Peggy Noonan, please define "rubble"
October 23, 2009 3:32 pm ET by Eric Boehlert
For somebody who still worships Ronald Reagan and is always lecturing Democrats about how they need to project a more sunny view of the world, Noonan this week latches onto a disturbingly dark view of America in 2009:
It's His Rubble Now: And the American people want him to fix it.
You can just feel the disdain seeping through the WSJ headline. And here's the nut graph from her column [emphasis added]:
President Obama, in office a month longer than Bush was when 9/11 hit, now owns his presidency. Does he know it? He too stands on rubble, figuratively speaking—a collapsed economy, high and growing unemployment, two wars. Everyone knows what he's standing on. You can almost see the smoke rising around him.
Is it me, or does Noonan almost seem to be hoping for more bad news? Like other conservative commentators, Noonan seems to relish the idea of higher unemployment numbers so she can blame the White House.
Thankfully, not all Americans share Noonan's dour and defeatist right-wing view of the world under Obama.
MSNBC headline today:
Home sales rise 9.4 percent in September: 'There's a mini-boom going on in the housing market,’ pollster says
From The Atlantic:
Existing Home Sales Soared In September
From Washington Post:
Home sales jump 9.4 percent to highest level in two years
I just hope these good-news headlines don't ruin Noonan's day.
Mr. News
You are the one that can bring Truth back into Fashion.
I'm a Democrat but i think you can Win my Vote.
If you ran, for Obama i think it would be All She Wrote.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
I am going to Poetically Hound you until you can't stand the Embarrassment.
Andrea Mackris will have her day of Public Exoneration.
Until then "The Poet" will grind you into total Capitulation.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
if you talk to her, tell her to send the Valium back.
It isn't working, she should try something new.
If it comes with a gag, it will do.
Type rhymes to ether.
Mr. Resolve
It was already bad enough when Mr. Bad Poetry always tried, in his juvenile way, to jump near the front of the line. His new tactic is to write a quick statement with no meat to it at all, and then reply to that with his annoying attempts at verse. He has no concept whatever of meter, and his rhymes are often worse than those in many C&W songs. I'm glad you read it, because you saved me the trouble; I find him utterly ignorable.
More info:
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/10/existing-home-sales-more-activity.html
But I agree Noonan is a worthless commentator.
True, toombsie, but at least Boehlert gives one aspect of a growing economy. Noonan gives no numbers of any kind to back up her claim that the economy is in terrible shape. She gives a brief statement about unemployment ("high and growing") but again provides no numbers to back up what she says. As for the rest--inflation, interest rates, the stock market--not a word.
Furthermore, Noonan selectively quotes poll numbers to "prove" her contention that the public are faulting Obama for the condition of the country. It's an incredible tissue of lies and distortions.
To put it in tern that she will comprehend, Rubble was Fred Flintstone's next-door neighbor.
Selective Attention Deficit Disorder (SADD), anyone?
But the best part is when Boehlert wanders off into a "Glen Beckesque" conspiracy theory on the motives of Noonan...wondering "does Noonan almost seem to be hoping for more bad news...Noonan seems to relish the idea of higher unemployment".
This Glen Beck thing is starting to catch on...baseless claims, conspiracy theories, and eerie mind reading abilities...can Nobel prizes be around the corner?
And she's like many rightwingers, upset that in discussing the problems that need to be fixed, Obama can and does mention the creator of the problems he's having to fix. Noonan thinks that's unfair to keep pointing that out. Sorry, charlie, but it's more than fair. It's unfair to suggest that he can't or shouldn't do that, or that it makes him look weak to do so.
And she's wrong about his approval rating meaning that people are very unhappy with him. He had unbelievably sky-high ratings at first. Now that his popularity is back down to normal, they're trying to hold that drop against him. It's all they've got, but that doesn't make it a legit charge.
And wondering if she hopes for worse news, considering the way she describes our nation right now, is not a far stretch.
You may quote the DOW JONES, they may quote unemployment rates.
Any positive outcome means defeat for their party...
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