[NittanyLion]

All I did was thank John Huang2 for the ping, on that old thread.I usually do give a John a " thanks " or a " hi ", or a good evening....since he and I are old FRiends. Trying to stretching that to mean anything else, is just bait. If you had bothered to look at my remarks, on ALL of her columns,you would have seem a very mixed bag of comments,made by me. And she is a " hack "; look up the meaning of that word. :-) You want to stir up trouble/start a flame war, go find someone else.

If you call great conservatives "hacks", expect some pushback. Especially when it's blatantly obvious that you had no problem with Noonan prior to her last two columns.

It's your earlier comments that were likely to precipitate a flamewar, not mine. So no sense in playing the injured party here.

[nopardons]

Barbra Streisand!

If you had bothered to actually do a thorough research job, instead of a cursory one, you would have found that I have liked and disliked Peggy's columns for years, have never been all that enamored of her,to the point of sycophant status ( which many here hold ),and have said that she goes from treacly Catholic school girl, to polished speech writer ( much less of that in her columns, than in her former life, prepunditry),to feckless talking head.

OTOH, you're just up for baiting me, now, because of recent disagreements on another thread. If anyone has opened up a door for further scrutiny, as to motive and agenda, it is you. Unlike you, I don't play that silly, childish gamed.