penis envy raises its beautiful head of splen-diddly-diddle-dor

My God, next she’ll be channeling the powertool trio: “It must be very strange to be Governor Palin. A woman of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, she can’t get anyone to notice…”

It all raises this question of course: if a pundit fellates another woman with prose, do the Mormons consider it a sin?

Gawd amighty, for that pseudo-post beatnik academic to distort & amplify

“frayed syntax, bungled grammar and run-on sentences.”

into

How can it be that so many highly educated Americans have so little historical and cultural consciousness that they identify their own native patois as an eternal mark of intelligence, talent and political aptitude?

is an astounding feat. How does she do it? And will she ever stop?

God she’s insufferable. Money:

“Practical training in hands-on vocational skills is desperately needed in this country, where liberal arts education has become a soggy boondoggle, obscenely expensive and diluted by propaganda and groupthink.”

You first, toots. See ya at the widget plant.

Then this:

“I am very sorry that he, and so many other members of the educational elite, cannot take pleasure as I do in the quick, sometimes jagged, but always exuberant way that Palin speaks — which is closer to street rapping than to the smug bourgeois cadences of the affluent professional class.”

I wonder which N.W.A. song is Camille’s favorite — “One Less Bitch” or “She Swallowed It”?

Camille From the Block

Yo! Word! (etc.)

Obviously, like so many older, stupid males, Paglia must see starbursts when she looks at Palin. I try not to read Paglia, between her repugnant ideas and her horrid prose, her writing makes me long for an asteroid to come destroy the Earth. She’s the fool’s version of a literary genius.

Any comment about Camille Paglia needs a link to Molly Ivins epic pre-web evisceration of Paglia in Mother Jones. If I needed another reason to be an atheist, I would look at the fact that Ivins is no longer with us, while Paglia not only survives, but still spills out dreck on a biweekly basis.

Guess what: There has been a revolution in English — registered in the 1950s in the street slang, colloquial locutions and assertive rhythms of both Beat poetry and rock ‘n’ roll and now spread far and wide on the Web in the standard jazziness of blogspeak.

Conflating Palin’s nasal incoherence with the linguistic playfulness of the Beats or with the practical misdirection of street slang is a clear sign that Paglia is a real hep cat.

Paglia is the worst sort of delusional hypocrite. Using and anthropomorphizing “The Street” while at the same time easily sidestepping the people who occupy it because, you know, they are beneath her. People like Paglia are an embarrassment – always playing at being the hipster in a neverending parade of cringe inducing moments. Her disdain for Cavett and what he represents to her may be real but her defense of Palin is an attempt to get a certain amount of street cred with people she would not be caught dead around.

Camille Paglia has no idea that Sarah Palin has no idea what the fuck Camille Paglia is talking about.

Two points:

1. Montauk is not in the chichi Hamptons. It lies east of the chichi Hamptons and is not, itself, especially chichi.

2. Why does this woman accuse Cavett of arrogating to himself the role of “gatekeeper for political achievers” when she is writing about his take on Sarah Palin? Politically, Palin hasn’t achieved anything. All she’s ever done is leave her formerly solvent small town deep in debt, claim dodgy expenses while making money-losing deals for her state, give small boners to a few hundred basement-dwelling cheetoh-eaters (and one pseudo-feminist pseudo-intellectual) while serving as a laughing stock for the remaining 99.998% of the population and, quite possibly, cost John McCain the election.

Ya know, u didn’t have to click the link, TBogg. Don’t u know anything about sleeping dogs?

My God, next she’ll be channeling the powertool trio: “It must be very strange to be Governor Palin. A woman of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, she can’t get anyone to notice…”

Probably, though it’s been done already.

“I am very sorry that he, and so many other members of the educational elite, cannot take pleasure as I do in the quick, sometimes jagged, but always exuberant way that Palin speaks — which is closer to street rapping than to the smug bourgeois cadences of the affluent professional class.”

That may be the dumbest goddamn thing I ever read.

Thanks, Tbogg… I guess…. for reading Paglia so I don’t have to. Because I won’t…. I can’t. I had a hard time making through the sampling above.

The next time my sub to Salon comes up, either Paglia goes or I do. My God that woman is a sanctimonious, elitist twit.

“insufferably supercilious”

I thought she was about to break out into Daffy Duckspeak: “Ssssufffffering ssssssuccotash!!!!”

“I am very sorry that he, and so many other members of the educational elite, cannot take pleasure as I do in the quick, sometimes jagged, but always exuberant way that Palin speaks — which is closer to street rapping than to the smug bourgeois cadences of the affluent professional class.”

