How do hacks like this get jobs with prominent media like WSJ? Where the hell are the industry standards?

Did Noonan write this hogwash before or after learning that the top candidates in Iowa are in a dead heat?

Run, Peggy, run, the GOP sky is falling!

There is nothing--nothing, I tell you--worse than a republican bitch.

Jtraynor @ 2:

How do hacks like this get jobs with prominent media like WSJ? Where the hell are the industry standards?

Well it is the WSJ, after all. And Peggy did work for Reagan.

Peggo loves teh stupid.

Noonan the Stepford Conservative. She's like Bloody Bill Kristol -- except in Kristol's case there's some flowing in his veins.

And here we are again, evaluating hair styles. Tell me when the beltway pundits resume evaluating socks, aqua velva smell, and house interior decorating.

See the whole article.
She sees Bush as the guy first on the scene at a house fire to make sure the kids got out.
WTF?
Like 9/11?
Like Katrina?

Only in the GOP fantasy world is Bush that guy.

Of course she also considers Giuliani "reasonable," even though he has appeared a couple of times in drag -- dontcha imagine he spent some time in front of a mirror getting his hair and makeup done? And how much time did King Ronny spend having his hair and makeup done?

Alas, the "faggot" issue only arises for Dems, no matter how many Widestance Larrys or Pageboy Foleys the GOP produces.

So let me get this straight. We can't have a president who was the subject of a hacked-up smear job that got posted to YouTube, but we can have a President who, after mussing his hair a bit, flips off the camera. Got it.

Studies show that Edwards would destroy any republican in the general. They do not want to run against him.

She is attempting to end his run in the primary.

Stop this tit for tat smack and expose them for who they are.

My cat regurgitates hairball that are smarter than Noonan. Hack Hack!!

John Edwards is not reasonable. All the Democrats would raise taxes as president, but Mr. Edwards’s populism is the worst of both worlds, both intemperate and insincere.

Yeah, why can't he rally the masses on intolerance like Dubya?

Sorry for the typos. I blame it on the wine.

RW @ 1:

Peggy Noonan is a RANK AMATEUR

More like SKANK Amateur. ;-)

You may not be able to use 'swear words' but I can and I say fuck that bitch and here's hoping that the dead, demented SOB she used to write for is in whatever passes for hell to a Republican.

I needed that even if you didn't.

Noonan is quick to criticize Edwards about his supposed obsession with his hair but yet mysteriously makes no reference at all to Mitt Romney's Brylcreem head of hair. Perhaps the shine from Romney's hair interfered with Ms. Noonan's ability to think critically and in an objective way.

"We’d like knowledge, judgment, a prudent understanding of the world and of the ways and histories of the men and women in it.” pnoonan

What's this 'we' stuff? Does she have worms? Perhaps Ms Noonan should apply this criterea to the present president, resident. The one she adores. And in so doing, perhaps she will laugh herself silly at the revelation."

Ahem!

"George Bush is a compassionate conservative. He sees the needs other, older conservatives did not always see, or did not always think they must or could address. But he applies conservative solutions to these needs: more freedom, more choice, the inclusion in the public sphere of faith-based approaches. All the money in the world, he knows, cannot and will not turn around a troubled child’s heart. But God can, and his workers are eager. Bush does not fear faith as an opposing power center to the state. He likes it as an opposing power center to the state. After all, faith freed Poland; perhaps it can free a tough 16-year-old in inner-city Detroit too.

Bush is sunny, ingenuous; he assumes good faith. His assumption of good feeling has a way of spreading it. That has been his history, in Texas, and in baseball, and in business. Gore, on the other hand,.."
http://www.peggynoonan.com/article.php?article=289

We are adults Peg. And we see what adults see. You, on the other hand... What is it you see?

Yes, we need another guy who has a profound appreciation for fart jokes.

cheers

If Noonan doesn't like Edwards, then the republicans are afraid of him.

That seals the deal for me, Edwards is the man. He's the only current Dem I wouldn't have to hold my nose to vote for anyway.
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Anyone that doesn't realize there's a class war going on in this country, is probably already dying from methane poisoning.

Accordingly, they should be buried with their heads left stuck up their asses.

patrick @ 35:

other English slang...

You left out bint (a non complimentary term for a woman, from Arabic), slag (slut), slapper (overly made up woman), slap (make up), lippie (lipstick) shufti (Look around, Arabic) , rekkie (look around; Reconnoiter) Butcher's (Have a look, from rhyming slang-butcher's hook)

I have never heard carts/cartso or willets, but bristols (Bristol cities=titties) I don't know where you got most of yours. I am very unfamiliar with most of them...

But 'poof' and 'poofter' are slang in England for gay men and 'poofing about' is a term I've heard to describe guys acting effeminate...maybe she was thinking about Rudy when she was writing about Edwards's hair-I mean if you just have a shufti at the Ghoul when he's been at the slap and over done the lippie, he looks like a right slag, not to mention mutton dressed as lamb (He's dressing too young). It's Rudy the Slapper who comes off as a big girl's blouse...

BTW Peggy, There's a lot of waiting going on during the filming of shit. It's quite possible Edwards was doing the hair thing while waiting on someone else. I guess she never saw all the time 'Creepy' Paul 'Holey Socks' Wolfowitz spent spitting on his comb in Fahrenheit 911.

Sorry for the stream of consciousness post. I got two dogs staring at me and one of them is farting. BAD. My mind was elsewhere.

God forbid we have a president that plays with his hair. After all, we have had a president that sat on his behind paralyzed while the country was being invaded. Or perhaps that same president that looked out the window while he was flown over New Orleans, after Katrina. Or perhaps Noonan is more fond of the president that stood on the floor of the House of Representatives and lied about us being attacked by (some fantasy) nuclear weapons while the world watched. But my favorite is the president that had his administration call everyone with a different opinion a traitor, an appeaser, and other savory labels, then "outed" a CIA agent because her husband disagreed with his false assertions about nukes in Iraq. Bush has the deaths of thousands on his hands and Edwards groomed himself before appearing on camera. Weigh the sin here. Even a mf idiot can see who the president should not have been.

What hypocrisy!

Noonan's critique is dastardly, considering that she did not revel that she has her pubic hair professionally 'Poofed' each week, and back-combs her hirsute ass.

Go Rupert Murdoch's WSJ. I guess holding that giant fundraiser for Hillary wasn't enough for him.

Yes, Noonan, thank the God that no other candidates have hair, or the need to prepare that hair, right? What a tool. As a man with unruly hair (that will surely be gone soon enough) I spit in your general direction. Sure maybe you've never had to deal with this or this, but damn you for mocking the rest of us follicley-challenged people. Funny none of you media jackasses hounded this coke whore playing with his hair, unfortunately, as noted above.

I think Edwards is the best candidate for the job, period. I couldn't care less if he's ugly or boring. Get a life, people. I'm sure Peggy will write in "David Hasselhoff" as Mimbo-in-Chief with perfect hair, but the rest of us can use our brains.

But I wonder if "poofter" is exactly equal to homosexual. I'd say a "poof" in that sense (and not the sense of a fart or fluffing hair) equates to "foppish" or "effeminate" -- a dandy. But then I'm not a subject of the Queen either so I guess I'm wrong. And I don't even think she is smart enough to drag it to the same connotation as Ann Coulters "faggot" statement, she was just looking for something more nefarious than comb, because ultimately clogging the WSJ with endless vomit about a man simply "combing" his hair before being on camera actually sounds as fucking insane as it really is.

Anyway here's the only "citation" I can find. Wonder if it's authenticity will suffice for Glen... :P :

Second Bruce: G'day, Bruce!
First Bruce: Oh, Hello Bruce!
Third Bruce: How are you Bruce?
First Bruce: A bit crook, Bruce.
Second Bruce: Where's Bruce?
First Bruce: He's not 'ere, Bruce.
Third Bruce: Blimey, it's hot in here, Bruce.
First Bruce: Hot enough to boil a monkey's bum!
Second Bruce: That's a strange expression, Bruce.
First Bruce: Well Bruce, I heard the Prime Minister use it. "It's hot enough to boil a monkey's bum in here, your Majesty," he said and she smiled quietly to herself.
Third Bruce: She's a good Sheila Bruce, and not at all stuck up.
Second Bruce: Here! Here's the boss-fellow now! - how are you bruce?

