Learning to Loathe Yourself: Peggy Noonan and How To Be a Conservative Pundit

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by Chris Kelly at HuffPost:

Learning to Loathe Yourself: Peggy Noonan and How To Be a Conservative Pundit
Posted August 19, 2007 | 04:19 PM (EST)



Chaucer, like I need to tell you, says you have to take the rough with the smooth. And that's how I've always felt about the Wall Street Journal. You get to read some of the best reporting on Earth, and the price is an editorial page that appears to be reprinted from the walls of padded cells, and originally composed in the excrement of its authors.

The roughage with the smooth. It's a little like buying Playboy for the articles, but instead of also getting pictures of naked girls, some trust fund scumbag lectures you about meritocracy.

It's like Cracker Jack, only instead of a prize with your popcorn, you get a human thumb.

I accept that. The way, in The History Boys, the students don't mind that their favorite teacher also molests them.

I guess I could also just skip that section.

But if you only read the Journal for the uncrazy, fact-based parts, you miss things like Friday's column by Peggy Noonan. And you don't get to enjoy writing like:

"Suddenly an armored British army vehicle slowly rounded the corner..."
("And when did you first notice this sudden/slow vehicle, Mrs. Noonan?" "Why, one fine day in the middle of the night, your honor.")
(I mean, sweet heaven, that's awful.) .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-kelly/learning-to-loathe-yourse_b_61026.html

[Redneck Socialist]

1. That's some good stuff there. Thanks for the link

I liked this part:

"And then it struck me, suddenly, like a slow-moving vehicle: That's how you get a job as a conservative pundit. Figure out what makes you different from a white, male, protestant businessman, and hate your own guts for it.

If you're black, hate civil rights. If you're a woman, hate feminism. If you grew up poor, despise the poor. If you're a visible minority, demand more profiling. If you're gay, say you're cured. If you're Jewish, praise anti-Semites, if you're Christian, praise war. If you're Michelle Malkin... I don't know where you start with your problems if you're Michelle Malkin.

Just take a good, long look in the mirror, and ask yourself: Who am I? And how am I failing to be Neil Bush?"

Funny stuff that...

[Blue_Tires]

3. i liked that quote, too

[Chulanowa]

4. The zing at Malkin made Dr. Pepper go up my nose!

Which is almost, but not quite as unpleasant as looking at a picture of that woman...


Separated at hatching?

[glitch]

2. Brilliant! K & R. But it's a waste slaming conservative pundits, they will never get it.

Neither will their readers.