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

[Doofus]

WSJ: 'Say it ain't so, Peg.'

Peg: 'Must I?'

WSJ: 'What Ms Noonan meant to say was...'

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122044753790594947.html

[Doofus]

If she'd permit me...

What she meant was, not that it's OVER, but that it's 'over'
(said in an almost inaudible voice, after all). That victory will
come from a last-minute 'Hail Mary' pass & they almost never
work, however why was such a pass necessary or appropriate?

Sorry if some confusion resulted.

[Waukazooville]

Note that in Noonan's clarification, she only dealt with the statement "It's over". Though she apologized for the use of profanity, she never took back her comment that the Palin selection was "political bulls**t". In fact, Noonan's clarification only made it clear that she still thought they had made the wrong choice, by explaining that she thought Kay Bailey Hutchison was more experienced: "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 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 Bailey Hutchison thought before this morning, because I could have written of it. There." (WSJ, 9/3/08)

[seedyrum]

The world is watching

I am glad i find out Peggy Noonan doesnt beleive what she writes> What said behind closed doors

Peggy Noonan only reported in type what her readers and bosses wanted to hear>>>LIES> FOR THEY CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH

Peggy Noonan is to serious real news (IN THIS CASE) what hedge fund managers is to the investment banks>> LIES UPON LIES UPON LIES UNTIL THEY GET WHAT THEY WANT >>>>THE ELECTION OR (AND ) YOUR MONEY

sad but true

The world is watching

[SeekerOne]

The internet world anyway.

[Bulldoglover]

What a lying journalist she is! Never again will I read ANYTHING by Peggy! Never!

[Davwbaird]

bobcat bob

[Cilantro33309]

You read her work?

[allonfla]

"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." - This quote is exactly why she should not be VP - if you live in a small town then you know it does not take much to run one - in fact you may think that you could do a better job! There is a reason that the Clintons moved to New York, because America as a whole is more
Chicago than Wasilla.

[krocklin]

Until the media calls out these kind of hypocrisies among Republican spokesmen, demagogues and panderers will spread their lies.

Now the question is: Can ANYONE at MSNBC go after Noonan's hypocrisy????? Give her points for speaking her mind, but to stick to the same narrative and feel the way she does = pandering. I always thought Mike Murphy seemed uncharacteristically rational for a Republican operative, despite Olbermann's reported dislike of him. Now he has proved it.

The incriminating inormation came out of MSNBC's own cable operation. Maybe it was leaked. They may have to be silent. And if Olbermann and Rachel won't say it, no one else in the media will. Even if they want to.

[jeanrenoir]

People like Noonan are obviously always nothing but shills. That goes without saying . No surprise she's a con artist. After all, she cut her teeth on conning America for "The Great Communicator."

[lisangela]

Why isn't MSNBC reporting this themselves?

[Criticalthinktank07]

Are you kidding, they have already been accused of having a liberal slant. This would be fodder for FIXed news and Bill O'Really.

[YellerDawg]

Peggy Noonan is a political hack who would sell the nation down the river if she could make a buck from it. Obviously, she is a hypocrite, but we already knew that.