What Peggy Noonan Wrote This Morning -- Before Her 'Live Mic' Disaster

Talk about flip flops! By now you have no doubt caught up with the Peggy Noonan (and Mike Murphy) "open mic" problem at MSNBC today, in which Noonan referred to the "bullshit" narrative around Palin.

Well, here's some of what she wrote just this morning at the Wall Street Journal's online site.

"Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy."

"She could become a transformative political presence."

And more:

I'll tell you how powerful Mrs. Palin already is: she reignited the culture wars just by showing up. She scrambled the battle lines, too. The crustiest old Republican men are shouting "Sexism!" when she's slammed. Pro-woman Democrats are saying she must be a bad mother to be all ambitious with kids in the house....

I''m bumping into a lot of critics who do not buy the legitimacy of small town mayorship (Palin had two terms in Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000 or so) and executive as opposed to legislative experience. But executives, even of small towns, run something. There are 262 cities in this country with a population of 100,000 or more. But there are close to a hundred thousand small towns with ten thousand people or less. 'You do the math,' the conservative pollster Kellyanne Conway told me. 'We are a nation of Wasillas, not Chicagos."

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Comments

[Indie2008]

At least it's some comfort to know that Peggy Noonan doesn't really believe the GOP spin she has been publishing. I would hate to think she was that gullible.

[PingMama]

The conservative Peggy Noonan just destroyed her credibility. How can we ever trust her again?

[publicspeaker]

Beneath this story (and Jesse Jackson's gaffe) is the 800-pound gorilla roaming cable TV: are ANY pundits speaking the truth into the mics that they *know* are live? Very few. Most are simply spinning their partisan BS. So why should anyone listen?

[pennsykid2000]

Yeah, 100 thousand small towns in the U.S. So, does anyone believe all of the 100,000 mayors of those small towns would be qualified to be president of the U.S.? What point does that make? Noonan is the most superficial thinker around. She never looks below the surface, just the most obvious (which often can be obliterated with about 3 seconds of careful thought). The fact that what she wrote here, for her employer, totally contrasts with what she said on MSNBC in an unguarded (i.e. refreshingly honest) moment just shows the disconnect between what these "pundits" feel they have to do to earn a living versus what they really believe. None of them have a damn bit of credibility, and anyone who listens to them carefully is an idiot. You should search out your own information, and always consider the source!

[dadw5boys]

FEED THEIR GREED AND CONSERVATIVES WILL LOVE YOU !!!!!!!!!

[timtimes]

Lying pays well.

Enjoy.

[johnie2xs]

This may help in determining who this woman is. This is penned by someone with some knowledge of the woman. For what it is worth.

http://www.hoolinet.com/StrapOnVets/tabid/278/Default.aspx

[DEMTRUPATRIOTS]

all i want to know is: will what noonan and murphy said be an obama ad? lying and hypocracy at it's
finest

[Cilantro33309]

Nooooooo....that would make them Republicans.

[zyxt]

I don't get Peggy Noonan-- she just doesn't make sense-- oh she tries and in the trying she shows a weakness of mind. She reminds me of a little lap dog that licks her master and barks for attention.
Who cares anymore what she has to say. She says something half way interesting my mistake and then takes it back-- sad. Its all a kind of fluff with her isn't it?
She a 'gal' from a different era. This is a new century and what she have to offer to the conversation is no longer (if it ever was) of any value.

[FallingUp]

The elite liberal media at it again!

[johnie2xs]

If the MSM was truly liberal and elite they would be heavier into the absolute truth. There is little similarity between that which we know as the MSM, and that which our "Founding Fathers" had envisioned for us. Being that they are actually heavily corporate (i.e. co-opted by money interests), they only travel the periphery of the truth.
It is, and never has been the matter, like Col. Jeffords' (Jack Nicholson) famously said, "you can't handle the truth", in relation to the American people. The fact of the matter is they treat us like mushrooms, "we're kept in the dark, and fed sh*t ". There is no truth, other than that which is allowed us to know, by those who wish to control all. The job is ours, therefore, to finds the truth. To trust the MSM to tell us all, is like trusting a mortgage broker to have your best interests at heart. Wake up, America. Due diligence is your responsibility. Quickly, before the internet is encumbered with so many regulations and restrictions. This is the next imperative of the "Ruling Money World Elite".

[msbeachwood]

Are you familiar with Peggy Noonan and her politics? She is most definely NOT a liberal.

[msbeachwood]

Are you familiar with Peggy Noonan? She is most definely NOT a liberal.

[XME]

Yes, we have more small towns in America than Chicago-like towns. However, I think that many who live in these smaller towns can't realistically think of their mayors being prepared to be Commander-in-Chief, even if they went on to become Governor of their state for less than two years!

[BillyT]

I also don't get the "cuz I can identify with her she's good enough" argument. We are a town of Wasillas, but the people running the Wasillas have to be realistic with their own scope of experience. We don't have the mayor of Wasilla face Putin with our national security on the line.

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

Rupert Murdoch owns Fox News Network. Rupert Jones owns the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Jones is a board member of Associated Press.

Are you getting this?

They are Murdoch's personal propaganda machines.

[Jacksonian]

This just in: PARTY OF PROFESSIONAL LIARS CAUGHT-- TELLING THE TRUTH!

Does this mean Noonan DOESN'T REALLY think Hawaii is an "exotic" vacation destination? (code for "elitist" and "unAmerican")

Brian Williams says Noonan deserves a Pulitzer for her columns; now she clearly deserves a Peabody as well for her broadcasting punditry.

[OpusIsUnderTheBed]

Rupert owns Fox News. Rupert owns the Wall Street Journal.

Gosh.....

[anastasiabeaverhousen]

Peg just proved what everyone already knew: she's nothing but a political hack and a media who re.