Paglia on DeGeneres, O'Donnell

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on November 15th, 2007

Camille, in Slate.com, interrupts her latest opinion piece to toss in this scathing paragraph about the two prominent comedians:

On the pop front, Ellen DeGeneres‘ cringe-making on-air meltdown over a dog, leading to her overwrought cancellation of several days of her show, should get a Raspberry Award for worst performance by a lesbian icon. Following Rosie O’Donnell‘s professional collapse amid lunatic rants and operatic kvetching, this has been a terrible year for Hollywood lesbians’ public image. It’s as if when the butch mask drops, there’s nothing inside but a boiling candy kettle of infantile rage and self-pity. And now Ellen, the professed liberal, is narcissistically flouting the Writers Guild strike. Great going, gals!

Whoa! A “boiling candy kettle of infantile rage and self-pity!” That gal can write!