(Enter fourth Bruce with English person, Michael)

Fourth Bruce: 'Ow are you, Bruce?
First Bruce: G'day Bruce!
Fourth Bruce: Bruce.
Second Bruce: Hello Bruce.
Fourth Bruce: Bruce.
Third Bruce: How are you, Bruce?
Fourth Bruce: G'day Bruce.
Fourth Bruce: Gentleman, I'd like to introduce man from Pommeyland who is joinin' us this year in the philosophy department at the University of Walamaloo.
Everybruce: G'day!
Michael: Hello.
Fourth Bruce: Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce. Michael Baldwin, Bruce.
First Bruce: Is your name not Bruce?
Michael: No, it's Michael.
Second Bruce: That's going to cause a little confusion.
Third Bruce: Mind if we call you "Bruce" to keep it clear?
Fourth Bruce: Gentlemen, I think we better start the faculty meeting. Before we start, though, I'd like to ask the padre for a prayer.
First Bruce: Oh Lord, we beseech Thee, Amen!!
Everybruce: Amen!
Fourth Bruce: Crack tubes! (Sound of cans opening) Now I call upon Bruce to officially welcome Mr. Baldwin to the philosophy faculty.
Second Bruce: I'd like to welcome the pommey bastard to God's own Earth, and remind him that we don't like stuck-up sticky-beaks here.
Everybruce: Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce!
Fourth Bruce: Bruce here teaches classical philosophy, Bruce there teaches Haegelian philosophy, and Bruce here teaches logical positivism. And is also in charge of the sheep dip.
Third Bruce: What's New-Bruce going to teach?
Fourth Bruce: New-Bruce will be teaching political science, Machiavelli, Bentham, Locke, Hobbes, Sutcliffe, Bradman, Lindwall, Miller, Hassett, and Benaud.
Second Bruce: Those are all cricketers!
Fourth Bruce: Aww, spit!
Third Bruce: Hails of derisive laughter, Bruce!
Everybruce: Australia, Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you amen!
Fourth Bruce: Crack tube! (Sound of cans opening) Any questions?
Second Bruce: New-Bruce, are you a Poofter?
Fourth Bruce: Are you a Poofter?
Michael: No!
Fourth Bruce: No. Right, I just want to remind you of the faculty rules: Rule One!
Everybruce: No Poofters!
Fourth Bruce: Rule Two, no member of the faculty is to maltreat the Abbos in any way at all -- if there's anybody watching. Rule Three?
Everybruce: No Poofters!!
Fourth Bruce: Rule Four, now this term, I don't want to catch anybody not drinking. Rule Five,
Everybruce: No Poofters!
Fourth Bruce: Rule Six, there is NO ... Rule Six. Rule Seven,
Everybruce: No Poofters!!
Fourth Bruce: Right, that concludes the readin' of the rules, Bruce.
First Bruce: This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.
Everybruce: Amen!

(And now all four Bruces launch into song)

Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable.
Heideggar, Heideggar was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel.
And Whittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel.
There's nothing Nieizsche couldn't teach 'ya 'bout the raising of the wrist.
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed.
John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, after half a pint of shanty was particularly ill.
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whiskey every day!
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle,
And Hobbes was fond of his Dram.
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:
"I drink, therefore I am."
Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed;
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he's pissed.

Monty Python, of course.

Let me get this right, she's criticizing Edwards for his "Populism"?
Since when is being "of the People, by the People and for the People" a bad thing in America?
This country has suffered for so long under the party of the country club. It's high time we had a candidate that was a populist and not a corporate puppet only caring about the "Haves and Have Mores".

conservatives are intimidated by edwards

Blue Buddha @ 33:

Andy K @ 5:

No HRC fan here, but Noonan knocks her as not reasonable because she triangulates? What? Isn't triangulation- searching for the middle ground- kinda the definition of reasonable?

With my engineering background, I think triangulation is when you plot vectors from two distant points and arrive at a third point where they intersect.

Maybe she thinks she's a friggin' cartographer or something.

I mean when used metaphorically to describe a Clinton. Or, I guess, a lot of other politicians.

Lollimom @ 6:

There is nothing--nothing, I tell you--worse than a republican bitch.

You can say that again.

Furthermore, Edward's populism is exactly what this country needs in order to put the fascist pigs like Noonan back under their rocks. That's why they are so afraid of him. Hillary or Obama would have a good shot against the repukes, but Edwards would blow their shit out of the water in a general election, and this bitch knows it!

