Peggy Misses Again
I don’t hate Peggy Noonan. I hated Ronald Reagan, the man she still adores, but I don’t hate Peggy. She doesn’t have the vicious hatefulness of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, the cold cruelty of Bill Kristol or Bill O’Reilly, the smug hypocrisy of Joe Scarborough, and she’s a far more interesting writer than Michelle Malkin or Ann Coulter.
In fact, I rather enjoy her convoluted style and saying things like Nancy Pelosi is a patriotic hero because she wears make-up.
She may be a right-wing nutcase, but she’s a rightwing nutcase like a lot of people I’ve known who, even though their thought patterns are twisted with racism and old fashioned ideas, can occasionally let fly with a zinger that will leave you on the floor with tears streaming down your eyes.
So, I not only don’t hate Peggy Noonan, I actually feel a bit sorry for her lately. She’s trying so desperately to hate Obama, in every column she tries to depict him as a total failure, and in every column she basically winds up exonerating the guy.
She starts off her column this week with a misty eyed reminiscence of an interview with Henry (you really have to be both old and obsessed with politics to remember who he is) Jackson, and honed in on his response to the question “Why are you running for president?” with “I’m not crazy, you know.”
She segued from that into the idea that anybody who would run for the presidency is nuts. She cited many examples from the book “Game Change.” There were examples of irrationality (Hillary Clinton’s temper tantrums), twisted priorities (Palin, worrying more about her hair than about issues) and cursing (John McCain, hoo boy, he sure likes to say Fuck a lot). She specifically complained that none of them had a good answer to the question “Why are you running for president? What makes you think you’re so special?”
But she really didn’t lay a glove on Obama. “He’s smart and he wants everybody to know it. In meetings with aides, he controls the conversation by interrupting whoever is speaking.” Sounds like pretty much any CEO.
So, Peggy Noonan’s thesis, “You have to be insane to even run for president, therefore President Obama is obviously insane” is flawed.
Like I say, I don’t hate Peggy Noonan. But she’s the one who is crazy.
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