Surprise: Peggy Noonan not sure who she’s voting for
posted at 7:45 pm on October 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Fittingly, the news is broken on a show hosted by the second-most fatuous suck-upper on MSNBC. Even if you buy her explanation for the infamous open mic mishap before Palin’s speech (also on MSNBC, coincidentally), this won’t come as a shock to anyone who reads her regularly. She’s a speechwriter and The One gives a good speech, or so I’m assured. That alone was probably enough to earn him a second look.
I do think she’s right, though, that the Ayers attacks aren’t going anywhere unless/until the economy is off the front page, which it won’t be before the election. But then, you already knew that.
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What a jerk!!!
thmcbb on October 6, 2008 at 7:47 PM
Pompous, preening, old douchebag.
ManlyRash on October 6, 2008 at 7:48 PM
With friends like these…
Cardiganfox on October 6, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Dear Ms. Noonan,
You are cordially invited to join us over here in the Discredited and Disgraced Former Conservative Girls Club.
Sincerely,
Linda Chavez and Kathleen Parker
thirteen28 on October 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Does it seem like MSNBC goes out of its way to hire faux or otherwise loony ‘conservatives’? Look at Buchanan. What normal conservative is like that?
BadgerHawk on October 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM
How can seemingly intelligent people even consider Obama as presidential material?
NoamSayin on October 6, 2008 at 7:49 PM
look at the title… THE POLITICS OF DISTRACTION
because, yknow, pointing out the democrats explicit role in this crisis, or point out obama’s judgement vis a vis ayers wright or rezko is “DISTRACTING” us from focusing on what chris matthews thinks helps out his guy, i.e. the bad day on wall street (even though the dow grew 450 points after faling800 oh well!_)
battleoflepanto1571 on October 6, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Isn’t it interesting that Peggy is on TV so much lately. She was not on TV this much during past election years.
Anyway, Peggy has as much credibility as Dick Morris.
Elizabetty on October 6, 2008 at 7:50 PM
Who freaking cares who Peggy Noonan votes for? She’s in her proper place now at MSNBC . . . perhaps she and numb nuts Matthews can generate the same “tingle” in their legs.
rplat on October 6, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Obama’s campaign is all hummina hummina hummina about it today, though. So he doesn’t like it, which is good.
Hitting him on 2 fronts is a good idea. If McCain didn’t start up with the FMFM stuff today, then i’d be more worried about him talking about it.
If it’s just part of the bigger scheme, then I’m cool with it.
Let’s all hope that Mccain, on FMFM isn’t a one speech thing, like last time.
lorien1973 on October 6, 2008 at 7:51 PM
Aside:
Why aren’t people talking about the fact that as Obama RAISES in the Polls the DOW is tanking?
There appears to be a direct cause and effect and yet nobody is talking about that.
Elizabetty on October 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM
I have just about had it with Wine and Cheese conservatives. They are not rooted in our issues. They are only rooted in themselves.
Peggy, I hope you like your ride on the bandwagon. Just don’t come back.
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM
She doesn’t want to burn any bridges and make herself available for either administration. Pretty sleazy and gutless if you ask me but I suppose she has to look out for number one.
darwin on October 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Hannity did today on his show.
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM
After Peggy’s open-mike snafu and her bull$hit explanation thereof (which revealed her for the phony she is), I’d say even Toesucker has more credibility than her.
thirteen28 on October 6, 2008 at 7:53 PM
Peggy, might I remind you:
HARRY REID + Nancy Pelosi + a ZERO = Disaster
originalpechanga on October 6, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Oh please, leave Peggy alone… she was right in her off the cuff remarks that this Team blows at what they tried to do with Palin… if they were smart they would have adjusted the policy and message t…
Nah, you keep twisting the knife… if you let go you might not get it back… the best way to push a narrative with low-info voters is just to put up two contrasting statements or actions done by a politician… it shouldn’t be the main thing talked about now though…
I would love to see a pivot off of Obama’s conference after 9/11 with Ayer’s(”Intellectuals in Times of Crisis“)… contrast that with Obama’s statements that he never really exchanged ideas with Ayers(ABC debate), contrast it with Obama’s characterization that McCain act erratic in Crisis, contrast it with Obama’s feckleness in trying to prevent the crisis.
