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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWtf does Peggy Noonan know about 'everyday Americans'?
The queen of the DC party circuit has the gall to write this:
Theyre making their videos, holding their parties and having a ball. OK. But imagine youre a Citizen at Home just grinding throughtrying to do it all, the job, the parenthood, the mowing the lawn and paying the taxes. No glamour, all responsibility and effort. And you see these little clips on the Net where the wealthy sing about how great taxpayer bailouts are and you feel like . . . theyre laughing at you.
Since when did she ever mingle with the rest of us?
http://blogs.wsj.com/peggynoonan/2014/02/18/our-decadent-elites/
supernova
(39,345 posts)I don't think her audience is us, the toiling masses.
I think her audience for that piece is the "elites" in the party video that came out the other day. I think her intent is cast a crooked finger at her fellow "elites" for not being the sober leadership types she so desperately wants them to be.
Peggy is sort of old-school noblesse oblige, at least. Not that I'm defending her. It still hasn't occurred to her that these are just really awful people and money isn't the arbiter of morality.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)ZERO=ZERO.
liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)Giving them permission, you see, to act like they care.
The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)As much as I've tried, I don't think I've ever been able to get through an entire Noonan column.
Gothmog
(145,359 posts)I really dislike this lady. Her voice and her articles are really sad and annoying
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)to get plastered on vodka and pills with her a the country club!!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)She's the one who dubbed Newt Gingrich an "angry little attack muffin."
Arkana
(24,347 posts)for realizing Sarah Palin was a fraud from the start. It was only her and a couple of other Republican personalities that never liked her.
Other than that, however, she's a Reagan-era shill who knows nothing about the people of this country.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,501 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)and that is, in fact, the sum total of her knowledge.