Wierd Al Yankovic Studies are cropping up in universities around the country, as students abandon Swift and Pope for “My Bologna”.

Explain to me how this woman is a liberal?

It’s fine to criticize Blacky X Hussein with substantitive criticism (ala Glennzilla).

Paglia is only interested in throwing around talk radio schmears.

Glad to see Walsh is getting called out on this nonsense. Yelling about Paglia’s looney rantings is like yelling about a dog that pees on the carpet.

Walsh is near completion of her destruction of Salon as a brand. Her choices in every department have been disastrous. Paglia is the yammering crackhead in the theater. I’d really hate her if she made sense.

I was just getting ready to comment when I read yours. Couldn’t have said it better.

“available online to subscribers to the Limbaugh Web site, but that draconian limitation has unfairly confined Shanklin’s work to conservative partisans.” So not fair! Because if there’s one thing we lefties are hankering for it’s unfettered access to the same wingnut humor that enlightens conservative partisans. After all, we share so much in common with them — like the ability to appreciate snide and sophomoric racist remarks set to meter. Not.

Walsh probably figures that any attention (paid to Salon) is good attention. A lot of people feel that way. Of course, a lot of people believe that lowering marginal tax rates increases government revenue. In other words, a lot of people are idiots.

Oh, we liberals “just don’t get it.” Shanklin’s work is so brilliant and we are so caught up in our deadly serious socialist gay islamo agendas we wouldn’t recognize funny if it smacked us in the face.

Well here, let me give it a try:

“Camille Paglia is such a nitwit that when she lays around the house, she really lays around the house.” Get it, get it? Oh you people, no sense of humor.

I found it very daring and funny. It was timely and had the shock of the new

Yes, it is certainly new and edgy to call African-Americans ‘negros’. And daring too! If he would have called them ni****s, if would have been hilarious! He would have gone down in history along with the great comediens of all time like David Duke and Jefferson Davis.

Paglia, just go away. Stick with what your good at and write an article about a yeast infection or your new cock ring.

I’m not sure countercultural transgression gets to have a doyenne, but if it did, it almost certainly wouldn’t hang out with Andrew Sullivan, give grooming advice to Madonna, or nominate itself for the job.

Just, you know, saying.

And I would like to apologize for all Philadelphians for this:

Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia

We have many great museums and cultural centers here. Please don’t hold it against us that we tarnish it with this buffoon.

Didn’t she start her whole Opposite Day schtick in the first place as a means to get the tenure she said the evil university heads wouldn’t give her?

Interesting that neither Paglia or Shanklin called Hillary for copyright infringement – quoting the Gipper’s testimony in Iran-Contra.

To quote the late, much-missed, Molly Ivins: “Get this woman a Valium! Camille, honey, calm down!”

Molly Ivins on the insufferable Cammy:
“What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit.”

As a human being, I’m qualified to say that Camille Paglia is a waste of space.

To Mrs. Biscuit, Peorgie and pseudo-your biting satire and brilliant wit fail to mask your true, undying admiration for Dr. Paglia’s intellectual prowess. Fool me once, fool me again!

I wasn’t born on the turnip truck yesterday, you know!

Bingo. I think Peorgie above, quoting Ivins, sums it up best.

I heartily agree with all that’s been said, about uber-insufferable toad Paglia and especially Enabler-in-Chief Walsh.

Ya know Joanie, there are certain crimes so heinous they wipe out all previous good deeds. Publishing Paglia is one of them.

Paglia can’t help herself.

However when you do anything for a click thru, that makes you Joan Walsh, click whore.

Camille’s one of the many reasons we let our subscription lapse. Apart from Glenzilla, the only contributors who write anything worth reading are Patrick Smith, King Kaufman, and Andrew Leonard.

As a community service every time there’s a post about that howling cretin Camille Paglia I put up a link to the Sainted Molly Ivins’ destruction of her, which ends with Molly saying:

Sheesh, what an asshole.

You’re welcome. (Also, every time that creature appears in Salon I post a comment pointing out that while she may generate page hits by people who hate her, she’s also driving away long-time subscribers, like me. Let’s see how long they survive with nobody to pay the hamsters…)

To quote the Rolling Stones: Molly, “Lord I miss you, child.”

I do, too. If there is a heaven, imagine what it must have been like on Election Night, with Ann Richards and Molly Ivins getting the good seats near the JumboTron and the self-replenishing bowl of cocktail shrimp.

It was timely and had the shock of the new — exactly like Lenny Bruce’s violation of conventional proprieties.

I guess that’s why Shanklin has been arrested so many times for disturbing the status quo and upsetting “the Establishment”. You know, just like Lenny Bruce. I understand Paglia is now working on a piece wherein she will compare the tea-baggers to Gandhi’s march to the sea, and Rush Limbaugh to Jonathan Swift.

If Bruce weren’t already dead, this would certainly have led him straight to heroin to dull the pain.

And, yes indeed, we all do really, REALLY — good golly! — miss Molly. Go out and bang on some pots and pans in her honor.

Paglia is the Doughy Pantload of Salon, which I guess makes Joan Walsh K-Lo.

Thanks, Marion!

Molly sure had CP pegged, eh?

Tracing Paglia’s intellectual ancestry is a telling exercise; she’s
the lineal descendant of Ayn Rand, who in turn was a student of
William Graham Sumner, one of the early American sociologists and an
enormously successful popularzier of social Darwinism. Sumner was in
turn a disciple of Herbert Spencer, that splendid nineteenth-century
kook. Because Paglia reasserts ideas so ingrained in our thinking, she
has become popular by reaffirming common prejudices.

Which is why Paglia’s “oooh look at me I’m so daring and transgressive” pose is such bullshit. She got what fame and fortune she has by being a goddam Aunt Tom, telling rich white males how cool they are and how they can safely ignore those silly little feminists — and that is pretty much the safest way for a woman to turn a quick and easy buck, and has been for quite some time.

Camille Paglia is a douchehag.

“Paul Shanklin, whom I consider to be one of the most brilliant satirists of our time.”

Yeah, Joan. You ain’t laughed ’til you heard that “Magic Negro” brilliance.
I wasted away my younger years reading Woody Allen, Jonathan Swift, Chaucer and lately, David Sedaris.
But, looking back, none of them boys had that Magic Negro vibe.

Other Notable alumni of Philadelphia University.

Maurice Kanbar (’52), inventor.
Jay McCarroll, winner of Bravo’s inaugural season of Project Runway.
Curtis King, ex-Major League Baseball player, St. Louis Cardinals.
Bob File, ex-Major League Baseball player, Toronto Blue Jays.
Herb Magee, NCAA basketball coach.
Pete Pappas, goalie, Philadelphia Kixx indoor soccer
David Banks, soccer defender. Was an All-American

Anybody?

Here, let me try too:

I would refer to Camille Paglia as a c**t, but she lacks both the warmth and the depth.

Alternatively:

Q: What’s the difference between jelly and jam?
A: I can’t jelly my c**k into Camille Paglia’s eye socket.

Salon is still going?

Who knew.

All those jocks. A real academic hotbed, eh?

And didn’t Paglia squat on Lenny Bruce’s grave w/ reference to Limbaugh just last month?

Why yes she did; I even looked it up.

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

Get a new shtick already!!

“Our own?” Gahhhh!

Ten minutes, maybe less, and here’s something funnier (and scanning better) that that turd in the punchbowl by Shanklin:

Barack Hussein Obama
Went to D.C.
Elected with a mandate
By a clear majority

Little Rushie Limbaugh
Loathed our brand new Prez
And wished for all his plans to fail
“It’s Socialist!” he says

Oh, Barack Hussein Obama
Succeeded 43
Chosen to fix the many ills
That still plague you and me

A new bipartisanship
Was the watchword of the day
But Boehner and McConnell
Wanted everything their way

They roared about the money
To ease the voters’ pain
Instead of a solution
They said “More tax cuts!” again

Oh, Barack Hussein Obama
Went to D.C.
And made the wingnuts’ heads explode
From their own hypocrisy

I’d do more verses, but I have to get to work now.

