VIDEOS: Rep. Anthony Weiner smacks down Peggy Noonan, GOP Rep. Garrett

By GottaLaff

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I lerves me some Weiner .... er, Anthony.

All Joe and Peggy could come back with is that he "raised his voice". That's it? They got nothin'.

Smackdown #2, this time of Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ), courtesy of Good Day, New York:

VIDEO- Peggy Noonan: Obama "omigoodness" not "dithering"

By GottaLaff

Omiheartfeltgoodness I'm dee-pompous-lighted-- do you know what I mean?-- to hear the oh-so-genuine notes of sincerity dripping from Noonan's so very earnest lips:

Obama has found himself a unexpected supporter in Peggy Noonan. The conservative columnist says she's delighted to see "an American president who's thinking" about an issue as serious as Afghanistan rather than presenting a "faux decisiveness." CNN

VIDEO- Peggy Noonan: Obama is "boorish"

By GottaLaff

I referred to this in my Cliff Notes version of the Sunday Talkers here. Peggy Noonan has always turned my stomach. She could be telling George Stephanopoulos that President Obama is the best commander in chief in U.S. history, and I'd still feel nauseous.

It's her unctuous, phony-baloney, deliberately and painfully "sincere", faux heartfelt delivery... only to be matched by content.

Exhibit A:

Is Obama overexposed? Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan sure thinks so, telling George Stephanopoulos on This Week that the excessive televised appearances are slowly damaging his presidency. ABC

See, here's the thing, all you "he's overexposed" blatherfaces out there: He's the president. He is the ultimate spokesman, salesman, and expert on his own policies. When the public is clamoring for him to get out there and explain himself, whaddya know, he listens and does exactly that.

Coincidentally, seems the times that he's "overexposed" himself are the times his/his policies' poll numbers perk up. Go figure.

boor·ish (brsh)

adj.

Resembling or characteristic of a boor; rude and clumsy in behavior.

• Main Entry: boor
• Pronunciation: \ˈbu̇r\
• Function: noun
• Etymology: Dutch boer; akin to Old English būan to dwell — more at bower
• Date: 1551

1 : peasant
2 : a rude or insensitive person

Anyone notice President Obama being rude, insensitive, or clumsy? Anyone seen a peasant in the White House lately? Hands?

Amazing, isn't it, how he went from elitist to peasant in 9 short months?

Video- Scarborough and Noonan Agree: The Best Thing That Could Happen to Obama is a GOP Congress

Now granted, I'm not in the best mood today, but Noonan just made me extra crazy this morning. Her and Scarborough make quite a pair. Vid via FDL.

Peggy Noonan says goodbye to Palin

Ouch.

Peggy Noonan on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin:

"She went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be. She was hungry, loved politics, had charm and energy, loved walking onto the stage, waving and doing the stump speech. All good. But she was not thoughtful. She was a gifted retail politician who displayed the disadvantages of being born into a point of view (in her case a form of conservatism; elsewhere and in other circumstances, it could have been a form of liberalism) and swallowing it whole: She never learned how the other sides think, or why."

"In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough."

Video is "Getting to know Sarah Palin" by the incomparable Jed L.

Video- Peggy Noonan Thinks Republicans Just Need to Go to Confession a Lot

So how does that work for the non-Catholic Republicans there Peg? Via Heather.

VIDEO-- Pitiful Palin: The "amused" media's Repug mug

By GottaLaff

I don't know about you, but I'm amused:

During the presidential election, Noonan was caught on a live microphone saying Sen. John McCain's pick of Palin doomed the Republican ticket.

Now Noonan believes the media want to make Palin the face of the Republican party, "because it amuses them to do that."

Open Mike Catches Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy and Chuck Todd Talking About Palin

Listen. Oy. Via TPM.
And I called "beer' first.

Todd: Mike Murphy, Peggy Noonan. Lots of free advice.We'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching (ed note- better hope not). Lots of free advice.

blather, cross talk over CT
Murphy: Um, you know, because, I come out of the blue swing state governor world. Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, I mean, and these guys, this is all how you win a Texas race, just run it up, and it's not gonna work.

Noonan: It's Over.

Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech and do himself some good.

Todd: Don’t you think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Baily Hutchinson?

Noonan: I saw Kay this morning...

Todd: She's never looked comfortable about..

Murphy: They're all bummed out.

Todd: I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they can obtain?

Noonan: The most qualified? No. I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives...[couldn't hear the end of it]

Todd: Yeah, but what's a narrative?

Murphy: I totally agree.

Noonan: Every time Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.

Murphy: You know what's the worst thing about it, the greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and..

Murphy and Todd together: This is cynical.

Todd: And as you called it, gimmicky.

Thanks to FleetAdmiralJ for transcribing it before I could. And mad props to Clancy for more revisions.

John Sidney McCain's inner hellhound

By GottaLaff

Peggy Noonan is all about letting your inner beast hang out... to win elections, that is. Get out your whips:

Let McCain be McCain. Get him in the papers being who he is, get people looking at his real nature. [Laffy Note: link] Maybe then they'll start taking him seriously when he talks policy. [...]

The most interesting thing about Mr. McCain has always been the delight he takes in a certain unblinkered candor. There is also the antic part of his nature, his natural wit, his tropism toward comedy. All this was captured wonderfully by Mark Leibovich last February in the New York Times. Mr. McCain had taken the lead in the primaries and had gone from being "one of the most disruptive forces in his party" to someone playing it safe. In an airplane interview he said things like, "There is a process in place that will formalize the methodology." Then he couldn't help it, he became McCain:

"[He] volunteered that Brooke Buchanan, his spokeswoman who was seated nearby and rolling her eyes, 'has a lot of her money hidden in the Cayman Islands' and that she earned it by 'dealing drugs.' Previously, Mr. McCain had identified Ms. Buchanan as 'Pat Buchanan's illegitimate daughter,' 'bipolar,' 'a drunk,' 'someone with a lot of boyfriends,' and 'just out of Betty Ford.'"

What an imp! So much wit, where has it all been hiding? That sly fox.

Was he talking about Brooke Buchanan or his own wife?

That's my boy. That's the McCain his friends love, McCain unplugged. The fall will be dead serious. At this point why not be himself, be human? Let him refind his inner rebel, the famous irreverent maverick, let the tiger out of the cage. It won't solve everything but it will help obscure some other problems.

Rawr!

I have to admit, it would help obscure some other problems. He'd be so overwhelmed trying to reshackle that hellhound, there would be no time left for things like bomb-bomb-bombing and drill-drill-drilling.