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ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL
Free Republic, Opinion Journal | 2.10.06 | Mia T

Posted on 02/10/2006 6:08:58 PM PST by Mia T

ON PEGGY NOONAN ON 4 PRESIDENTS AND A FUNERAL


by Mia T, 2.10.06










will preface this by saying that Peggy Noonan is not my cup of tea. Her writing leaves a cloyingly sweet aftertaste. (Her speaking, too.) Worse, it is too often metaphor in search of a thought.

That said, I thought her analysis of Coretta Scott King's funeral provided an interesting and coherent--if disputable--point of view.

That is, until I came to this jumbled mess: (Noonan is in blue.)

Amid all the happy bombast [bill clinton] was the one who pointed at the casket and said, "There's a woman in there." He talked about Mrs. King in good strong plain terms. Yes, he caused a quarter-second of awkwardness when he said of the beautiful Coretta that even at age 75 she still had the goods, but in moments of exuberance we all forget our own history.

ASIDE: Surely Ms. Noonan understands that clinton's mummy-redux moment wasn't an example of a momentary event-induced lapse but rather a slip, a disclosure, a demonstration in real time of this depicable misogynist's real opinion of women.

The real news was how the Clintons used the funeral to unveil how they will run in 2008: Together, side by side, with beautiful hairdos. I haven't seen them like this--both standing at the podium--since 1992, when they were new.

ASIDE: Superficial. And wrong.

What is happening here is not the clintons 'side by side,' but rather, the clintons conflated.

Having failed to snare the Nobel Peace Prize by ignoring terrorism, clinton has apparently decided to intensify his America-bashing on foreign soil, the method employed by Jimmy Carter to great (if somewhat belated) effect. (The Nobel committee, sufficiently mollified only after 24 years of the peanut president's America-bashing, awarded Carter his 1978 Peace Prize finally in 2002.)

Meanwhile, back in the Senate, the missus, the other half of the clinton construct, maintains her hawkish pose (though not without bird problems of another sort).

Yet another example of the clinton conflation ploy, (see SCHEMA PINOCCHIO: how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor), this variant allows "clinton, the construct" to hold two mutually exclusive positions simultaneously, thereby enabling the missus to avoid in '08 the trap that repeatedly ensnared the ever 'nuanced' Kerry in '04.

Do you now understand how stupid the clintons think you are?

A CALL TO IMPEACH CLINTON IN ABSENTIA
Mia T, 11.17.05

REINVENTING HILLARY... AGAIN
(clinton machine dumps Geena Davis for Margaret Thatcher)
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor2
Mia T, 11.23.05

Miss hillary of the 'plantation' wouldn't do here. 'The First Black President? was providing a warm body if not soul.

And as for the 'beautiful hairdos,' they tell us something about the clintons that is quite different from the glamour suggested by Noonan. The precision cut is counterproductive after a certain age. It can only serve to make all the crags and sags more evident. And the incongruity is wiglike, artificial.

So the precision cut, rather than a glamour marker, says 'old and fake'... and ultimately, 'clueless.' Just like the clintons, themselves.

In the years since, after the health-care failure and the Whitewater scandals, the West Wing attitude toward the president's wife was a quiet and respectful "Get that woman off the podium!" Not anymore. All is new again. Mrs. Clinton has clearly been working on her public speaking, and attempted to use her hands as her husband uses his, now in an emphasizing arc, now resting on her chest. But his are large, long and elegant, and hers are puffed and grasping.

 

ASIDE: Missus clinton is a dud and no amount of money or training or spin will change that plain fact.

Everyone knows this--that is, everyone except Noonan.

And as for the utility of missus clinton's gesticulation training, check out the hands in my latest flash movies.

I am amazed that Noonan would romanticize clinton. Not even Esquire missed the hands and their connection to the phallic.

clinton's hands are grotesquely large, clawlike, threatening. They are not the elegant hands of, say, a surgeon or a pianist. They are the viselike hands of a rapist.

Yes, all of missus clinton's appendages are puffy and much too short even given her squat, low-center-of-gravity torso. But both clintons have grasping hands. They may be grasping for different things, but they are grasping.

 

Both Clintons spoke in the cadence and with the imagery of the Bible. Mrs. Clinton's first words, in which she referred to Mrs. King's brave decision to continue her husband's work after his murder, were steeped in religiosity. "As we are called, each of us must decide whether to answer that call by saying, 'Send me.'" She ended with, "The work of peace never ends. So we bid her earthly presence farewell. We wish her Godspeed on her homecoming. And we ask ourselves, 'Will we say, when the call comes, "Send me"?'"

Oh I think we will, Ms. Meanieface!

If you don't understand that Mrs. Clinton was rehearsing her 2008 announcement speech, then you are a child and must go home and have a nice cup of cocoa.

This is what is coming: I have had a blessed life. And like so many people I could choose, after all these years, a life of comfort. Watch it from the sidelines, tend to my own concerns, watch the garden grow. But our nation calls out. And if we are to be Americans we must meet the call. "Send me."

