[lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan: the new dispensation

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Fri Dec 12 14:03:11 PST 2008


On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:27:16 -0500 Doug Henwood <DHENWOOD at panix.com> wrote:


> <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122903389043599605.html>
>
> I am not including our newly famous Blago. Rarely has there been such
> a case in which the sin is perfectly represented by the physical
> presence of the sinner. I had never seen him until the news this week,
> and there he was, a lipless, dull-featured, wig-wearing moron with a
> foul-mouthed harridan of a wife.

Man oh man, can that girl write. Not an idea in her lovely head, of course, but still, I wish she was on our side. We already have plenty of people without an idea in their head, so one extra wouldn't hurt; and it would be a lot more fun reading Peggy than some of our more voluble un-idea'd comrades whose abundant prose goes down like barbed wire alla Bolognese.

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