Wtf does Peggy Noonan know about 'everyday Americans'?

[RandySF]

The queen of the DC party circuit has the gall to write this:

They’re making their videos, holding their parties and having a ball. OK. But imagine you’re a Citizen at Home just grinding through—trying to do it all, the job, the parenthood, the mowing the lawn and paying the taxes. No glamour, all responsibility and effort. And you see these little clips on the Net where the wealthy sing about how great taxpayer bailouts are and you feel like . . . they’re laughing at you.

Since when did she ever mingle with the rest of us?


http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2014/02/18/our-decadent-elites/

[supernova]

1. After reading it

I don't think her audience is us, the toiling masses.

I think her audience for that piece is the "elites" in the party video that came out the other day. I think her intent is cast a crooked finger at her fellow "elites" for not being the sober leadership types she so desperately wants them to be.

Peggy is sort of old-school noblesse oblige, at least. Not that I'm defending her. It still hasn't occurred to her that these are just really awful people and money isn't the arbiter of morality.

[hobbit709]

2. As much as she knows about anything else.

ZERO=ZERO.

[liberal N proud]

3. Don't you know, she is the smartest dipshit in the world of punditry and propaganda

[hatrack]

4. The Countess is displaying her concern to her fellow Masked Ball attendees

Giving them permission, you see, to act like they care.

[The_Commonist]

5. She lost me at "groovelocity."

As much as I've tried, I don't think I've ever been able to get through an entire Noonan column.

[Gothmog]

6. noonan is senile

I really dislike this lady. Her voice and her articles are really sad and annoying

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

7. YOU sir are not good enough,

to get plastered on vodka and pills with her a the country club!!

[pinboy3niner]

8. Whatever she's on, I'll give her credit for this:

She's the one who dubbed Newt Gingrich an "angry little attack muffin."

[Arkana]

9. I will also give Noonan minor credit

for realizing Sarah Palin was a fraud from the start. It was only her and a couple of other Republican personalities that never liked her.

Other than that, however, she's a Reagan-era shill who knows nothing about the people of this country.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Yeah, but there's also the video where she pathetically tried to walk it back. nt

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. You know what they say about deranged clocks who are totally devoid of self awareness....... :-p

[11 Bravo]

12. Noonan knows that even a dead Ronad Reagan gives her a case of the steaming undies ...

and that is, in fact, the sum total of her knowledge.