Peggy Noonan: Welcome Back, Duke

Opinion Journal ^ | 10/12/2001 | Peggy Noonan

[Pokey78]

From the ashes of Sept. 11 arise the manly virtues.

A few weeks ago I wrote a column called "God Is Back," about how, within a day of the events of Sept. 11, my city was awash in religious imagery--prayer cards, statues of saints. It all culminated, in a way, in the discovery of the steel-girder cross that emerged last week from the wreckage--unbent, unbroken, unmelted, perfectly proportioned and duly blessed by a Catholic friar on the request of the rescue workers, who seemed to see meaning in the cross's existence. So do I.

[upchuck]

About damned time. I am soooooo tired of all this wishy washy, feel-good, leftest, inner-child, psychobabble, politically correct, in-touch-with-your-feelings, sensitivity BS that I could just puke.

I am a man and I try hard to be a gentleman. But that doesn't mean I have to be a woose. There are times I feel like the guy on the airplane; stunned that a woman would put down my effort at doing what guys have been doing for hundreds of years.

"Gentleman" has been dumbed down and twisted for the last 15 years or do. Maybe we're finally getting our senses back.

God bless the Duke. He set the standard.

[Reagan's_Mom]

Bump for later reading

[Iowa Granny]

B I N G O

And Good Morning, to you!

[JoeGar]

Wow! What an article!

[Carolinamom]

And a GOOD MORNING back atcha!! Isn't it great to be an American with a REAL MAN in the Oval Office!

I've waited so long for the wimps and pseudo-intellectuals to go back into the sissyland shadows...never did "cotton" to them. Now they're being "coughed up"......I love that phrase.

[captnorb]

Accept this article for what it is.....positive...positive.....positive...

[Happygal]

As someone who is blessed to be a female in a family of 'real' manly men (who know what gentlemanliness is), I think this article hits the spot! ~opening the front door, and letting chivalry back into the house~ Great article!!!!!!

[RightWingLady]

Oh how I agree!! I love manly MEN!! And I have noticed the absence of such men. We don't need no stinkin girly-boys, give us MEN!

Thanks for a truly terrific article! And may women once again become worth being a man for!

[Aggie Mama]

I've always maintained that I think part of the reason for the success of romance novels is the fact that the male lead is inevitably the strong "alpha-male" type. I always know that anything I read by Noonan will make me happy. Sending this one to the Dukes in my life -- my father and my husband.

[IoCaster]

"Fill your hand, you son of a b!tch."

[AuntToots]

White hats are back in style, there really is a new sheriff in town. And this is even more evident after President Bush's news conference last night. I said to my husband, "John Wayne would have been proud."

[xp38]

I just checked quotes at the IMDB...my quote was a bit off apparently Ned Pepper says I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man. I also like the line just before when Rooster (Wayne) says something like...I aim to see you hang in Fort Smith at Judge Parker's convenience.

[Phaedrus]

Marvelous, Marvelous! Our New Cultural "Guru" is capturing the essence of our 911 Wake Up Call. God Bless America and God Bless the Manly Virtues!!!

[prognostigaator]

Peggy Noonan looks into her own heart and exposes it for all to see..
She reaches into her soul and and offers it for all to use as an example of her genuine spiritualness.
Peggy Noonan listens to her conscience and reveals to all what it is to be humble.
She then examines her intellect and offers the fruits of it to the cynical and the sarcastic, and to the less intelligent to her, of what life really is all about...

The effete snobs of the media,those talking heads such as Chriss Matthews , the Al Hunts, the Jennings and Brokaws and Wrathers,which include the primping bunch at most of the major TV cable outlets , the NoW groups, No Gun groups, the man-boy love groups, the ardent members of the charter Clinton fan club and apologists which include the sleazy Hollywood celebrities

who will never ever match the talents of and patriotism of the Robert Montgomerys, the Tyrone Powers,et al , who enlisted in the armed services leaving their careers behind- the Martha Rayes and the Betty Grables who danced with the troops at the USO,

are simply cannot equal ,nor would have no answer to Peggy Noonan's written reflections of the truth as she ,and you , and most here at FR see it.....

[Phaedrus]

. . . our national poet.

Yes!

[Ironword]

A few weeks ago I wrote a column called "God Is Back," about how, within a day of the events of Sept. 11, my city was awash in religious imagery--prayer cards, statues of saints.

I generally like Noonan's writings, but I have to disagree with her assertion that "God is back" in New York City; rather, it is the "unknown god" that has been exalted for the past few weeks.

[Irma]

I think he's in Afghanistan now, saying, with his slow swagger and simmering silence, "Yer in a whole lotta trouble now, Osama-boy."

Heh, heh, heh....love this!

Thanks for the post, Pokey and a big BUMP for the strength, guts, brains and spirit of our American men leading this country both here and overseas!

[GulliverSwift]

I agree. Liberal men are such whiners. They get in girly arguments with women, they cry like women, and they demand "sensitivity."

New York used to be their breeding ground, I know because I saw it when I was there.

[carpio]

BTTT

[prambo]

My favorite is:

"Fill your hands, you sons-of-b!tches!"

YeeeHawwwwwwwwwww!!!

prambo