Peggy Noonan

Grumpy Conservatives Survey Post-Iowa Scene

Dan Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2012

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Dan Kennedy

The Pollyanna award goes to Ross Douthat of the New York Times, who thinks caucus-goers did themselves proud last night. "Presented with the weakest presidential field of any major party in a generation," he writes, "they made the best of a bad situation."

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Call the Newtsplosion Contest

Chris Weigant | Posted 02.12.2012

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Chris Weigant

Back in Newt's heyday, Doonesbury portrayed Gingrich as a lit bomb with a short fuse. Right and Left seem to be in agreement on his resemblance to trinitrotoluene (or "Newtroglycerine"?). Which leaves only one key question: When will this "Newtsplosion" take place?

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Out Come The Knives: Conservative Pundits Slam Gingrich

Posted 12.12.2011

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As Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls continues, the backlash against his campaign for president has begun. Prominent conservatives like Ann Coulter, ...

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The Underminey Backlash Against Newt, Starring Peggy Noonan

Ari Melber | Posted 02.11.2012

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Ari Melber

The essence of fame, of course, is people knowing of you without knowing you. Gingrich's hope, then, is to keep these worlds apart and his fans at a distance.

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Mainstream Media... Occupy This!

Adam Klugman | Posted 12.13.2011

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Adam Klugman

For far too long these technocratic tools of the corporate media have been dictating the terms of the political conversation, and now that we are taking it back they like to pretend at being confused.

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WATCH: All Your Questions About 'The Onion' Answered

The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 08.23.2011

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Editor of "The Onion" Joe Randazzo stopped by "Morning Joe" on Thursday to talk about the paper's campaign to be honored with a Pulitzer, as well as t...

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Stronger Together: All for Good Joins Points of Light Institute

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Greenblatt

Since nonprofits exist to solve problems rather than build bureaucracies, the notion of consolidation to cement our gains and improve our efficiencies seemed like a worthwhile option.

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Sarah Palin: America's Full-Time Professional Duelist

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tina Dupuy

Sarah Palin is now our nation's only full-time professional duelist. She fights with everyone. Her entire post-quitting career is centered on petty flame wars, most of which she starts, and all of which make the media talk about her.

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Former Reagan Speechwriter Rips Sarah Palin

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Conservative columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan doesn't like people demeaning the Gipper's legacy, not even Sarah Palin, and not ev...

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Amid CNN Debacle: Kathleen Parker and 'Full-Blooded' Americanism

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Parker is not a Tea Party or Coulter wingnut. But she pushed the not-"full-blooded"-American envelope in 2008 when Barack Obama was running for president.

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How Old is Wisdom?

Jim Lichtman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Lichtman

The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan had an interesting take this weekend (July 17) on President Obama's poll numbers and problems with the economy ...

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Peggy Noonan's Shameless Attempt To Rewrite (Her Own) History

Eric Boehlert | Posted 05.25.2011

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Eric Boehlert

War hawks like Peggy Noonan have to find some way to wipe the slate clean. They have to at least try to rewrite history because if they let the true facts go unchallenged, that means liberal doves were right about U.S. foreign policy.

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Obama's Oil Speech Postmortem

Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jerry Weissman

Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up In last week's post on Obama's Oval Office speech on the oil spill you read how Mike Allen, the Washington columnist the New Y...

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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Reviewed

Ed Koch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Koch

Joan Rivers is now 77 years old. When she began her career back in the days of Jack Parr, Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson, her coarse humor and use of a drunken sailor's profanity were shocking.

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9/11, Financial Crisis, Church Sex Scandal? Imagine That!

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Sigman

I'm sure there are plenty of unimaginable things in the Universe, though it's impossible to imagine what they are. But flying a plane into a building, the crash of a financial system and sex abuse by priests, we can safely say, aren't among them.

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Alienation of the Nation and Peggy Noonan in Particular

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Henryk A. Kowalczyk

The simplest and only way to eliminate the mess on our borders is by revoking our current immigration law and allowing everyone who can find work here to come and do it legally.

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Sunday Morning TV Gripes

Stephen Kaus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Kaus

Random thoughts while zipping through the Sunday morning shows, from the tape-delay of the Olympics to the surprising revelation that Peggy Noonan and Hugh Hewitt are hypocrites

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Jason Linkins

Noonan's 'Catastrophic Success' Argument Was Better When Matthew Dowd Originally Made It

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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In today's Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan is a-flutter with concern that "passage of the health-care bill will be, for the administration, a catast...

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The Blame Game

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jerry Weissman

On Saturday, two separate articles from two diverse sources -- sports and politics -- provided a lesson about the importance of being positive in communication.

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Adam Lambert, Gangsta Rap, and the Peggy Noonan Problem

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vanessa Carmichael

Peggy Noonan and many people like her who breathe in the rarified air of conservatism have no conflict castigating Adam Lambert for his mediocre performance on a primetime awards show while denying tax-paying gay and lesbians civil rights.

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Her? Oh, That's Just Crazy Old Aunt Peg

Ellis Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ellis Weiner

According to Peggy Noonan, Reagan deserved a Nobel because he failed to waste a fortune on a boondoggle that would have made the world less safe. That he failed to win it was "absurd."

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Jason Linkins

Enjoy This Dramatic Reading Of Peggy Noonan's Harvard Study Group Syllabus

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan is leading a study group at Harvard, just like Joel McHale does in the new NBC show Community. Her offerin...

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Stewart Mocks Media For Calling Obama 'Overexposed' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 05.25.2011

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The "Daily Show" took on Obama's critics this week after the president appeared on all five major Sunday talk shows to discuss his health care plan an...

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Peggy Noonan: Obama Media Tour "Boorish" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan described President Obama's decision to go on five Sunday shows in one day as "boorish" -- in a Sunday show...

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One Year Ago: When Peggy Noonan Hailed Palin in Print, Then Got Caught Trashing Her on "Open-Mic"

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Greg Mitchell

Talk about flip flops! It was exactly one year ago today that Noonan suffered her infamous "open-mic" disaster at MSNBC during coverage of the GOP convention.

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