(Via Hot Air Headlines) It’s very sad:
A moment last Monday, just after noon, in Manhattan. It’s slightly overcast, not cold, a good day for walking. I’m in the 90s on Fifth heading south, enjoying the broad avenue, the trees, the wide cobblestone walkway that rings Central Park. Suddenly I realize: Something’s odd here. Something’s strange. It’s quiet. I can hear each car go by. The traffic’s not an indistinct roar. The sidewalks aren’t full, as they normally are. It’s like a holiday, but it’s not, it’s the middle of a business day in February. I thought back to two weeks before when a friend and I zoomed down Park Avenue at evening rush hour in what should have been bumper-to-bumper traffic.
This is New York five months into hard times.
She then goes on to list all the shops that are going away, compares Sullenberger to that woman with the octuplets, how we’re all lost and need to get back on track, yadda yadda. Actually, that last bit’s kind of true: we should get back on track. So, just because I’m a nice guy, I’d thought that I’d provide her with a little list:
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D, NY-07)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D, NY-08)
Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D, NY-14)
Rep. Charles Rangel (D, NY-15)
Rep. Jose Serrano (D, NY-16)
Rep. Eliot Engel (D, NY-17)
Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D, NY-18)Senator Charles Schmuer (D, NY)
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D, NY)Governor David Paterson (D, NY)
That pretty much represents the representation of Manhattan Island in government at the Federal level, plus the State governor: and by a happy coincidence, all of them are up for re-election next year, Peggy. So I have a radical notion for you: how about we stop penning bittersweet columns about how lowered our expectations are these days and instead maybe put a couple of ‘em written with the goal of making this list out of date? Even a little out of date would be an improvement, don’t you think?
No?
[shrugging] Suit yourself. I’m just this guy on the Internet, after all. You have absolutely no reason whatsoever to do as I suggest, of course.
But best hurry to that ladies boutique on 84th and Madison: it sounds like it’s going to be the next one on the chopping block.
Moe Lane
Crossposted at Moe Lane.
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Peggy who?
H (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 10:36AM EST (link)I love Peggy Noonan. Her interview with Raymond Arroyo revealed her to be a good Catholic and a decent person. Her books on President Reagan and Pope JPII have been among my staple reading as a conservative and a Catholic.
But I haven’t clicked on a WSJ link to bother with Peggy’s cultural and political observations since her journalistic character assassinations on Sarah Palin. I’m not even a big Sarah Palin enthusiast, I believe she still has some political ripening to do. But for PN to attack SP as an inarticulate bumpkin was hypocritical, dishonest, snobbish, and, worst of all, traitorous to the very spirit of the Reagan style conservatism that earned Peggy her credibility.
Words not only have meaning… they have consequences.
Thanks for the diary, but I’ll pass on the link. It’s merely interesting, but definitely not noteworthy or valuable.
And furthermore... Peggy has gone from fascinating to banal..
H (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 12:00PM EST (link)in one presidential election cycle.
She’s trading solely on her name now, and even that isn’t worth much since she sold her journalistic soul to a socialist revolutionary presidential candidate for the approval of her elite liberal neighbors.
I'm with you
SteveM (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 1:29PM EST (link)I’ve always loved Peggy’s writing, but she jumped the shark for me over Palin (I’m not the biggest fan either – I don’t like first termers doing anything but fulfilling their first term). Her hit pieces and the waxing euphoric over The One was it for it.
So, like you, I decline to read her column. Her books? I’ll pass.
Let's see...Wall Street/Banks layoff hundreds of thousands
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 10:44AM EST (link)and the economic activity in New York City is negatively impacted.
Thanks for uncovering that revelation, Peggy.
Integrity Gone
VanishingNYRep (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 11:21AM EST (link)I used to love Peggy Noonan and I bought all of her books. I became completely disgusted as the Journalistic Fellatio she performed on Sen Obama and the Dems all through 2008.
Obviously Ms. Noonan believed that the GOP, her ideological home, was going to lose the election and she wanted to continue to be invited to the trendy DC parties. Apparently mere praise of the “Chosen One” wasn’t enough and she had to attack Gov. Palin to prove her loyalty to the new order coming to DC.
