Mac MacArthur has had it with Camille "Piglia" and Her (His?) "Brethren"
Bite Me, Cammy!
Readers respond From: Ed As a gay man, I can assure you that Camille is not some secret weapon we have invented to "recruit young boys into our lifestyle." Camille may have been invented perhaps by a biomedical concern or perhaps by early failed cloning experiments. From: Brian Nice to see you catch up with camille paglia (note: no caps here, either). She's been what I will kindly call "damaged goods" for as long as I've been aware of here, which is, by the way, far too long. Thanks. |
Hillary, Naomi, Susan and Rush. Sheesh!
Clinton requires emergency intervention;
Wolf's mind is amazingly slack; Faludi's
"Stiffed" is a stiff. Meanwhile, Limbaugh
brings a genuine intellectual service to
American culture.
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By Camille Paglia
Nov. 17, 1999 [salon.com] |Hillary Rodham Clinton continues to stumble and bumble
along the long and winding campaign trail, her latest gaffe being her
slow-as-mud response last week to Suha Arafat's startling charge that
Israelis have been poisoning Palestinian women and children with
carcinogenic gases.
Paglia, predictable as usual, misstates the facts -- in fact, lies outright -- simply to make her prevaricative point. Hillary Clinton is doing everything but 'stumbling and bumbling' through her campaign. In fact, polls that don't get talked about on television have her neck-and-neck with Rudy Mussolini. She has maintained 65% of the Jewish vote in New York. You know those Jews, Cam -- the ones that actually think!
Let me help you, Cammy. The First Lady on the United States must not and cannot cause an international incident -- no matter what her opinion, no matter what her feelings. Her positiona have been pro-Israel for more than 40 years.
Look it up -- or are you too lazy?
Hillary, in fact, did not even hear or understand what Mrs. Arafat -- a slime of a terrorist bloodsucking gold-digging woman -- said, but even if Suha Babe had called the United States a Neo-Nazi nation engaged in the wholesale economic slaughter of third world nations who don't toe the line (which we are, by the way), Mrs. Clinton could have done little but smile.
Even you -- so pathetically locked into your own high IQ -- should know that whatever Mrs. "A" was saying was mere political rhetoric to mollify crowds of Arabs still hoping to taste some Jewish blood.
Or maybe you thought that Hillary's prior remarks on the rights of Palestinians to have a country simply "proves" her "anti-Israeli, anti-Jew" personal philosophy? Hate to break your purple bubble, Cammy, but about 70% of Israelis agree. They simply want peace.
While I support Palestinian statehood, as Hillary has in the past, I was
appalled that Arafat would compromise the stature and autonomy of an
American first lady by forcing her, in effect, to sit captive on a speaker's
platform while an anti-Israel litany was being recited.
By the way, Cam, you should capitalize "First Lady," out of simple respect for that position, if nothing else. Also, Arafat the Mrs. is well known as an idiot, so you should not have been surprised. As a matter of fact, Suha is really too lame to have "planned" that -- or anything else. I'm sure they went off together to Starbucks after the event and chatted about the latest offerings by Walt Steiger, the shoemaker.
But Hillary demonstrated what an embarrassing neophyte she is at
seat-of-the-pants improvisation, the rat-a-tat style of banking, swooping
and counterattack that her prospective senatorial opponent, Mayor Rudy
Giuliani, is such an ace at. No, Hillary shouldn't have walked out -- that
would have been undignified and disruptive. But her double kiss and hug
for Arafat, whether they occurred before or after the incident, were
excessively effusive for that charged climate. And her speech should have
been delivered in a sterner or more neutral tone, preparing the way for a
later, more carefully considered, direct rebuke.
First, Hillary did not hear what Suha said. Get it? She learned the details only after she returned to her hotel -- so your vapid advice on what she should have done -- had she heard, that is -- is ludicrous.
