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Peggy Noonan is the grande dame of Republican women pundits. Not only was she a speech writer for President Ronald Reagan, she’s also written bestsellers, including some about Reagan. She now writes for the Wall Street Journal, and is still a largely respected voice in media.
But that was then. Peggy Noonan criticized Kamala Harris, so liberals have now labeled her a racist.
Over the weekend, Noonan wrote a WSJ article in which she deemed Harris to be “unserious.”
“She’s dancing with drum lines and beginning rallies with ‘Wassup, Florida! . . . throwing her head back and laughing a loud laugh, especially when nobody said anything funny. She’s the younger candidate going for the younger vote, and she’s going for a Happy Warrior vibe, but she’s coming across as insubstantial, frivolous. When she started to dance in the rain onstage, in Jacksonville, Fla., to Mary J. Blige’s ‘Work That,’ it was embarrassing.”
Well, yeah, that pretty much describes Harris, the younger counterpart to the befuddled Joe Biden. Harris has a history of playing the cool, hip candidate, like she did in a 2019 interview with “The Breakfast Club.” She told the black interviewers that during college, she toked some weed to her Snoop Dogg and Tupac playlist, even though she graduated years before either came on the scene.
Kamala Harris is a phony — we all know that. So Peggy Noonan called her on it, as she has a right to do as a political pundit. But Noonan is a white woman so how dare she!
Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC, former communications director for George W. Bush, came unglued, claiming that Noonan’s column caused her physical pain!
Oh, the humanity!
She also lectured, instructing white Republican women to shut up about Kamala. You privileged shrews don’t know squat! You’re not down with the struggle!
“When you’re a white woman and you’re a Republican, there’s just certain stuff culturally that you don’t know jack bleep about, and you should keep your mouth shut when other people dance. And what is that line about dancing to a drum beat? This, to me, felt tone-deaf, it felt nasty, it felt personal and it felt bitchy.”
Honey, it ain’t Peggy Noonan who’s bitchy. Look in a mirror.
But Wallace says she still admires Peggy. It breaks her poor little heart that Peggy has sunk so low.
“She’s someone I don’t just admire, I revere her words. Some of the speeches she’s written I have devoted to memory. So to hear her take out her very skilled cudgel and smash it against a woman who has broken the kind of barriers that every one of us have faced — Peggy, too — is searing for me.”
Oh please, cry me a river.
Those sound like racist comments about conservative white women, but those gals are fair game, according to those in the media who are their moral superiors. On the other hand, Wallace says there’s no bigotry among Democrats. In a 2019 panel discussion, she came up with this twaddle:
“This does not have a parallel on the left. It doesn’t. There isn’t. There isn’t a strain of racism on the left.”
I’ll bet your eyeballs rolled so far back into your noggin that you’ve got a massive migraine about now.
But Nicole Wallace wasn’t the only voice to call out Peggy Noonan as a racist. The Twitterverse had their own fits.
This is the joy that so triggered Peggy Noonan that she wrote a column about how Senator Harris comes off as “insubstantial, frivolous.”
Black joy is something they feel the need to attack. pic.twitter.com/orxMynAhAK
— African American Policy Forum (@AAPolicyForum) October 25, 2020
Former CNN host Soledad O’Brien also hissed raaaciiist. And, of course, Trump!
“View it through the lens of racism and her comments make sense. Also recall the President has simulated sex at his rallies, mocked journalist, made lots of stuff up… and also danced.”
And it gets worse, friends! Peggy Noonan admires Rush Limbaugh! Doesn’t get much worse than that.
Oh right, kinda racist ole lady Peggy Noonan admired Rush Limbaugh. pic.twitter.com/moDWFL6XS9
— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) October 25, 2020
So let me get this straight: Kamala Harris is running for the second highest seat in the nation. Considering how doddering Joe Biden looks these days, should Biden win the election (please, God, no), she could become Numero Uno. Still, Peggy Noonan has no right to criticize how Harris presents herself in public, because that’s racist.
