Ever since Peggy Noonan's on-air goof up about Sarah Palin's VP candidacy, I haven't been able to take her seriously (you may remember that she supported McCain's pick while the cameras were rolling, then, when she thought the mics were off, she declared Palin's appointment "bullshit.")
I used to like reading Noonan, even though her flowery prose was often hard to stomach. After the Palin lie, however, I just see her as a hack that tries too hard.
This piece of Peggy's from the Wall Street Journal should prove my point:
This is New York five months into hard times.
One senses it, for the first time: a shift in energy. Something new has taken hold, a new air of peace, perhaps, or tentativeness. The old hustle and bustle, the wild and daily assertion of dynamism, is calmed.
And now Washington becomes the financial capital of the country, of the world. Oh, what a status shift. Oh, what a fact.
Oh, what bullshit.
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