Jon Stewart DESTROYS what's left of Peggy Noonan's credibility

[kpete]

STEWART:

Now think hard, Peggy Noonan. Never in your lifetime have you seen a scandal this bad? What if a President secretly sold weapons to Iran, in return for American hostages, and then used the proceeds to illegally fund a bunch of coked-up right-wing jungle rapists in Nicaragua? Ring a bell? Here's a hint: you worked in his White House as a high-profile speechwriter.

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/23/1211125/-Jon-Stewart-DESTROYS-what-s-left-of-Peggy-Noonan-s-credibility

[Buzz Clik]

1. That's gonna leave a mark.

[Frustratedlady]

3. I hope so. She's always been given too much credibility.

Her opinions are basically worthless.

[JHB]

11. No, it probably won't won't.

More likely she'll just use it as more Washington-insider-nattering fodder with the rest of the people who don't lose their jobs for being repeatedly wrong in big ways.

[freshwest]

33. Richly deserved.

[MADem]

57. It should leave a scar on that pompous, smarmy-voiced twit. nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Nooney Tunes...that's a keeper

[pokerfan]

19. It's perfect

[BeyondGeography]

20. I'm sure the self-reinforcing world that she lives in will enable her to outwardly shake this off

But that was a such a masterful and comprehensive beatdown, no way it didn't leave a mark. She has been re-branded.

[liberal N proud]

4. Oh, that part where he played her reading her ode to de reagan was god awful

I have always hated listening to her drawing out every sentence.

Stewart rolled over on her big time and it was well deserved.

[Angelonthesidelines]

40. Drawing out every single word

Is most annoying.

Why is she still taken seriously?

Maybe because she speaks so s l o w l y ?

[liberal N proud]

41. Like it has m e a n i ng

[WCGreen]

46. An 8th grade Melodramatic

Us what she really is....

[Baitball Blogger]

5. I saw that last time. That was great!

[CanonRay]

6. Peggy Noonan and David Gregory are the two best examples

of what is wrong about American media today. Self important and totally worthless as journalists.

[Paladin]

7. "Nooney Tunes", "Fifty Shades of Graygan": BRILLIANT!

Thank you, Jon Stewart. Thank you for sticking a fork in this obnoxious, talent-free, Reagan-worshiping old hack.

[serbbral]

8. Peggy Noonan

I never liked her anyway. She seems so arrogant and full of herself. Never understood what made her special.

[hobbit709]

9. she has credibility?

[PennyK]

10. It was a beautiful thing!

She's one of those people who can't hear how they sound.

[ryan_cats]

12. She still gets on TV?

She still gets on TV? Even the thugs dislike her. Just a nasty mean sob.

She's not the one that wrote the, "Tear down this wall..." speech is she?

[caledesi]

28. Peggy simplifies everything for dummies. nt

[DallasNE]

30. Nah, That Would Have Been Over Her Head

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Robinson_(speechwriter)

[Blue_Tires]

43. TV will always have a place for former liberals who "saw the light"

Of course Noonan saw the light back in the Nixon era, so hardly anyone remembers she used to be on the other side...

[BlueCaliDem]

13. Once again, Jon hits it out of the ballpark!

Noonen is only "credible" today because that's what Corporate America wants her to be and that's how she's marketed. Anyone with more than half a working brain {and the moneyed Fascists in this country don't believe there are many of us} can see right through her faux ladylike image.

She's a Republican hack and corporate serf, no different than Brainfart but better at putting words together.

[RayStar]

14. Poor peggy

She really needs to go away. The more she has spoken lately almost made no sense.

[Berlum]

15. the k and the r

nt

[SCVDem]

16. I really hate those faces she makes.

Looks like she's fornicating with a cactus!

[Grammy23]

27. I agree with you. Does she ever look at the clips of her appearances on TV?

The first impression I get of her is that she is a real snob and totally in love with the sound of her own voice. She seems to relish dragging out whatever she is saying with a heavy dose of drama. And if you listen to her, you would think there is no other opinion that counts other than hers.

