Peggy Noonan on Palin: “A real and present danger to the American left”
Hot Air » Top Picks — Peggy Noonan on Palin: “A real and present danger to the American left” posted at 11:55 am on September 3, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly More than any other reason, this is why McCain is finished if he dumps her . The sentiment is palpable among our readers; the desperate viciousness of some of the attacks on her really admits no other conclusion. If it works and the left beats her at the polls, Republicans will mourn, but if McCain hands them her scalp, god help him. Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, ...

Sarah Palin's Priorities
Taylor Marsh — ... via Emily’s List The... er, rantings analysis of Peggy Noonan. Because she jumbles up so many cultural ...

Matt Lewis: Peggy Noonan weighs in...
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — Peggy Noonan has a new column up about the Republican convention entitled "A Clear and Present Danger To the American Left". She writes: "Gut: The Sarah Palin choice is really going to work, or really not going to work. It's not going to be a little successful or a little not; it's not going to be a wash. She is either going to be magic or one of history's accidents. She is either going to be brilliant and groundbreaking, or will soon be the target of unattributed quotes by bitter staffers shifting blame in all the Making of the President 2008 books. Of which there should be ...

Peggy on Sarah
Maggie's Farm — ... From Peggy Noonan's piece today, re Palin: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because ...

Republicans Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy Discuss The Palin Pick As “Bull****”
Oliver Willis — ... The great thing is in Peggy Noonan’s column today, Noonan talks about the Palin pick as a “ral and present danger to the American left”. So you know, for all those years of us talking about how they just serve up a load of bull, as I said yesterday… there you go. ( ...

Peggy Noonan Unplugged
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — How can a person who says this also have written this? Jeez: has everyone gone insane?

Noonan Blows Her Cover
Newshoggers.com — ... Peggy Noonan blows her own column out of the water on MSNBC while she thinks the mikes are off. She admits Palin is not the most qualified woman the GOP could have put forward, admits they're deliberately playing up the 'media battle' angle by playing identity and personality politics, calls it "political bulls**t" and says that everytime the Republicans do this, they blow it. ...

What Does Sarah Palin's Selection Tell Us About John McCain's Readiness To Lead?
DownWithTyranny! — ... In case you were wondering what the right-wing talking heads really think about McCain's irresponsible pick, this clip catches GOP shills Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy, two phonies who should each be permanently banned from TV now-- inadvertently talking into open mikes during a break. OMG; this should be devastating. They think the Palin disaster is the end of whatever chances McCain had-- quite the opposite of what they say when the cameras are rolling: ...

A Time For Polemic
Ross Douthat — First, Peggy Noonan: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their ...

Peggy Noonan, Chris Todd, and Mike Murphy on Sarah Palin
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Declarations - WSJ.com: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who ...

Bonus Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — "It's over." -- Peggy Noonan, caught on a live mic talking to political consultant Mike Murphy about the pick of Gov. Sarah Palin as Sen. John McCain's running mate. More interesting is that she contradicts her own column in today's Wall Street Journal.

Nervous MSM Suggests McCain Scrap Sarah
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Imagine it's a few days before the Dem convention. In a big—BIG—surprise, Barack Obama names Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy his vice-presidential running mate. You're a partisan Republican.  Do you?: a. demand that Obama drop Kennedy from the ticket; or b. sit back and enjoy the, uh, ride.  I'm guessing the great majority of red-blooded Republicans would answer 'b.'  Why wouldn't you want a weak link on the opposing ticket?  So what kind of scare has Sarah Palin has put into the MSM that various of its members are floating the notion that McCain should consider dropping her from the ticket?  I subscribe to the view ...

Sarah Palin Watch: Peggy Noonan LIES and Michael Murphy Sells Out McCain On An Open Mic
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... of “no confidence” for Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan blows her credibility (in an especially egregious display of lying to her readers) and political consultant Michael Murphy back stabs his former boss, John McCain. ...

Noonan On Palin
Chicago Boyz — Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing — who is really one of them and who is not — and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of ...

Peggy Noonan on Palin: ‘It’s Over’
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — The hot mic phenomenon continues to yield fruit. Here Peggy Noonan and former McCain strategist Mike Murphy lament the Palin pick, while they think no one is listening. As Taegan Goddard points out, Noonan contradicts her own column with the statement, “it’s over.” READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Peggy Noonan Seems To Be Of Two Minds On The Matter Of Palin
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — Thanks to an unexpected misadventure with a live microphone on the set of MSNBC, we now now know exactly what former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan (and former McCain advisor Mike Murphy) thinks about the decision to put Sarah Palin on the ticket: MURPHY: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state government work. Angler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. And these guys, this is all how you want to (inaudible) this race. You know, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. NOONAN: It's over. MURPHY: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good. ...

