Letters to the Editor
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Robert1014:
Noonan has always made my skin crawl...and watching her on television is worse than merely reading her words on paper, as, in speaking, she compounds the reflexive inanity of her commentary with a breathy, overly earnest, baby-doll delivery that I imagine she feels conveys deep conviction, but which reveals her to be a transparently phony simpleton.
She also, as much as anyone this side of David Brooks and David Broder, oozes that most repulsive pundit belief: that as she spits out her media-group-think idiocies, she is the Representative for the Average Person, the Common Man, the Real American, so in tune to what "they" want and think that she can just project her own biases and moronic conclusions onto them and assert that it's what "they" believe, for no reason other than that she believes it.
That's what leads to stuff like this, from her column in 2004:
Mr. Bush is the triumph of the seemingly average American man. He's normal. He thinks in a sort of common-sense way. He speaks the language of business and sports and politics. You know him. He's not exotic. But if there’s a fire on the block, he’ll run out and help. He’ll help direct the rig to the right house and count the kids coming out and say, 'Where's Sally?'
He's responsible. He’s not an intellectual. Intellectuals start all the trouble in the world. And then when the fire comes they say, 'I warned Joe about that furnace.' And, 'Does Joe have children?’ And ‘I saw a fire once' ...
Bush ain't that guy. Republicans love the guy who ain't that guy. Americans love the guy who ain't that guy.