Posted on 11/30/2024 7:06:13 AM PST by billorites
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, during a recent conversation with journalist Bari Weiss, made some startling revelations.
Noonan calls herself a conservative and was once a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan. But like most mainstream conservative commentators of that era, Noonan abandoned both her conservative and journalistic principles to devolve into a rabid hater of President Trump.
She believed the hoaxes against President Trump, particularly the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. When she was proven wrong, instead of accepting her mistake, she claimed she didn’t “know what to think of Trump/Russia” and wasn't "satisfied we’ll ever fully understand it.”
In such cases, there are no greys. Trump was cleared by probers despite their deep bias against him and their lack of basis for the investigation. But Noonan purposefully tried to leave the door open by feigning confusion instead of admitting this obvious fact.
Noonan's recent utterances proved how deeply she erred while covering Trump. But the sanctimonious seldom possess self-awareness. Therefore, Noonan bragged about her mistake because she thought she was following journalistic ethics.
Noonan claimed when Trump decided to run for president his aides reached out to her for interactions. She claimed that she was hesitant to meet President Trump because she "had a feeling that up close he would be charming and funny, and that there would be something endearing, and that it would mess with my swing as an observer."
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And thus she fades into irrelevancy.
Noonan is Deep State.
I’ve been seeing this arrogant hag making the rounds lately. You can just hear how full of herself she is when she speaks. Noonan is another one of those DC types that has only one guiding principle, self interest.
I have no interest in anything this witch has to say.
Because "heaven forbid" that she find him a decent human being capable of interacting in a friendly and pleasant manner.
I guess that Noonan was worried that he would use his "invisible magnetic hypno-ray" powers to "fog her mind" and "bend her to his diabolical will."
Regards,
She was attractive once.
I use to love her until she went wacky. Interesting that she showed up a few times the last couple of days on Fox News. Haven’t seen her on the network for years.
She never stopped being a spokesperson for the Bush/Cheney faction.
Noonan also authored "A thousand points of light."
Squishy RINO words.
She suffers from Jennifer Ruben syndrome.
WIKI
Margaret Ellen “Peggy” Noonan (born September 7, 1950), is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has maintained a center-right leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers.
Noonan was born on September 7, 1950, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a merchant seaman. She is of Irish descent. Noonan is a graduate of Rutherford High School in Rutherford, New Jersey, and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Noonan worked as the daily CBS Radio commentary writer for anchorman Dan Rather at CBS News, whom she once called “the best boss I ever had.”
In 1984, Noonan, as a speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, authored his “The boys of Pointe du Hoc” speech on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. She also wrote Reagan’s address to the nation after the Challenger explosion, drawing upon the poet John Magee’s words about aviators who “slipped the surly bonds of earth ... and touched the face of God.”
She also worked on a tribute Reagan gave to honor President John F. Kennedy at a fundraising event held at the McLean, Virginia, home of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, in the spring of 1984.
Later, while working for then Vice President George H. W. Bush’s 1988 presidential campaign, Noonan coined the phrase “a kinder, gentler nation” and also popularized “a thousand points of light”, two memorable catchphrases used by Bush. Noonan also wrote Bush’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, in which he pledged: “Read my lips: no new taxes”. Bush’s subsequent reversal of this pledge is often cited as a major reason for his defeat in his 1992 re-election campaign.
Noonan worked as a consultant on the American television drama The West Wing.
In 2003, Noonan was a supporter of the US invasion of Iraq. In mid-August 2004, she took a brief unpaid leave from The Wall Street Journal to campaign for George W. Bush’s reelection.
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Noonan wrote about Sarah Palin’s vice presidential candidacy in The Wall Street Journal. In one opinion piece, Noonan expressed her view that Palin did not demonstrate “the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office,” concluding that Palin’s candidacy marked a “vulgarization in American Politics” that is “no good... for conservatism... [or] the country.”
In 2017, Noonan won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, for “rising to the moment with beautifully rendered columns that connected readers to the shared virtues of Americans during one of the nation’s most divisive political campaigns.”
Noonan’s weekly column for The Wall Street Journal, entitled “Declarations”, has been running since 2000. She is also a regular commentator on NBC’s Meet the Press.
Noonan lives in Manhattan.
In August 2019, Noonan was mocked for writing a column on Donald Trump’s support among Hispanic Americans which centered on a conversation she had with a Dominican friend who worked at the deli counter at her grocery store.
Recurring themes in Noonan’s books and columns include the decline of civility, social graces, religiosity, patriotism, bipartisanship and statesmanship in contemporary American politics and society, as well as enduring praise for past conservative political figures such as Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
In June 2019, after Noonan called on congressional Democrats to censure President Trump in the wake of the Mueller report, he attacked her on Twitter, calling her “simplistic” and claiming that she “is stuck in the past glory of Reagan.” In June 2022, Trump issued a statement calling Noonan a “weak and frail RINO [Republican In Name Only] ... who did much less for Ronald Reagan than she claims, and who actually said bad things about him and his ability to speak” after she wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Republican Party was “rejecting” Trump in the aftermath of the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Noonan
does this require a picture to be posted of Catherine Zeta Jones?
I think it is a rule of old from the historic documents of all of Free-per-dom. However I don’t have any idea where to get a picture.
It is time for her to retire.
Her reign of error needs to end.
Weren't we all?
And what does that have to do with anything?
I used to take the WSJ and liked reading her columns, but in 2008 when Obama ran I believe she said she voted for him. In any event I quit reading her, she just became unbearable to take. She become entranced with going to the A list cocktail parties on the Upper East Side and started believing her own press clippings. Put her in the same group of Faux Conservatives like David Brooks, George Will and others I once read.
She is also allergic to soap, shampoo, and the rest of Western Civilization?
Nah, we only do that for Maureen Dowd.
Other bitter old hag journalists are on their own.
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