Et Tu, Noonan?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — After sounding cautiously, perhaps nervously optimistic in today's column about John McCain's choice of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate ("A Clear and Present Danger to the American Left," September 3), Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan performed an abrupt about-face in front of a live NBC microphone later in the day, apparently unaware she was being recorded. "It's over," Noonan said, apparently referring to the chances of the McCain Palin ticket sweeping to victory in November. (Link to NBC video clip) Here is a transcript prepared by Frank James of the Chicago Tribune's ...

La Noonan: “It’s Over” for McCain
I Am TRex — Beware, oh, beware the unexpectedly live microphone! Did Jesse Jackson teach us nothing? This is what Peggy Noonan said about Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin in her Wall Street Journal column today, entitled, “The Clear and Present Danger to the American Left”: Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; ...

An Open Mic Moment with the Conservative Punditry
The Democratic Daily — ... Those talking heads and guests will never learn… As Politico notes, “Noonan’s blunt call contrasted with her conflicted column today saying Palin “could become a transformative political presence.”" Josh Marshall has the whole transcript here. Ouch… And right before Palin’s big debut tonight. Tags: Columnist Peggy Noonan, Debut, Http Www Youtube, Josh Marshall, Journal Columnist, Nbc, Peggy Noonan, Political Presence, Punditry, ...

Peggy Noonan: Let me explain
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Just posted at the Journal. She claims “it’s over” was taken completely out of context via video editing, which, given her specificity as to what that part of the conversation was really about and the fact that this did, after all, come from MSNBC and TPM, seems at least reasonably plausible. Not sure I buy the explanation about narratives, though: It was just after the 1988 Republican convention ended. I was on the plane, as a speechwriter, that took Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush, and the new vice presidential nominee, Dan Quayle, from New Orleans, the site ...

Lady’s night: Palin at the RNC
Michelle Malkin — ... . In her latest column, she wrote of the insular “ Bubbleheads ” who populate Beltway punditry. Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble people. We are Bubbleheads. We know this and try to compensate for it by taking road trips through the continent — we’re on one now, in Minneapolis — where we talk to normal people. But we soon forget the pithy, knowing thing the garage mechanic said in the diner, and anyway we ...

If I eat any more popcorn I am going to get diabetes
Some Guy With a Website by August J. Pollak - xoverboard.com — ... After five days of this nonsense, this Noonan gaffe is honestly one of the most devastating hits on Palin. You have, on the night of Palin's big speech, one of the most well-established and prominent members of the mainstream conservative media not only openly attacking both Palin for her ineptness but McCain for his judgement in picking her, but essentially revealing that her prior opinion column released only hours earlier praising Palin was a complete and utter lie. ...

Open Mic Night
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Noonan explains.

Amanda Carpenter: MSNBC Leaked Off-Air Conversation
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — ... Todd: Is she really the most qualified woman? Noonan: The most qualified no. I think they went for this excuse me political bull**** about narratives.. Todd: Yeah, they went to narratives. Noonan: Every time Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it. Noonan claims her remarks were taken out of context and penned a lengthy response on the WSJ. Now, I think her response is a little questionable, but I'm left wondering who on Earth is leaking off-air conversations at MSNBC??? It seems a bit suspect that the network, ...

Liveblogging the Palin Speech
The Anchoress — ... . You have to feel badly. She writes a moving and brilliant column and then an open mic and her own mouth cuts her off at the legs. It is curious, isn’t it, ...

And the Beast Shall Eat Itself
Confederate Yankee — And the Beast Shall Eat Itself A hot microphone, a revelation of dishonesty, and the violation of a long-held gentleman's agreement destroyed the credibility of the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan today, and may have changed the complexion of the American news media forever. Noonan published an article ...

Palin Missed Her Chance
The Stump — ... As for running Wasilla, she gestured towards an argument Peggy Noonan floated this morning: “But executives, even of small towns, run something,” Noonan explained. “[T]here are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. … We are a nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos." Being the mayor of a small town, this brazen theory goes, actually better prepares you to be President than something more hoity-toity, like being a U.S. Senator. ...

Links for 2008-09-03 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... how best to handle John McCain's veep pick of Sarah Palin, the high priests and priestesses of the media have marked her as an apostate. The Beltway class is in full-throated rebellion against a nondomesticated conservative who might pose a threat to their coronation of Barack Obama and the return of Camelot-on-the-Potomac. Sarah Palin Watch: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly "HiCy" relieves MS symptoms - Johns Hopkins Magazine A Clear and Present Danger To the American Left Hot Air - New Palin smear: She ...

Murphy’s Loss
The American Spectator — All my days I was raised among the wise, and I discovered that there is nothing better for a person than silence. (Mishna Avot) The silence of the wise is becoming; it is even more so for fools. (Talmud Pesachim) Train your tongue to say "I don't know," lest you get caught in an embellishment. (Talmud Brachot) Murphy's Law and its many corollaries are always good for a grim chuckle. Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, it states. Oddly enough, I have my own Murphys lore, as I have only ever been snubbed by two public figures, and both were named Murphy. The first was Bob Murphy, the Hall of Fame baseball announcer for the New York Mets over three decades. I ran ...

