What Horrifies Paglia

"Seven Days In May" for one thing. she's afraid of a right wing military coup taking place.

OK.

Well, she is a Liberal and I guess that's what Liberals worry about. Conservatives needing body guards on college campuses, not so much.

She's also horrified at a joke

CBS sportscaster David Feherty claiming that "any U.S. soldier," given a gun with two bullets and stuck in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, would use both bullets on Pelosi and strangle the other two.

...and repeated on the air by Limbaugh stand-in Mark Davis.

How have we come to this pass in America where the assassination of top government officials is fodder for snide jokes on national radio?

Gosh Camille, that's something totally new to me. This is a phenomenon never before seen and coming from the Right after just having watched "Seven Days in May" must have struck you as unprecedented. Right? Right? The last eight years have been filled with such genteel commentary that this joke must have been a jolt.

Wishing for the painful death of a radio show host Camille dismisses as ... well, I'll let you read it yourself .

The gravity of this case was unfortunately overshadowed by feisty comedian Wanda Sykes' clumsy jibes at Rush Limbaugh the next night at the Washington Correspondents Dinner. Sykes (who is usually hilarious) was rushed and inept, embarrassing herself and her hosts.

Sykes is "feisty" and "hilarious" but the script she used must have been rushed, inept. Got it. But Camille, her hosts loved it. They laughed. I didn't see any embarressment on Obama's face, did you?

But...

But what Mark Davis did, in irresponsibly broadcasting Feherty's vile fantasy, was an inflammatory political act that could goad susceptible minds down the dark road toward "Seven Days in May."

Wishing Rush Limbaugh dead = clumsy.

Wishing Pelosi, Reed and Osama dead = a vile fantasy.

Got it.