“Palin: Feminism’s greatest leap forward since Madonna”

At least, that’s what Salon’s teaser link to Camille Paglia’s column of September 10 told me. The second half of Paglia’s latest features a bit more praise for the governor but mostly scorn for those who participated in or stood around awkwardly at the “sadomasochistic, anti-Palin orgy”:

How dare Palin not embrace abortion as the ultimate civilized ideal of modern culture? How tacky that she speaks in a vivacious regional accent indistinguishable from that of Western Canada! How risible that she graduated from the State University of Idaho and not one of those plush, pampered commodes of received opinion whose graduates, in their rush to believe the worst about her, have demonstrated that, when it comes to sifting evidence, they don’t know their asses from their elbows.

Sick of Palin? The first half of the column makes some good points about how conservatives bungled the controversies over William Ayers and Obama’s birth certificate.