D

Piglia:

It was timely and had the shock of the new — exactly like Lenny Bruce’s violation of conventional proprieties.

New?

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

The magical negro is a recurring theme in Chinese literature from the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD).[9] Known as “Kun-lun” (崑崙, an ancient Chinese term that denoted all dark-skinned races), these African slaves were portrayed as having supernatural strength and the power to invade people’s dreams to reveal great knowledge. One tale known as the Kun-lun slave mentions a slave leaping over high walls while laden with the weight of two people in order to rescue his master’s lover.[10] Other tales mention them swimming to the bottom of raging rivers to retrieve heavenly treasures for their lord. The color of their skin was believed to be a medicinal balm that could be wiped off and used to cure a person’s illness.[9]

http://blogcritics.org/archive…..203754.php

In film circles, a “Magic Negro” is a term that was coined back in the 50’s to describe a one-dimensional African-American character (male or female) that serves as a “God-like” advisor or mentor who helps a troubled white man or woman.

But of course who could expect a University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia to be aware of such arcane knowledge? It’s not like there was a wikipedia entry on it in 2004. Wait . . . .

Seriously, it’s getting to the point where even Glenn Greenwald can’t redeem a website that publishes this shit. In fact, I really have to wonder how Glenn, who certainly holds Obama and others to a pretty high standard, can justify his participation in the same venue as this logorrheic imbecile. One of these first days, she’ll have her lesbian card taken away.

that draconian limitation

What? The ObamaFascist State is preventing Shanklin from hiring a booking agent and taking his show on the road to see if he can become even more of an annoying blight on our national landscape than Mark Russell?

(Er, he could sell his stuff at that iTunes store all the hep kidz talk about — but um, doesn’t he blatantly use other people’s copyrighted tunes without paying any money for them? Even hip-hoppers don’t do that anymore.)

Tom Tomorrow and Greenwald are all that stand in the amid the ruins…

Thanks, Marion in Savannah, for the Ivins link. It is now safely tucked into my favorites to be brandished whenever La Paglia’s name comes up in the future. Let’s get viral!

The word insufferable was invented as a description of Camille Paglia.

“Skanklin” is an absurd little man who feels no responsibility for fostering anti-social behavior among people with the most hatred, frustration, and an inability to empathize. Everything that is not them is inferior. It is nature’s way, they are prone to say.

I used to read Salon a lot more than I do now. Who do they have now that’s worthy? One guy named Greenwald carrying the whole dam site.
Enjoy.

Ok, I just scanned Paglia. Gaming on Obama bowing to the Arabs when Bush was hanging all over their balls (OK, he was only kissing them, but…).

Now I don’t have to read her again. I knew there was a reason her name was so familiar, but her ideas unknown to me. Even though I used to spend a lot of time at Salon, I must have blown her off years ago as an off kilter nutjob probably in bed with the rightwing.

This small breech in international protocol isn’t worth the bytes to respond to. These people are lunatic (war) criminals and they own the presses.

They’ve got another story on where they compare Biden to Cheney (who’s the bigger jerk? WTF????). Walsh supports Biden, but why is THAT even a topic for debate?

Obie, free the weed, socialize healthcare, end DADT, and stop the reckless and dangerous internal gestapo spy network. You’re the fucking boss. Do it.

What’s he waiting for? There’s overwhelming support for all those issues. Even in Iowa for chrissake. Very dissappointing. And while we’re at it, put some of those banksters in JAIL instead of paying them off. This is America, not little Italy.

Enjoy.

Ya know, I’ve been asking for years, but no one has been able to answer me: Has anyone ever seen Camille Paglia and Peggy Noonan together in the same place? To me, their writing styles seem identical — inane, pro-Establishment burbling with a wafer-thin pretense of being edgy and nonconformist. Until I hear otherwise, I will continue to assume that they are both the same person suffering a pernicious case of MPD.