That Hillary Clinton constantly requires emergency intervention and
marching orders from her far-flung team of consultants -- above all the
detestable, twisted Harold Ickes (who looks like a character out of
"Faust") -- should be a warning to New York voters about her basic lack
of talent as a politician. Hillary is as preprogrammed as Elizabeth Dole:
Both these women lawyers are smart and polished when they prep and
plan, but they're clumsy and off-balance under sudden, high-stakes
pressure. It's preposterous that the Democratic Party of my home state
can't come up with a better, more seasoned local candidate.
Vapid? Did I write vapid? I apologize, Cammy. I meant stupid as a cow. Hillary Clinton, well known to be one of the architects of her husband's brilliant political career, requires anything but intervention from Harold Ickes, who you call Faustian. Nonsense -- it is you that appear Faustian -- even in the boudoir, I am told. You are not fit to wipe Ickes' boots. He is from a long line of men who serve their country "faithfully" and who seem to give very good advice to some very important historical personalities -- as opposed to you, an over-the-hill AM-FM pseudointellect.
Let's examine Cammy's own intellectual credentials. First she is professor at an obscure, third-rate college in Philadelphia. Second, she has authored three books - not true best-sellers - about sex, sex and more sex. She is obsessed by sex -- and the most perverted types. Now she's had a book published by some film institute --in a nation where they still worship their Queen --about a third-rate horror film made by the vastly overrated egotist auteur Alfred Hitchcock.
Hmmmm... was it the last syllable of his name that intrigues her?
For verification - here is Cam's bio on Salon:
"Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at the University of the
Arts in Philadelphia. She is the author of three bestselling books:
"Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily
Dickinson," "Sex, Art and American Culture" and "Vamps &
Tramps: New Essays." Her fourth book, a study of Alfred Hitchcock's
"The Birds", has been published by the British Film Institute in its
Film Classics Series."
See how easy it is to twist the truth, Camille? See how quickly I could turn the average beer-drinking toady against you?
Of course, Paglia's books do sell well - because the have the word in the title. They are well-written, as well -- but that is not why they sell. She has a private or should I say demi-private audience for her crap. Can you guess who they are?
Gee, your bio says nothing about your Rhodes Scholarship -- or where you were undereducated! What's wrong? Ashamed of it -- or just playing possum?
The funniest political pratfall of the month has been Al Gore's bizarre
entanglement with yuppie feminist Naomi Wolf, a favorite target of mine
from early this decade. (In my published 1991 lecture at MIT, for example, I
notoriously called Wolf "little Miss Pravda" -- as well as "the princess of
the system," a "twit" and "a parent-pleasing, teacher-pleasing little
kiss-ass.")
Funny only to you, Cam -- Naomi Wolf has it hands down over you! This is why the only way you can attack her is through your wicked tongue (one way or the other.) Your obvious need to tell your readers that you targeted Wolf at "my published" ten-year-old lecture at "MIT" shows your lack of confidence and your obvious green-eyed jealousies of Naomi, who out-performs and out-earns you daily. When was the last time you served a Vice President -- or anyone of stature? If Wolf is little Miss Pravda then you must be "Little Miss Nürnburger-Reichmistress-Zeitung."
Salon readers Charles E. Lincoln and Jacqueline A. Burns write from New
Orleans to ask my view of the Gore campaign secretly paying $15,000 a
month to Wolf for her advice, which included trying to inflate his
malleable maleness from beta to alpha status. Frank Francomano, in a
second contribution to this column, declares, "Naomi is perfect for Al
Gore. She plays directly to the core of what the Democratic Party has
become: a haven for the loose left-hand thread nuts in the great American
Machine."
Wolf shouldn't have to apologize to the likes of you -- or anyone else, for that matter -- about what she earns. You know better than to try that ploy, and you also known that she earns millions a year -- so that the $15,000 a month the Gore Campaign was paying was a rock-bottom bargain.
I suppose you have no knowledge of the fee structure paid political and policy consultants, so let me educate you: it is quite high for all concerned. Remember, presidential candidates tap the best minds they can for a race -- and most of these advisors earn in excess of $500 an hour, billing 9-14 hours a day.