You kill about 5 memes with that…
ninjapirate on October 6, 2008 at 7:55 PM
20% – Insane ideologues and cynical manipulators
20% – Poorly educated rank-and-file Democrats/useful idiots
10% – True Idjit voters who only watch the networks and Comedy Central for their news
5% – Paulnuts and various insane “Republicans”
McCain’s task is to make the vital 10% Idjit segment realize that Obama is evil personified. Hence today’s full-out assault.
ManlyRash on October 6, 2008 at 7:55 PM
No surprise at all. She’s not exactly been preaching the virtues of Conservatism for some time now.
I always liked her writing, though. It had a certain flair.
There are still flashes of the old Peggy every now and then, but now she mostly speaks in parables as she gazes at the horizon waiting for Reagan to appear.
BacaDog on October 6, 2008 at 7:56 PM
originalpechanga on October 6, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Do you think she really gives a damn? She looks ready for a grave.
Cardiganfox on October 6, 2008 at 7:56 PM
It IS a class war and Peggy is just sticking with her class.
Kasper Hauser on October 6, 2008 at 7:56 PM
Airheadana Bluffington, CEO.
jgapinoy on October 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Peggy Noonan’s inane babble ruined my breakfast Sunday morning.
Her stance that we must keep things civil & play nice, while the Dems call us everything from racists to warmongers, makes me sick.
Peggy, if you really can’t decide between a war hero who is as bipartisan as any Senator in U.S. history & an ultra-liberal with extremely radical associations, then STOP CALLING YOURSELF A CONSERVATIVE.
Go join the libs and please, begone from this Sunday morning shows who bring you on as a “conservative voice”.
bigred on October 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM
Like that little added touch there Allah. Getting a little annoyed are you? You’ve started to get slightly sadistic. But I’m grateful it displays where I’m going on the bottom of my screen. That way I don’t actually have to read the dumba$$ wise-cracking links.
Sultry Beauty on October 6, 2008 at 7:57 PM
We need to organize. We need a grass roots movement to put the media out of business.
Boycott them all. Nothing. They get not a red cent out of me unless they are a movie like AMerican Carol or Fireproof. I will buy no GE product as long as MSNBC exists. I will not watch their news or their programming. I will replace MS Window (Vista-crap) on my computer with Ubuntu and never buy another MS product. Let them pay the price for their convictions.
Seriously!
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Noonan used to be a speechwriter for Ronald Reagan. Too bad she also contracted Alzheimer’s disease, just like the poor old Gipper.
Steve Z on October 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Sad when I’m pretty sure who Bill and Hillary Clinton are pulling the lever for, and Peggy Noonan and Kathleen Parker, too. That’s 2 for the liberal, 2 for the conservative….not necessarily in that order.
Marcus on October 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Oh please. MSNBC only hires commentators that thy can be assured will side 75% of the time with whichever asswi8e is interviewing them. Peggy Noonan is an old sea hag that is searching for validation in her “later years”. What I find VERY hypocritical is her supposed very strong, Catholic faith could allow her to vote for an infanticide candidate.
anniekc on October 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Is anyone all that surprised? Peggy used to be the “pretty one”, and like a couple of other conservative female commenters that come to mind, I think she feels replaced. These women think they’re smarter than Palin is, and it annoys them that conservatives have fallen in love with the governor.
Not a good reason to vote for a guy endorsed by the CPUSA, but I suppose for some people, it’s their whole damned world.
Good riddance, Peggy. Go ahead and do it. Only you will have to live with yourself afterwards.
capitalist piglet on October 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Wow, I forgot about that ‘open mic’ thing…
Maybe she’s going Huffington…literally…
She sees some angle to get some cash without really having to do anything and whamo!! Instant Progressive!!!!
BigWyo on October 6, 2008 at 7:59 PM
Surprise: Peggy Noonan is sure that she wants to keep getting a paycheck from a verifiable Obarfo-supporting network.