Strange that Ms. Noonan attacked Gov. Palin who is in total agreement with her ideologically because the Gov. did not fo to an Ivy League school. Well, neither did Gov. Reagan.
At times like these we must remeber that we have economic power and choice. I have chosen to exercise it by NOT buying Ms. Noonan’s latest book. I don’t beleive in rewarding turncoats.
Alternate theory
Steven Willis (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 11:28AM EST (link)Until a few months ago, I almost always enjoyed columns by Noonan, Brooks, and Will. Then, they each seemed to lose the ability to reason. You and others on Redstate and elsewhere properly chastised them.
Now, in the past week or so, each has written realistic columns again. Will is critical of Obama, as has been Noonan and to a lesser extent Brooks. But each is now being realistic about the economy and our foreseeable future.
I credit you and Redstate for having an impact. Let’s hope it continues.
“Let it be said, I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.”
Paul, Second Timothy 4:7, The New Covenant.
Steve Willis
Professor of Law
University of Florida College of Law
Buyer's remorse?
asleep06 (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 11:52AM EST (link)They still bought it, and we all have to suffer the consequences.
Small is beautiful.
Steve there might be another reason for that
kyle8 (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:17PM EST (link)It might be that they really really did not want McCain to be president. Thought he would drive us even further down than Bush did, and assumed that the only way to get back on track for republicans was to just let the Democrats have their day and regroup.
I know because I often thought the same thing but I could say so, whereas they did not have the luxury of stating their actual views.
“Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty”
Kyle
kyle, you give them WAY too much credit. All three of them
janis (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:25PM EST (link)drank the KoolAid right along with so many others. Obama was a smooth talking, intelligent, campaigning all the time (and still) MF. None of the three wanted to seem fuddy-duddy and out of step with their Beltway compatriots. So they sang the praises of The One.
Proof? Was there any reason at all for Noonan to completely trash Sarah Palin if she was just against McCain? No. She wanted to be one of the Cool Kids so she did what she needed to get those sweet, sweet “Attagirl” pats on the back from the elites all around her. The other two are no better.
No...
H (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:54PM EST (link)If it were that simple, there would not have been the long knives stuck into Palin’s back, then repeatedly twisted in subsequent columns. Besides, what you describe is Yellow Journalism, fronting an ideological agenda with contrived rhetoric, ridicule, and character assassinations.
An attack on the truth like that is to be neither forgiven nor forgotten. To let it go by because she seems to be back on conservative rails and serves our agenda would make us no better than the liberals who turn their heads to lies. The ends do not justify the means.
Noonan has become the poster girl for women
Tbone (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 1:57PM EST (link)being only good for casual sex and scullery chores. Thinking, speaking, voting, not so much.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
NO she would be the poster woman for....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:04PM EST (link)the inside the beltway and the 95 corridor women who have nothing substantial to say nor offer…..WE REAL WOMEN ignore her and her type!
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"...being only good for casual sex and scullery chores."
H (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 2:43PM EST (link)The repugnance and immaturity of your comment aside, I ponder the turning of a woman who might have been called a “Joan-of-Arc-like” warrior of conservatism in pre-Obama America. Kathleen Parker, I sort of get that one… but Peggy Noonan, friend and confident of the Gipper? I couldn’t be too much more bumfuzzled if it were Nancy Reagan waving the pompoms for The One.
Why do more women than me vote democrat?
Tbone (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 5:06PM EST (link)Ponder that.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
Peggy Noonan is a sell-out
LoneStarLizard (Diary) Friday, February 13th at 9:15PM EST (link)I don’t even bother to read her bland op-eds anymore. She is a complete sell-out with no integrity whatsoever.
I hope she can live with herself. As for the rest of us, I’m pretty sure we can live without her.
http://www.lonestarlizard.com/
Peggy the dope
billcabot Saturday, July 11th at 8:53PM EST (link)Peggy should know Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave with her elitist spin…she is an idiot