Open Mic Night at MSNBC(Noonan Response)

WSJ ^ | 9/3/08 | Peggy Noonan

[paltz]

Well, I just got mugged by the nature of modern media, and I wish it weren't my fault, but it is. Readers deserve an explanation, so I'm putting a new top on today's column and, with the forbearance of the Journal, here it is.

[clintonh8r]

OK, I’ll give Piggy the benefit of the doubt and read this before I comment. But it may be the last time I read anything she writes.

[PghBaldy]

Here’s a transcript: http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/transcript_of_noonanmurphygate.php

[PghBaldy]

Link to the tabloid called The Atlantic above^

Transcript Of Noonan-Murphy-Gate
03 Sep 2008 06:00 pm

OK, not a gate. But there are Republicans in St, Paul who aren’t terribly comfortable with Gov. Palin’s pick, and despite Peggy Noonan’s column this morning, she appears to be one of them.

The full transcript:

Murphy: ...because I come out of a blue swing-state governor world. Engler. Whitman. Tommy Thompson. Mitt Romney. Jeb Bush. And I mean, and these guys, this is all like how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And, IT’S NOT GOING TO WORK.

Noonan: IT’S OVER.

Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech and do himself some good

Chuck Todd. [Unintelligible]... think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson?

Noonan: ...saw Kay this morning.

Todd: [sounds like ‘she’s not comfortable talking about it????]

Murphy: They’re ALL bummed out

Todd: Is she really the most qualified woman?

Noonan: Most qualified? NO. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives.

Todd: yeah, they went to narratives.

Murphy: I totally agree.

Noonan: Every time Republicans do this, because that’s not where they live, and that’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.

Murphy: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is “no cynicism” and this is cynical.

Todd: And as you called it, “gimmicky”

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

We've already given Peggy a well-deserved thrashing over here:

A Note from Peggy Noonan

[jimbo123]

She showed her a** and was busted. Sorry Peggy, but we’re not buying it.

[Red in Blue PA]

Sorry Peggy. Not buying it.

Sarah deserves better.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Go to heck Peggy.

I remember your sour grape attack on President Bush after the 04 election because you didnt get that speech writing job you were sucking up to him for.

You may have wrote good speeches back before I was born. But as far as I am concerned you are a miserable bitter human being.

[WildcatClan]

Why not Kay Bailey? How about her sneaking that nonsense destroying Duncan Hunter’s Secure Fence Act into the Omnibus bill. It was sneaky, underhanded and I hope Texas remembers that, when, and if, she ever seeks to be elected to another office.

[Travis McGee]

Noonan used to be a conservative, before she became a Manhattan elitist.

Take it somewhere else, Peg. You jumped the shark years ago.

[clintonh8r]

Read it. Twice. No sale.

[sasafras]

Noonan is an elitist - she and her kind hate the common man, the working family. They only see us as fodder and a political after thought to their martini parties and elitist snob social gatherings.

[cp124]

Time to drain the swamp.

[Frank Sheed]

Answer one question Peggy from one of the great unwashed...

Have you EVER shopped at a WalMart?

;-o)

[Doc Savage]

She's tooooo smart a NE liberal Republican to get caught that easy. The tenor and tone of the audio I listened to was strident, vulture-like picking over the dead bones of what they laughing described as McCain's folly and ultimate downfall!

She is an elitist while I am a man of the people doctoring to their souls and their bodies with compassion and understanding. She chides, derides, derails, and haughtily laughs down her brahmin nose at us, the real people who make America work!

F*ck Y*o and the Mercedes you rode in on you has been gas bag troll!

[LibLieSlayer]

I made my thoughts very clearly on that thread. Well deserved indeed!

LLS

[Chaguito]

If the transcript is accurate and even reasonably complete, Noonan is lying when she says that she meant the "old ways" are over. She clearly implied that McCain's campaign was over, because he selected the wrong running mate.

She has her right to an opinion. I have my right to wish her the worst demise to her career imaginable. She didn't give Sarah Palin an iota of a chance to prove McCain right, because she is to enamored of her own, oh-so-precious wisdom.

[MHGinTN]

I posted this on the other thread of this same title. I guarantee you that Peggy Noonan reads this board and has probably done a word search on her name to read the threads talking about her big screw up. She’s a big girl, smart, but perhaps getting tired of always ‘being on’ around the vampire media.

She blurted an obscenity which was extraneous ... and Peggy knows extraneous, she stretches columns too well to not be intimately familiar with the term. Peg needs a vacation. Then she can come back to write insightful essays again.

At least note that she didn’t try to make herself the issue over which she was brought to that venue. She is enough of a professional to loathe that she has become the issue even for a short moment. This too will pass.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

Here is the email I sent to the WSJ Editors earlier this evening:

To: ‘wsj.ltrs@wsj.com‘
Subject: Peggy Noonan

Dear Editors,

I have subscribed to the Wall Street Journal for over 30 years.

Peggy Noonan’s comments this afternoon were beyond the pale. Her long winded excuse posted on National Review Online was even worse.

Unless she humbly and totally apologizes to John McCain, Sarah Palin and to the American public, she needs to be fired from her position at the WSJ.

[papasmurf]

That was an excellent piece, one of her raw best. I accept her explanation.

More immediately and seriously on Palin:

Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.

She could become a transformative political presence.

So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick.

And it's going to be brutal. It's already getting there.