Tasha Easterly in her blog at Salvo Magazine, comments on a recent Camille Paglia radio interview.
Camille Paglia Says Democrats Betrayed the Soul of Their Party
Camille Paglia appeared on WABC-AM’s ‘The Mark Simone Show’ yesterday to talk about the Fairness Doctrine, and you may be surprised at what she said. Paglia blasted the Democrats for even mentioning a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, saying “I don’t get it . . . the essence of the 1960’s, my generation, was about free speech . . . that’s what Lenny Bruce was about – it was about the free speech movement, for heaven’s sake, at Berkeley! What are my fellow Democrats doing? Not for one second should the government be wandering into survelliance of, monitoring of, the ideological content of talk radio. The Democrats, they’ve totally betrayed the soul of the party to even mention this.”
i read paglia’s column every month, and she has very conservative sensabilities.
she’s a liberal, but not a knee-jerk one, and maintains intellectual consistency.
and she supports the feminism expressed bt palin as opposed to hillary, or anything else coming out of todays’ fem movement.
I think the two-party system does our country a grave injustice and sets us up for the ‘us v. them’ mentality.
I’ve sort of given up on seeing democracy work the way I’d been taught it does, or people politic in an honorable manner.
And I am very tired of hypocrites.