Which part, Hillary's fakie southern accent? I saw it on the news, that's not so much what I was talking about as the whole aura of Paglia's piece. She is refreshingly intellectually honest. Here is a blurb about her favored Dem candidate, John Edwards, pulling out of the Fox debate:
Hence my unhappy surprise when Edwards, who has an attractively comprehensive social policy and strong oratorical skills, was the first to pull out of the scheduled August debate moderated by Fox News.<http://dir.salon.com/topics/fox_news/>What is this morbid obsession that liberals have with Fox? It's as if Democrats, pampered and spoiled by so many decades of the mainstream media trumpeting the liberal agenda, are so shaky in their convictions that they cannot risk an encounter with opposing views. Democrats have ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time and 98 percent of American humanities professors to do their bidding. But no, that's not enough -- every spark of dissent has to be extinguished with buckets of bile. Brilliant stuff. The other brilliant outtake, regarding Ann Coulter's odd sneer against Edwards: John Edwards got publicity for the wrong reason two weeks ago when Ann Coulter bizarrely called him a "faggot"<http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/03/cpac/>at the Conservative Political Action Conference. What could have been a good joke at the expense of p.c. Hollywood misfired badly first because that old chestnut of a schoolyard insult makes no sense whatever when applied to Edwards, whose only peccadillo is a dandy's overinvolvement with his hair<http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/politics/2007/03/13/edwards>(see John Travolta's romancing his hair on the way out to the disco in "Saturday Night Fever"), and second because Coulter had no business turning an event highlighting Republican presidential candidates into a forum for her one-liners. Doesn't she have enough personal gigs for that? It was especially embarrassing for Mitt Romney, who cordially introduced her. Third, satirists who play on gender themes need some whiff of self-knowledge, or they look ridiculous. Is Coulter truly oblivious to her gender weirdness? It's no coincidence that words like "tranny" and "transvestite" clog the anti-Coulter blogs. Now that's classic Paglia. On 3/14/07, Dana wrote: > > boy are you behind -- this hit talk radio's talking points instantly. Not > sure if I heard it on Drudge or Limbaugh. > > >http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/03/14/coulter/index1.html > > > >Too funny. > > > > > >-- -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230206 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
