There’s a crazy long profile of our favorite column-writer-of, Peggy Noonan, in today’s Women’s Wear Daily (which is, for some reason, a political newspaper in New York). We read the whole thing and thrilled to the details of Peggy’s World and her weird e-mails and the real reason she loves Obama so much, but it’s super long and you won’t ever read it all, so we’ve created a handy bullet-point list of factoids!
Even though Noonan broke with the Bush White House just after the 2004 election — over important things like the terrible Iraq War and the administration’s terrible Mob Culture — as recently as the 2006 midterms she was still writing unintentionally hilarious regal bullshit about dimwitted losers like dog-sex fanatic and Muslim ghostbuster Rick Santorum. (“The sense among so many people– including politicians and journalists — is that the Senate needs his sort, his kind.”)
But now that she’s totally fallen for Hopey McYoung and was such an eloquent thrower-of-Hillary under the bus, she is the toast of New York City elitists. Because she is one of them. And yet, she is a self-made gal, from humble (liberal) beginnings:
- “Peggy Noonan is apparently freaking out.” That’s the actual lede.
- She agreed to this WWD profile, met the reporter, gave him an interview, but then a month later decided she’d come off as “babbly, nervous, and in general … wanting. And I felt, Oh, don’t be a noisy person, be quiet and write.”
- He writes the profile anyway.
- “She particularly loves boys with political roundtables, and boys with political roundtables love her back.”
- Sighs George Stephanopoulos about her intimate teevee style with her host boys: “It’s full-body communicating.”
- She shares her Upper East Side apartment with her “Obama-supporting 20-year-old son, Will, when he’s not off at college.” This would be a great sitcom, on Showtime.
- At the trendy restaurant, she chews Nicorette and has a salad. She’s actually a supermodel! (And no wonder she loves Obama; they share the struggle!)
- Peggy is 57, divorced, and still smokin’ hot.
- A working-class girl from Brooklyn, Peggy waitressed herself through college, got an English/journalism degree, and worked her way up from local AM news stations to Dan Rather’s CBS Evening News, where she first heard of liberals.
- Basically all of her friends are Famous Liberals and always have been; Peggy is not the kind to go whoring around like Ann Coulter.
- She was a 33-year-old starry-eyed Reagan Lover when she got a speech-writing gig at the White House, and all the mean old men were mean to her.
- Her enemies were “Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford loyalists” … the same scumbags who seized power again in 2001!
- “So Noonan resigned in a letter to Reagan, and signed it with x’s for kisses.”
- She sends another email, with this awesome pileup on Bill and Hillary: “The scarlet-faced, finger-waving, reporter-lecturing manner and tone; the sly race-baiting; the insistent ego; the me, me, me. It made her look like she wasn’t in charge of her surrogates. It also left her looking like her spouse was a crazy person. He reminded people of what they didn’t like in the Clinton years, which was deadly. He didn’t make her lose, but he was part of the loss …. This guy’s not a documentary, he’s an opera. Somebody should write it.” Ha, you just did, Peggy!
How Peggy Noonan Won the Democratic Primary [Women's Wear Daily]
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She refers to Santorum as “his kind”? That’s not Racial Transcendence!
Dont’ let Jezebel know that Women’s Wear Daily has a male reporter!
if she really loves “boys”, that is a whole other fun story. Peggy the Pedophile!
Nooner “full-body communicating”? There goes lunch.
Is the fashion industry so fickle that women’s wear needs daily updates? That must be where the term “that’s so yesterday” came from.
http://www.founditemclothing.com/halloween/bushwood-caddyshack-cap2.jpg
She looks like a guy.
[re=21257]Doglessliberal[/re]: From now on I’m referring to her as Peddy Nooner.
“She particularly loves boys with political roundtables, and boys with political roundtables love her back.”
Interesting. Wifey and I just bought a matching set of political roundtables for our living room. We’ll have to invite Peggy over for some “discourse.” (Strictly Political, that is….)
Shouldn’t that read “She particularly loves boys with ENORMOUS BLACK political roundtables…”?
I like her pussyfooting about the profile. So typical of a right-wing columnist for the NYT that she can have second thoughts without having first ones.
What’s this “A working-class girl from Brooklyn” crap? She grew up in the bedroom community of Rutherford, N.J. In Peggy’s unbalanced mind, myth has begun to merge with reality. So sad.
for those of you that don’t keep up with fashion trade publications, WWD has always had a republican/conservative slant as far back at the reagan years, probably due to being owned by john fairchild.
sorry, no snark, i’m a little wonky today, but not in the ha-ha wonky sort of way.
Actually, when I saw that headline my first thought was “Uh-oh — has she died of a massive heart attack?” Just a batshit profile is kind of a relief.
The woman can only think in terms of high drama like one’s aged virgin aunt. Also, you totally left out the Wonkette reference in the WWD article?
‘Last week, the political blog Wonkette ran a post about her first post-primary election column, saying: “Our girlfriend Peggy Noonan has been more enjoyable than usual this year, as a tragically drawn-out Democratic primary battle provided her with endless opportunities to touch herself while Barack Obama spoke pretty things….Now, that tortured eloquence has vanished.”
Not so fast — though the Obama folks may have less in common with Noonan in the general election than they did in the primary.’
“Though they’d met before Noonan “switched teams,” as Schwarzbaum puts it in an e-mail, they never stopped being friends.”
Femslash!
[re=21315]TGY[/re]: The flighty spinster aunt is merely her public persona. At night she goes home and drowns small puppies in the bath tub.
What exactly is a “noisy” person?
Is that someone who makes bodily noises?
P-e-g-g-y?
Now she’s a pedophile? She used to lust after Ronnie Reagan, who was old enough to be her grampa. What’s next for Aunt Peggy, dogs and cats?
…..Oooh no, that’s why she liked Santorum!
[re=21273]S.Luggo[/re]: Just like Reagan!
[re=21252]ThreeFingersNeat[/re]: After seeing his family in 2006, I’m not sure what the fuck “kind” Santorum is. She’s not transcending species, perhaps?
Peg’s having “The King and I” fantasies.
She thinks Obama’s the King of Siam and that she’s Deborah Kerr. Peg, he only lived in Asia, and no, its not called Siam anymore. And, no, he needs no lessons in singing in English.
When exactly was it decided that everybody in America knew what a “lede” is?
I must have been home sick that day.
Women’s Wear Daily? And you not only found it, but read it? Damn, Ken! That IS going the extra mile.
[re=21422]JSDC007[/re]: That’s all well and good, but when do we get video of her going down on fellow team-switching cougar Arianna Huffington? They could do it a s a Pay-Per-View Obama fundraiser.
where do i get one of these political roundtables. do they sell them at ikea and do i have to assemble?
If it was morning in America then, what time is it now? Now that she’s rehabbed herself, I can see we’re going to be playing Block That Metaphor with Aunt Peg for sometime to come. As I don’t want to read this WWD piece, I’d love to hear details about how the Reaganauts were mean to her and why.
“Peggy Noonan” is a poseur, a hack, and she’s a hardcore right-wing nutjob to boost. Who cares anymore what she says? She needs to just retire with her money and stop bothering us.
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