Why is Peggy Noonan so utterly despicable???

[VaLabor]

Excerpt from her recent op-ed in the WSJ on her meeting with Catholic bishops regarding recent Church scandals:

So, we are demoralized. But there is help. I spoke of the scene in Mel Gibson's movie, "The Passion," which I knew some in the audience had seen in screenings. Mr. Gibson had attempted, obviously, to base his film on the Gospels. But there are a few moments in which what might be called his art asserts itself, and he does it his way. There is one scene like this that for me was the great moving moment of the film. The broken and brutalized Christ falls under the weight of the cross. He is on his way to Golgotha. He's half dead. When he falls, his mother runs to help him, and he looks up at her, blood coming down his face, and he says, "See, mother, I make all things new again."

I quoted this dialogue to the bishops and the cardinal. And when I said the words Christ spoke in the film my voice broke, and I couldn't continue speaking. I was embarrassed by this, but at the same time I thought, Well, OK.

What choked me was thinking of Jesus. And thinking of how we all want to be new again, and can be if we rely on him; but it's so hard, and deep in our hearts while we believe we do not believe, could not believe, or else we'd all be new again.

Anyway, I regained my composure and concluded my remarks with some hard advice. I said the leaders of the church should now--"tomorrow, first thing"--take the mansions they live in and turn them into schools for children who have nothing, and take the big black cars they ride in and turn them into school buses. I noted that we were meeting across the street from the Hilton, and that it would be good for them to find out where the cleaning women at the Hilton live and go live there, in a rent-stabilized apartment on the edge of town or in its suburbs. And take the subway to work like the other Americans, and talk to the people there. How moved those people would be to see a prince of the church on the subway. "They could talk to you about their problems of faith, they could tell you how hard it is to reconcile the world with their belief and faith, and you could say to them, Buddy, ain't it the truth."

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

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Imagine if she said those words to the likes of Ken Lay or Dick Cheney: take the mansion you live in and turn it into a school for children.

It would never happen. But you eventually see that the motivation behind such a move is really not of genuine concern for the poor, it's to make the poor think you're on their side -- but only THINK it -- so that when they complain of their poverty, you can say, "Buddy, ain't that the truth."

She's so utterly despicable.

[SharonAnn]

1. Because she's a cult member of the Catholic Opus Dei cult and

is brainwashed.

Nuff said.

[roughsatori]

2. She is a Zanaxed Zombie Dolt

She repulses me. She should be receiving ECT(Electro Convulsive Therapy)at this time and then placed in a long-term care public facility for people with mental disabilities and no health insurance---yes a snake pit.

[LibDemAlways]

3. What the hell right does that bitch

have to offer free advice to the bishops - advice that she herself would never take.
I'll bet at the end of that meeting she set her fat ass down on the leather backseat of a limo and had a stiff drink from the servi-bar while being whisked off to her mansion - oblivious to any signs of poverty she might have passed along the way. If there's anything worse than a repuke, it's a repuke who pays hypocritical lip service to the plight of the downtrodden. God, that woman is a shithead.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Deep down in side her...

Peggy probably thinks that she, and the rest of the repukes, carry on a running conversation with God.

I talked to Him about that, the other day. He said he's really getting chapped by their presumption. ;-)

[susanna]

5. In complete agreement...

"Imagine if she said those words to the likes of Ken Lay or Dick Cheney: take the mansion you live in and turn it into a school for children."

Hallelujah. You hit that nail on the head.

[Gloria]

6. I have my own personal knowledge of Peggy Noonan from high school

She was a phony then! A few of us had a little group we called "The Resistance" ...she was a hanger on. In the yearbook, she said she was a member of it...which was a lie. While trying to ingratiate herself with us, she was also trying to put the moves on my boyfriend!

I thought she was an absolute snake!!!

If you want to read more, including post-college years, check out this article which first appeared at Media Whores Online:

http://www.zianet.com/insightanalytical/peggy.htm

[Grins]

9. Maybe not...?

I think we should be careful with the personal shots. MY college roommate went to high school with Hillary Rodham, where he said no one particularily liked her either. So what does one's past really prove?

It only proves one thing: No one ever escapes high school!!

My personal belief is anything you did in high school, or up to the age of 23 or so, should be forgiven for what it is - you're just too darn stupid to know better. (I like old people. They have great stories and have experienced more of life than others. You get older, you get mellow and gain wisdom. I personally believe that no one should be nominated for a seat on the Supreme Court if they are under 65 - among other criteria.)

Take Noonan on for the trash she writes, argue her points, skip the rest.

[Gloria]

10. The story has plenty of post-high school info....well into her

"professional" life....

[Grins]

11. Well...I'm going to disagree...

I went to the link and read them again. I think both a little long in "I" and "Me", brothers, boyfriends, college stories, hairdo’s, and little other than Noonan and the authors had met in the past; and short on presenting analysis. It is only until you get to the very end of the second story is there anything informational, and even that is light. There is no argument, then evidence.

