It took Republicans like Peggy Noonan and Joe Scarborough less than 24 hours to turn on the President. I watched much of the inaugural activities live yesterday. Immediately after the Inaugural Address, Noonan and others on Fox News couldn't praise the speech enough. She said it was powerful. By yesterday afternoon (Pacific time) she was already on the radio complaining about too much use of "God" in the speech. And apparently she has an article in today's WSJ criticizing the speech.
I absolutely cannot stand Peggy Noonan. She is, in my opinion, a phony and a hypocrite. I appreciate the President's blunt, plain-spoken style far, far more than Noonan's gauzy, fuzzy, verbose style. If you read any of her pieces carefully, you'll see they invariably tend to ramble before coming to a point we all are quite capable of figuring out for ourselves.
When she's on TV commenting on the events of the day, she tends to go with the flow of whoever's paying her. If she's on Chris Matthews' show, she's far less complimentary toward the President than if she's on Brit Hume's show. That's why I call her a hypocrite.
As for Scarborough, I wonder why he ever ran for Congress as a Republican. Maybe only because the district he ran in was heavily Republican. In any case, since he's gotten that gig on MSNBC, he seems to go out of his way to criticize the President. Phooey!!!
I just finished reading her column, and yes, it was negative. I came immediately here to the Dose to get my bearings, because her article really did upset me.
I'm with you, Wolfstar. She was extremely complimentary of President Bush's speech yesterday, when she was interviewed immediately following it. She IS a hypocrite, because now she has chosen to pick it apart and shed an ominous light on such a glorious message.
Pfffft on Peggy.
Wolfstar, I, too, heard Peggy Noonan praising the President's speech when she was with Brit and company. I was shocked to hear about her column today criticizing the speech as to "heavenish". Wow...guess, Peggy gets added to the 'phony, no guts' list. That's why I love Fox's John Gibson; he says what he thinks and he's not afraid to show his patriotism and love for America.