She is just fine as the quaint but slightly deluded conservative who is ready to hack Republicans, but if she were to stray and criticize the Super Messiah….out the door, lady!
Bishop on October 6, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Proof that Palin Derangement Syndrome is not restricted to Liberals.
EMD on October 6, 2008 at 8:00 PM
you forgot heather macdonald
funky chicken on October 6, 2008 at 8:00 PM
I don’t want to see republican next to her name…ever. She is a disgrace to the party. Let her sip tea with the Upper West Side crowd. I can’t stand her.
You can see her snobbery when she looks down to try to be poetic in her answers. BLAH. I can’t believe she went to my university.
jencab on October 6, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Peggy Noonan is a slut. When being a conservative gets her what she wants and needs, she is a conservative. But when a girl needs a new style, well that whole principle thing just goes right out the window.
Terrye on October 6, 2008 at 8:01 PM
Peggy Noonan is the Martha Stewart of politics
red131 on October 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM
Betcha if McCain promised her the head speechwriter’s job, she’d decide real quick. It’s tough gettin’ old.
a capella on October 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM
day after day… drip drip drip… keep it fresh… if you want to do character attacks you need to show disunity in their narrative…
BTW, they need to pivot off Ayers the terrorist and call him the radical that he still is… don’t let Obama brush this off with the 30 years ago crap…
ninjapirate on October 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM
I actually watch network news for comic relief.
BacaDog on October 6, 2008 at 8:02 PM
You have to be brain dead to be at this point and not know who you are going to vote for. She is either a liar or an idiot. Maybe both.
Star20 on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Hey, Mathews just called her on of the greatest columnists of our time, she has it made! the MSM is starting to love her, that’s worth something!
neuquenguy on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Well, sure the Obamassiah got the enthusiastic endorsement of the Communist Party of the USA. But at least he went to TWO, count ‘em TWO Ivy League universities.
Don’t you know that McCain and Palin never even went to a single ONE?
ZOMG the world might end if they became POTUS and VPOTUS.
funky chicken on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Hey Peggy, the Georgetown cocktail circuit is missing a clown. Head on back to the vodka spritzers, drop some f-bombs and keep the laughs going for your leftist betters.
spmat on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
McCain should promise her the head speechwriter’s job…
ninjapirate on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Besides, if ol’ Peggy had declared that she were voting Mccain, she would not have been on the show.
“Sorry Peg, you’ve been scratched from today’s show, we found another ‘conservative’ who will happily follow the company line.”
Bishop on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
She also used to be an admirer of John Paul II. How about a one-way ticket to Rome, so she can get some catechism from Pope Benedict?
Steve Z on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
neuquenguy on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
but does she make his leg tingle?
red131 on October 6, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Oh shut up…
ninjapirate on October 6, 2008 at 8:04 PM
Oh, and I’m sure Peggy and her elitist friends are just grossed out that McCain and Palin both have sons who are ENLISTED troops. JUNIOR ENLISTED troops.
The absolute horror of it all….not their kind of people.
funky chicken on October 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM
I’m really sick of her.
CP on October 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Allah, I really wish you guys would stop making us watch videos of Mathews or The View, my stomach has lost all continence lately.
neuquenguy on October 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Hey, Mathews just called her on of the greatest columnists of our time, she has it made! the MSM is starting to love her, that’s worth something!
neuquenguy on October 6, 2008 at 8:03 PM
Of course, and if Obacon gets elected, come January Peggy will discover that her services are no longer desired and the contract canceled.
Bishop on October 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM
She and Laura I. are great friends and Peggy was on her show today. Laura called her on the carpet and told her that she sounded like a Democrat now. She is.
Noonan has swallowed Obama drink.
carbon_footprint on October 6, 2008 at 8:05 PM
Thinking it through! This is what bothers me about this election. We have two candidates who are extremely different and people haven’t made up there minds yet. The polls swing wildly day to day. who are all these people who keep changing their minds? Reminds me of the old Maxx Headroom TV show.
Tommy_G on October 6, 2008 at 8:06 PM
Oh please. I have a bottle of insulin in my fridge just in case I accidentally click on a link leading to something she wrote.
