Election 2020

Paglia: 'New York Times' Juvenile Hit Piece on Trump Backfires

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This just in: rich, powerful, successful men like beautiful women. And beautiful women like them. True at least since the dawn of Man, when the first cave monkey picked up a rock, beat a rival to death and passed along his genes to the next generation that same day. But progressive, reality-denying institutions like the New York Times just don’t seem to know anything about history and human behavior, as is lavishly illustrated by this major flopola of a hit piece on Donald Trump. The brilliant Camille Paglia takes the Gray Lady to task for its stupidity:


There are really two stories here. The first concerns Trump and his behavior toward women decades ago; the second, the childishness of the mainstream media and its juvenile fixation on “social-justice” issues. Let Camille speak to the first point:



“Hormonal sex differentiation” is the kind of talk that will get Paglia thrown out of the gay mafia, but no matter: everybody’s favorite lesbian has one of the shrewdest eyes for the yin and yang of the culture in America today. As we used to say, it’s what makes the world go ’round.

As for the second, journalism has a big problem. With the decline of the MSM’s formerly strict standards about the difference between reporting and opinionating, any kid with the degree from Harvard is free to blather on from a position of invincible ignorance about matters he or she has no personal knowledge of, nor do they have anything particularly useful to contribute.



This will be the last election between two Baby Boomers, whose personas were forged in the tumultuous Sixties, a time so very different from our own; there is no need to take political advice from small children. What’s happened is that boomer Left has in effect turned on its own excesses of half a century ago, and turned into the censorious parents they spent their young lives loathing. And as the SJW harpies and their emasculated “male” counterparts intensify their onslaught on traditional (“traditional” because it works) culture, they’re about to learn a very ugly lesson: it’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature.