Immoderately drunk white lady Peggy Noonan warns of dark days ahead.
Looks like someone has been catching up on their Ron Paul Whitey Times newsletters:
If you live in a major city, you’ve probably already heard about the newest threat to your life and limb, and your family: carjacking.
It is the hip-hop thing to do among the urban youth who play unsuspecting whites like pianos. The youth simply walk up to a car they like, pull a gun, tell the family to get out, steal their jewelry and wallets, and take the car to wreck. Such actions have ballooned in the recent months.
In the old days, average people could avoid such youth by staying out of bad neighborhoods. Empowered by media, police, and political complicity, however, the youth now roam everywhere looking for cars to steal and people to rob.
What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).
I frankly don’t know what to make of such advice, but even in my little town of Lake Jackson, Texas, I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.
And while we’re checking in on Our Lady Of The Ice Cubes Soaked Up My Vodka, here is what she thought was the best line from Republican American Idol Tryouts 2011:

The most memorable line of the first phase? There’s “9-9-9″ and “Oops,” but the best came from Mitt Romney when he was asked about the Gingrich campaign’s failure to qualify for the Virginia ballot. Mr. Gingrich had compared it to Pearl Harbor, a setback, but we’ll recover. Mr. Romney, breezily, to a reporter: “I think it’s more like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory.”
It made people laugh. It made them want to repeat it, which is the best free media of all, the line people can’t resist saying in the office. And they laughed because it pinged off a truth: Gingrich is ad hoc, disorganized.
The put-down underscored Romney’s polite little zinger of a week before, that Mr. Gingrich was “zany.” And it was a multi-generationally effective: People who are 70-years-old remember “I Love Lucy,” but so do people who are 30 and grew up with its reruns. Mr. Romney’s known for being organized but not for being deft. This was deft. It’s an old commonplace in politics that if you’re explaining you’re losing, but it’s also true that if they’re laughing you’re losing. The campaign trail has been pretty much a wit-free zone. It’s odd that people who care so much about politics rarely use one of politics’ biggest tools, humor. Mr. Romney did and scored. More please, from everyone.
If only Herman Cain had continuously responded to allegations of sexual improprieties (by which we mean “getting sexy with the ladies”) with “Dy-no-mite!” or “Wha’chu talkin’ ’bout Willis?“, he’d probably still be the frontrunner…





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“…you’ve probably already heard about the newest threat to your life and limb, and your family: carjacking.”
What is this carjacking of which you speak, Peggy? For I have never heard of this before.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Obama and his ilk became unshackled (as it were).
To be fair to Peggy, the “carjacking” quote is from a 1992 issue of the ” Ron Paul Whitey Times newsletters,” not from Peggy’s current column.
Sounds like Peggers needs to go get some of that good dolphin lovin’ again.
Yes, one wonders how we survived the intervening 20 years what with getting carjacked every third day. I remember back in ’96 when car manufacturers made the Whitey Ejection Seat part of the standard option package.
So Romney is as funny and clever – dare I say, “deft” – as an early 1950s sitcom. That oughta pull in the viewers of GoodLifeTV and overnight reruns on TV Land. The salt of the earth…
But does this make Michelle Bachmann the anti-Mary Tyler Moore? I mean, she can turn the world off with her smile.
Don’t forget all those people who think Laughter is the Best Medicine.
Okay now this is high-level, thoughtful analysis. Next week Peggy Noonan examines the question of whether the Santorum campaign is more like the leaking of the Pentagon Papers or an episode of Gilligan’s Island, and furthermore, which episode exactly.
So, does this make no sense whatsoever to anyone else, or is it just me?
Romney used humor, and scored, and that was “deft” — because “if they’re laughing, you’re losing”?
I think she’s got some ‘splainin to do.
“[...] America, you don’t want to go there.” Perhaps, but clearly, Peggy is just dripping wet at the thought of going there, hoping against hope that the schwarze will prevail and provide her with further opportunity to peek out from behind her Jug-o’-Stoli at the real world to watch and marvel at average white people wiping their fingerprints from smoking guns after whacking black teens with impunity. Yep, Downtown Ladywood City…
And, what, Peggers? Did the two George W. Bush terms happen during an extended blackout? Many of us didn’t want to go there, but we went there, you dumb twat.
And just a few years ago you wanted us to go with Cranky McSame and the Snowbilly Grifter.
Like Obama’s gonna be much more dangerous for this nation than a fucking N. Leroy Gingrich presidency.
We poor and middle class are gonna see some blue skies under the rule of a couple of slapdicks like Willard Romney or Prick Santorum or loony shitstain Ron Paul. Bachmann and Perry would definitely turn things around, huh?
Lord, I wish I could make a living getting drunk and cranking out 600-word opinion pieces.
Oh. I see.
I just hate geting out of the boat. The mangoes just ain’t worth it.
I would recommend that the local authorities check to see just how many urban youth have been found dead in the middle of the road since 1992 in Peggy Noonan’s neighborhood.
Only when they’re laughing at you. Like they do in Uz-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan and uh that other country, hmmm, uh, that one that had a revolution, uhm, uh… strong man in a uniform… uh, uh, uh, Libya, yeah Libya.
“The campaign trail has been pretty much a wit-free zone. ”
I would go with “witless” myself.
But “people” under 30 don’t count, so who cares if they don’t get this laff-riot. If they don’t get this ancient, outdated joke, it’s simply not worth trying to appeal to such losers for their votes.
Stop bogarting the Stoli & pills, ya Losers! hick burp… zzzz
Noonan’s last imaginary boyfriend was Bush, and her new imaginary boyfriend is Mitt Romney.
Anyone who actually heard Mitt Romney try to deliver the Lucille Ball line knows it was far from deft. More like dreft: completely scripted, with a lead-in the candidate couldn’t master. You could see the -bot show through from underneath.
And hey, were is Pizza Man? I thought he wasn’t going away. Speaking of winners, what about St. Tebow on Sunday?
Too early?
hoping against hope that the schwarze will prevail
I think you must be confused. Peggy Noonan is, without peradventure, indeed paradigmatically, a “shisker” (as they are wont to mispronounce themselves…)
St. Zeabow is a few threads back…
“It made people laugh. It made them want to repeat it, which is the best free media of all, the line people can’t resist saying in the office.”
If I worked in an office where people couldn’t resist quoting Mitt Romney laugh lines, I’d quit my job. However, since no such offices exist outside of Peggy Noonan’s mind, I’m not too worried about it.
Just when you think we have achieved Peak Caucus, mommy’s boy and political sluthog Frank Luntz gets serial slutmonger Newty to blubber about mommies on cue.
Nooners would blubber her approval.
And then Luntz tries to make sure the reporter spins it right. What a pro.
Isn’t Paul kind of like the KKK as opposed to the other candidates standing in for the White Citizen Councils, with of course Herman Cain appearing in the role of Stepen Fetchit?
ahh peggy, you ignorant slut
Ahh, Danny A. couldn’t have said it better. You, sir/madam are today’s winner of the internetz. I bow in your general direction!
Hey travy…I heard you trawl for sex in sailor’s bars in San Francisco while wearing a Laura Ashley floral shift and pumps. I have no basis in fact for this supposition, but since you were trying some sex-shaming, I thought I’d join in.
zebbidie, this is Peggy Noonan we’re talking about here. Sex shaming is what she does. She did it here, here, she wrote a column blasting Hilary Clinton called “Sex and the Sissy” for fucks sake and then there was her defense of Republican cheaters which, while not sex shaming was at least a kind of media whoring and at least metaphorically slutty.
Don’t get me started on what she said about Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton. I’ll give you a hint; it wasn’t this:
She was talking about torture. You’re right about travy going the sex-shaming route. Pardon me in this case for not giving two shits.
I think someone isn’t up on ones 1970s SNL references.
What can you do? More and more Americans are carrying a gun in the car. An ex-cop I know advises that if you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).
Oh that’s awesome advice! Just awesome! If you should perchance get caught, you know what the jury’s gonna call that? 2nd degree murder. All I can say is, don’t make any plans for at least the next 25 years.
I think people under thirty who think Lucille Ball is funny are already committed to voting for Ron Paul because, you know, he’ll legalize weed.
Can I move back to Canada now? Or do I have to take a federal job for the next six years in order to get the pension?
Okay. But still.
Mitt Romney laugh lines…If that isn’t a contradiction of terms, I don’t know what is.
As we used to say at US Grant High School (4th Ghetto/LA) – Shiksa one, half a dozen of the other…. And trust me, Nooner is the most utterly shiksa that there could be.
Imagine a catfight between Peggy Noonan and Jennifer Rubin.
Sorry.
Or Laura Ashley’s seaman siren
Laugh while you can…for the next 11 months we are going to be subjected to hearing Romney at every turn, pointed observations and “wit” such as:
“I’d love to get a good send-off from Iowa, and I hope to get that good send-off,”
“If I could predict what the unemployment rate was going to be a year from now, why, you know, I could demand the world,”
“If Ron Paul wins Iowa, Ron Paul will have won Iowa. I will not have won Iowa.”
Not to mention the right wing spin machine fluffing hm for all they’re worth. Unless of course the heavy players do a cost-benefit analysis and decide their losses in a second term Obama administration will be less than trying to buy Mitt’s way into the WH…
She probably means, “if they’re laughing AT YOU, you’re losing.” Which is arguable. But calling Romney’s Lucy line–which refers to a scene that has nothing to do with “organization”–as “deft” (let alone “wit”) is typical Krazy Peggy bullshit.
You take the most charismatic lady among a middle-sized city’s Rotarian wives, give her a weekly column in the pennysaver, and that’s Noonan. Everything she types is an exercise in self-regarding sentimentality, in which she advertises her vaunted (in her own mind) ability to know what decent people are feeling, and to express it.
I suppose the thing that strikes me about Peg’s tweet is that in her world Obama can do anything he wants if he gets a second term. I don’t want that either, because unlike Peg, I’ve actually been paying attention. See, I’ve noticed that what Obama wants is a Pete Peterson wet dream and would make many of Peg’s closest ‘friends’ break out the bubbly. Now maybe if Mitch McConnell isn’t spending all his time trying to make sure that Obama gets elected to an illegal third term and accedes to the kenyan socialist’s wishes, Peggy might be right. But everything tells me that they will get in his way, and Pegs has nothing to worry about. Too bad the country is screwed either way.
Noonan et al are a bunch of freakazoids.
The GOP is getting such respectable tv talking heads to go full racist isn’t crime actually down?
“I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”
The animals are coming?
Teenage thug animals?
From the same person who said just keep walking concerning torture. And all the other Bush crimes. And all the Obama crimes. All the Bankster/corporation/1%er crimes.
So I should watch for “animals” stealing my car? But not the ones who torture in our name, and much worse? And what about all the lives the banksters and corporations have ruined?
But ya, my bad. Teenage thug “animals” bad. Sorry for the deviation from the propaganda.
09/19/11
The incidence of crime nationwide decreased again, according to our just released Crime in the United States report. Overall, the estimated volume of violent crimes in 2010 dropped 6 percent compared to the 2009 figure, the fourth consecutive year it has declined. For the eighth consecutive year, the volume of property crimes went down as well—2.7 percent.
The report was compiled from data submitted to us by more than 18,000 city, county, university and college, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies from around the nation. It contains information on the number of reported murders and non-negligent manslaughters, forcible rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, larceny-thefts, motor vehicle thefts, and arsons.
Violent crime offenses were down across the board—the largest decrease was robbery, down 10.0 percent. Property crime offenses went down as well—the largest decline, 7.4 percent, was for motor vehicle thefts.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/september/crime_091911/crime_091911
This is crack hysteria all over again the GOP already played this card and unlike in Reagan’s time America is not as racist and as willing to believe as it once was.