Sometimes, if I run out of syrup, I crumble up her column and put it on pancakes.
capitalist piglet on October 6, 2008 at 8:06 PM
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funky chicken on October 6, 2008 at 8:07 PM
For the Idjits, it is their only souce of information. They don’t even read newspapers, and those who go on the internet do so either to retrieve e-mail, cruise for porn or check into their Facebook accounts. No small wonder that most of them never heard of Wright, Ayers or Rezko.
ManlyRash on October 6, 2008 at 8:07 PM
Noonan went off the rails few years ago. It was sad but, after Ariana Huffington, nothing surprises me anymore.
29Victor on October 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Take it easy on Peg… as these folks lose their appeal to the market, they have to go to work for lesser media outlets and they have to protect their contracts. Besides… she doesn’t want to chance getting on Keith’s bad side or, as Abrams demostrated, her days are over.
CC
CapedConservative on October 6, 2008 at 8:08 PM
Disturbing image.
ManlyRash on October 6, 2008 at 8:09 PM
I think, baring an exceptional talent for mental concentration and logical thinking, that some people obviously have, living and mingling in Manhattan for too long is just plain damaging to your mental health. Peggy is not one of the strong ones unfortunately. She needs to be more like Lucianne, for example. :)
RBMN on October 6, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Chris Matthews is such a pantload.
In two sentences he breaks down the entire Republican strategy puts the lefty blog spin on it.
29Victor on October 6, 2008 at 8:10 PM
La Noonan is non compos mentis. Take this as the cautionary tale that it is Mr Pundit and remove yourself from the toxic environs of NYC while there is yet time. Surely the effluent of that cesspool will corrode your mind as it has our unfortunate heroin.
FredCDobbs on October 6, 2008 at 8:10 PM
lol
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:10 PM
Burn the witch!
e-pirate on October 6, 2008 at 8:10 PM
For what it’s worth Mzz Noonan, the hawkster got his PA absentee ballot tonight and I’m going to sit here and cancel out one Obama vote in Philly as I drink a beer. I knowz who I’m votin fer.
Cheers!!!
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:13 PM
How do you know she is a witch?
29Victor on October 6, 2008 at 8:14 PM
The problem is that she is staged as a conservative for the regular joe and Jane, much like David Brooks. So when she says stupid stuff it gives the air of being balanced when she is on thesee show. I saw her on Meet The press with Brokaw.
So when an actual Conservative talks they are labled extremist.
kangjie on October 6, 2008 at 8:14 PM
Because…she’s…made of wood?
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM
CBS has Obama dropping,, new poll has him up only by 3 with likely voters.
Denver Post has Colorado dead even,,
44-44 with 8% undecided.
Headline: “Colorado poll shows dead heat, Obama drops, McCain jumps…”
JellyToast on October 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM
here’s the link for poll
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099035/posts
JellyToast on October 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM
Because…she’s…made of wood?
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:15 PM
So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
29Victor on October 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM
WHAAAT???
Peggy you need to stop sucking up to those libs.
I will never read another word that woman writes.
lisalj on October 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM
She also used to be an admirer of John Paul II. How about a one-way ticket to Rome, so she can get some catechism from Pope Benedict?
John McCain said life begins at conception. Barry says it’s OK to let a newborn baby die. According to Benedict XVI, what’s there to think about?
Steve Z on October 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM
Maybe they put something in the water in the MSNBC green room. I really can’t think of a single policy Obama supports that Reagan would. What next, Peggy? Is there a secret affair with Castro LURKING in your past? It would make about as much sense as having a hard time deciding for whom to vote this year. Peggy, Obama is blame-America first SOCIALIST!
But hey, who cares, huh? Peggy just might become the msm’s favorite columnist in the (please God, don’t let it happen) AGE OF OBAMA. How do you spell sellout? P-E-G-G-Y.
nocomme1 on October 6, 2008 at 8:21 PM
Well, that is an inelegant way to put it, but the idea is on target. What else would you call some one that sells their ideology down the river for monetary gain? I’m not saying that’s what’s going on with Noonan, but I wouldn’t rule it out.