With Bill nodding beside her, his hands clasped prayerfully in front of him, nodding and working that jaw muscle he works when he wants you to notice, for just a second, how hard it is sometimes for him to contain his admiration.

God I love them.

Four Presidents and a Funeral
Peggy Noonan
02/10/2006

ASIDE: Even here she doesn't quite get it. The clintons aren't merely analogizing. They are setting up false equivalences with heroic figures. It is one of their favorite methods of legacy inflation, second only to posthumous misappropriation.

And how much truth and how much facetiousness are in that last sentence, anyway?

Biography lends to death a new terror.--Oscar Wilde

  

Hypocrisy abounds in this Age of Clinton, a Postmodern Oz rife with constitutional deconstruction and semantic subversion, a virtual surreality polymarked by presidential alleles peccantly misplaced or, in the case of Jefferson posthumously misappropriated...

Mia T, THE OTHER NIXON

   

Yesterday, Daniel Patrick Moynihan died. Today, the clintons are arrogating his soul. Hardly surprising. In 1999, the clintons were not at all shy about seizing his still-warm senate seat.

One has merely to recall the Jefferson double-helix hoax to understand that posthumous misappropriation is, for the obvious reason, the clintons' preferred method of legacy inflation….

Standard-Issue clintonism

If misappropriation of Jefferson's alleles hinged on a broken line of descent, misappropriation of Moynihan's endorsement depends on a broken line of dissent. Like Sally Hemmings' progeny, Moynihan's later acquiescence is of dubious lineage

Mia T, Moynihan Myths


 

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006



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To: beyond the sea; jla; Mia T
Aaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwww gee...I don't worry about what's under my bed; never have.

There aren't any monsters in my closest either.

And frankly, I don't worry about what ifs, concerning Hitlery!; but I do worry what nefarious garbage she's doing now, in the Senate and out of it.

101 posted on 02/11/2006 5:13:24 PM PST by nopardons
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To: malia
oops --- I'm so sorry - post #94 should be in parenthesis ("-") from -------

"THE VIRTUAL HILLARY RATIONALE ----- repressed woman".

102 posted on 02/11/2006 5:43:46 PM PST by malia (The Impeached x42 clinton - a Paper Tiger President! MSM - bottom feeders! What a team!!!!)
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To: x

"x" -cellent points ;)


103 posted on 02/11/2006 7:32:20 PM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: jla; All

jla nails Noonan's pov. Eloquently.


104 posted on 02/12/2006 1:34:48 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: nopardons; jla; beyond the sea; All
My take on the clintons' 'performance' at the Coretta Scott King funeral vs. Noonan's--a 180-degree difference:

THREE WOMEN AND A FUNERAL:
HOW THE CLINTONS ARE HANDLING THE HILLARY DUD FACTOR
3
 
by Mia T, 03.18.06

 









er head bobbed nonstop in servile compliance.... Her gaze was fawning, fixed on him.... Her mouth was frozen shut, corners upturned a carefully calibrated nine degrees above the horizontal.... Not a smile.... (Never a smile).... Just enough of an upturn to hide the always-present anger. His sock puppet was on display.... Finally....

He spoke for both of them, alternating between oily racist and reliable misogynist.

Instead of striking out as her own person in this friendly venue--it was the Coretta Scott King funeral, for heaven's sake--she reprised their '92 electoral refrain. 'Two for the price of one' would be, as it had always been, the order of the day.

Having failed to snare the Nobel Peace Prize by ignoring terrorism, clinton has apparently decided to intensify his America-bashing on foreign soil, the method employed by Jimmy Carter to great (if somewhat belated) effect. (The Nobel committee, sufficiently mollified only after 24 years of the peanut president's America-bashing, awarded Carter his 1978 Peace Prize finally in 2002.)

Meanwhile, back in the Senate, the missus, the other half of the clinton construct, maintains her hawkish pose (though not without
bird problems of another sort).

Yet another example of the clinton conflation ploy,
(see SCHEMA PINOCCHIO: how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor), this variant allows "clinton, the construct" to hold two mutually exclusive positions simultaneously, thereby enabling the missus to avoid in '08 the trap that repeatedly ensnared the ever 'nuanced' Kerry in '04.

Do you now understand how stupid the clintons think you are?

A CALL TO IMPEACH CLINTON IN ABSENTIA
Mia T, 11.17.05

REINVENTING HILLARY... AGAIN
(clinton machine dumps Geena Davis for Margaret Thatcher)
how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor2
Mia T, 11.23.05

NO BARGAIN

If they didn't know in '92 that one was not enough, they certainly know it now. (Refuting the axiom that 2 x 0 = 0), their 'twofer' construct remains the lifeblood of her electoral--(and, arguably, non-electoral)--life.

 

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous g-droppin'.]

... We have a
culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."

(
Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on behalf of a government that left you behind.)

hillary clinton
Martin Luther King Day
Monday, January 16, 2006
Canaan Baptist Church of Christ
Harlem, New York City

She of the 'plantation' blunder simply wouldn't play here. He, as First Black President?, was providing cover.

And still the central question remains: Can spilt oil raise a sinking ship?