Does she not realize that her facial expressions actually detract from what she is saying to the point that it's hard to watch her without laughing?

She really, really does need to watch some clips of her appearances on shows like Meet the Press so she can get some clues of why people are mocking her. Stewart did an awesome job of taking her down a notch or two.

[Dustlawyer]

17. Saw it last night and that was great but, why does he keep bring in Bill "Lufa" O'Reilly?

That is the last piece of crap that deserves any airtime!

[freshwest]

32. O'Really deserves all the crap that's flung at him:

Adding the in case the meme generator didn't get it. Brillo is incapable of looking at another human being any other way but superficially, which shows how shallow the little Goebbels truly is.

[Gothmog]

18. I loved last night's show

I have never been convinced that Noonan is very bright and most of her comments show a profound lack of intelligence. Stewart did a great job on her last night.

[TeamPooka]

21. listening to noonan is like listening to an opium addict talk

[ErikJ]

22. She sounds like she's reading her writing badly.

[AndyA]

23. The biggest shock to me is that Peggy Noonan EVER had any credibility

Pretending to forget that incident Stewart mentioned while Noonan worked in the White House is pathetic. Right wingers have convenient memories, big mouths, and lots of mental issues.

[Aerows]

24. Republicans don't care

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George Bush could have eaten puppies on live television and it wouldn't have changed their opinions in the slightest. If lying the country into a war doesn't change Republican's opinions, nothing will. They will still fall back on "But Clinton" and "But Obama" ad nauseam.

They won't even vote for things that are in their best interest because of wedge issues. Do you honestly think they give a fuck when the truth is repeatedly pointed out to them? They don't. They DO NOT CARE what the truth is.

I don't mean to be so negative, but I'm fed up with Republicans. My sister lives in OKC, and their entire town is destroyed, and she's with the ones whining for assistance while in the last election she voted straight Republican.

She fucking voted against plan B for women, when she can't carry a child to term because of a heart condition. She actively works against abortion when her own mother wouldn't be alive had it not been for my father taking her out of a Catholic hospital when she had an ectopic pregnancy and they did a D&C to remove the dead child.

It's lunacy, and lunacy reigns with Republicans. They don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves, never have and never will. When tragedy visits their door, everyone is expected to drop everything and help them out, though. That's when the "Christian" bullshit gets laid on thick. It's Christian to help them, but god forbid they ever show tolerance or kindness when someone else has an issue.

[LondonReign2]

34. Bravo

You're nailed it exactly

[brett_jv]

37. +2

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Modern-day, so-called 'Conservative' Republicans ... f@^#!#@ suck ass ... And not in the fun way.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

25. drama queen extraordinaire

[bobclark86]

26. Remember everybody...

Selling illegal arms to dictators which have stormed you embassy and killed Americans so you can funnel the money to druglords is OK, but asking if groups advocating not paying taxes to pay their taxes is a horrible scandal...

[blackspade]

29. that was a beat down.

[nolabear]

31. Peggy's got a cru-ush! Peggy's got a cru-ush!

Sweet Jesus.

[MisterP]

35. supported Pol Pot, supported Saddam, supported the mullahs, paid off Islamic Jihad

supported China, best friends with Gorbachev, amnestied undocumented immigrants, raised SS taxes, didn't go to church, tried to start WWIII once or twice, had 6 letters in each of his names, slave to the stars, came back 3 days after a mortal wound in a sickening parody of the Resurrection...

[brett_jv]

38. You hinted at, but didn't explicitly SAY ...

"Sided with Osama Bin Laden ... "

I think that's a pretty good point, myself

[MisterP]

42. dammit, forgot the 4th or 5th terrorist group they actively sided with!

[rhett o rick]

36. The difference is that in her mind, she was on the side of righteousness.

That's all that matters. The ends justify the means.

