Why we like Peggy Noonan
Because she tells it like it is...
Just watch (the voices are Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan) ...
transcript:
Just watch (the voices are Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan) ...
transcript:
Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.
(cut away)
Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
MM: They're all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MM: Yeah.
Labels: 2008 Presidential Election, epic fail, hot mics, john mccain, peggy noonan, sarah palin
Posted by Debbie @ 9/03/2008 03:00:00 PM
21 Comments:
Can there be a rule that Valley Dork must write about at least one OTHER subject before writing again about Barack & his wife Bitter Osleaza.
Sweet Baby Bitter.
The criticism of Palin for not having a passport until she went to the Middle East in 2007 is misguided.
As VP, she will be able to travel without needing a passport.
As we speak, she is being tutored by very knowledgable people on the rest of the United States. She can learn about foreign countries later.
From NY Times,8-29-08
Ms. Palin appears to have traveled very little outside the United States. In July 2007, she had to get a passport before she visited members of the Alaska National Guard stationed in Kuwait, according to her deputy communications director, Sharon Leighow. She also visited wounded troops in Germany during that trip.
She can reference her book about the old Pope now and tell us again about how much telling the truth means to her.
Oh shit, here we go again, is this a competion between Valley Dull and Highby to see who can post the most YouTube videos about their presidential choice. We are alredy know who these two ass clowns are supporting.
There are hundreds of blogs and other news sources far superior to Valley Dull and Higby YouTube presidential debate. The two YouTube Yahoos are getting very boring and repetitive, savvy? Even Don Quixote is starting to look pretty good in comparison, ay dios mio.
Please bring Zuma Dogg back, at least he posted comments relating to L.A. politics on this blog called "Home of Los Angeles Politics"
3:32:
How about we uphold the same for Higby and everyone else?
EPIC FAIL.
xoxo
OMG, Kay Bailey Hutchinson is just a senile old bag! She is one of Bush's old cronies from Texas, and is PRO-illegal immigration!
She has NO personality, and is dumb, dumb, dumb! Send her out to pasture!!!
Funny..my first reaction too was "Gimmick,"
and the more I learn about her, the scarier it gets!!
And she would be a heartbeat away from being president?
A 72 yr old guy with 4 bouts of cancer and a father who died at 69?
Not good odds.
John McCain's presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against the National Enquirer over a print edition story the tabloid ran today alleging that Gov. Sarah Palin has had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner.
The allegation would normally be dismissed by political observers as the random musings of a supermarket tabloid -- indeed, the McCain campaign said as much in its statements on Wednesday -- except that the paper has built up a reservoir of legitimacy following its earlier reporting on the John Edwards affair.
In a statement to the Huffington Post, a spokesman for the paper, who promised a larger report next week, tapped into that pool of quasi-respect.
"The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy.
OK big dilemna here: Sarah Palin's speech runs in the same slot as a new episode of Dog the Bounty Hunter. Which do I Tivo?
Carly Fiorino is a babe! But i really didn't catch the rhythmn to her "I know John McCain" speech. She seemed really pleased when she thought some people did. Fire the speech writer. Hell, kneecap the hack! National airtime doesn't grow on trees..
I do dearly hope Beth Chapman is wearing some hot ensembles tonight!
This has been biff live blogging from ground zero Denver.
Hmm. something seems out of context here. Maybe this will help to clarify.
From Peggy Noonan,
Well, I just got mugged by the nature of modern media, and I wish it weren't my fault, but it is. Readers deserve an explanation, so I'm putting a new top on today's column and, with the forbearance of the Journal, here it is.
Wednesday afternoon, in a live MSNBC television panel hosted by NBC's political analyst Chuck Todd, and along with Republican strategist Mike Murphy, we discussed Sarah Palin's speech this evening to the Republican National Convention. I said she has to tell us in her speech who she is, what she believes, and why she's here. We spoke of Republican charges that the media has been unfair to Mrs. Palin, and I defended the view that while the media should investigate every quote and vote she's made, and look deeply into her career, it has been unjust in its treatment of her family circumstances, and deserved criticism for this.
