[Mia T]

Another response of mine on the Noonan thread:

"Seriously who in conversation would say to someone, 'I'm going home to rape my wife!' and mean it in a malicious manner?"

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According to Ed Klein, not bill clinton.

That Klein accuses bill of raping hillary is all clinton spin meant to discredit Klein. An excellent ploy, so it seems...

See My review of "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY" on Amazon.com:
ABUSE OF WOMEN THE DISQUALIFIER, NOT POLITICAL OR SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Notwithstanding the above, your question's converse is hanging out there begging to be asked:

"Seriously, who in conversation would say to someone, 'I'm going home to rape my wife!' and mean it in a joking manner?"

The clinton mindset, clinton proclivities, clinton dysfunction are revealed by clinton's own words. Short of catching the clintons in the act of rape, how much better can one do?

Ironically, the Klein book also does that, i.e., catches them in the act of rape, (if only by inference).

The play's the thing
Wherein I 'll catch the conscience of the king.

Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

See

CATCHING THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KINGFISH: differential reaction to the two rape charges snares the clintons

and

NOTE THE SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN CLINTON REACTION TIME AND CONTENT TO THE TWO RAPE CHARGES

[Mia T]

Yet another response of mine on the Noonan thread:

"No one who has risen so high in American politics could possibly be that bad. To believe is to go to a dark place."--Noonan

"The very attractive and intelligent Peggy Noonan lives in a Blonde World. She hasn't had to pass through the Darkness. The Devil has convinced her that he doesn't exist. Underestimating the dark intentions of Hillary is the BIG error."--thegreatbeast

"You missed the preceding sentence. Peggy points out, very rightly, that people don't want to believe that such morally bankrupt people can prosper in the American political system. Peggy herself, knows that it is possible and that the Clintons are evidence."--Ruth A.

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You are correct. The clintons are her off-the-charts, off-the-wall counterexample.

However, as I pointed out above, Noonan sets up a self-contradictory argument, i.e., she criticizes Klein for inoculating the clintons against 'legitimate' criticism by describing their outrageous and abnormal acts even as she concedes that the clintons have a natural immunity to exposure because they (and their acts) are inherently outrageous and abnormal.

Satisfying Noonan aesthetics and exposing clinton ugliness is a mutually exclusive exercise.

I believe in your next post you are looking for the brilliant reporter, Claudia Rosett, the Journal's unNoonan, if you will. Your suggestion that Claudia Rosett do a book on missus clinton is a brilliant one.