As an example, here is one that I think is far better. It is an excerpt from The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait, and his story, “Right Reverent” (March 25, 2002)

“Earlier this year Noonan wrote an entire column praising Bush for prohibiting his staff from leaking to the press. One year before, she denounced Clinton for the same thing. "The code of omerta," she thundered, "ran strong and was obviously enforced."

Now, compare Chait’s style with the author’s: “Her screeds in the Wall Street Journal are unnerving in their wild-eyed vitriol. They are becoming more and more psychotic.”, with no illustrations of Noonan’s vitriol or psychosis.

More from Chait:
“Noonan defended Bush's vicious attacks on McCain in the South Carolina primary, which included racial innuendo and disparagement of his military record. "You make the best case possible for yourself and what you stand for, and you paint your opponent in less attractive light," she lectures. "That's what politics is." Unless, of course, a Democrat is practicing politics. "Al Gore is surrounded by tough mean operatives whose sole political instinct is to rip out the other guy's guts and dance in the blood," she later raged.”

Good writing. Point, evidence, and not a word about Noonan's personal past or grooming.

My opinion.

[amber dog democrat]

19. for what its worth

I did get a degree from the University of Texas, but my education went as far as the 9th grade and a GED - after I got out of the Navy. You CAN escape high school.... but I would not suggest taking that route. but i NEVER spent a minute of my life in high school.

Noonan is an embarrassment and propagandist. She has NO credibility. I feel sorry for her. Kinda.

[Alex88]

7. The stated belief in a "kindler and gentler America"

in Bush I's nomination speech were her words because she wrote the speech.

He and his son's Presidency's are far from kindler or gentler. That alone tell's you something about her.

[Punkingal]

8. I think she's a lunatic.....

completely and totally.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

12. Bingo!!! She went over the deep in in 1980 when she backed

Reagan!

[Sibanetta]

13. No to Noonan

I didn't know she had a drinking problem...that explains a lot, I just thought she was a raving lunatic...what is it with these repug Bimbos? Simpering Sycophants all...I saw her on "Hardball" the other night, critiquing the Democratic Candidates...my mouth was hanging open listening to her...all coy and giggly and dripping venom!
And of course, Matthew's the "I don't know if I'm a Democrat anymore"
ass-hole, was doing major suck-up, laying on the syrup with a trowel
...by the way Mr. Matthews, on the off chance that you would ever check this web-site, NO, you're not a Democrat...you are a two-faced SOB who runs with the hare and hunts with the hounds!

Sorry about that...just had to get it off my chest!

Sibanetta

[Lefty48197]

14. It's the valium

I'm pretty sure.

[swinney]

15. PEGGY NOONAN SUCK THIS LEMON

--------------------------RONALD REAGAN RECORDS AS FIRST---------------------------
(1900-1989)

(Peggy Noonan pay attention)

