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Paglia on Everything from the Election to Hot Dogs

-- eve (eve_rebekah@yahoo.com), December 06, 2000

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Paglia has always impressed me with her original and independent thought. She seems aligned to no narrow ideology and expresses herself in the written word with conscision and wit. I don't enjoy her spoken words as much. (too rapid-fire)

I am surprised that she supported Nader. Somewhere I had the impression that she was a Libertarian.

As a political Conservative, I especially appreciate her criticism of the Establishment media and her expression of views like these---

"It's astonishing that Rush Limbaugh gets so much air time" with his "hate-filled show," the letter fumes -- without acknowledging that it's Limbaugh's massive populist appeal that sustains his show in the cutthroat world of commercial media. This letter, signed by Patricia Ireland, the president of NOW, eloquently demonstrates how feminist leaders in the U.S. have damaged and marginalized the women's movement, one of the great, progressive products of the Enlightenment.

Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit. His daily radio show is the one reliable place ordinary citizens can turn to for a different perspective in the blizzard of propaganda and disinformation from the Northeastern media establishment. History will show that Limbaugh was a major force over the past decade in waking this country up from its p.c. coma.

Her use of the word populism is right-on IMO. Yes, populism has a historical origin as Brian explains but in modern usage it refers to the negative response of the ordinary person to those who perceive themselves as elite.

-- Lars (lars@indy.net), December 06, 2000.