OGIS
03-10-2016, 05:29 PM
The Pagglia has spoken. If Sanders supporter Camille Paglia is singing the praises of Donald Trump, it may actually be all over but trundling out the fat lady.
And I find it interesting that she characterizes the Diamond & Silk video that wasted Megyn Kelly (1.5 million views!) as, possibly, the shot heard 'round the world.
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too) Camille Paglia (http://www.salon.com/writer/camille_paglia/)
I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no?
Why can’t there be a party that is basically Republican, but minus the religion, minus the legislating of morality, and that cares about climate change/overpopulation? Could Trump be that guy?
Christie Cooley Randolph
Santa Rosa, CA
Well, Trump may still be a carnival barker, but he’s looking more and more like a president! Along with most media pundits in the Northeast, I found it improbable if not impossible that Trump could survive his klutz-o-rama cascade of foot-in-mouth flubs, from carelessly categorizing Mexican immigrants as rapists to hallucinating about “thousands’ of Muslims cheering the fall of the twin towers from the mean streets of New Jersey. Surely he would soon implode and pouf into fairy dust!
But only a few weeks after that interview of mine in Salon (http://www.salon.com/2015/07/29/camille_paglia_takes_on_jon_stewart_trump_sanders_ liberals_think_of_themselves_as_very_open_minded_b ut_that%E2%80%99s_simply_not_true/), I suddenly realized that Trump’s candidacy had a broad support that few had expected or discerned. The agent of my revelation was a hilariously scathing, viral Web blog video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6S3KE2DaI) posted by Diamond and Silk–Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, two African-American sisters and former Democrats in Fayetteville, North Carolina. They were reacting with indignant outrage to the first GOP debate, broadcast by Fox News from Cleveland on August 6 and hosted by Megyn Kelly, whose loaded questions had impugned Trump as a sexist.
If Trump wins the White House, that no-holds-barred video will go down in history as “the shot heard round the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s phrase for the first salvo of the American Revolution by rural insurgents at Concord. The video signaled a popular uprising and furious pushback against the major media and political elites, who had controlled the national agenda and messaging for far too long. Diamond and Silk threw zinger after zinger...
more at: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/10/i_was_wrong_about_donald_trump_camille_paglia_on_t he_gop_front_runners_refreshing_candor_and_his_imp etuousness_too/
And I find it interesting that she characterizes the Diamond & Silk video that wasted Megyn Kelly (1.5 million views!) as, possibly, the shot heard 'round the world.
I was wrong about Donald Trump: Camille Paglia on the GOP front-runner’s refreshing candor (and his impetuousness, too) Camille Paglia (http://www.salon.com/writer/camille_paglia/)
I’m dying for an update from you on Donald Trump. Last summer you called him “not a president” and a “carnival barker.” Do you still feel the same? If you loved Trump, would Salon even let you proclaim it? I mean, they’re kind of as liberal as they come, no?
Why can’t there be a party that is basically Republican, but minus the religion, minus the legislating of morality, and that cares about climate change/overpopulation? Could Trump be that guy?
Christie Cooley Randolph
Santa Rosa, CA
Well, Trump may still be a carnival barker, but he’s looking more and more like a president! Along with most media pundits in the Northeast, I found it improbable if not impossible that Trump could survive his klutz-o-rama cascade of foot-in-mouth flubs, from carelessly categorizing Mexican immigrants as rapists to hallucinating about “thousands’ of Muslims cheering the fall of the twin towers from the mean streets of New Jersey. Surely he would soon implode and pouf into fairy dust!
But only a few weeks after that interview of mine in Salon (http://www.salon.com/2015/07/29/camille_paglia_takes_on_jon_stewart_trump_sanders_ liberals_think_of_themselves_as_very_open_minded_b ut_that%E2%80%99s_simply_not_true/), I suddenly realized that Trump’s candidacy had a broad support that few had expected or discerned. The agent of my revelation was a hilariously scathing, viral Web blog video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP6S3KE2DaI) posted by Diamond and Silk–Lynette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson, two African-American sisters and former Democrats in Fayetteville, North Carolina. They were reacting with indignant outrage to the first GOP debate, broadcast by Fox News from Cleveland on August 6 and hosted by Megyn Kelly, whose loaded questions had impugned Trump as a sexist.
If Trump wins the White House, that no-holds-barred video will go down in history as “the shot heard round the world,” Ralph Waldo Emerson’s phrase for the first salvo of the American Revolution by rural insurgents at Concord. The video signaled a popular uprising and furious pushback against the major media and political elites, who had controlled the national agenda and messaging for far too long. Diamond and Silk threw zinger after zinger...
more at: http://www.salon.com/2016/03/10/i_was_wrong_about_donald_trump_camille_paglia_on_t he_gop_front_runners_refreshing_candor_and_his_imp etuousness_too/