Wow, sounds like Peggy has the Norwegian Blues. She must be pining for the fjords.

I don’t even know what Nooners thinks she’s talking about. Is she a birther? Does she believe that the recipient of this year’s NPP isn’t an American? What the fuck is she going on about?

She’s pining for the fjords.

Maybe if we ignore her she will just go away?

I’m thinking it seems hallucinatory. Does she have some of that medicinal marijuana?

Well, Nooners certainly knows evil, wallowing in it and dining with its minions on a daily basis as she does, but somehow this seems a bit misapplied.

-a Norwegian bureaucrat with a long face and hair on his nose and little plastic geometric eyeglasses?

Conservatives should not write on acid.

Or perhaps, given who it is, fjording the pines.

Pot doesn’t usually make users so angry. Medicinal crack, perhaps?

Especially not the brown acid.

Or, indeed, at all.

She forgot to mention the Americans who invented the printing press, how to preserve foods, started genetics, discovered radium, created algegra-trig-geomety-calculus, figured out why apples fall down and not up debunked creationists and realized the sun doesn’t orbit the earth. Fine Americans all.

She is an ex-parrot.

Pettiness, thy name is Peggy Noonan. Suck it up. Noonan, who’s never been able to acknowledge a genuine man of vision, joins the myopic village chorus in giving evidence to the maxim, “A prophet is frequently without honor in his own land.” To which I add, ” in his own time.”

Is she called “Nooners” because that’s the time of day she starts drinking?

Shall we tell her that those nasty brown Muslims invented al-Jabr? Probably only confirm her anti-science stance.

Wow, a true celebration of American Triumphalism from a non-contributory “Concernus Trollus Extremis”. For Peggy Noonan, it’s 5PM somewhere in the world, and thus time to declare, “The bar is OPEN!”. Other than her fatuous speeches for St Ronnie, what has been her most durable contribution to the welfare of our Nation? Has she served in the Military? Peace Corps? VISTA? Are her progeny of near kin currently in either of the two misbegotten wars we are throwing blood and treasure into?

What a miserable excuse for a woman who is mourning in America because there’s a black man in the White House. The question needs to be asked, “Is Peggy Noonan crazy”. It would be irresponsible not to.

I think that is when she normally passes out.

Here is one of my favorites.

I wish I hadn’t clicked on that link.

Always trust the shorter!
Wait!

There wasn’t a shorter. Damn you BT!

No, if that was the criterion we’d be calling her “Dawn.”

DrDick & EDP, you make me laugh.

I think that is what Nooners sees when she looks into the mirror.

an enfeebled old leftist academic in Oslo? Nah, it was a man named Jonas Salk. He was an American.

Jonas gave away his polio cure to the world for free Peggy Lefties are all about Free Medical care!

It’s that paranoia thing: Obama is out to get her, and so are the creepy-crawley Norwegians with their geometric x-ray glasses that see through to her shriveled soul.

That has an air of Rat Fink about it.

Damn. I was trying for tragedy.

That’s just evil, Ratfood. Funny, but evil. ;)

See mine at 23.

Which must really gall the right wing… oh wait, they didn’t get polio did they.

Praise be to Salk.

Perhaps a Stanley Mouse tribute to Rat Fink. Where would art be without the contributions of great rodents?

LMAO

Someone paid for this meandering, incoherent ramble? Paid actual U.S. dollars?

Oh wait, it’s Rupert Murdoch. When it comes to right-wing causes, he throws good money after bad like no one’s business.

Jonas gave away his polio cure to the world for free…

Sssssssssssh. Don’t burst her balloon. That’s like saying Salk was a commin’ist becuz he deprived SmithKlineAstraGlaxoWellpointAnthem of their just obscene profits. Such thoughts make Wingnut Heads Explode.

Indeed!

No. She’s called Nooners because she has sex at noon.

Just what has the Elite Gault class invented besides complex math models to justify ponzai schemes?
I’m wondering what the ratio is between every venture capitalist who invests in the internet, green power or heck a company that makes real stuff people buy.
And all the funny financial paper that the elite class gambled away?

So 7&7 goes really well with dead parrots? Who knew? Maybe Nooner should sign up for a gig on “The Cocktail Channel.”

You mean, Stanley Miller.

Credit where it’s due, at least Nooner didn’t attribute the polio vaccine to (another great American) Peter Falk.

Nope, Stanley Mouse.

I can’t remember, did she have any comments about the awarding of the U.S. presidency in 2000? Did she say anything about hair on the nose of Sandra Day O’Conner?

And I notice she left the development of the WWW/HTTP out of her screed too. Back when this was ARPANet she would have not had clue about it.

Peggy has words but no thoughts. She does provide a lot of fun for us though.

Learned everything she knows from tech-guru Ted “Toobz” Stevens.

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
– Thomas Alva Edison, Harper’s Monthly (September 1932)
Born February 11, 1847
Milan, Ohio
Died October 18, 1931 (aged 84)
West Orange, New Jersey
Occupation inventor, scientist, businessman
Religious beliefs Deist

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

My bold Edison was a Deist Peggy like many of the Founding Fathers I’m not sure the GOP would ever elect Deist as President today.

