[lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan: the new dispensation

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Dec 12 14:16:15 PST 2008


On Dec 12, 2008, at 5:03 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


> 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.

Glad that I'm not the only fan.


> 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.

Do those sorts eat meat?

Doug



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