 
It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

 

... While America appears not to be ready for a female president under any circumstances, the post-9/11 realities pose special problems for a female presidential candidate. Add to these the problems unique to missus clinton. The reviews make the mistake of focusing on the problems of the generic female presidential candidate running during ordinary times.

These are not ordinary times. America is waging the global War on Terror; the uncharted territory of asymmetric netherworlds is the battlefield; the enemy is brutal, subhuman; the threat of global conflagration is real.

Defeating the enemy isn't sufficient. For America to prevail, she must also defeat a retrograde, misogynous mindset. To successfully prosecute the War on Terror, it is essential that the collective patriarchal islamic culture perceives America as politically and militarily strong. Condi Rice excepted, this requirement presents an insurmountable hurdle for any female presidential candidate, and especially missus clinton, historically antimilitary--(an image, incidentally, that is only enhanced today by her clumsy, termagant parody of Thatcher), forever the pitiful victim, and, according to Dick Morris, "the biggest dove in the clinton administration."

It is ironic that had the clintons not failed utterly to fight terrorism... not failed to take bin Laden from Sudan... not failed repeatedly to decapitate a nascent, still stoppable al Qaeda... the generic female president as a construct would still be viable... missus clinton's obstacles would be limited largely to standard-issue clintonisms: corruption, abuse, malpractice, malfeasance, megalomania, rape and treason... and, in spite of Juanita Broaddrick, or perhaps because of her, Rod Lurie would be reduced to perversely hawking the "First Gentleman" instead of the "Commander-in-Chief."

Mia T, 10.02.05
HILLARY'S COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PROBLEM
(see descriptor morphs)

 

 

READ MORE 

 

 


105 posted on 03/20/2006 12:49:29 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: Mia T
ASIDE: Surely Ms. Noonan understands that clinton's mummy-redux moment wasn't an example of a momentary event-induced lapse but rather a slip

ROFL

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy" — Bill Clinton, looking at "Juanita," a newly discovered Incan mummy on display at the National Geographic museum

106 posted on 03/20/2006 4:04:52 AM PST by beyond the sea (The definition of a 'Targeted Tax Cut' is ........................ you ain't gettin' it)
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To: garyhope; Mia T
I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hillary Clinton is the absolute end of the world. Death and evil personified.

Who, in the course of a lifetime, hasn't encountered—somewhere, sometime, somehow—a Hillary Clinton in one form or another? She's a type, a mold, a case study. It's the Compulsively Lying Psychobroad-Striver-whose-Ambitions-are-Ahead-of-her-Talents Phenomenon.

Julia Gorin – http://jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin081505.php3

****

"I think for me, the sickest and scariest kind of rage is the Hillary Clinton kind of rage. You know, the perpetual permafrost smile she wears that's hiding a well of fury deeper than Barry White's voice during a bout of pneumonia." -- Dennis Miller

107 posted on 03/20/2006 4:10:51 AM PST by beyond the sea (The definition of a 'Targeted Tax Cut' is ........................ you ain't gettin' it)
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To: beyond the sea

Thanks. I love Julia Gorin. I haven't read her in a while. I used to check in at JWR all the time, bur for some reason lately haven't. Thanks for the reminder.

And it's so true, Hillary is really scary because of the facade and the anger, contempt and condescendsion lurking and simmering underneath.


108 posted on 03/20/2006 4:38:28 AM PST by garyhope (In vino veritas. Ars longa, vita brevis, too brevis.)
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To: Mia T
Miss Noonan evoked the Jeffersonian spirit of Americanism in her column, while you offer a sketch of Clinton standing over Coretta King's casket in a state of sexual titillation.
I'm sure FR's more unpardonable miscreants will appreciate your "take", even finding it amusing.
I do not.
109 posted on 03/20/2006 6:36:40 AM PST by jla
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To: jla

You miss my point entirely, jla.

To ignore--or as Noonan did, to mischaracterize--the clintons' 'performance' at the funeral does not change the essential truths. Peggy Noonan failed utterly to see the game the clintons were/are playing. And you fail to see Peggy Noonan's failure.

As for the badmouthing of Bush, wrapping 'the Jeffersonian spirit of Americanism' around it doesn't automatically make it right. (Such an analysis is facile, simplistic. At best....)

Indeed, there are two very good reasons why this behavior is wrong: (1) it aids and abets the enemy, (Which president did al-Jazeera quote first, I wonder...), (2) it tarnishes a person's funeral.


110 posted on 03/20/2006 7:38:12 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: jla
BTW, did you read the ESSAY? Did you observe HILLARY CLINTON in the video?

You conveniently latched onto the clinton's crudeness. That had nothing to do with the point of my piece.

111 posted on 03/20/2006 7:51:42 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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To: johnny7
 
ON THE FICTIONALIZED MEMOIR--hear hillary!
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF HILLARY AND JANE IN SAN FRANCISCO
~PART TWO~
 
by Mia T, 2.10.06


READ MORE

also see:
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON --PART ONE--


112 posted on 03/23/2006 8:26:52 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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