Peggy Noonan And David Brooks Eat Crow
Posted on October 3, 2008
You remember Peggy Noonan, right? She of the open mike idiocy about that Palin pick being “bulls**t” gaffe. Then she tried to spin it around, but, she has been less then a supporter. That is her right, but, now, she is a bandwagon jumper
She killed. She had him at “Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?” She was the star. He was the second male lead, the good-natured best friend of the leading man. She was not petrified but peppy.
The whole debate was about Sarah Palin. She is not a person of thought but of action. Interviews are about thinking, about reflecting, marshaling data and integrating it into an answer. Debates are more active, more propelled—they are thrust and parry. They are for campaigners. She is a campaigner. Her syntax did not hold, but her magnetism did. At one point she literally winked at the nation.
As far as Mrs. Palin was concerned, Gwen Ifill was not there, and Joe Biden was not there. Sarah and the camera were there. This was classic “talk over the heads of the media straight to the people,” and it is a long time since I’ve seen it done so well, though so transparently. There were moments when she seemed to be doing an infomercial pitch for charm in politics. But it was an effective infomercial.
There is more gushing from Peggy. How does that crow taste, Peggy?
And David Brooks? You remember the Keith Olbermann network gleefully writing “Palin: When you’ve lost David Brooks…” Now we get
Still, this debate was about Sarah Palin. She held up her end of an energetic debate that gave voters a direct look at two competing philosophies. She established debating parity with Joe Biden. And in a country that is furious with Washington, she presented herself as a radical alternative.
By the end of the debate, most Republicans were not crouching behind the couch, but standing on it. The race has not been transformed, but few could have expected as vibrant and tactically clever a performance as the one Sarah Palin turned in Thursday night.
Ummmm, crow. Tastes good! Feels good! Real good! (to the tune sung during marching in Full Metal Jacket by R. Lee Ermey)
Next on the crow list will probably be Kathleen Parker. We’ll give her a few days to clean her Thanksgiving Day silverware.
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Go Sarah! At least those Libs gave her credit for a good job.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
never elect a woman
who’s a conservative
she’s just a gender traitor
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The Republicans have set the bar of accomplishment so low (lower than a snake’s belly) that they are ecstatic that Sarah Palin didn’t “mess up”! Sarah Palin was–and is–an embarrasment. She’s probably a fine mother (well, Bristol notwithstanding), a good governor (well, governing Alaska doesn’t take much) and a very nice woman in her own right (nice wink, Sarah, you little flirt!) but she still is an incredibly unqualified, incredibly uninformed, incredibly mediocre candidate for VP. One can only feel sadness if not pity for the Republicans.
Too bad mike doesn’t recognize that Biden, he of the great foreign policy experience, doesn’t even know that nobody has ever thrown Hezbollah out of Lebanon, nor does he know that he and Obama never recommended NATO go in to keep the parties apart.
If the best democratic foreign policy guy in the Senate does not know what has been going on in Lebanon for 20+ years, then I’m not too worried about Sarah getting some facts wrong.
And don’t forget that Biden also does not know the constitutional role of the VP. VP is president of the senate AND VP of the US. Both legislative and executive roles. But Biden doesn’t know that. Too bad.
Mike is probably some kid in a Virginia classroom doing extra credit for the socialist.
We’ve lost our schools to the commies (ò¿ó)
A Military Family War Hero or muslin trick baby, that’s a no brainier fool (ò¿ó)