Stupidest Person in the World

14 Comments

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   Brendan Skwire on March 11, 2009 at 1:17 pm

   oh my fucking jesus.

   I already had a headache, and now it’s worse, thanks to YOU. Why did I follow that link?

   the stupid, my god how it burrrrrrns, it burrrrrrrns!

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     BooMan on March 11, 2009 at 1:23 pm

     impossible to pick the stupidest part?

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       dada on March 11, 2009 at 1:38 pm

       the stupid part: “yes…<insert stupid>…Christianity.”

       if l had to pick just one sentence, this would be it: “Nevertheless, I respect Rush for his independence of thought and his always provocative news analysis.”

       gaaaaaaaaaaa!

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         papa zita on March 11, 2009 at 2:58 pm

         She respects Rush for the same reason she respects herself – they’re both professional shit-disturbers, neither with an ounce of perspective.

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   boran2 on March 11, 2009 at 1:18 pm

   Oh no!  (or should that be oh noz?)  President Obama has failed again!

   yawn.

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   on March 11, 2009 at 2:22 pm

   This has to be about her concern troll column in Salon, right?

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   nepat on March 11, 2009 at 2:36 pm

   Paglia’s been dialing that column in ever since re-launched it. When it comes to political theater, every point she makes in every single column comes directly from the rightwing talk radio hit parade. She doesn’t even try to hide it. Maybe she gets kick-backs from Rush and Hannity. Who knows? What is clear is that there is an entire alternative universe created by rightwing radio and Paglia’s columns are dispatches from it.

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     dada on March 11, 2009 at 3:03 pm

     dispatches from the past. the late, great, and sorely missed, molly ivins wrote the definitive smack down of paglia nearly 20 years ago, it’s brutal, and spot on:

     What we have here, fellow citizens, is a crassly egocentric, raving twit. The Norman Podhoretz of our gender. That this woman is actually taken seriously as a thinker in New York intellectual circles is a clear sign of decandence, decay, and hopeless pinheadedness. Has no one in the nation’s intellectual capital the background and ability to see through a web of categorical assertions? One fashionable line of response to Paglia is to claim that even though she may be fundamentally off-base, she has “flashes of brilliance.” If so, I missed them in her oceans of swill.

     some things never change.

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       RustyPipes on March 11, 2009 at 7:03 pm

       Oh yeah, she loves Rush for labeling real feminists (who see right through her self-serving schtick), “feminazis:”

       I totally agree with Rush about “feminazis,” whose amoral tactics and myopic worldview I as a dissident feminist had to battle for decades. As a student of radio and a longtime listener of Rush’s show, I have gotten a wealth of pleasure and insight from him over the years. To attack Rush Limbaugh is to attack his audience — and to intensify the loyalty of his fan base.

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     Real History Lisa on March 11, 2009 at 4:42 pm

     So why is she at Salon, founded by people with a more liberal bent?

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   rich4468 on March 11, 2009 at 4:07 pm

   The first few paragraphs of her article are right on…  She blows it by focusing on Limbaugh… she should have made THAT an aside and instead focused on the embarrassing gift Obama gave to Gordon Brown or Tim “Deer in the headlights” Geithner and his perpetual inability to know which way is up.

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     Real History Lisa on March 11, 2009 at 4:42 pm

     Uh, she blows it by admitting she is herself a Limbaugh supporter, thereby losing all credibility on any issue of importance.

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       corvus on March 11, 2009 at 8:51 pm

       I’m not sure Paglia is, in any meaningful way, a Limbaugh supporter. Or that she actually has any real political views. Her life is devoted to pissing people off, and I think she just chose the Left to piss off because she knows we probably won’t kill her. She’s the equivalent of those teenage boys who ride around areas with lots of pedestrians and yell loudly out their windows as they approach one just to see them jump.

       Want to get even with her? Ignore her. We are her audience, not the wingnuts whose views she adopts to piss us off. It’s our clickthroughs that sell ad impressions on the Salon pages where she is featured.

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     rich2506 on March 11, 2009 at 6:55 pm

     What Paglia makes obvious in her first few paragraphs is that 100% of her information comes from right-wing propaganda. Absolutely nothing is balanced against, I don’t know, uh, reality?!?!?