[lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan: the new dispensation

Peter Ward nevadabob at hotmail.co.uk
Fri Dec 12 14:37:29 PST 2008


I think her fluency comes from an indifference as to whether what she says is true or not.


> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:03:11 -0500
> From: mjs at smithbowen.net
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Peggy Noonan: the new dispensation
>
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Michael Smith
> mjs at smithbowen.net
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
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