Sully, 58, Air Force Academy ‘73, was shaped and formed by the old America, and educated in an ethos in which a certain style of manhood—of personhood—was held high.
What we fear we’re making more of these days is Nadya Suleman. The dizzy, selfish, self-dramatizing 33-year-old mother who had six small children and then a week ago eight more because, well, she always wanted a big family. “Suley” doubletalks with the best of them, she doubletalks with profound ease. She is like Blago without the charm. She had needs and took proactive steps to meet them, and those who don’t approve are limited, which must be sad for them. She leaves anchorwomen slack-jawed: How do you rough up a woman who’s still lactating?
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I’m not particularly interested in anything that has to do with that mother, so I skipped Peggy’s metaphor. As for the rest of the article — Yes, its sad that every business ever can’t stay in business forever. These things happen. However, another business will eventually take that business’s place, and it hire those people who were laid off. If we don’t want to deal with the negative aspects of a market economy, then what the hell are we doing here?
jimmy the notable on February 13, 2009 at 8:08 AM
Shame that this honorable man has to have his name even mentioned in this piece. He was just doing his job, not asking to have his character compared to that of a publicity-seeker’s.
misslizzi on February 13, 2009 at 8:17 AM
On Tuesday I heard an interview with a guy who owns three boutique kitchen stores (maybe in New York or Boston.. I didn’t catch the location, but it sounded like it was the Northeast). He was $70K behind in rent at one store, and his landlord was suing him. He was mad b/c he offered to close down the store and pay the back rent in exchange for the landlord dropping claim to the rest of his 3-year lease, but the landlord was taking him to court for the full amount anyway.
He said that he used to be able to stock whatever and people would buy it, but now nobody was buying anything. As an example, he said he sold $40 switchplate covers. WTF? $40 switchplate covers? I lost most of my sympathy when I heard that.. what a phenomenal waste of money. This is America, sell whatever you want, but you can’t expect the same business model to work in both good and bad economies.
vermillionsky on February 13, 2009 at 8:25 AM
I think what she really wanted to do was contrast Sully and Geithner, but she couldn’t do that so she dropped in the Octomom.
As for the rest of it, it is so much blather. Peg’s little world is falling apart.
Hey Peg — curl up and read “House of Mirth” and you’ll feel better.
BigD on February 13, 2009 at 8:26 AM
Seems to me the interesting part of her article was the first nine or ten paragraphs of Manhattanites realizing yes, we have jumped feet first into socialism. So the seventy dollar bottles of wine aren’t moving off the shelves? Well it’s not fair to have both seventy dollar bottles of wine and fifteen dollar ones.
Marcus on February 13, 2009 at 8:27 AM
How repugnant, to compare heroic, stoic Sully with that grifting pig.
petefrt on February 13, 2009 at 8:40 AM
Correction: Noonan contrasts, not compares. But even by way of contrast, still it’s repugnant to hear their names said in the same breath.
petefrt on February 13, 2009 at 8:42 AM
It’s striking, really, how Noonan could write this and not know how absurdly simple it is to flip it to Sully versus Barama. Old America, which she counterintuitively claims to understand and embrace, versus HopeandChange and a President that is so hilariously unqualified, inexperienced and over his head that if he were the pilot of that airplane they’d all be dead, along with several hundred New Yorkers who were just minding their own business.
Did you seriously want to play the metaphor game, Nooner, you drunken nitwit?
Jaibones on February 13, 2009 at 8:43 AM
Good one, Jaibones. I was so p.o.’d about Sully and Suley in the same article I completely missed the significance of Noonan not using the more obvious metaphor. Stupid times breed stupid minds, I guess. I’ll have to become more deliberately mindful.
zeebeach on February 13, 2009 at 9:13 AM
Peggy, just go turn on the gas in your oven (sans flame) and insert your head! Your own personal torment will cease and us rubes in middle America won’t miss a beat as we bitterly cling…
sabbott on February 13, 2009 at 9:15 AM
More blather from Peg. 3 martinis and a dictaphone.
Do not hit link.
james23 on February 13, 2009 at 9:20 AM
[Jaibones on February 13, 2009 at 8:43 AM]
Not to mention Obama birthing a stimulus program with a horde of infantile programs that will cost him next to nothing and taxpayers their prosperity and future. (Reid and Pelosi are the obstetricians, BTW.)
But what I find objectionable about Noonan’s article, is that she is so myopic historically.
Sure, like the seasons, the social weather changes some, and, like daily temperatures, we have some odd extremes of personal conduct, but this era is, on the whole, not much different than the others.
The only exception I see is that we’ve globalized the happenings of the world and cast it as a reflection of our own little neighborhoods … which I suppose isn’t much different than before, either.
Dusty on February 13, 2009 at 9:24 AM
What is the point of an article like this? Did Peggy think we weren’t all demoralized enough by recent events? I have a vivid image of her wringing her hands as she writes these things- Not helping, Peg!
anniekc on February 13, 2009 at 9:38 AM
This probably explains a lot of Peggy’s columns during the past election cycle — or at least where she got the fuel before writing a lot of her columns in the past election cycle.
jon1979 on February 13, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Hey Peggy you want to know why their fewer Sully’s and more Suley’s? The answer is you. Your effete Oh-so-hip urbane world weary cynicism, that pathological need you and your ilk has to destroy at all costs anyone who excels, that compulsion that has denigrated heroic actions, while exalting the abnormal, the decadent, and the obscene for the last 30 or so years has worked.
LincolntheHun on February 13, 2009 at 10:30 AM
What a lame hook. P-K-B, Nooner.
Blake on February 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Pound sand, Peggy. I don’t give a damn what you have to say anymore.
spmat on February 13, 2009 at 12:00 PM