And after the middle-class is finally declared DOA next year (thanks to all the greed-head bastards in the GOP from Reagan to GW Idiot-boy); there's gonna be a whole-lotta that populism goin on this U.S. of A! Put that in your pipe and smoke it Noons! Edwards means New Deal II, and you are scared shitless.

The american public may have flirted with republicanism for a few years, but they sure didn't like what they got anymore than the folks did 80 years ago. Basically, Robber Baron's II - the sequel.

And your tax scam days of bullshit are over too Ms. Noonan. Bring back them 94% marginal rates, and make them retroactive to 1981! That would be worse than the guilliotine for thieving greedy pricks like Bush, Cheney and Noonan.

The perfect storm of GOP bullshit come-uppance is on the way. Here's to another 60 year cycle of republican pricks looking at a 29% minority status.

the wingnut welfare rolls need to be cut. These mouth-breathers get job after job

Snuffy the Banjo Player @ 37:

hareli @ 27:

Well, my hero Glenn is wrong. "Poofing" is the present participle of poof, which also means to fart. My wife always talks about poofing up her hair, and she says it to me, because she thinks my air needs poofing. [What it needs is a rug.] She said it's a hairdresser term. Noonan was writing to Americans, not Brits. In England, they call cigarettes "fags." So go figure.

Greenwald addresses this in comments.
http://tinyurl.com/243adt

If you're going to argue with GG, you'd better have cites.

Sorry, but he's still wrong. The meaning of words is generally defined by how people use them, not by dictionaries; they usually turn up in dictionaries well after they've become established, and slang or regional terms often never do. This also relates to why you can have people who fully support gay rights and gay marriage using terms like "that's so gay" - it may still be offensive to someone who is gay, but it's not intended that way by the speaker. That's how languages change. Also, it's pretty sad if Greenwald can't come up with better dictionary citations than the two websites listed.

FWIW, in America I've heard "poofing" almost exclusively referring to making big hair, and almost never to mean "gay". Also, in regard to comment 56, "faggy" and "gay" are not the same thing. "Gay" simply means homosexual, while "faggy" means effeminate. I've met gay men who are not faggy and straight men who are. I don't care about someone's sexuality, but I find faggy guys pretty annoying.

She was soooo close. Almost sounded reasonable herself, but couldn't keep the mask on for very long after all. It must have been sufficating her ego.

John Edwards scares the neocons to death with his populist message. He has the same message today that FDR had for millions of Americans in the last Great Depression. Noonan and the rest of the neocons see just like the rest of us, the economic collapse that is coming thanks to the neocons policies of the last 7 years, and the one candidate that terrifies them is the man who is telling the people that they matter, that we don't have to put up with CEO's taking hundreds of millions home in bonuses when they have ruined their businesses and are firing thousands of workers who had nothing to do with the bad decisions that have led to what will be the next Great Depression. John Edwards will bring America back to the people like FDR did, and that has Noonan and the rest of the neocons peeing their pants.

Wealthy Republicans, such as Noonan, always focus on the greater good for themselves and that always comes down to lowering their taxes. National security doesn't even come close to that. Helping the impoverished, the sick, the elderly and the young aren't even listed among their priorities.

To paraphrase my grampa: Iffen the GOP is agin 'im, ah'm fer 'im.

Or, as the Arabs say, "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." While that isn't necessarily true, in this case it is.

If "kinder, gentler" Noonan thinks Edwards is unreasonable, he must have my best interests in mind, and not those of the malefactors of great wealth that she shills for.

'Longwalker
Could someone please answer this question?

Exactly what should President Bush have done when he was first informed of the attack?

In your answer, please consider the Principles of Leadership and Sir Francis Drake’s action upon being told that the Spanish Armada had been sighted.'

I don't know - put down the goat book, politely tell the kids he has business to do and then inform the american people that the government is taking appropriate action? .... and maybe putting the proper number of troops into Afghanistan, securing the border with Pakistan and stabilizing and rebuilding that country rather than attacking a country that posed no real threat and causing a civil war killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. And maybe when natural disasters such as Katrina happen have competent people in place rather than frat boys and have the guard ready instead of halfway around the world. Consider Sir Francis Drake's leadership? He was a mercenary pirate who frequently chose his own interest vs. that of the British Navy - maybe a very apt comparison to Bush.

