bones...

Let me get another box, toss 'em at Camille and maybe she'll shut up!

[shrike]

7. LOL. I love you guys

No wonder I visit DU.

[Raster]

8. The part I really enjoyed...(emphasis mine)

"Of course the newsmagazines never honestly covered Rush Limbaugh as a major force in American media and politics since the early '90s, but Newsweek finally put him on the cover for his drug scandal. That's fine -- it's breaking news -- but then shouldn't they have interviewed some longtime Rush fans who know the show? But who do they call? Maureen Dowd -- that catty, third-rate, wannabe sorority queen. She's such an empty vessel. One pleasure of reading the New York Times online is that I never have to see anything written by Maureen Dowd! I ignore her hypertext like spam for penis extenders.


Heh heh heh, BITCH FIGHT!

[RandomKoolzip]

9. Sorry, Camille, you used to mean something to a lot of people.....

Now you are chasing after your day in the sun. It's too late to throw your old fans on the left a bone. And W = "well-meaning?" Wow, she must be smoking some great weed. Fucking libertarians....(that's what she is)