Posted on 07/18/2009 9:00:55 AM PDT by Al B.
You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. But it's not the normal kind of jealous, the kind reserved for girlfriends who can squeeze into size 2 jeans. No, it's the kind of jealous that hurts, that grabs your gut and twists, that has you howling with rage into your pillow in the middle of the night, screaming "It's not fair" like a two-year-old denied another piece of cake. It is Sarah Palin jealous...and it is consuming you.
You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. You are a card-carrying member of the intellectual conservative elite, a PBS-anointed expert on family values who worked for both Ronald Reagan and Dan Rather, a talented speechwriter and wordsmith. And you are fuming: Sarah Palin refuses to be yesterday's news. You just can't get her out of your mind.
And, what's worse, everyone continues to talk about her. You've tried everything, using your mainstream media platforms, your Wall Street Journal columns, and powerful friends -- so many of them -- to savage her, to give her a rhetorical beating so fierce that it would bring a smile to the face of Vince McMahon -- if you knew who he is, and if you had ever watched a WWE wrestling match, which he heads. "She is a complete elite confection. She might as well have been a bonbon," you wrote, your $300 manicured fingers shaking on the keyboard.
You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. So you loosed a multi-column primal scream: Palin is an idiot who is "out of her depth in a shallow pool", a woman who has no sense of personal limits because she is not even smart enough to realize she is "a ponder-free zone." Whoa-good one!
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
If you only have time to read one column today, this would be the one.
It’s sad really. Noonan’s had that great post 9-11 article that really captured a lot of emotions, but since then she’s had nothing to say, really, nothing at all.
Her views on Palin are a joke and a result of spending too much time in the NY echo chamber. The bigger problem is that some people believe her and the other whiners who complain about Palin.
In the end, we have to do our own analysis on the Palin situation, as I commented here:
http://buanadha.wordpress.com/2009/07/13/do-your-own-analysis/
Sorry about that. Didn’t use the right keyword.
So is Maureen Dowd.
Peggy has developed a certain weirdness about her.
a PMS-anointed expert is more like it.
The difference between Dowd and Noonan is that the latter passes herself off as a conservative.
Did her last book, Patriotic Grace sell at all? I found it a snooze.
You’re right - this really puts the elite b!tch in her proper place.
I used to really like Noonan’s columns. Maybe I was deluded, but I don’t think so. She changed. And it happened just about the time Palin came on the scene.
Now I wouldn’t spit on Noonan if she were on fire.
My, but that was snippy! I think he forgot to add that Noonan was jealous because she doesn’t live next door to Russia where she could soak up all kinds of foreign policy experience by osmosis.
parsy, who thinks Palin could use some constructive criticism
Ooooo....this article borders on elder abuse.
Peggy Noonan has to write about Sarah because it’s the only way she can sell her leaden prose...much as Al Franken had to write about Rush Limbaugh to make money on his pitiful book.
I would say Stuart gave Peggy a good old fashioned ass kicking.
You do realize that it was Tina Fey, in the famous SNL skit, who said the Russia-from-my-porch line, and not Sarah Palin. Or do you get all your information from CNN?
Remember, she went all crazy on George Bush around 2004. Noonan is a snob, an elitist. She thinks way too highly of herself. Judging by her remarks on both Bush and Palin, she's not a deep thinker but she's absolutely sure she is. Her problem has little or nothing to do with jealousy.
This articles is just plain old brilliant!!
You wouldn't believe how many idiots I meet who think it was Palin who said this. More proof we need to win the cultural war as well as elections.
Slam, dunk. Ouch! Poor Ms. Peggy. Who would have thunk it. Green Eyed Monster destroys one more female. She’s out of here. By By!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.