Peggy Noonan: What I Saw at the Evacuation

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, June 24, 2004 | Peggy Noonan

[T'wit]

Peggy Noonan is always thoughtful, always worth reading, here more than ever.

[OldFriend]

Wonder what Peggy will think of the IMUS show this morning. Frank Rich attacking the week of memorial for President Reagan. IMUS egging him on in total disrespect.

[Taxman]

Ms. Noonan sure does have a way with words!

A must read article!

[T'wit]

Frank Rich and Imus between them don't have the class or the dignity to carry Peggy Noonan's bags. She radiates class. They reek of pond scum.

[OldFriend]

You're too kind to IMUS and Rich.

[Lando Lincoln]

Ping to our good FRiend, Pokey78!

Lando

[T'wit]

Hahahahahaha!

And too mean to pond scum :-)

[subterfuge]

bump for later.

[hgro]

Rich and Imus, queer and queerer.

[treeclimber]

Peggy Noonan has always been class. She is the one who wrote the Challenger Speech for Reagan. Of course, "...slipped the surly bonds of earth, to touch the face of God." is excerpted from High Flight.

[Pokey78]

Thanks LL!

Peggy ping!

[treeclimber]

Last paragraph of Challenger speech, written by Peggy Noonan.

The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."

Remember, Reagan was set to give the State of the Union that night, but instead gave this speech beacuse of the Challenger disaster. Just a little history refreser for us all...so we dont allow the re-writers any chance.

[Sabertooth]

We listened to her stories of history as the drums beat for Ronald Reagan on the jumbo TV. And at that moment on a Sony Jumbotron in a little table in a railroad station bar, we watched the body of Ronald Reagan arrive at Andrews and be met by a car. There were other people there in the bar and they were young office workers commuters talking on cell phones and flirting and laughing. I got up and went to the bar, I introduced myself and told them we'd been evacuated and now we were watching our friend come home to us from California and I asked if they'd like to join us and they were very kind and sweet and lowered their voices and a few came and turned their seats to join us and watch.

I saw this and was reminded of the scene at President Reagan's last motorcade in Simi Valley. There was an exuberant bunch of kids by me, all wearing red day camp t-shirts as they stood with their mothers. They had been amusingly loud in their fidgety patience as we waited for the motorcade, amidst the surrounding background chatter along Olsen Road. Yet as the motorcade approached all were hushed and still, with little prompting, as they knew without understanding to pay respect, as President Reagan passed finally by,

[Amelia]

Wonder what Peggy will think of the IMUS show this morning. Frank Rich attacking the week of memorial for President Reagan. IMUS egging him on in total disrespect.

Michael Savage was attacking the week of memorial for President Reagan before it even started. I was skimming through the radio dial on the evening of June 7 when I came across Savage ranting about it being too much.

[OldFriend]

My guess is that certain psychos and sickos on the air are desperate for attention.

Personality disorders abound these days. And that's putting it mildly.

[Corporate Law]

Frank Rich is a frustrated little queen. How he wields such power in NYC is beyond me.

[nutmeg]

read later bump

[Sybeck1]

I am thinking of going to the local Barnes and Noble and mixing copies of Noonan's "When Character was King" in with MY Lie!

[Badeye]

I'm growing very weary of Imus's illogical rants.