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August 19, 2007

How To Deal With An Outbreak Of Noonanism

Chris Kelly is beautifully unkind to Peggy Noonan, who really really deserves it, here.

Posted at August 19, 2007 07:20 PM | TrackBack
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peggy is not self-loathing. when not poisoning water supplies, peggy works hard to help us understand how putting boots to necks is a traditional home cure for sloth. she's the real deal.

Posted by: hapa at August 20, 2007 02:33 AM

notice how Noonan can see a tank and a woman and side with the tank because she doesn't like the look on the woman's face.

I love that, but I don't think it goes far enough. Peggy always sides with the tank.

Posted by: SteveB at August 20, 2007 10:16 AM

One more thought about Noonan's "argument":

If the problem with the Irish is that they're lazy bastards who were always blaming their problems on their British occupiers, then isn't the solution for the British the leave so those lazy Irish bastards no longer have an excuse?

For example:
They would grow up and assign their misery to outside forces. The boy humiliated because he's never sent to school with a clean shirt will turn that into 'Britain Get Out of Ireland.'"

Remove the "outside forces", boy can no longer blame the Brits for his humiliation, problem solved!

Posted by: SteveB at August 20, 2007 10:23 AM