His name is Miller. Actually, Ed “Big Daddy” Roth drew the Rat Fink character.

Yeah, for a moment I thought you might be referring to Stanley Miller the chemist.

The exchange was inspired by this, in case you missed it. A Mouse illustration we thought might be inspired by Roth’s Rat Fink.

Nonviolence was key to Edison’s moral views, and when asked to serve as a naval consultant for World War I, specified he would only work on defensive weapons and later noted, “I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.” Edison’s philosophy of nonviolence extended to animals as well, about which he stated: “Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.”[58]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

My bold I’m calling it Edison was a Pacifist Lefty. Who would be welcome at the Lake.

“Nonviolence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

I wonder what he would say about the Chimp’s evolution and torture today? I think he might wonder if America was devolving?

I got one of his mouse studios air brushed fleece-ware items and crazy hot rod catalogs back in the early 60s. I tried my hand at that monster art as well, but nothing like what Simon Pegg’s character draws in the TV show, Spaced.

She’s as old as Bullwinkle T. Moose, and knows that wicked means bitchen. Let’s all take a giant step into that big black hole over there that got Aunt Phyllis. Try it. It must be good, so many folks are jumping into it!

James Burke pointed out in his Day the Universe Changed, that Edison was a blowhard who profited from the geniuses who actually did the work of inventing useful things in his shop. I might add a blowhard with bad breath.

Gah!

*runs for the industrial-strength bleach and steel wool*

Dolphins.

That is all.

Edison tried to squash the adoption of Tesla’s alternating current (AC) as the method used for distribution of electricity in favor of his own direct current (DC). To prove the danger of AC, he did a tour in which he used AC to electrocute scores of animals including elephants.

Edison made some important contributions but was a bit of a bastard, IMO.

Peggy should get an editor Salk and Edison are the heroes she brings up to criticize Norway and Lefties?
A free healthcare guy who gave his cure free to the world and a Pacifist Deists?
The words 5 minutes with Google and your thesis unravels should be taped to your mirror.
Without Lefty Americans inventing stuff where would the world be Peggy thats the conclusion anyone who checks your sources would get I think this is a great example of writing achieving opposite the intended effect.

Nooners has been alliteratin’ too long.

It’s Sweden. Not Norway.

Ah a jerk yes a patent thief but not a GOPer like Peggy thinks rather a Pacifist and a Deist in other words one of ours a Lefty. Still I get your point he was far from perfect he could be a horrible person Lefties are not perfect.

Nooners don’t need not researcherating, it might soil her beautiful mind.

That’s not the same definition of “Nooners” that I learned…

Great Catch its an obvious one that Peggy, her editor and yes nobody here caught until you caught it.
I think you caught the most obvious GOPer mistake of the year.
And with Rahm in the news so much there was stiff competition for that award.

Nobel was Swedish. The prize is administered in Norway.

It is also unclear why Nobel wished the Peace Prize to be administered in Norway. The Norwegian Nobel Committee speculates that Norway may have been better suited to awarding the prize as it did not have the same militaristic traditions as Sweden and that at the end of the nineteenth century the Norwegian parliament had become closely involved in the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s efforts to resolve conflicts through mediation and arbitration.

Sweden not Norway…uh just how unsullied from fact is Peggy?

OK I admit I was wrong in my earlier comments :( (hangs Head) Sorry Peggy I was wrong about you being wrong about Norway.

Any connection between Nooners and facts, with their well known liberal bias, is a purely random event.

Kind of like Chaos Theory but GOPers love order so maybe they are attracted to opposites they hate and they hate themselves for this attraction?
Deep down they really really like us?…I think I’m going to be sick.

Absolutely can’t stand that woman. She acts as if her every word and opinion should be taken as if it was God’s word. She get on all the television programs, and they all revere Her like she really was somebody. She outtalks, interupts, and corrects, the hosts and any other guests. I love woman, but this one is just an ignorant pushy broad.

More like a broken clock twice a day, except not that often.

Gee, I was gonna comment, but you all have already said everything I was thinking. Especially, BT, there at the end of your post…

Every time you start to think that Peggy Noonan might not be quite as nutso as, say, the teabaggers, she proves us wrong.

It is people like her who made the Lefty blogs grow at the expense of the GOP media. I try and find the good in everything:)

Wait, here’s something I should have anticipated:

It was always absurd that Ronald Reagan, whose political project led to the end of the gulag and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and who gambled his personal standing in the world for a system that would protect the common man from annihilation in a nuclear missile attack, could not win it.

Will the RW ever get over this false belief that 1) Reagan’s star wars had the remotest chance of working, and 2) that Reagan single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall and the Soviet system?

Noonan would benefit from a little more world history and a lot less hagiography (some of which, of course, she has committed herself.)

Nooner is SUCH a loser…

See mine at 66.

2) that Reagan single-handedly brought down the Berlin Wall and the Soviet system?

Low oil prices, Afghanistan and high defense spending at the expense of the economy.