At the high end, this means that many earn $35-50 thousand a week, or a paltry $2.5 million a year.
There was also nothing secret about what Gore was paying her. It is reported -- by law -- every month. You might do well to learn that as well. Lincoln and Burns, two obvious low-lifes who spend their time side-shooting others and using parrot women like you to do their dirty work, are, parenthetically, "nobodies."
So it is you with egg on her old wrinkled face -- not Wolf.
You are again showing octogenarian jealous rage, because Wolf is far more successful, far more sought after, and immensely more attractive to both sexes than you -- not to mention far more American than thou.
What can I add to my remarks on the Nov. 7 broadcast of CBS's "Face the
Nation"? I called Wolf a "lightweight" ("She was too lightweight even for
the lightweight magazine George, for heaven's sakes!") and decreed that
she's "a Seventeen magazine level of thinker."
You might try an apology, for it is you that get by as the lightweight. You live on invective, hateful ad hominem attack, and the drama of uttering outlandish statements to trailer park trash who titter at you as they might a carnival freak.
Well, first of all, I think Naomi Wolf's parents should sue her alma mater,
Yale University, for malpractice. If we judge by her clarity of reasoning
and command of language at age 37, her education was a fraud. She was
injected with passé feminist and post-structuralist doctrine at an
impressionable age, and she never received the kind of disciplined
training in high-level philosophy and intellectual history that she
desperately needed.
Now you attack Wolf's parents. I suppose that you, Cam, a passé feminist as well because you are frightened of your own asexuality, were not indoctrinated in the Ronald ReaganNeofascist Post-Compassionist doctrine, for surely you never absorbed even prep school level philosophy nor what you conveniently call "intellectual history" -- an inventive discipline if I say so myself.
Just what is that Cammy? Another "device" for the derisive?
Wolf has energy and ambition, but her mind is amazingly slack. It's as if
she's frozen in the precocious but superficial brightness of adolescence,
with her thoughts tumbling out in what a reviewer of her last book
(Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times) rightly called "narcissistic
babbling and plain silliness."
Wolf also has something else that belies your psycho-babble. She knows how to get her point across to Americans whose average intellectual capacity is exceeded when confronting the odds on a football bet.
What would Japanese mindset reviewer Michiko Kakutani know about what is "babbling and plain silly?" And again you mention The New York Times as if it was a bastion of intellectual credibility. How candid of you -- and how treacherous to use the nation's foremost liberal newspaper to bolster your vituperative attacks on Ms. Wolf.
There was a priceless extravaganza last week on
Rush Limbaugh's radio program (which I was
listening to in my car)...
Yes, God forbid if you were listening within earshot of others!
...For almost 40 minutes, Limbaugh played and
replayed individual sentences from Wolf's
appearance the day before on ABC's "This Week"
with Cokie Roberts and Sam Donaldson. It was an
excellent example of the genuine intellectual service
that Limbaugh has done for American culture.
Ha, ha, ha! There goes whatever might have been left of your credibility, Cam!
No other print or electronic media source gave such instructive,
microscopic attention to the murky labyrinth of Naomi Wolf's thought, for
which the Gore campaign is still paying a very high price ($5,000 per
month, as busted down by new campaign manager Donna Brazile).
You've just told another lie. Donna did not "Bust Down" Wolf's salary -- it was Wolf, in fact, that suggested the consultancy fee cut when she saw how underfunded the Gore campaign was.
She also offered to work for nothing - something you wouldn't dream of because you couldn't afford it.
I laughed uproariously as Limbaugh heaped scorn on Wolf's "literary"
pretensions by demonstrating the redundancies, clichés, contradictions,
convolutions and pompous, self-interrupting mini-clauses in what he
called her "nonsensical" patter. A male caller dismissed Wolf as a
"pseudointellectual" vainglorious about her "credentials" and went on to
express incredulity that she was ever a Rhodes Scholar (though Wolf
evidently never completed her degree at Oxford University).