[indepat]

39. Metaphorically, Peggy imo had her nose so far up the gipper's ass that she could never

take pause to stop and smell the roses.

[Cha]

44. peggy noonan walked right into that one. Way to blast her past,

Jon Stewart.

thanks kpete

[myrna minx]

45. K&R n/t

[Divine Discontent]

47. Stewart took a noonan! then flushed it. that was priceless and destroys her arguments FULLY

lol... good stuff

[DRoseDARs]

48. I like how when he was setting up the joke initially, there was almost no sound from the audience...

...UNTIL he said Iran-Contra, then people got the joke. Most of the people in his audience weren't even born yet. I was conceived around when Reagan won the Republican nomination (gawd I hope that's just coincidence). I'm only tangentially aware of the events of the scandal, and not because I was taught any of it in school because lawrd have mercy you don't teach ill of Saint Ronnie.

[octoberlib]

49. Peggy Noonan, Our Lady of the Perpetual Martini as Wonkette calls her.

Long overdue.

[MrModerate]

50. To be fair, you could destroy what's left of Noonan's credibility . . .

With a toothbrush or one end of a Q-tip, so it's not like Stewart is breaking a sweat here.

[nobodyspecial]

51. She sounds like she's on some awesome drugs

observing an alternate universe that's all rainbows and unicorns when describing Republicans and dark clouds and snakes when talking about Democrats.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

52. What I most love about Noonington is how she reacts when someone disagrees with her.

It's rare but when it happens she looks so... my goodness... appalled.

[Beacool]

53. That was great!!

I love how he took his time and used her own words to expose her hypocrisy.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

54. former dem...fyi.

[MADem]

58. When? Not since she fell in love with Reagan...and that was before the Great Flood for many here!

Strom Thurmond was a former dem, too....Our crew weren't always saints back in the day.

Was she swooning over JFK as a tween? Batting her eyelids at Bobby and Teddy?

She's about that deep--and no deeper. I swear, I saw her on a panel with Nancy Reagan once, eons ago, and I thought Nancy wanted to clean her clock, the way she was drooling over Ronnie like he was her Grand Unrequited Romance--it was UNSEEMLY. Creepy. Stalkerish. It made one...uncomfortable.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

59. long ago. I actually read one of her books - but it's been ages ago.

wiki says she was rumored to have had an affair with Jeff Greenfield *yummy*

In a world full of repukes who are 100% repukes, I always look for any repuke who shows the slightest anti-repuke glimmer

Noonan expressed her view that Palin did not demonstrate "the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office," concluding that Palin's candidacy marked a "vulgarization in American Politics" that is "no good... for conservatism... [or] the country."[6]

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

[MADem]

60. Jeff Greenfield! How she must have swooned!

I know she wrote a paean to Ronnie called "What I Saw at the Revolution" or words to that effect--a friend of mine had it in the bathroom library in hardback on a 99 cent clearance purchase. I read a chapter or so, I'm sure, but I don't remember anything about it save I was surprised that she was so touted as a speechwriter because her stuff didn't capture me in the slightest.

[Blue Owl]

55. High Noon

Peggy must've gotten ahold of some sick chronic....

[Metro135]

56. Fabulous

I've never been able to stand her. In many ways she's more obnoxious than the screech queens like Coulter and Malkin with that pompous attitude of hers -- the way she weighs every word as if she's some savant and everyone on the show and in the viewing audience is hanging on her every word. I also love the way she purses her lips when she doesn't agree with something another guest is saying, as if she's your maiden aunt and she just found "skid marks" on your underwear while doing the laundry.

Whenever I picture her writing her column (which actually isn't often) she always in a Barbara Billingsley house dress, clacking away on a manual typewriter with a bottle of cooking sherry at the ready.

[reformist2]

61. I kind of like Peggy Noonan's smooth-and-snooty delivery.