Your Official Leftist Anti-Palin Talking Points
Patterico's Pontifications — Here are your leftist talking points in response to Sarah Palin’s speech. They fall into three main categories: 1. “Look over there!”: Ha, ha, Bristol’s boyfriend is marrying her but he doesn’t really want to! It’s a shotgun wedding! If you go to some of these sites, it seems like this is all they’ve got. Pathetic, really. Even as mere comedy it doesn’t work. Cretins like this don’t get links. 2. Sexism (of course): My, that’s a lovely speech she gave — but she didn’t write it! This is true. As it ...

links for 2008-09-04
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Hot Air - New Palin smear: She “slashed” funding for pregnant teens by, um, expanding it (tags: sarah_palin) A Clear and Present Danger To the American Left (tags: sarah_palin McCain ...

Peggy Noonan tries to explain
The Latest on Air America — Yesterday, Peggy Noonan wrote in the Wall Street Journal an "explanation" of what she meant by " I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullsh*t about narratives --." The article is below.... Well, I just got mugged by the nature of modern media, and I wish it weren't my fault, but it is. Readers deserve an explanation, so I'm putting a new top on today's column and, with the forbearance of the Journal, here it is. Wednesday afternoon, in a live MSNBC television panel hosted by NBC's political analyst Chuck Todd, and along with Republican strategist Mike Murphy, we discussed Sarah Palin's speech this evening to the Republican National ...

Peggy Noonan LIES to Readers and Then Tries to Redeem Herself
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... After yesterday’s gaffe filtered through the internets back to Peggy Noonan, she issued an apologia of sorts on top of her Wall Street Journal column. Sorry, Peggy but your credibility is now zero. Perhaps you should take the advice of Laura Ingraham who this morning on her radio show suggests you get out of Manhattan and stop attending the New York elite cocktail parties. Ouch…… As far as Michael Murphy - good luck on your new career at NBC News. You fit in perfectly. ...

Outside View
TheOtherSideofKim Front Page — So at least some Brits got excited about Mrs. Palin: Sarah Palin’s sensational performance at the Republican Party Convention may turn out to be the tipping point of this rollercoaster American election. My only quibble is with the “may” part. It was the tipping point. My favorite quote (from Peggy Noonan): [Sarah Palin] is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way. Palin is the real thing, and we Americans who are not moonbats know it. That unpleasant smell in your ...

Daily Digest: Sarah Palin Has a Posse
techPresident — The Web on the Candidates Lurving Sarah Palin: Some voters may still be working out their reaction to Sarah Palin's hard charging speech last night, but her address and its sustained needling of Barack Obama certainly won insta-plaudits on the online right. Here's a sampling. The Next Right's Mindy Finn: "She demonstrated why she was a superior choice for McCain vs. the other so-called 'short list' VP picks." Red State's Ben Domenech: "What she said tonight shows that underneath her pleasant ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for September 8, 2008
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — BARBARA'S DAILY BUZZFLASH MINUTE Ah Sarah, Sarah, the more we get to know ya, the more we know we don’t like ya and the more we don’t want ya!!!  “Palin – still mayor of Wasilla … ran much of her campaign for lieutenant governor out of Wasilla City Hall on city time, ...

the partial redemption of Peggy Noonan
Firedoglake — Famous person? This morning on news sites, the McCain campaign appeared to be in need of a copy editor when it attributed a positive review of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's debate performance last night to a "Famous Person." The ad -- viewable here -- couples a photo of a smiling Palin with the quote: ...

Obama, Noonan, and Blarney
The American Spectator — Eminentoes Eminentoes Obama, Noonan, and Blarney By Patrick O'Hannigan on 4.9.09 @ 6:07AM If the Wall Street Journal keeps to its usual schedule, the next column from Peggy Noonan will be published on Good Friday. I hope she takes advantage of that timing to offer one of the meditations on faith that she still writes better than almost everyone else, rather than another confused essay about President Obama. When her subject is Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II, or grace encountered on the streets of Manhattan or Washington, D.C., Noonan shines. But Barack Obama frustrates her so much that even her occasional jabs at his opponents are poorly ...

Peggy Noonan Goes Off On Sarah Palin In Column: "Horrifying"
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — One of the most refreshingly honest moments of the 2008 campaign came when Peggy Noonan, a columnist and former Republican speechwriter, was caught on a live mike calling the choice of Sarah Palin to run on the Republican ticket "political bullshit." She smoothed over her harsh remarks in a subsequent column, saying she liked Palin even if she wasn't sure the choice would be successful. But now that Palin has resigned as Alaska Governor, Noonan apparently feels free to speak openly. In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and ...