While my brilliant commentary on this op-ed may lead to you believe that it's all you could possibly need or want to know to fulfill all yearning for knowledge about why Peggy "Batshit" Noonan is Confused, Racist, and Angry, this piece is just so ridic that you should check it out for yourselves. After reading my divinely inspired rant.
First, it instantly becomes clear that Peggy Noonan believes that she is Queen of America, and in a uniquely colonial twist, replaces the use of the royal "we" with the royal "referring to one's self in the name of one's nation." I.e., Peggy Noonan refers to herself as America, and believes she alone really represents it.
B, Peggy Noonan is a neurotic bitch who wishes death on those who are doing their job to make sure that passengers don't meet their deaths via airplane bomb (which is not to say that TSA people aren't heinous bitches themselves, but still).
Roman Numeral III, Peggy Noonan is a racist, class-ist, age-ist bigot. She tells us that it is impossible that anyone who is not phenotypically Arabic Muslim could not possibly be any kind of threat to the safety of other passengers. She believes that "equality" means letting the "middle aged woman" bypass security. This of course also means the middle-class, white woman, by virtue of her soccer mom potential. Though the "vulgar girl on the cell phone" and the "loud ruffian" (ruffian? didn't that word go out of style after the Renaissance?) are also white and therefore non-threats, Noonan doesn't suggest that they should get to skip security--probably their punishment for being not as wealthy as she is.
Additionally, she talks about how no one's watching Wolf Blitzer mumble through his beard about PA, probably because they can hear him talking and who'd want to look at him, anyway? Also, the probably get all of their news from the internet, like everyone else.
Then she goes on for a while about how it's inherently ok to call Obama's patriotism into question, unlike John McCain, because he's black and a liberal and probably for some reason having to do with the fact that his father wasn't born here. And then there's something about how liberals and moderates should listen to her despite her racist, class-ist invective because she doesn't like Bush, either.
I'm filled with hate for the media.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
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Dear Peggy,
By your standards (putting aside the racism that's hidden there), Reverend Jeremiah Wright's patriotism is "[carried] in his bones". Think on that for just a little bit.
love,
Jeremy
I'm not sure how you're coming to the conclusion that Noonan wants the TSA screeners dead. She dislikes their job, but I didn't seen anything about the screeners-as-people.
Also, this comment has triggered a rant of my own, which I will post over at my Livejournal.
@ Humza: "Why don't you stick it up your nose and see if it explodes?"
i.e. death wishing.
Ah, you're quite right. I missed that on my readthrough.
"Another thing: It reduces the status of that ancestral arbiter and leader of society, the middle-aged woman. In the new fairness, she is treated like everyone, without respect, like the loud ruffian and the vulgar girl on the phone. The middle-aged woman is the one spread-eagled over there in the delicate shell beneath the removed jacket, praying nothing on her body goes beep and makes people look."
Things we should learn from this: A) Middle Aged Women are better than everyone else.
B) Middle Aged Women have serious unresolved body issues.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/80931
Someone please enlighten the world as to which orifice this man is speaking from.
From MentalJumpstart's link:
"Coercion does not win friends, and vast power, especially when liberally used, generates counterpower, resentment and resistance. So strength must be tempered by responsibility.
The next occupant of the White House might well remember the golden age of American diplomacy in the second half of the 20th century, when Washington pursued its interests in a host of international institutions—from the United Nations to NATO, from the IMF to the WTO—which were built and maintained by the United States. They all had one common denominator: they served U.S. interests by serving those of others. It was not goodness but prudence that turned overwhelming might into leadership."
I don't see anythin' but sense in those.
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