Limbaugh, Santelli and Cramer all cry about the Obama admin. get’n all up in their faces over comments they’ve made on the air.

Howard Fineman finds the tragic flaw going the other way:

http://firedoglake.com/2009/03…..ns-lament/

[I]n ways both large and small, what’s left of the American establishment is taking [Obama’s] measure and, with surprising swiftness, they are finding him lacking.

They have some reasons to be concerned. I trace them to a central trait of the president’s character: he’s not really an in-your-face guy.

I guess if they can accuse Obama of being a communist and a fascist simulanteously, he can be called a bully and a pussy at the same time.

Why does it not surprise me to learn that Ms. Paglia likes Limbaugh? Assholes.

Although it is good to know Gee Dub is more popular than Rush. Bush, after all, is only a war criminal…

Excuse me, but how could you pass up this clinker: “Use those fabulously toned arms to butt some heads…?”

Camille never metaphor she didn’t like.

I went there.

Oh, the incestuous mediocrity of American politics and media — compared to the splendors of Brazil! As a direct result of the two articles I wrote about superstar singer Daniela Mercury in Salon in June and August of last year, I was invited by the publisher Editora Abril to observe the 2009 carnival in Salvador da Bahia and write about it from an American perspective for the Brazilian magazine Bravo. Two weeks after my return, I am still trying to process the enormity of my experience in Salvador, which was staggering on every level.

Oh f–king jeez. Camile, You Are An Idiot. Brazilian media is far, far more nefarious and mediocre than its American cousin. Politics in Brazil is more interesting, sure, but look up Bahia’s own Antonio Carlos Magalhaes. Look up Globo. Coruptos.

But over five nights of the carnival, I saw from my bird’s-eye view very few negative incidents of any note. On the contrary, I was amazed at the concord and mutual respect of the people in the street — especially as it pertained to beautiful and scantily clad young women, who would be mercilessly harassed at any street fair in New York.

Again, you must be joking or a fucking moron. Here. Stick that in Google Translator.

Or from Lonely Planet, Brazil (2008), pg. 452, on Carnaval in Bahia: “Women should not walk alone or wear skirts (hands will be up them in no time).”

Get a f–king clue.

Don’t get me wrong. I love Bahia. There are people I love there. But it’s not safer than New York. And, yes, everyone should go. But give me a f–king break. It’s not a magical uplifting artistic experience, unless you’re a brain-dead ugly American. It’s just one heck of a party.

Dear Joan Walsh, I wouldn’t pay a cent if this is the sh-t my one penny supports. Hugs and kisses.

Rant over.

I agree with Camille. Rush Limbaugh is just as much a private citizen as Michael J Fox, or Chelsea Clinton, or some football player, or random feminists, and clearly it’s unconscionable to attack people like that. Thank God we can rely on Rush for the kind of civility Camille demands.

Seriously, if your argument is that the guy on the corner who clobbers every passerby with a baseball bat should be regarded as the hand of justice because he nailed your asshole brother-in-law, you need to just shut up now. And maybe go see if your sister is bleeding.

The only similarity between Rush and Lenny Bruce is drug addiction. Yes, Paglia does sound like a mouth-breather who like assholes.

“This entire fracas was set off by the president himself, who lowered his office by targeting a private citizen by name. Limbaugh had every right to counterattack, which he did with gusto.”

I love how the fact that this alleged “attack” is assumed to have happened. In reality the attack was a throwaway line where he said that Republicans can’t JUST listen to Limbaugh and actually still get things done in Washington.

How about Camille and Rush making the two backed monster?

Look at the people defending Limbaugh and/or attacking the Dems for pointing out that water is wet. By doing this, they are outing themselves as either open enemies to progressivism, or nominal allies who are so stupid and/or timid and/or disingenuous (Paglia hits the first and last items on this trifecta) that they’re about as helpful as a screen door on a submarine.

Now that we know who they are, we can handle them accordingly.

Paglia and Fats have more than one thing in common. Self-loathing AND misogyny.

The Rush Limbaugh stuff is bad, but what I really don’t understand about the column is this:

Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons — his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship.

Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama’s first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection.

Huh?

Is she talking about the people who helped the president get exactly the stimulus package that he said he wanted? Those rubes and smart alecks?

Or, maybe she means the smirking losers who have helped him plot a political strategy that has brought his approval numbers to 70 percent, while the Rethuglicans are struggling to reach 30.

Or, maybe she just has no idea what she’s talking about.

I think I’m going to go with that.

I personally would like to see Obama tell Geithner to go stimulate himself somewhere else and get real about a solution to the economic crisis that doesn’t involve fellating big banks and all of Wall Street. Leon Panetta and some of the other blue dog driftwood from the Clinton era doesn’t get me all that excited either.

But provincial rubes? No, the problem marring his administration is the high quotient of Beltway insiders, who, just like Camille, think they know it all and know what’s best for the nation of whiners who may be suffering, but just aren’t cool enough to matter as much as the tribe of Villagers.