Huffington on the other hand…pure Political Whore….
BigWyo on October 6, 2008 at 8:21 PM
She was a speechwriter. I don’t think she is used much or at all anymore, which maybe why she is so bitter. Anyway, I just got over not being overwhelmed by nausea every time I read or hear her name. I just think she’s pathetic.
Blake on October 6, 2008 at 8:23 PM
This issue alone is sufficient cause for a thinking conservative NEVER even considering voting for Obama. How can Peggy be “thinking it through”? she is smarter than that, giving her the benefit of the doubt, perhaps she is trying to appear “objective” to the viewers.
neuquenguy on October 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM
The force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.
Spirit of 1776 on October 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM
Oh, I agree. She’s a whore! The woman was caught on tape saying one thing and then the opposite when she thought no one was listening. She knows she’s been out of the conservative loop for years now, so, she’s looking for power where every she can find it. Boy, is she in for a surprise when she finds the moonbats won’t want her. And she is not going to be welcomed back on the right.
Blake on October 6, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Or it could just be what it sounds like? What they all sound like. Folks who think they see the writing on the wall and are getting while the gettings good.
“Whaa? Me,…Conservative? Huhh? Look at my articles”
We don’t need them. We need a solid base.
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:27 PM
Fortunata on October 6, 2008 at 8:27 PM
she sucks
Roger Waters on October 6, 2008 at 8:29 PM
ehhh…. she’s beyond irrelevence and it’s obvious because she is hobnobbing with the likes of the MSNBC irrelevent news has beens.
harumpf
tru2tx on October 6, 2008 at 8:29 PM
Rush, unabashedly bombastic and conservative. My favorite freaking combination.
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:29 PM
She is soooooooooooooooooooooo overrated as a writer. You can just feel her “I’m smarter than you” come through her laboured, boring sentences
Roger Waters on October 6, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Whew, thanks Rog, I just thought I was stupid.
hawkdriver on October 6, 2008 at 8:33 PM
She says, “I’m thinking it through”. There’s nothing to think about. You are either pro-socialist or Pro-American. If you have to think about it, you are a socialist. You’ll know if you’re Pro-American.
Guardian on October 6, 2008 at 8:36 PM
Peggy is a classic example of someone who’s been in the political punditry game too long. She needs to go on one of those ridiculous reality shows where she’s forced to live in Alabama for a year or something.
Jim-Rose on October 6, 2008 at 8:38 PM
Other than Peggy Noonan, who cares what Peggy Noonan thinks or does?
Peggy sweatheart just go vote, do whatever it is you are going to do and then shut up.
johnsteele on October 6, 2008 at 8:40 PM
Is anyone really surprised when a Washington Republican stabs us in the back?
mtbunji on October 6, 2008 at 8:41 PM
What would be said if McCain had befriended an abortion clinic bomber from days gone by?
mylegsareswollen on October 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Noonan?
Thinking?
Feh.
drjohn on October 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Noonan = Gergen = Parker = Hagel = not a real Republican or conservative
W seems to have had several of these fake Republicans on his staff: Noonan, Fat Boy Press Secretary, etc.
Laddy on October 6, 2008 at 8:42 PM
I don’t live in Alabama, but what’s wrong with Alabama?
johnsteele on October 6, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Because she floats. Like very small rocks.
Guardian on October 6, 2008 at 8:43 PM
When will Peggy Noonan just GO AWAY! Nobody on the Right gives a rat’s ass about her addled opinions.
Cicero43 on October 6, 2008 at 8:44 PM
Baroness Noonan knows who caviars her crackers. She’s got her deck chair, blankie and muffler reserved on the cruise ship next to her elite liberal friends who paid her ticket and meals, and she knows she’ll get a spot in the life boat, so it matters not to her who will captain the ship.
Dusty on October 6, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Foul old elitist bitch.
peacenprosperity on October 6, 2008 at 8:46 PM
For elitist, elitism is more important than party identification.
TheBigOldDog on October 6, 2008 at 8:49 PM
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