When the segment was over and MSNBC was in commercial, Todd, Murphy and I continued our conversation, talking about the Palin choice overall. We were speaking informally, with some passion -- and into live mics. An audio tape of that conversation was sent, how or by whom I don't know, onto the internet. And within three hours I was receiving it from friends far and wide, asking me why I thought the McCain campaign is "over", as it says in the transcript of the conversation. Here I must plead some confusion. In our off-air conversation, I got on the subject of the leaders of the Republican party assuming, now, that whatever the base of the Republican party thinks is what America thinks. I made the case that this is no longer true, that party leaders seem to me stuck in the assumptions of 1988 and 1994, the assumptions that reigned when they were young and coming up. "The first lesson they learned is the one they remember," I said to Todd -- and I'm pretty certain that is a direct quote. But, I argued, that's over, those assumptions are yesterday, the party can no longer assume that its base is utterly in line with the thinking of the American people. And when I said, "It's over!" -- and I said it more than once -- that is what I was referring to. I am pretty certain that is exactly what Todd and Murphy understood I was referring to. In the truncated version of the conversation, on the Web, it appears I am saying the McCain campaign is over. I did not say it, and do not think it. In fact, at an on-the-record press symposium on the campaign on Monday, when all of those on the panel were pressed to predict who would win, I said that I didn't know, but that we just might find "This IS a country for old men." That is, McCain may well win. I do not think the campaign is over, I do not think this is settled, and did not suggest, back to the Todd-Murphy conversation, that "It's over."
However, I did say two things that I haven't said in public, either in speaking or in my writing. One is a vulgar epithet that I wish I could blame on the mood of the moment but cannot. No one else, to my memory, swore. I just blurted. The other, more seriously, is a real criticism that I had not previously made, but only because I hadn't thought of it. And it is connected to a thought I had this morning, Wednesday morning, and wrote to a friend. Here it is. Early this morning I saw Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, and as we chatted about the McCain campaign (she thoughtfully and supportively) I looked into her eyes and thought, Why not her? Had she been vetted for the vice presidency, and how did it come about that it was the less experienced Mrs. Palin who was chosen? I didn't ask these questions or mention them, I just thought them. Later in the morning, still pondering this, I thought of something that had happened exactly 20 years before. It was just after the 1988 Republican convention ended. I was on the plane, as a speechwriter, that took Republican presidential nominee George H.W. Bush, and the new vice presidential nominee, Dan Quayle, from New Orleans, the site of the convention, to Indiana. Sitting next to Mr. Quayle was the other senator from that state, Richard Lugar. As we chatted, I thought, "Why him and not him?" Why Mr. Quayle as the choice, and not the more experienced Mr. Lugar? I came to think, in following years, that some of the reason came down to what is now called The Narrative. The story the campaign wishes to tell about itself, and communicate to others. I don't like the idea of The Narrative. I think it is ... a barnyard epithet. And, oddly enough, it is something that Republicans are not very good at, because it's not where they live, it's not what they're about, it's too fancy. To the extent the McCain campaign was thinking in these terms, I don't like that either. I do like Mrs. Palin, because I like the things she espouses. And because, frankly, I met her once and liked her. I suspect, as I say further in here, that her candidacy will be either dramatically successful or a dramatically not; it won't be something in between.
But, bottom line, I am certainly sorry I blurted my barnyard ephithet, I am certainly sorry that someone abused my meaning in the use of the words, "It's over", and I'm sorry I didn't have the Kay Baily Hutchison thought before this morning, because I could have written of it. There. Now: onto today's column.
...only the facts and the proper context matters.
Valley Doll, I don't think anyone was prepared for the Sarah Palin Show going down.
Peggy Noonan who is from the Ronald Reagan/ George Bush Sr Republican old school, of country club golf schmoozing and private school cotillion dances and horse shows and the racing season at Saratoga is totally freaked out with the Palin show and the Jerry Springer drama she seems to bring to the dance.
I hope she(Palin),knew what she and her family were getting into.
The poor daughter and her young naive boyfriend ought to be wearing hardhats, and the paparazzi and the Inquirers of the world are having a field day with the continuing drama of Sarah "the barracuda" Palin.
And the Neocons can scream about "liberal media bias" all they want but it's now way more than that. I'm reading today that Palin supposedly had an extramarital affair and that the "boy toy", has for a price, told his story to the Enquirer, whom have gained some stature lately due to the "Edwards affair" that they scooped everybody on.
Ouch! Oh well, if things don't work out for Palin in politics she definitely has a career in TV as maybe the host of Entertainment Tonight or "The Sarah Palin Show" .
My loveable, huggable Red Spot said (seriously, he gives good hugs): ...only the facts and the proper context matters.
Talk about trying to save face! I've got to hand it to her... that Peggy... she is the QUEEN of spin! Hotdamn I like her.