Yet people like Wallace, et.al., are the same ones to tell us how Biden and Harris will help to “bring the nation together.”
Just as long as you white people sit down, shut up, and keep your opinions to yourselves, of course.
Featured image: kylebogucki/flickr/cropped/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
NTSOG says: “This does not have a parallel on the left. It doesn’t. There isn’t. There isn’t a strain of racism on the left.”
Then why are the voiciferous advocates of the woke left supporting by either omission or commission the almost weekly riots by their supporters, the BLM, when a violent person, who happens to be black, attacks Police and then ‘becomes’, lawfully, dead – and then they ignore the many Police [Caucasian and black] injured in trying to regain control of the streets?
The laugh out loud when it isn’t appropriate thing is one of Harris’ tricks. It’s weird and even Colbert was taken aback by it. The D ticket this election will go down as one of the worst, if not the worst, of all time.
GWB says: The laugh-out-loud thing is something some people do when they’re nervous, oft times. I’ve wondered if she isn’t, inside, feeling so totally unprepared for her current and aspirational positions that she’s just constantly nervous that this time the curtain will get pulled aside.
As to the D ticket…
I have to wonder if Comma-la didn’t get picked because she IS so awful. Knowing Biden was going to get destroyed because of his obvious mental decline and unable to simply admit they made a mistake with Biden, they chose to push Comma-la into the VP slot, so they can basically tell her in the future, “Sorry, you had your chance and you performed awfully, so you don’t ever get to run again. Go sit over there with Hillary.”
GWB says: claiming that Noonan’s column caused her physical pain!
Not unless someone rolled up a copy of the WSJ and swatted her with it. The overuse of hyperbole nowadays is gonna get someone killed.
a woman who has broken the kind of barriers that every one of us have faced
You’ve all had to spread your legs to get ahead in your chosen profession?!
Black joy is something they feel the need to attack.
Oh, FCOL*.
Now, I will criticize Noonan for that column. Because it’s basically the same shtick that made her anti-Trump: “Oh, it’s so un-Presidential!” Screw that. If it weren’t for Comma-la being such a power-hungry witch who will turn whatever tricks she has to in order to rise to the maximum level of perks and privileges and will step on every citizen’s freedom to get and stay there, I would say “You go girl!” If she were someone otherwise worth voting for I would be happy to see the candidate dancing on stage. Yes, even to crappy current music. Dancing in the rain is even better (I happen to like the old movie about just that).
So, Peggy, put away your old duffer fastidiousness and understand that a great number of us do NOT want some stuffy old aristocrat from an Ivy League school running things. Heck, we don’t want aristocrats running things, no matter where they come from. I would much prefer Davy Crockett or Andrew Jackson to some ascetic p**ck from Georgetown.
(And a reminder from some other “Ooh, partying people are un-statesman-like” dweeb recently, that the Founding Fathers, during one evening of the debate over and writing of the Declaration of Independence, consumed: 54 bottles of Madeira, 60 bottles of claret, eight of whiskey, 22 of porter, eight of hard cider, 12 of beer and seven bowls of alcoholic punch. For 55 people. Those are gentlemen I would like to hang with. And I bet they were more eloquent while in their cups than any modern writer dead sober.)
rbj1 says: “Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC, former communications director for George W. Bush, came unglued, claiming that Noonan’s column caused her physical pain!”
So Peggy at least still has some use.
Dietrich says: Wallace, O’Brien, et al illustrate the problem with modern liberal women.
John Casteel says: Soledad O’Brien? I was in Europe several years ago, 2014 I think, and was watching BBC News. Yeah, it’s bad but the alternative is CNN International so….Anyway, it was the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Soledad O’Brien was being interviewed by a BBC anchor-babe. Anchor-babe asks Soledad “What has changed in those fifty years?” Soledad answered, “In a word, not much.” Oh, yes she did! So, I don’t put much credence into what Soledad says about race,
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