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, Doug Henwood wrote:
><http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122539802263585317.html>
that *was* a bizarre essay.
^^^^ CB: Well, she's was a Reaganite, but seems to be in transition ( see wikipedia section below) and she's against McCain and really doesn't like Palin (see below). So, she's a rightwinger in flux, maybe that's why she is writing bizarrely. In other words, her substance is strange right now. Bizarre form fits the substance.
Bizarrely again, she was pretty good on "Morning Joe" today, although I guess she was speaking as if wearing a liberal mask or something. She projected a "liberal" future in her little vinette
By the way, The Nation editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel .was great on "Morning Joe" yesterday, she argued with Joe Scarborough at length, and beat him on his own show. He kept saying "Oh , why no criticism of sexism against Palin." Got whiny about it. vanden Heuvel explained why that wasn't the politically correct take. She got in a line about "socialism" is not bad to me; and she quoted Edmund Burke to the "conservative" Joe S. At the end she got in, "I heard some say Palin is a heartdrop". Mika B said "ah another kind of sexism."
Current work Noonan is now an author, a columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and a commentator on news shows. She claims to remain a Reagan-style conservative,[citation needed] but is now called an "MSNBC conservative" and often criticizes the Republican Party.[citation needed] Noonan is a member of the Manhattan Institute's board of trustees.
In mid-August 2004, Noonan took a brief, unpaid leave from the Wall Street Journal to campaign for George W. Bush's reelection. Noonan has become increasingly critical of the Bush administration since Bush's inaugural address in January 2005,[5][6] reflective possibly of schisms affecting the current-day U.S. conservative movement.
Before the Reagan years, she worked as daily CBS Radio commentary writer for anchorman Dan Rather at CBS News, whom she once called "the best boss I ever had." From 1975 through 1977 she worked the overnight shift as a newswriter at WEEI Radio in Boston, where she was later Editorial and Public Affairs Director.
She has worked as a contributor on the hit US political drama The West Wing.
Noonan frequently cites the political figures she admires, including Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke and Samuel D. Jackson
[edit] Criticism of Sarah Palin On an appearance on MSNBC with Mike Murphy on September 3, 2008, Noonan was caught questioning the choice of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate after her mic was accidentally left on.[7] In the conversation she said that "it's over," and "the most qualified? No! I think they [the Republicans] went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives..." This came after an article published earlier that morning in the Wall Street Journal in which she called Palin a "a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy." Later that day, she explained in an addendum to the online version of the column that "It's over" referred not to the McCain campaign, but rather to the time when Republicans could "assume that [their] base is utterly in line with the thinking of the American people". She also apologized for use of the profanity, adding that her skepticism at the McCain campaign's reason for selecting Palin did not mean that Noonan herself opposed Palin.[8][9]
Several weeks later, Noonan wrote a scathing column about Palin's vice presidential candidacy in the Wall Street Journal. In the opinion piece, Noonan expressed her view that Palin does not demonstrate "the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office" and labeled the Republican vice presidential candidate "a follower" and "not a leader."[10] Noonan also criticized Palin's decision to sequester herself from non-partisan media.[10] Noonan concluded by denouncing Palin's candidacy as a "vulgarization in American Politics" that is "no good...for conservatism...[or] the country" and which is a "mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism".[10] To date, Noonan has not publically endorsed either candidate.
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