Shorter Camille: Look at that, the regular folk are so cute! Jeeves, please bring me another Kir Royale, I think she might start to dance! And Jeeves, do use the Dom Perignon, I’m afraid the Christal has gone flat and supercillious.

Unvarnished Palin:
“John McCain, in referring to the fundamental of our economy being strong, he was talking to and he was talking about the American workforce. And the American workforce is the greatest in this world, with the ingenuity and the work ethic that is just entrenched in our workforce. That’s a positive. That’s encouragement. And that’s what John McCain meant.

“Now, what I’ve done as a governor and as a mayor is (inaudible) I’ve had that track record of reform. And I’ve joined this team that is a team of mavericks with John McCain, also, with his track record of reform, where we’re known for putting partisan politics aside to just get the job done.

“Now, Barack Obama, of course, he’s pretty much only voted along his party lines. In fact, 96 percent of his votes have been solely along party line, not having that proof for the American people to know that his commitment, too, is, you know, put the partisanship, put the special interests aside, and get down to getting business done for the people of America.”

http://elections.nytimes.com/2…..ebate.html

That doesn’t make me think of street slang, colloquial locutions, the assertive rhythms of both Beat poetry and rock ‘n’ roll or the “standard jazziness of blogspeak.”

Please, lord, just shoot me now, but do not make me read any more of Paglia’s verbal diarhea.

Thank you for that link, Steve — I was just feeling irrationally exhuberant about the present and the future. Ye gods, a self-proclaimed Democrat and feminist working as a paid consultant to the McCain campaign, gushing about Sarah Palin’s smarts? Yeah, that’ll make us all sit up and listen.

Dumb pundits… can’t we lay off a few thousand of them during the coming depression, and save some genuine workers’ jobs instead?

The next time my sub to Salon comes up, either Paglia goes or I do. My God that woman is a sanctimonious, elitist twit.

Well I tried that technique, and the bitch is still there.

When my subscription was up about 6 months ago, I didn’t renew. I told them I would pay to AVOID Paglia. Every time they sent me e-mails asking why I didn’t renew, I repeated. As you can see, my input had a lot of effect.

I could never figure out WHY Salon “hired” her. Is Joan Walsh that loony?

BTW, having to endure ads to reach Salon isn’t so bad. In any case, I NEVER click on Paglia; can’t stand to drive any traffic her way. Thanks for keeping me pure but updated.

“…I felt like taking to the air like a Valkyrie and dropping on him at his ocean retreat …”

That is one creepy image. The woman clearly has some issues. Apart from the fact that she’s clearly delusional about Wicked Witch of Wasilla.

ditto here re subscrition termination. I want my money BACK for all the years I was fool enough to keep it up.

The problem is that the insufferable old toadess draws a lot of traffic, as is evident from the numbers of comments she receives. Maybe that’s why Joan keeps her on. Real class act, that Joan.

And TBogg totally RAWKS for taking her on — but just imagine if we could somehow make it happen that no one pays attention to her at all. She would shrivel up into dry toad dust and blow away. And a great blessing would be rendered unto all of humankind, and Molly Ivins would smile down upon us from Heaven.

Congrats Camille. It’s official – you’re a self-parody. And now please shut your trap. Nobody cares anymore.

Ugh – Camille still has her Salon forum to spew her incoherent BS! Seriously – she has guts telling the “gay movement” how to conduct ourselves in our fight for our civil rights. Where is she in this? What has she ever done for the gay community except present herself as an useless embarassment? Thanks UArts for this gift that keeps on giving – to the enemies of gays! Go Away Camille!!!

on second thought, imagine a Hell wherein Paglia and Palin were roommates for all eternity. I would SO want to be a fly on the wall. For a few minutes, anyway.

Paglia’s assertion she perfectly understands every one of Palin’s disconnected ramblings leads me to believe she is just…fuckin’ nuts. The equation of Palin to street rappers brings to a perfect conclusion the trend of clueless white people expropriating rap for their own stupid purposes.

How anyone has ever taken Paglia seriously is beyond me.

I used to be able to ignore Paglia, but no more. And by the way, even if you pay you still get randomly stuck with ads so I see no point in feeding that maw again. Greenwald is great, but having a female low-rent Buckley share the same website is an insult.

How about emailing Ms. Walsh saying something like

I look forward to returning to Salon, reading Greenwald, getting the freshest ‘This Modern World’ etc. when your site regains its sanity. The presence of Ms. Paglia, who I refuse to read or support in any way, is evidence to the contrary.

