I love to read Peggy Noonan. She is the master of Logic Lite. She is a one woman Cirque du Soleil of reason, spinning her colorful fantasies beautifully through the air. Her artful rhetoric could persuade a lemming to hurl itself from a cliff no matter what its mother said.
Today she expounds on how polarized propaganda machines (as opposed to a free, independent press) are a good thing and all you have to do to believe is accept that a couple of partisan crackpots have actually proven the enormous liberal bias of the mainstream media and that the democrats have “lost their monopoly on the means of information in America,” as if they ever had one.
As is her usual modus operandi, she saves anything that might be construed by the faithful as criticism of the great cause for the end of her flowing postulation, long after her devoted have clicked the “RESPOND TO THIS ARTICLE” link and thrown digital flowers at her feet.
Today she had the temerity to suggest that republicans act like the party they claim to be:
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That it regain a sense of its historic mission. That it stop seeming the friend of the wired and return to being the great friend of Main Street, for Main Street still, in its own way, exists. That it return to basic principles on spending, regulation and state authority. That it question a foreign policy that often seems at once dreamy and aggressive, and question, too, an overreaching on immigration policy that seems composed in equal parts of naiveté and cynicism. That its representatives admit that lunching with lobbyists is not the problem; failing to oppose the growth of government–so huge that no one, really no one, knows what is in its budget–is. That they reduce the size and power of government. That they help our country.
Like a broken clock, even Peggy is right every once in a while.