"Poofing" is too a word, as in the Repub party is going "poof", or the chances of the Repub candidates ever becoming President is going "poof". The Repubs are "poofing".

Noonan:

We the people prefer candidates who give us tax credits on our yachts, who help us buy more tinkly jewelry, and who let us buy more summer vacation homes with our tax credits. Gee, I love speaking for the common people!

Yer all poofs.

Fortunately for Noonan, there are 50 million idiots who will nod their heads in agreement with her warped definition of "reasonableness". They may not like Bush anymore, but they are still moronic twits who will follow pseudo journalists like Noonan to the trough of anti anything Democrat. Hair, gender, skin color, wardrobe. THESE are the true issues of the day for the RW murkins.

Here ya go, Peggy...Bush Primping.

(Was that so hard?)

Noonan believes Edwards's “populism”, is the worst of both worlds, both intemperate and insincere. Where are these worlds, within her head? While I agree he's popular, what makes him unreasonable, intemperate or insincere? Republican party propaganda, that if repeated enough times, people might buy into. And since he was recorded in front of a mirror, we simply can't have him as president...really, watch one of Bush's clips.

Log Cabin @ 63:

I particularly enjoy the TV ads that Edwards is running here in New Hampshire:
"Do you think the drug and oil companies will willingly give up their power? We have to take it from them!"

Karl Marx would be proud.
(No mention of how Edwards would feel about the poor taking his mansions and sizable assets...)

I think Edwards has enough common sense to realize that if something isn't done NOW to restore a semblance of a representative democracy, that is a real possibility. Heads of the wealthy have rolled in the past, as surely as they will in the future... best not to let things get that bad. Cheney and the rest are smart enough to know that, but they choose to build military complexes and hide-outs in Dubai instead of giving at least SOME power back to the people. Not to mention that statement is TRUE. Oil companies continue to get big fat subsidies from taxpayers when they break new record profits EVERY YEAR, and the government is FAR too broke to afford it anyway! That's as anti-social as it gets. They won't change willingly, obviously.

Besides as has been printed ad nauseam, the house is his wife's. If you've been married, you might understand! That's the way it goes... He wanted nothing to do with it, as they've both answered a million times. And honestly, if your wife was dying, would you say no even to a house you thought silly (if you could afford it)? Personally, I don't hate anyone for getting wealthy legally, just for failing to give back. Edwards is offering to give back.

What I think this is really about is pitifully simple. Edwards polls by far the best against ANY Republican candidate. And as the success of Reagan and Romney can attest, Republicans will actually vote based on only appearances. Add to that the fact that the other Dem candidates don't appeal to the sizable bigoted community in the Repubs, and Edwards is a huge danger on appearances alone.

Well, that and at SOME point the NRA rednecks on the right might get a damn brain and stop voting for fascist jerks that despise them and ever libertarian idea they stand for. Bu I think that is still a while off -- I double-dog-dare them to surprise me this election!!

"Also we can’t have a president who spent two minutes on YouTube staring in a mirror and poofing his hair. Really, we just can’t."

The horror! Having a president who flips off anyone who happens to be viewing footage of him on Youtube is acceptable, but primping one's hair is blasphemous you disingenuous c&nt!

hareli @ 27:

Well, my hero Glenn is wrong. "Poofing" is the present participle of poof, which also means to fart. My wife always talks about poofing up her hair, and she says it to me, because she thinks my air needs poofing. [What it needs is a rug.] She said it's a hairdresser term. Noonan was writing to Americans, not Brits. In England, they call cigarettes "fags." So go figure.

I know this is an old topic, but you're absolutely right here. I'm English, and while "poof" is most certainly popular slang for effeminate and homosexual men, nobody has ever used "poofing" in that same context. It clearly describes the motion of lifting something up to give it shape, as one might do with their hair, especially if they were a preening poof like Edwards. The rest of the article is perfectly decent in my eyes, it's only that pointless little mistake at the bottom which makes the author seem petty and childish.

Also, while potentially offensive, "poof" is far from synonymous with "faggot". Jesus christ people, check yourselves before you wreck yourselves.