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    TheBurnersMyDestinationHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:33am

    I'm really starting to think my whole "work hard for a living" shtick was a scam. I want to blab senselessly on television and get paid good money for it, too! Apparently it doesn't require any sort of preparation or research or even TV presence, so I think I would be really good at it. Give me a call when you are ready to retire, Peggy.

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      CharitybTheBurnersMyDestination
      6/17/16 9:43am

      Why wait? You can make a lot of money by being confidently, stridently, gloriously clueless. Jeffrey Lord and Bill Kristol are the crown princes of this — you always see those smirking gargoyles on the cable news, arrogantly and breezily rattling off predictions based on literally nothing at all. It doesn't matter how wrong they turn out to be in hindsight, or even how preposterous their predictions seem even at the time they make them. They just keep going, smiling knowingly as if they have some insight that we don't. And considering how much money they've made based on knowing less about politics and history than the average person does, I guess they kind of do.

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      Netflix and ShillCharityb
      6/17/16 10:29am

      Why wait? You can make a lot of money by being confidently, stridently, gloriously clueless...

      ...It doesn’t matter how wrong they turn out to be in hindsight, or even how preposterous their predictions seem even at the time they make them. They just keep going, smiling knowingly as if they have some insight that we don’t.

      I came here to say this, basically. If you can say it confidently, while leaving yourself some wiggle room, congratulations, you too can be a pundit.

      There are pundits who know what they’re talking about, but eventually, the world will change enough that their opinion is no longer relevant either.

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    ArdenHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:37am

    How pissed is Scotland right now that, barely two years earlier, Britain *begged* them to stay in the EU, but now they’re all “fuck this place, I’m out!”

    If I was a Scottish voter, swayed by their impassioned please for unity only to have them flip around and pull this, I’d be *livid*.

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      jroberts548Arden
      6/17/16 9:42am

      I'm pretty sure Scottish people are always either livid or drunk.

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      ThisisnttheaccountArden
      6/17/16 9:43am

      I’m pretty sure Scotland is used to the duplicitous relationship with the English by now

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    Quint the GreyerHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:35am

    She 100% correct. I just checked Facebook and saw 2 stay and 3 leave posts before I go bored scrolling.

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      BaggyTrousers3Quint the Greyer
      6/17/16 9:38am

      Do they have Facebook in London? Because I’m sure Gawker would pay you to go there and do your “research.”

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      Quint the GreyerBaggyTrousers3
      6/17/16 9:39am

      There's only one way to find out.

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    BaggyTrousers3Hamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:37am

    My conclusion from four days in London talking to both sides, Leave and Remain, is that in spite of recent polls showing gains for Leave, no one knows what’s going to happen.

    GIF
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      EliManPenguinBoyBaggyTrousers3
      6/17/16 11:07am

      Four whole days. That’s almost 100 hours! They should make her an honorary citizen. I bet she speaks with an English accent now and thinks Mr. Bean is funny.

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      kareemaEliManPenguinBoy
      6/17/16 11:19am

      Hey, I thought Mr. Bean was funny.

      But Blackadder is much, much, MUCH better.

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    thwarted666Hamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:47am

    Oh, Peggy, Peggy, Peggy. That ridiculous jacket is not your color.

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      donald hornthwarted666
      6/17/16 9:56am

      I love her gold jacket. So classy and jazzy!

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      EL34thwarted666
      6/17/16 10:14am

      Jacket? Damn, all this time I thought it was just her satin jammies.

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    BulfrightHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:36am

    I assume by “advanced reporting techniques” you mean “box Chardonnay”

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      DidYouReallyRespondToMyComment?Bulfright
      6/18/16 9:19am

      I’ve said it before and will repeat as necessary:

      Peggy Noonan is the Orson Welles of vodka.

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    Netflix and ShillHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 10:47am

    Though other great minds, like Thomas Friedman, have pioneered the “just ask the cab driver” technique of investigative reporting,

    Friedman is almost unreadable, but in fairness, he was once a great reporter (Pulitzer for Beirut massacre coverage, 1982). From Beirut to Jerusalem won the National Book Award and is a good place to start if you want to try and understand the Middle East.

    I like to imagine that when he sold out, it sounded something like this quote from Gladiator:

    So Spaniard Noonan, we shall go to Rome DC together and have bloody adventures sell the fuck out. And the great whore will suckle us until we are fat and happy and can suckle no more.

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      Manny Both-HansNetflix and Shill
      6/17/16 11:03am

      Thing is, he’s most likely a billionaire through marriage. So it can’t be selling out.

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      Netflix and ShillManny Both-Hans
      6/17/16 11:05am

      Wow. I missed that detail. It does help explain his neoliberal turn.

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    opiumsmabytchHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:38am

    but he showed me the yellow notepad on which he kept score.

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      Myrna Minkoffopiumsmabytch
      6/17/16 10:26am

      I genuinely lol’d.

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    tornadoslackssHamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:34am

    I think I know what the female version of a "druncle" is now. It's a "peggy."

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      Canuckistanislaustornadoslackss
      6/17/16 10:12am

      I’m amazed she gets any reporting done at all. After all, since she never changes out of that gold lame blouse, it must reek to high heaven by now. Who will let her get close enough that she can ask them questions?

      Another thing: even the vaping congressman, though he never seems to do anything but vape, is evidently active and breathing. Peggy Noonan’s forever frozen in the identical pose, as if catatonic. Is it certain she hasn't died, and been replaced by a waxwork?

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      Canuckistanislaustornadoslackss
      6/20/16 9:52am

      Peggy with the gold hair?

      Now I really must show myself out.

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    Dave Hamilton Nolan
    6/17/16 9:37am
    GIF

    Miss it Noonan...

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      FallenOffTheRecordDave
      6/17/16 1:28pm

      Golf clap to go with that star for a classic.

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