Last night I had an argument with Balk (he is like the Dalai Lama of Gawker Media*) re our favorite prose stylist Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan. Balk said Peggy Noonan's whole "struggle" over what presidential candidate she was supporting had, like everything else she writes, been a total fraud designed…
You'll no doubt recall how Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan yesterday inadvertently told MSNBC that Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice presidential candidate was "political bullshit." What you may not appreciate is that poor Noonan was "mugged by the nature of modern media," just like Jesse…
Today America's prose stylingist pundit Peggy Noonan wrote a column about how all the "inside the Beltway" "chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of the Amtrak Acela Line" were "Bubbleheads" who were bound to"misjudge" how well Sarah Palin would play in the "nation of Wasillas" wherein she…
"As I watched I thought: How about 'Let the baby live'? Don't parse it. Just 'Let the baby live.' [WSJ]
What excellent timing! The latest W investigates the predominance of Republicans on the DC social circuit and pronounces nightlife to be "more politically polarized than ever"! "Despite the social dominance of Republicans for nearly a decade, a liberal network also exists," the magazine assures. "Oddly, it's referred…
Peggy Noonan was the Ronald Reagan's best speechwriter because she basically writes like he thought—with hypnotic banality—and for years she wrote a wacky little opinion column that was read only by Matt Drudge and people who found it hilarious. But this year everything's different! Peggy Noonan's a phenomenon! Jacob…
NBC nightly news anchor Brian Williams blogged yesterday about how he's totally unsurprised that the Sunday New York Times is suffering rapidly dwindling circulation. 'Cause BriWi picked up one of these Sunday papers the other day and was totally unimpressed. "I must admit that on Sundays it becomes a tough paper to…
The Pope is coming! The Pope is coming! Pope Benedict Ratzinger and His All-Starr Band are on their way to the States for Ratzi's first American tour! It's the Apostolic Journey to the United States '08! Helllllloooo, Baltimore—are you ready to ruminate on the relationship between reason and faith??? Yes, America is…
Peggy Noonan: "The '50s have gotten a bad rap. For all the decade's flaws, it was a human time, and freer than ours of a certain Perrier-sipping, blog-surfing, post-workout Puritanism." [WSJ]
Wall Street Journal pontifactress-in-chief Peggy Noonan weighs in on the country's "culture of fear" this morning. Not only are we scaring our kids to death with bad TV (Rosie O'Donnell, "smug and menacing rappers," 24, ads telling them not to smoke), we're frightening the shit out of them with our caring about the…