All this does is brand Peggy as a racist and any tv show that puts her on tv as racist. And tv executives wonder why Dark People don’t watch the news?
The campaign trail may have been pretty much a wit-free zone for Our Lady of Stoli – but speaking only for myself, it’s provided me with a million laughs. The Republican debates alone (talk about overexposure!) have been comedy gold, never mind the lather/rinse/repeat of various candidates running their campaigns over the guard rail and into the canyon a thousand feet below.
Perhaps Noonan could give herself some laughs by resorting to watching the campaign debates with the sound off and making up her own dialogue – the debates as they ought to be in what passes for her mind. All suitably accompanied by her choice in mind altering substances, of course. Then she can write a column about it.
Hell, it’s worked for me and my friends, except that I bet we made up much better dialogue and got a lot more laughs out of it. (Except for writing a column about it for Villagers, which may God forbid.)
Also, too – I NEED my Shakira fix, dammit.
Maybe its time to boycott that sunday show of hers? I know I don’t like being called an animal and I’m sure when Peggy says Black she also means Brown.
Perhaps she’s still trying to redeem herself from the sin of talking sense around an open mic after McCain announced his VP choice.
OR…..maybe she’s trying to make herself relevant again. It’s been decades, you know.
Noonan is the one who goes on tv and very dramatically talks with her eyes closed. Makes her look like an idiot…. Well, okay, she is one. I had a great aunt who did that and I just howled every time.
I’m pretty sure she only EVER tweets when she has a column-product she’d like you to read. Does. Not. Engage.
TBogg, frontpaged yet again. Lots of erudition in this room tonight, not that it’s a bad thing.
I think Obama may have been a factor.
FDL Frontpage? It’s all Obama’s fault.
(Year End is upon us…clicks count!!!)
I suspect La Noonan was part of the focus group that Mitt’s writers tested that deeply “spontaneous” jokette out on.She knows a little too much about its “cross-generational appeal”.Hmm?
After reading this thread, It suddenly occurs to me how much damage a left-wing version of James O’Keefe, with maybe a set of ethics to go with his button-cam, could do to these closet racist thugs. Mingle with them at the Washington weenie parties or the Press Club bar, get them spewing their pure racist/fascist crapola unburdened by the bogus ‘civility’ and cutesy circumlocution that publication tends to require, and post their ramblings, unedited, on Youtube. Imagine Brooks, Nooners, Norquist, Douthat, even John-Fricking-ROBERTS??….marginalized and held up to justified ridicule by their own poisonous uncensored eliminationist blurts.
Whuh…..wuzzat? Was I dreaming again? More eggnogg, dammit! And thanks, TBogg, for a wonderful year of lolz. Cheers for ’12!!
“It’s odd that people who care so much about politics rarely use one of politics’ biggest tools, humor. Mr. Romney did and scored. More please, from everyone.”
No, my Lady of Odious Condescension Mitt and the other crack addled GOP Presidential imbeciles are not humorous funny, they are strange funny–you know, just like you. Unlike Jon Stewart, Neocons are extremely inept at humor because they cannot resist lacing it with their cancerous hatred.
Perhaps some day, Noonan will snap out of her vodka induced stupor and realize that she is covering for bizarre mental defectives that are a danger to America. But on the other hand, the compelling allure of a big salary and ability to peddle her overrated, psychotic tripe on the public virtually assures that she will be in an alcohol based coma for some time to come.
He was last seen randomly molesting those beholdin’ to him.
Noonan is a walking, talking argument for term limits on pundits.
Her entire schtick consists effectively of “turning off the sound” and making up her own dialogue. So much less work than actually taking the trouble to learn anything about anything, or for that matter bothering to connect with reality.
There are a lot of things that exist only inside Peggy Noonan’s mind. Her brain is Alternate Reality Headquarters.
Jesus Christ, everything that happens to Newt has to be world historical doesn’t it? Not getting on the ballot is Pearl Harbor. I assume when his steak arrives medium well that’s Agincourt.