First of all, I reject the idea that the “birther” campaign is motivated by racism. There may be racism among it, but there are legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama’s birth certificate. I’m sorry, I’ve been following this closely from the start. To assume that all those signs about the birth controversy were motivated by racism, that is simply wrong.
Also, polar bears can swim. True fact.
May 19, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Also, Rep. Mark Souder recording an abstinence only education video with his trick for c-span IS A PONYGASM!
http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2010/05/another_pious_cheater_mark_sou.php
May 19, 2010 at 6:55 pm
She boinked him? My confidence in sex for perks is restored.
May 19, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I know!
May 19, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Just stop it GOP I’m going to rupture my spleen laughing.
May 19, 2010 at 7:19 pm
“On May 18, 2010, Souder announced he would resign from Congress effective Friday, May 21, after admitting to an affair with Tracy Jackson, a female staffer.[7][8][9][10][11][12] In a written statement released that morning, Souder said:
It is with great regret I announce that I am resigning from the U.S. House of Representatives as well as resigning as the Republican nominee for Congress in this fall’s election….I sinned against God, my wife and my family by having a mutual relationship with a part time member of my staff. I am so shamed to have hurt those I love.
Souder deviated from his written statement when reading it aloud to the Fort Wayne press later in the morning to explain why, unlike many legislators admitting adultery, he did not have his wife of 30 years at his side:
I’m sick of politicians who drag their spouses up in front of the cameras rather than confronting the problem they caused.
Were I his wife, I’d not stand by him in public either.
May 19, 2010 at 7:56 pm
Wait, what? This was on fucking C-SPAN?
May 19, 2010 at 8:59 pm
Oh yeah!
May 19, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Camille, baby, come back to reality. That’s if you ever had a visa to even visit there.
McCain was born in Panama. No one’s making an issue of his birth certificate.
I don’t remember anyone asking about the birth certificate of any, and I mean ANY, Presidential candidate in my memory, and that goes back a long, long, time – Hell, not even Bill Richardson, who’s sure to never go for a little joyride in AZ.
Camille was once considered a quasi-intellectual by real intellectuals.
Now, in academia, she’s like a very bad punch line.
She’s a female Dick Morris – and I can’t vouch pro or con for the toe-sucking of prostitutes. Once a Democrat, and purported Liberal, she’s now some blowhard brought down from the attic to amuse the right by barfing up anti-left bile on command.
Why Salon has her on board is beyond me. She must have pictures of editors in compromising positions with a veritable zoo of animals, marine life, or dead and live girls and boys (depending on the sex of the editor).
Why any senient being would read her scribblings is beyond understanding. I’d rather study gibberish in case it becomes an international language.
May 20, 2010 at 5:54 am
There was a poster on Bartcop Forum named ‘lorelynn’ and indie filmaker from somewhere. Anyhoo, there was no one more anti-Obama than her. And yet, she was darn proud of the fact that when the birthers were just starting she found Obama’s birth announcement in the Honolulu newspapers, and put them online. These actually are valid proofs to most states, in case you lose your birth certificate, in that they detail place of birth (local hoispital etc) and time.
May 19, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I’m sorry, I’ve been following this closely from the start.
That is beyond bullshit. Camille is barely capable of following any issue even superficially, much less in depth or “closely.”
She probably is a birther, but only because it feeds her own ego-driven pointless contrarianism. I’m sure she feels smugly superior to all the other birthers for reasons only she can understand. Much like her I’m-An-Avowed-Atheist-But-I-Think-All-Atheists-Suck shtick. She’s a birther who “gets it” unlike those other knee-jerk birthers.
Except Camille gets nothing. She’s never bothered to actually research the facts on the birther non-issue. Just like she’s never bothered to read any actual scientific research on global warming — she glommed onto some statement about drowning polar bears, and saw her opportunity to feel smugly superior to that statement.
Oh, and thanks The Editors, for reminding me yet again that this eyebrow-arching waste of genetic material still exists and probably makes more money than I do.
May 19, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Sadly there are a large number of fucking retards who jerk off to the fantasy that they are “intellectuals.” They love Paglia and are willing to pay up for the subscription. A similar explanation exists for Maureen Dowd, etc.
May 19, 2010 at 6:47 pm
“I’m sorry, I’ve been following this closely from the start.”
I wonder if this has any meaning relevant to whatever it is she’s trying to say.
The astonishing updrafts of chanced celebrity astonish me with their whimsy. This dumb dykester has been elevated to some kind of well-paid importance because she can separate a yolk from egg white and present this as balanced counterpoint.
Imagine how the few literate people felt back when the Pentateuch yahoos were writing those early books of the Bible: “This shit is supposed to be inspired by God? Or worth reading in the first place? Other than some decent household tips in Leviticus, this is boring nonsense.”
May 19, 2010 at 6:57 pm
I used “astonishing” twice in one sentence. Astonishing!
May 19, 2010 at 8:53 pm
Someone really needs to create Camille’s version of Altmouse. It would be so much more interesting to read and no research required.
May 19, 2010 at 10:15 pm
I find this to be particularly sad since Camille Paglia was one of the few high-profile supporters of transcopterism. I personally saw her break into tears when she found out Roy Scheider had died. But, to tell the truth, we knew she was slipping when she started confusing Ernest Borgnine-fueled-masturbation with “moral authority.”
May 19, 2010 at 11:15 pm
fucking nice one. Triple point words and everything.
May 20, 2010 at 6:45 am
I probably told you guys this, but yes, they’re continual employ of Paglia was the reason I cancelled my Salon subscription years ago.
Didn’t change shit.
May 20, 2010 at 7:09 am
“…but there are legitimate questions about the documentation of Obama’s birth certificate.”
Yes, because “some guy speculated on the internets” has every bit as much evidentiary gravitas as an official document certified by a state government – and in fact, should have MOAR.
May 20, 2010 at 7:29 am
kerner!~!!@#!!@!!