Paglia on the Palin Effect

Here's a view from another feminist, Erica Jogn:

"Why are these debates so incredibly boring? Is it the questions framed by committee? Is it Tom Brokaw trying to exude gravitas? Is it John McCain telling us constantly he is our friend while he grimaces in a way that is friendly to no one? Or is it Barack Obama keeping his cool despite all the idiotic lies and provocations?

"My admiration for Obama has grown. Not only for his lucid intelligence, his excellent preparation, his understanding that eight years of deregulatin' dudes (as Sarah Palin might put it) has accelerated this financial mess, but also his amazing ability not to grunt, sigh or punch his opponent. When McCain lies with a straight face and pretends he has never had anything to do with the GOP, I'd slug him. But Obama is a prince among debaters. He just smiles elegantly and awaits his chance for a reasonable response. His calm blows me away. I'd hate to debate him. I'd be raising my voice and tearing my hair (as we did at Jewish dinner tables on the Upper West Side when I was a kid) but he'd be cool as the proverbial cucumber. He will make a great president. His temperament is superb.

"McCain looks old and ill to me. He seems to have no circulation under his papery white skin. He always looks like he is suppressing a fart. He has no cool at all. Even though he tried to correct his curmudgeonly reputation tonight, he was unconvincing. It seemed as if he had taken a Valium and it was wearing off. I wouldn't trust him to look into Vladimir Putin's eyes anymore than I trusted George W. Bush. He's the bomb-bomb King, no question. Erratic and rageful, condescending and insincere, he seemed to be auditioning to play Simon Legree in an antebellum bodice ripper.

"And why did he run from the stage while Michelle Obama and Barack greeted the folks? Was he afraid of retribution? Or possibly a hair transplant?"

She didn't post about the Couric interview when it happened and probably won't post about the debate, unless there's a youtube of Palin looking "cute and perky" last night. She completely ignores what's actually happening in politics and the election on a daily basis.

Lord have mercy on the hatemongers, and those who admire them.

They hate her because she doesn't bow to their abortion altar.

It isn't that for me, obviously ... and maybe I'm not much of a feminist, but I'm still leery of the tokenism of her candidacy. I don't want to be played on that.

'Though I admit that there's similar tokenism in Biden's Catholicism ... I believe there's less emotion involved in me picking a Catholic VP over a woman VP; the former option is, for me, less of a novelty.

Besides, nobody expects too much from a Catholic VP. :-) IOW, Palin puts alot on the line if she wins.

My two cents ...

Pardon me, but have you read some of Camille Paglia's other views? Such as siding with the Andrew Dworkin viewpoint that marital relations between a husband and a wife is rape? (That is basically the default viewpoint of the avant garde homosexual feminism that she represents.) Or her endorsing NAMBLA? (Again, the cutting edge avant garde homosexual agenda.)

Listen, if you want to back McCain - Palin, that is fine. (As I have stated in my past visits, I support neither, because after having been grotesquely burned by George W. Bush I am not going to cast my lot in with yet another person that I will spend the next 4 - 8 years alternating between defending and being disappointed by their wickedness.) But in the course of doing so, please remember that this is a Christian site! How does endorsing the views of someone so revoltingly aggressively flamboyantly evil and wicked like Camille Paglia advance the cause of Jesus Christ? What part of the Body of Jesus Christ are you being by endorsing Paglia? His hands? His eyes? His feet? His ears?

Am I judging you? Why yes, of course I am, and with good reason to.

Gerald,

This is not a Xian site. This site is for all faiths.

Perhaps this blog purports to be Xian, but you won't see much Xian behavior (or anything else) from Michele to demonstrate that she is one.

Michele 'fess up -You're a double agent!
from Michele to demonstrate that she is one.

Such wishful thinking ... she's the real McCoy. (And that goes ditto for Scott R.)

Yeah, Scott R., my words weren't clear, sorry. God forbid that you be a Republican or have a skin disease. Amen.

here's "mavericky" for ya - mccain continues to ignore copyright laws and abuse intellectual property rights.

from the foo fighters:

This isn't the first time the McCain campaign has used a song without making any attempt to get approval or permission from the artist. It's frustrating and infuriating that someone who claims to speak for the American people would repeatedly show such little respect for creativity and intellectual property.

The saddest thing about this is that My Hero was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song. We hope that the McCain campaign will do the right thing and stop using our song -- and start asking artists' permission in general!

from van halen:

The band had no idea McCain was planning on using "Right Now" during his big entrance in Ohio telling us, "Permission was not sought or granted nor would it have been given."

from counsel for jackson browne:

Not only have Senator McCain and his agents plainly infringed Mr. Browne's copyright in Running On Empty, but the Federal Courts have long held that the unauthorized use of a famous singer's voice in a commercial constitutes a false endorsement and a violation of the singer's right of publicity.

john mellencamp:

At some recent John McCain campaign rallies, John Mellencamp’s "Our Country" and "Pink Houses" have been booming out over the speakers. Mellencamp hasn't yet made a public response, but his reps are quietly reaching out to McCain and asking him to stop playing his tunes.

from actor mike meyers:

Mike Myers, insisted that the Arizona Republican take down a web ad that used a clip from his movie Wayne's World.

heart (ann and nancy wilson):

Heart sent a cease-and-desist notice to the McCain-Palin campaign Thursday afternoon after their hit "Barracuda" was used - twice - without permission as the official rallying cry for the vice presidential candidate after her nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention. McCain campaign officials failed to ask either the group, Universal Music Publishing or Sony BMG whether the song was fair game to use. It wasn't.

from the band, orleans:

"This is yet another example of John McCain not learning anything from George Bush's mistakes. First, McCain adopted Bush's failed policy of an open-ended war in Iraq, then he wrapped his arms around the failed Bush economic policies that have put the squeeze on middle class families. Now, he's making the same mistake George Bush made illegally using a copyrighted song without asking either the writers or the performers for permission."

from warner music group:

Warner Music Group demanded that YouTube remove a video, set to Frankie Valli's "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" that had been posted on Sen. John McCain's official YouTube channel. the video has been replaced with the message, "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group"

source: www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/heart-van-halen-orleans-j_n_124264.html