Posted on 07/18/2009 9:00:55 AM PDT by Al B.
Here’s a different opinion-from a “Renew America” columnist:
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/cavere/090717
Palin never said nor implied that. Catch up on your reading before you say something else that makes you sound ignorant and stupid.
I think it’s more ‘envy’ than jealousy, though the two concepts get conflated often.
Guess it’s you that needs to have at least geography lessons, because Russia IS exactly to the WEST of Alaska. The Aleutian Islands are about 25 miles across the Bering Strait.
How do YOU handle constructive criticism? You don’t even have to soak this information up by osmosis ... it’s just a simple read.
Bravo!
“...owns the kind of fishing boat that is not equipped with a champagne cooler.”
LOL, kittymyrib who thinks Parsy could use some constructive criticism
more proof that we need to stop government schools from turning out mind numbed morons that can't tell the difference between fiction and reality
What happened to her?
Wasn’t she okay at one time?
Now she is just a sad RINO like so many others who never really understood being conservative like William F. Buckley.
I think she faked the conservative identity so she could get a job with the Wall Street Journal.
Stuart Schwartz, in this article, really did a good job of demonstrating what a insufferable snob that she is — like so many of her liberal celebrity friends.
Peggy was weird LONG before Sarah came on the scene. Her flowery elitist “wordsmithing” has always been gagging.
How can a woman with 5 children succeed all the way to governor without relying on the “handouts”. How did she make it?? This really bothers them.
Also they can't stand the fact that she is truly beautiful inside as well as outside.
Kick ace, Sarah!!
Last week someone of FR said the only thing Peggy Noonan actually liked about Ronald Regan were the speeches she wrote for him. I’m sure thats true.
Sorry, but this article isn’t “different”, it’s just stated in different terms. To judge Gov. Palin by the average person identifying with her is narrow-minded. The music in the background on that is elitist, again. “We don’t want an average person, we need someone above average (like me).”
And to take Gov. Palin’s interview with Hannity as the sum total of her political views is to simply disregard her accomplishments. How is that any different than what the rest of the main stream media is doing?
This article, while stated somewhat more gently, isn’t any different than the others. It just simply ignores that Sarah Palin has the same values as a majority of Americans, believes in something greater than herself, and has accomplished a great deal.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. You are a card-carrying member of the intellectual conservative elite, a PBS-anointed expert on family values who worked for both Ronald Reagan and Dan Rather, a talented speechwriter and wordsmith. And you are fuming: Sarah Palin refuses to be yesterday’s news. You just can’t get her out of your mind.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. So you loosed a multi-column primal scream: Palin is an idiot who is “out of her depth in a shallow pool”, a woman who has no sense of personal limits because she is not even smart enough to realize she is “a ponder-free zone.” Whoa-good one! The rhetorical equivalent of the chickenwing camel clutch, where you come up behind and twist her arm behind her back, and then force her face to the mat.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. You pal around with Sawyer and Couric, Jane Fonda, Marlo Thomas, Lily Tomlin — the world is your aging oyster — and The New York Times (which is sort of iffy on your writing) admires you for the company you keep.
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But you’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. Why didn’t you get acclaim for your accomplishment? You’re every bit as go-get’m as that baby mama from the tundra. You went before the commission hand-in-hand with actor Kevin Kline and Woody Allen — just a couple of guys from the ‘hood — and protested this outrage.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. You don’t understand it: Sarah Palin has never stood in front of bulldozers with Kevin Kline, and yet they cheer her. And she wouldn’t stand anywhere near Woody Allen, who she’d probably insist register as a pedophile. The assorted celebrities — neighbors all — cheered your courage in noting that your wealthy enclave, filled with the best and brightest, did not need a building that was the equivalent of low-income housing, what with units starting at a mere $7 million. Talk about slumming.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. You started a new venture, “The Women on the Web” website, a very conservative, free-enterprise thing to do and still you are not appreciated.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. Your “beyond the mundane” co-founders — “buds” as the Sarah Palin types so crassly put it-for your new venture are the essence of your kind of middle America: they include “60 Minutes” reporter Lesley Stahl; actresses Candice Bergen (actress, Democratic and Planned Parenthood spokesperson), Whoopi Goldberg (dropped by advertisers after a nasty Bush joke at a Democratic fundraiser and then hired by The View, a Barbara Walters talk show on ABC ), and Marlo Thomas (a major Democratic donor who is married to Bush-hater Phil Donahue), your type of conservatives, which puts them a bit to the right of Hugo Chavez.
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You’re Peggy Noonan and you’re jealous. And, worst of all, Sarah Palin is not.
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GOOD ARTICLE!
To hell with Peggy!
My own opinion is that anyone who’s able to offer constructive criticism ought to do just that. The more I read of Palin, the more awed I become. So if parsy, who is always quick to offer observations, believes himself to be qualified, I certainly welcome him to take that wheel.
I don’t mean to presume here, but in case parsy, who has his own geographical and intellectual insufficiencies, doesn’t know it, here’s a little gift for him. The distance between Little Diomede Island (Alaska, USA) and Big Diomede Island (Russia) is a mile and a half. If they were to decide to attack us, it is not far-fetched to believe that Alaska would be on the target short-list.
Great post. Thanks. One of the best articles Ive read in a long time.
“the only thing Peggy Noonan actually liked about Ronald Regan were the speeches she wrote”
yeah, well RR really didn’t need peggy dearest, here is an example of RR’s own speechwriting and delivery, long before peggy went commercial....
Addendum: Palin said that she could see Russia from parts of her home state. parsy, who probably likes clarifications, would probably have preferred her to expound on it. “Alaskans are always aware of the threat we face given our proximity to nation that we can’t yet count among our friends, ......” Palin appears to take the view of President Calvin Coolidge and American intellectual Mark Twain both of whom believed that ‘tis better to keep one’s mouth closed and be regarded a fool, than to open it and dispel any doubt. parsy, who makes valuable contributions from time to time, would do well to heed that advice.
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