Read your link. I never got that inside stuff on Noonan before. But now I see why she continues to be invited to liberal talkshows, even though none of her erstwhile "colleagues" are even known to the public.
Noonan is obviously very bright, but her writing lacks discipline - - - so does her behaviour, because she's unable to stop herself from using her writing for petty score-settling (even a column about Reagan's funeral she debased by spending paragraph after paragraph on digs at former colleagues.)