Yeah Bush should really go to war when he has "Allies" like this on his side. From the Peggy Noonan Archive Her "analysis" of the Katerina Media hatchet job on Bush
The media. Excellent as always in time of crisis. We all love to hate them, but when a story like this comes along you're glad Anderson Cooper decided to stand there up to his butt in snakes and alligators to tell you about the city that's become a swamp. You're glad the anchors are so crisp and contained, you're glad Brian Williams is in the Superdome telling you what's going on. They're rich and celebrated, our media stars, but when stories like this come they earn it. Not sufficiently celebrated: television cameramen, who do much of what Anderson Cooper does only while walking backwards and with their eye in a viewfinder. They're good.
More Peggy Noonan crapola....
Yeah, I admire cameramen for what they do....they are just following orders...and not getting the "glory" that the news "faces" like Cooper and Smith and Rivera, get.
BUT, Noonan knows they are making "political" statements, not just showing damage...
Peggy Noonan makes me want to hurl. she i very over-rated as a writer. She reminds me of Mario Kuumo(Cuomo), who gave one speech at the Democrat convention and since then he is looked on as Presidential material and Statesman like, never really having done anything else. Peggy seems to be in a position to try to do Op Ed pieces that are of the quality that she penned as a Speech writer for Reagan. She is too dreamy, and "head in the clouds" in her thinking. She seems lost in a time warp, and I cannot read anything she writes anymore, it is too "yesterday". She seems to like bashing GWB, and I am sure it is because he did not hire her as his speechwriter. He may have been better off with her than Frum, but they are both huge egotists.
PEGGY NOONAN - After the Storm - Thursday, September 1, 2005
- President Bush. The political subtext: Does he understand that what has happened in our gulf is as important as what is happening in the other gulf? Does he know in his gut that the existence of looting, chaos and disease in a great American city, or cities, is a terrible blow that may have deep implications? It was bad luck that on the day it became clear a bad storm was a catastrophe he was giving a major Iraq speech, and bad planning that he arrived back at the White House cradling a yippy puppy. But his Rose Garden statement was solid. Yes, it was a laundry list, but the kind that that gives an impression of comprehensive government action. Having the cabinet there was good. His concern was obvious. But more was needed in terms of sending a U.S. military presence into New Orleans.