Maximum respect!
xoxo
Captain Jack Sparrow's mother-In-Law says:
Good evening Ladies and Gents (picks nose and flicks it to the breeze),
All this blimey talk about Mrs Palin is spinning my head (takes off bonnet and turns head completely around exorcist style). You are right, Jackie Boy, they are a bit like the House of Lords (refers to prior post). Let the Americans fight this one out. After all, they got themselves into this, savvy? (Puts bonnet back on and strokes two inch long chin hairs). If we must make comments from the outside looking in (takes long drag from European fag), let it be the ladies. It takes one to know one, right-tee-oo?(exhales towards the heavens) I say that to you too Higgie-Boy. (grins and winks)
Perhaps Valley Doll and Missie Laws can duke it out in one of those American mud arenas.(grabs hankie, puts over mouth and giggles, then coughs up some phlegm)
Oh dear CJ, I forgot to ask you if you would come back and finish scrubbing the laboratory receptacle. It appears that someone spent a wee bit o' time on it while smoking their pipe. Would that be you my dear? (sighs, ponders and shakes head) I realize a retired Captain makes hardly a pittance, but you must not take such long breaks on my watch now.(raises finger and wags it)
Do not forget that I expect tea and crumpets at 4.(tilts head forward, raises hands in front of left shoulder and claps twice, quickly) I left a smock for you in the pantry.
Cheerio -
(bends over and moons)
Mumsy-Wumsy
Well V.D. was proven wrong by the great speech Sarah gave tonight. And I must say the best argument to vote against Obama is that no one, not even Biden can point to a single piece of significant legislation that he has authored. Or a significant hearing he has chaired, even when he was a state senator. He is the ultimate definition of an empty suit.
His biggest accomplishment is being nominated. And, he was nominated because even Democrats could no longer take the mendacity of the Clintons. He was the most articulate un-Clinton in the Democratic race for President.
Obama's ideas are the same ideas Fritz Mondale had 24 years ago. They were wrong then and they are wrong know. More government is not the solution it is the problem. More taxes is not the solution. He says he is going to cut taxes on 95% of the people, well that is only true because he is going to give some one time tax rebates and incentives after that watch out for your wallet.
Having Government even more involved in healthcare is a crappy idea, just ask anyone who lives in Canada and has to wait for a simple operation.
V.D. just imagine that the same government that gave you bad zoning in LA is in charge of healthcare. I would not trust politicians or government workers to look out for my best interests in healthcare. I want to have choices in healthcare, I don't trust government telling me what medical plan I need to buy.
Here's some trivia for you:
What local pol went to school with Peggy Noonan?
He's an MS reader, maybe he will share his thoughts.
It's not often that we get to know what the spin doctors really think about a situation. They're so involved in trying to dish us BS.
Except when they find themselves to each other not knowing that the microphones are still on.
It was refreshing to have it happen now.
8:49 that was hil-air! Mud wrestling for Obama? Dude, I'm totally down! Set it up!!
xoxo
Captain Jack Sparrow's Mother in Law says:
Good Evening Ladies and Gents,
(removes bedtime bonnet)
That's Jolly Good Lady Doll. We must first hear from Missie Laws to see if she is on. (raises hand and touches back of ear) If she says yes, then perhaps one of our American States' blogging chaps could arrange it. (smiles while lighting a fag prior to a morning tea while overlooking the estuary from a high rise flat).
Higgie Boy, perhaps you can arrange this. (pulls out tissue from between breasts and lifts to nose). Higgie Boy? (honking sounds from behind the tissue)
CJ, remember to pick up the some sausage. My daughter and I would like bangers and mash for lunch (puts tissue back between breasts). We like our sausage minced.(snickers)
Have a smashing day. (turns towards door as kettle whistles)
Mumsy Wumsy
"Westside White Guy" and the "Valley Doll" break the bread on the Noonan quotes.
FROM "WWG"
Los Angeles-based Republican consultant Mike Murphy calls the choice of Sarah Palin "cynical" and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan says the neophyte's pick means the "race is over." They had finished speaking more carefully on MSNBC and didn't realize their microphones were still live. The audio is on YouTube; I found it via Top of the Ticket. Murphy has worked for McCain and Mitt Romney, among others.
....a presumptive match in a collective cyber heaven.
I'd love to be a fly on the curtain of dq's voting booth come Nov. You can be assured for all his sweet talk the old racist, black-hating chicano is going to vote for anybody but the mayate. Don Q is a fluid individual who can morph into whatever form or attitude that garners favor from anyone. He's hopelessly crippled by low self-esteem, and self-loathing. If he isn't he should BE!
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