With a link to Molly Ivins’s column (h/t CrustyDem)

Why ignore her? I mean isn’t it fun to read the stupidest, most fraudulent, cluelessly pretentious writing of the moment — and then ripping into it? What else is the Internet for? Recipes? Porn? I, for one, cherish TBogg’s (and roy’s and LGM’s and the Poorman Institute’s) continued vigilance on the Paglia beat.

Sure, her “thoughts” are worse than colon cancer and utterly vapid — but it’s an interesting spectacle to watch someone so singularly narcissistic and so completely wrong about everything all of the time, write wrongness with big words and bloated prose. Makes me immensely glad I never went to grad school. Or Yale.

“Practical training in hands-on vocational skills is desperately needed in this country, where liberal arts education has become a soggy boondoggle, obscenely expensive and diluted by propaganda and groupthink.”

Spoken like a woman who thinks a “screwdriver” is something you drink.

[CUE THE MUSIC!] I am Paglia, hear me bore; and just too “whacked out” to ignore….

YES! This IS the perfect modern analog to Dante’s inner circle of hell: After having lived a full life, and presumably having learned a few things along the way, you are back in college–and the people you hate get to choose your roommate for the rest of eternity.

Paglia would despise Palin as an overglorified physical education major, who beleives that journalism has something to do with “real” writing.
Palin would despise Paglia’s pseudo-intellectualism, and be consumed with worry over whether or not she could “turn gay” by being roommates with a lesbian. This would of course result in Palin having promiscuous, unprotected sex, resulting in an unplanned pregnancy–hey! It’s like “Groundhog Day.”

Pardon me, Madame Valkyrie, but a babbling, incoherent speaker is neither jazzy nor subtly smart.

Neither is the goofy bitch who be representin’ her!

Poor Ms. Paglia. Still unhappy. Still full of herself. Just ignore her. I know I do.

And here I thought speech was for transmission of information. Good thing Camille straightened me out. Who cares if the semantic content is zero – it’s street theatre, yo!

I was considering dropping my Salon subscription too, but then I started reading the responses to Paglia’s crap. In any given 500 responses 498 of them are screaming MAKE IT STOP!!! I guess that Salon keeps her around because they want to corner the “We Hate Camille” market. I never read her shit, but the letters in response can be fun…

so cavitt was called ugly by a pig?

Paglia can make you cringe with just a headline. Witness the latest:

“What do the Clintons have on Obama?”

Dig this, cats:

And we have got to be vigilant. We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to.

It doesn’t have to lead to war and it doesn’t have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping our eye on Russia and Putin and some of his desire to control and to control much more than smaller democratic countries.

His mission, if it is to control energy supplies, also, coming from and through Russia, that’s a dangerous position for our world to be in, if we were to allow that to happen.

It’s street slang and Vout and hippity-hoppity and Yiddish and Esperanto all rolled into one..

CP’s closing line:

What gifted team created this witty fantasia? Congratulations for popular art at its best!

Shheeeesh, a pseudo-academic jagoff who is read (mostly in anger & disbelief) by the 40 to 50 thousand people world-wide who read English & use their devil-boxes for something besides e-mailing pix of their grandchildren. Cavett’s a fuggin’ telebision star. Who’s more “down” on the “streets,” wit’ da street peoples? Huh? Who?

Where did the Hendrix pic come from? Beautiful.

That’s actually Gil Scott Heron and some other guy.

What else is the Internet for? Recipes? Porn?

Cue Avenue Q: “The internet is for porn.”

If you don’t get the reference, you’ll think I’m crazy.

If you do, the song will be rattling around in your head for the rest of the day. And with what’s going down in the markets, that’s probably a good thing.

I was so outraged when I read Cavett’s column that I felt like taking to the air like a Valkyrie and dropping on him at his ocean retreat in Montauk in the chichi Hamptons.

Poor Camille; she can’t decide whether she wants to be Susan Sontag or Wonder Woman. At least if she flew to the Hamptons in her invisible plane and wasted a good afternoon asking where Montauk was, it would distract her from her wet-on for Bible Spice, who is probably getting a restraining order as we speak.

I hadn’t bothered to check the letters before; hell, I avoid her columns like they’re infected, and I must admit the letters are nearly universally WTF?!?!? We can hope that perhaps it is too expensive to just cancel her contract, and it won’t be renewed the next time around. Though I suspect Joan Walsh may be mistaking “traffic” for “interest”.