“This entire fracas was set off by the president himself…”

Uh, isn’t it pretty well established that this entire fracas was set off by Rush saying he wants Obama to fail? Do I have my timeline right?

Since Paglia is incoherent I will translate.

“Stop showcasing to the world how stupid, simplistic, and infantile we are. If you keep this up, you might win more seats in congress, pass your progressive agenda, and help rebuild America. Look over there, a silver vibrator! Shiny!”

So Cammy goes to carnival, gets laid by some leggy beauty (and I do envy her there) and comes back with visions of how idyllic things are over there. I gave up that self delusion decades ago, what’s her problem?

Nevertheless, I respect Rush for his independence of thought and his always provocative news analysis.

Lul wut?

Independence of thought? Independent from what? Reality?

Once more, and I’ll explain this slowly: the White House wants to hang Rush Limbaugh around the necks of Republicans.

Exactly the way the Republicans have done for years with Michael Moore, Barbra Streisand, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, etc. Except no one in the Democratic Party has felt any need to publicly endorse any of those folks as a major force in the party. The really fun thing is, when Rahm Emmanuel refers to El Rushbo as the leader of the party, what’s Rush going to do? He’s going to agree, because his ego won’t let him do otherwise.

Can anyone explain why Joan Walsh invited Paglia to join Salon?

At one time I was a “premium member” — thought I was supporting good journalism [Glenn Greenwald], but when my membership expired, and they began hounding me to re-up, I told ‘em I would pay NOT to have Paglia coming into my mailbox.

“Outside of the mouth-breathers who fill the bleak and lonely hours of their unexamined lives listening …|”

Damn Tbogg, I’m beginning to think you may have worked two cubicles over from me all those years.

I totally agree with Rush about “feminazis,” whose amoral tactics and myopic worldview I as a dissident feminist had to battle for decades.

Translation: “Can you believe that those bitches won’t even return my phone calls these days? What kind of crazy rakka-frakka does a gal have to spout on Salon to get a hate fuck these days?”

I have devoted a small portion of my life to making sure that whenever I see the words “Camille Paglia” on a blog I make certain that everyone reading that blog remembers what the sainted Molly Ivins had to say about Camille. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, ever said it better than Molly! You’re quite welcome.

Thanks. It was every bit as good as you promised.

Thanks for the link to dear Molly’s words on Camille. I feel bad all over again that she didn’t get to live to witness the demoralization of the Republican party.

A word of warning. Molly said

Tracing Paglia’s intellectual ancestry is a telling exercise; she’s the lineal descendant of Ayn Rand. . . .

What will we do if Paglia “goes Galt” on us? There will be a serious swill shortage.

Oh, the incestuous mediocrity of American politics and media — compared to the splendors of Brazil! As a direct result of the two articles I wrote about superstar singer Daniela Mercury in Salon in June and August of last year, I was invited by the publisher Editora Abril to observe the 2009 carnival in Salvador da Bahia

Um, isn’t this pretty much the definition of “incestuous mediocrity”? As for incestuousness, Paglia wrote an article about Brazil, so she got invited to Brazil to rhapsodize about its wonders. As for mediocrity, she’s Camille Pagila.

Or, “Paglia,” rather than “Pagila,” although I like the “gila” as in “monster.”

camille will never go galt. she’d wither and die from the lack of attention. i mean, look at her work. she’s clearly acting out, saying irrational, irresponsible, and even stupid things, just to make people pay attention to her. i bet if we all ignored her, she’d literally disappear up her own asshole.

Camille Paglia and Germaine Greer…proof that women can do anything men can do, including acting like clueless dickheads.

Why is Al Pacino’s face at the top of this post?

Why is she still contributing to Salon? Does she have Polaroids of Joan Walsh with farm animals or what?

(Ewww…..)

Her desperate attempts to be seen as a hipper-than-thou contrarian are just so fucking predictable. You want to really shock us Camille? Try posting something coherent.

Vibrating on a platform above the Salvador carnival!

[…]

But over five nights of the carnival, I saw from my bird’s-eye view very few negative incidents of any note.

So Paglia (Who compares Lenny Bruce to Limbaugh???) got to watch Carnaval from a “bird’s-eye view” on a platform, & thinks she was down w/ the natives?

No jury would convict me.

Dude, I slogged through that pile of shit hoping to get a little bit of a thrill hearing Paglia talk about hot sex with a “leggy beauty.” Didn’t happen – no such talk.

And I broke my promise never to add to her numbers by clicking on her columns in hopes Salon would start to realize nobody wnats to read Camille anymore. Like I do with MoDo.

Can anyone explain why Joan Walsh invited Paglia to join Salon?

Because Joan isn’t satsified with just making Salon suck; she wants to make its suckage legendary.

Limbaugh, like our own liberal culture hero Lenny Bruce, is a professional commentator who can be as rude and crude as he wants.

Two words Camille: “Media Hazard”
Ask your publisher how much he has to pay for insurance so that elitist a**holes like you can be as “rude and crude” as you want? “Free speech” stops being free the minute the process server greets the “bag men” for your philisophical gibberish at the door.