If’n it weren’t fer us Americans most of the world would still be living in caves and using stone tools
Not unlike some neocons I know

Yeah, you’re rihgt, of course.
Why do I keep expecting published pieces to be otherwise?

Must be time for a blogger ethics panel, huh? (tm Atrios)

only with nooners can we have this burlesque of a piece and it’s failure to cite her party’s dismantling, defunding, and all but destroying medical/scientific research in this county.

Is that photo of nooners? Looks like she’s serving up a frozen semen margherita.

In my neck of the woods , wicked means good .
As in, I had a wicked good time

The gist of her outburst seems to be that if they are going to give a prize to an American, they should give it to a real American (as defined by Nooner).

Jonas Salk, was nominated for a Nobel prize but didn’t win it.
Nobel made his money manufacturing dynamite.
The committee that chooses the Peace Prize winner is elected by the Norwegian parliament.
The Peace Prize is not the same as the prizes awarded in other fields, such as Medicine or Chemistry.
Nobel is described on nobelprize.org as a “pacifist”, which does make it a little odd to award the prize to someone who is presiding over the military occupation of two countries while escalating the war in one of them.

The problem with that picture of Noonan is that it portrays her as a bartender rather than a bartendee.

And, exactly which GOP leader did Obama screw out of his/her Noble Peace Prize?

John McCain?

John Bolton?

Dick Chaney?

John Boehner?

Mich McConnell?

George Bush The First?

George Bush The Lesser?

Who?

…remember when a nooner really meant something wonderfully different?

I am curious, not being in any way a Village insider – is there evidence that PN has an ETOH problem, or is this all just snark? Or dare we discuss that openly under new blogger rules?

Rush

he.. I just found this thread. So.. am I just not parsing her words correctly, or is the only way what Nooners said could conceivably make any sense whatsoever (from a perspective of basic logic) is if one accepts that Obama is not an American? I mean, she is arguing that, since Americans are the most brilliant, innovative, wonderful people on God’s brown (it used to be green) earth, and Norwegians are none of these things, Americans would never award the Nobel to a non-American like our president, right? Forgive me for being very confused, but I’m really having difficulty following her reasoning….

Another line of her screed puts it all into perspective: “Actually he was elected with 69.5 million votes, and you know, they were cast by Americans. Go figure.”

Go figure indeed. Americans electing a non-Americn, per Nooner-logic.

And there was a guy in the UK, named Swan, who invented a light bulb about the same time as Edison invented his.

yeah.. but he didn’t have a very good publicist.

Is it true that the witch school mistress in “Wicked” was based on Peggy Noonan and her Bush years role?

Book Salon a couple of flights upstairs with David Cole’s Torture Memos: Rationalizing the Unthinkable hosted by bmaz

nooner is high on that yack”

the american self righteousness and arrogance comes out again and again

and from christians go figure

we should be up for war crimes instead we get a peace prize

they were just glad to see bush leave

that is what the prize is really about

Peggers is still living in the 80′s. Just look at her – she still looks like the 80′s woman.

She can’t believe her one true love, ronnie reagan, didn’t win a prize but that black ursurper of ronnie’s white house did win one.

These racists wingers are spewing hatred like a wounded creature you see in a horror movie. It’s an embarrassment for this country but an amusing sight to sit back and watch.

a classic response! Woo hoo! LOL ROFLMAO

Screaming yellow zonkers, I’d guess.

Yes she doesn’t seem to realize that the Peace Prize and the Scientific Prizes are separately administered. Nobel selected Norway largely because of the tub-thumping by Swedish nationalists over the secession of Norway. In fact, when a Swedish member of Parliament who voted to allow the secession was given the Peace Prize in 1907 he was roundly condemned as a traitor by the Swedes.

The Swedish Committee administers the Scientific Awards. So Noonan’s stupid references to American Scientific achievements, irrelevant in the first place to the Peace Award, are doubly so when she tries to diminish Norway’s Scientific standing.

BTW Salk was profoundly anti-Noonan and would have been disgusted by the Republican Parties promulgation of ignorance about Science and, in particular, biology.

When asked about his religious faith he stated he was a bio-philosopher

“Someone who draws upon the scriptures of nature, recognizing that we are the product of the process of evolution, and understands that we have become the process itself, through the emergence and evolution of our consciousness, our awareness, our capacity to imagine and anticipate the future, and to choose from among alternatives.”

Bit of trivia. After the death of his first wife, Salk married the mistress of Pablo Picasso, which would have likely put him on some sort of right-wing “watch list”….as a socialist, evolution-professing, abstract-art loving, libertine.

And she’s a mean drunk…

Also, am I the only son of the Bay State momentarily confused by the headline? :)

“Wicked” is a code word, used by the pseudo-Christians. Everyone they disagree with is “wicked.” Check it out.

La Noonan is teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School this term. Opinion writing if you can comprehend it. I’ve seen her once there and am sure, based upon the deference shown to Alex Castellanos and Bill Kristol, that everybody at the K School is overjoyed to have the benefit of her experience.

Gah.