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Huffington was stung by press skepticism about her devotion to volunteer work, which waned after her husband's election campaigns. Now she is trying to start a new television show called Beat the Press, with pro-Clinton Camille Paglia as her co-host. Says Paglia: "I view her as a major contemporary diva. I knew I would help her when I heard she posed with a rubber chicken. This is what we need in this country." "There's really nothing like self-deprecating humor," Huffington says. "We need to have humor in politics." As the spectacle of Arianna Huffington unfolds...
What's taking so long? Like Camille Paglia in the feminist literary sphere, D'Souza will say whatever it takes to attract attention, no matter how tasteless, irresponsible or distorted. He contends that white racism is no longer much of a problem in the U.S. Instead, all our racial troubles can be traced to the fact that "black culture" is so dysfunctional it amounts to a "civilizational" gap between African Americans and the rest of society. He does not bother to differentiate between the crime-ridden urban underclass and the middle-class high achievers such as Woodson, head...
...Doge's Palace in Venice, down the little canal from the Bridge of Sighs, the Ponte de Paglia groans under the weight of Japanese, Germans, Americans, Frenchmen, Scots, English, Indians, Spaniards, Scandinavians--the whole world milling about in T shirts, polyglotting. It takes five minutes for a pedestrian to push across the bridge, a distance of 30 yds. Venice vanished centuries ago into its tourist shop-museum self, forfeit to the ever flattening demographics of mass tourism...
...commonly only extended to deities--the right to make a statement unsupported by any sort of evidence or argument. In short, a heavenly pronouncement. What could be more arrogant and wrong-headed? It is this sort of pronouncement--unsupported by any pretense of argument--which speakers such as Camille Paglia and Harold Bloom make. It is this type of thoughtless statement which leaves thoughtful observers unwilling to take such people seriously...
Academics who refuse to toe the line, end up in the kind of purgatory to which iconoclasts such as Camille Paglia--who while not as brilliant as she believes herself to be, does have some interesting ideas--have been banished...