Paglia on Palin
People turned their heads and looked at the tram passenger who had burst out laughing. How were they to know that via the miracle of the iPhone he was reading "Fresh blood for the vampire " by Camille Paglia. Brilliant snippet:
"The witch-trial hysteria of the past two incendiary weeks unfortunately reveals a disturbing trend in the Democratic Party, which has worsened over the past decade. Democrats are quick to attack the religiosity of Republicans, but Democratic ideology itself seems to have become a secular substitute religion. Since when did Democrats become so judgmental and intolerant? Conservatives are demonized, with the universe polarized into a Manichaean battle of us versus them, good versus evil. Democrats are clinging to pat group opinions as if they were inflexible moral absolutes. The party is in peril if it cannot observe and listen and adapt to changing social circumstances."
It takes balls for Andrew Sullivan and Arianna Huffington to attack McCain for taking the low road when, as Paglia points out, the the leftist blogosphere "unleashed a grotesquely lurid series of allegations, fantasies, half-truths and outright lies about Palin."
