Peggy Noonan: Michael Kelly, RIP

Opinion Journal ^ | 04/04/03 | Peggy Noonan

[Pokey78]

The death of Michael Kelly is a sin against the order of the world. He was a young man on his way to becoming a great man. He was going to be one of the great editors of his time, and at the age of 46 he was already one of its great journalists. And one's first thought about him, after saying the obvious--that he wrote like a dream, that he was a great reporter with great eyes, that he was a keen judge of what is news and what should be news--is this. He was an independent man. He had an indignant independence that was beauty to behold. He knew what he thought and why, and he announced it in his columns and essays with wit and anger.

[Pokey78]

Ping for Peggy.

[sauropod]

I was afraid it was that Michael Kelly.

[thucydides]

RIP, Michael Kelly. And for a look at just how nauseating the left can be, check out the indymedia and democratic underground websites, where they are calling Kelly a Nazi and worse.

[ericthecurdog]

said Kelly. "What comes across as the most important source of Clinton's uniqueness as president is the nearly unbelievable degree of his essential unfitness to be president -- his profound immaturity, his pathological selfishness, his cynicism, above all his relentless corruption."

God rest his soul.

[Dog Gone]

We're going to miss him.

[sauropod]

Yep.

[giotto]

First Barbara Olsen, now Michael Kelly...heartbreaking. But maybe in God's eyes they had done what they needed to do. Those of us who get to continue are mercifully given yet another chance to get it right.

[rwfromkansas]

sad

[ambrose]

R.I.P.

[sarasota]

Didn't one of our soldiers die as well?

[theDentist]

Compassion Liberal-Style

[cwb]

I just visited the DUmb site for only the second time (1st was after the election) and was appauled at the lack of compassion that liberals claim to monopolize. Are these people just little kids...or are they adults with an incredibly warped perspective of life? They are truly a bitter group of people. It's almost like entering a therapy session at a mental institution. Such sad, angry little people.

[newgeezer]

Probably because he was a Washington (Com)Post columnist, I didn't pay much attention to his work. But, among those liberal thorns, it appears he was a rather conservative rose. Here's a good example:

Return of the Chicken Hawks

[js1138]

I'll be OK as long as we don't lose Peggy Noonan.

[Carolinamom]

We're fortunate to have had him. God Bless Him.

[proud American in Canada]

I'm in tears. He was a brilliant man, and he will be dearly missed.

[js1138]

I just visited the DUmb site for only the second time ...

And would anyone here cry if it had been peter Arnett?

[diggerwillow]

But maybe in God's eyes they had done what they needed to do.

You may be right, but I hope that God will inspire someone to carry their torch.