1.First to turn America into a DEBTOR nation
2. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of national income in eight years
3. First to increase DEBT faster than growth of gdp over eight years
4. First to double the deficit in just eigh t years
5. First to “almost”: triple the national DEBT in just eight years
6. First to increase SPENDING by 80%--over 8 years.
7. First to SPEND more in eight years than was spent in prior 50 years.
8. First to have “real” INTEREST RATES of 8% after averaging 1% over 35 years.
9. First to keep PRIME INTEREST RATES at 20%.
10.First to over value the dollar to the yen at rate of 262 yen to 1 dollar.
11.First to have served as Governor and increase STATE SPENDING by 112%
12.First to have HOME LOAN INTEREST RATES as high as 16%
13. First to CUT TAXES by 60% for his rich pals
14. First to allow the SAVINGS AND LOAN INDUSTRY to be raided after signing a deregulatory bill and proclaiming “I think we have hit the jackpot”. Come and get it the vaults are unguarded.
15. First to deal with TERRORISTS
16. First to send an AUTOGRAPHED BIBLE to a man he called “The Satan of Terrorists”.
17. First to have an ADMIRAL plead the Fifth Amendment.
18. First to have a stealing, lying, gutless wife abusing MARINE LT. COLONEL plead the Fifth Amendment.
19. First to have a “sitting” CABINET MEMBER INDICTED
20. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE INDICTED.
21. First to have an ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE SENT TO PRISON.
22. First to have over 100 MEMBERS OF AN ADMINISTRATION CHARGED WITH CRIMES..
23. First to have more members of his administration charged with crimes than CUMULATIVE TOTAL OF ALL OTHER PRESIDENTS in the twentieth century
24. First to set a record for the LARGEST ONE DAY PERCENTAGE DECLINE in the DOW in history. 10-19-87
25. First to have over $10,000,000 INCREASE IN WEALTH from serving for 8 years as president.
26. First to testify ”under oath” 130 times that ”I DON’T REMEMBER” .
27. First to have an Admiral with a photographic memory testify 128 times “ I DON’T REMEMBER”.
28. First to undergo BRAIN SURGERY a few months after leaving office. No pain no gain.
29. First to, repeatedly, FALSIFY HIS WIFE’S AGE. As tho anyone cared.
30. First to promote his religious faith and never have an ACTIVE CHURCH MEMBERSHIP.
31. First to never use the term JESUS CHRIST in speeches.
32. First to seek GUIDANCE FROM THE STARS not from God
33. First to have had a SHOTGUN WEDDING.
34. First to have worked as a SHILL in Las Vegas.
35. First to call a Stealing, Lying, Psychotic, wife abusing Marine a “LIAR.
36. First to have been OPENLY ALIENATED from his children.
37. First To have served with ALZHIMERS
38. First to have UNEMPLOYMENT AT 10.8% since great depression.
39. First to attack a small unprotected nation with 88,000 inhabitants and 10,000 bb guns then PROCLAIM -“America stands tall again”— “we have whipped the Vietnam Syndrome”-we have defeated communism”. Gosh! What if we had whipped Cyprus?.
40. #1-in FARM FORECLOSURES
41. #1-In BANK FAILURES
42. #1-In SAVINGS AND LOAN FAILURES
43. #1-In Percent increase in PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES
44. #1-In recorded MISSTATEMENTS
45. #1-In never having a single press conference in which he did not make at least one or more INCORRECT STATEMENTS.
46. #1-In needing a staff person standby during press conferences to tell the press “WHAT HE REALLY MEANT”.
47. #1-In having SERVICEMEN KILLED during peacetime.
48. #1-In largest DROP IN POPULARITY in one week.
49. #1-In being first to HONOR NAZI STORM TROOPERS by calling them” Innocent Victims”
50. #1-In being first to be labeled “BRAIN DEAD AFFABLE DUNCE’ by this writer.
51. First to lie-over and over-to reporters “I DO NOT DYE MY HAIR my barber uses a special shampoo”
52. First to have a wife who ”forced” him to WEAR THREE SUITS in one day
53. First to boast “Not bad for a DUMB GUY who worked only 20 hours per week”.
54. First to have his wife sit nearby and WHISPER ANSWERS to questions
55. First to FALL ASLEEP while the Pope spoke
56. First to invite the Pope to visit the White House and “BRING THE WIFE AND KIDS”
57. First to have his press secretary remove him from the microphone because he could not answer questions. Then, as the reporter
yelled out “answer my question” he replied “MY HANDLERS WON’T LET ME SPEAK”. Quick get the white coat.
58. First 20th Century president to have historians RATE HIM BELOW every president of the 20th except for Richard Nixon. 1994 Poll.
59. First to give us a First Lady with a past reputation for giving the BEST BJ in Hollywood.
60. First to suggest his eldest son undergo PSYCHIATRIC examination
61. First to have been voted in British polls (twice) as the ”MOST FEARED LEADER IN THE WORLD” sic em Rambo.


62. First to serve as Governor on a ”conservative” platform and INCREASE SPENDING BY 112%.
63. First Governor TO INCREASE personal income taxes by 60%, tax increase on cigarettes by 200%, state tax collections by 152%.
64. First to have a Special Assistant say on national TV “sometimes you had to HIT HIM ON THE HEAD with a 2 x 4 to get his attention”
65. First to have his official biographer state on national TV ‘After he was shot in 1981he GOT SLOWER AND SLOWER EACH YEAR. His speech got slower. He deliberated more and he hesitated more when he spoke. He lost his physical quickness and would not make decisions on the spot. It was a very, very slow and steady mental and physical decline”.
66. First to have a POPULARITY RATING OF ONLY 35% after his first two years in office.
67. First president to have been DIVORCED
68. First president to have the Geriatrics Department of a major
university study his behavior and conclude that AFTER THREE YEARS IN OFFICE HE HAD ALZHIMERS.

------------------------------------ THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE----------------------------------

[Manix]

16. Noonan is a self-serving, sanctimonious, greedy hypocrite!!

nt

[Marion Delgado]

17. I write songs about these people

This is the start of "Peggy Noonan"

Peggy Noonan said to me over tea
That children dying in trailer fires on their knees
Praying to Jesus was proof of
God's wise and infinite love
And all I could do was agree
What else could I do but agree?

[Blue_Tires]

18. I had to read her book

"What I saw at the Revolution" was required reading for my government class in high school (conservative catholic school, and this was just after the '94 election)...I wanted to scrub myself with a steel wool brush after reading it...She was so enamored with reagan in the book, I actually thought she might've had some sort of illicit affair at the time...

[amber dog democrat]

20. To quote Bob Dylon

"... gargles in the rat race choir "

[LonelyLRLiberal]

21. Wasn't she caught plaigarizing?

Don't know if it was the book you read or not, but seems like this was a news item and discussed on talk shows within the last year.