Sure you laughed -- because you worship the totally uneducated and vindictive -- personified by Limbaugh and other cretins like Chris "Oh'Really" O'Reilly, the failed high school teacher, Sean Hannity and, of course, Himmler.
I heard that "Limbaugh moment" as well -- but I also heard the complete Wolf interview by "Spam" Donaldson and "Cocky" Roberts, two self-important stooges who are slowly seeping into the ooze of obscurity -- as will you.
Every second of the Limbaugh replay was taken out of context, cut, and tailored to entertain simpletons -- including skinheads, mental midgets, White Power intellectuals who rely on Rush to complete their 7th grade educations, and you.
Did you graduate from Oxford as well Cammy?
Limbaugh asked why Tipper Gore couldn't teach her husband "how to be
a man" in the first place: "Instead he has to go out and hire a true
crackpot." That Wolf was embraced by the Gore campaign, which can't
seem to shake her, should signify to Republicans, Limbaugh concluded,
that "we're up against a wigged-out bunch of New Agers who don't have
a grip!"
Enough is enough, you out-and-out lying witch.
You know full well that Naomi Wolf was not hired to make Al Gore "more of a man" -- you sniveling, jealous snake. She was hired to help him plug into the youth culture of today -- a culture which you and people like you have destroyed and turned into children of hate and frustration with absolutely no moral compass.
You and Ken Starr - a perfect match.
While I resent the damage that Gore's seamy, under-the-table affiliation
with the ditzy Wolf has done to my party (I'm keeping my fingers crossed
that Bill Bradley's still-nebulous candidacy will gel),...
Your party? You are a laughing stock within the Democratic Party -- and I know, because I am a player and you are not.
You a better loved by, and more qualified to be a member of, Newt Gingrich's GOP out-of-favor group which loves your kind of evil.
...I'm pleased with the way the Wolf brand of me-first, upper-middle-class,
Rolodex feminism has been exposed for its preening sense of privilege and
entitlement. Wolf's career has in fact always benefited from backstage
connections, covered up by feminist sympathizers in the media who seem
finally to have turned on her.
They haven't turned on her, Cam -- they've just never been with you, because they can spot a phony a mile a way. Your brand of feminism never existed at all and will never exist, except with your Brentwood-Santa Monica-Southampton girls' club, which I won't get into here.
As for your whines concerning "Rolodex" feminism, it smacks of Rolodex envy -- because obviously, Naomi's is much bigger.
There was the friend-of-her-father agent and the roomful of editors and
advisors who pulled the meandering manuscript of "The Beauty Myth"
into semi-coherent shape. There was the older male relative (reportedly an
uncle) conveniently positioned at the New York Times. Then arrived the
talented editor/speechwriter husband whose precise, sober voice can be
detected with questionable regularity.
You really are nothing but a jealous big-mouth who does nothing but bitch -- a questionably female "lap" dog who can't stand the fact that she has no help, no champions, no friends, no nothing-much. You are intellectual excrement posing as wit. Look at you, writing for a loser webzine which already sold its soul to the devil rather than stay a voice of reason.
Is this your only claim to fame?
If many professional writers have disdain for Wolf, it's partly because her
byline, as I've sometimes joked, should be "Team Naomi" -- contradicting
her public posture of feminist independence, not to mention her
stratospheric financial demands. The cloud of hype in which Wolf has
enveloped herself (about her U.S. book sales, for example) appears to
have turned delusional, as when she gratuitously confided to Cokie and
crew that she had "taken a pay cut" to work for Al Gore -- at which a
thousand horse laughs undoubtedly resounded up and down the Eastern
seaboard.
Give it up, Cam. Many professional writers loathe you for being a pretentious pop-psychologist who thinks you have all the answers. And, like writers in general ( who are mostly broke from lack of talent), they don't laugh when they hear what Wolf earns. They instead cry bitter tears inside their Queens sixth-floor walk-ups where they spend their lives, alone and miserable, because they cannot admit to themselves that they are witless -- and are so chock-full of self-loathing -- as you are, I might add -- that they wrestle with the razor blade every night.
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