peggy noonan

Oh My! How dare this happen (via Fox):

Several reporters were caught on an open mike mocking Sarah Palin for delivering a "roller coaster"-type speech after she addressed California State University, Stanislaus on Friday.

As the former Alaska governor stepped off stage at the sold-out dinner fundraiser and the sound of applause faded away, voices identified as reporters in a viral video could be heard one after another cracking jokes about the speech.

Writing in the L.A. Times, former Bush aide Jimmy Orr has this to say:

Now, cries of media bias against conservatives will be supercharged with an....

... audio recording going viral that captured several reporters mocking a Sarah Palin speech that they were covering.

The yet-to-be-identified (and perhaps soon-to-be-fired) reporters were located in the “media overflow” room at Cal State Stanislaus, a California college where Palin was speaking on Friday.

Immediately after her speech concluded, the insults began in rapid-fire succession, with each reporter seeming to try to outdo each other.

As Media Matters points out:

Mocking a politician from a media overflow room is, of course, evidence of “media bias,” and perhaps even a firing offense -- as long as the politician being mocked is a Republican. When reporters heckled Al Gore while watching him in a debate, nobody got fired -- instead, they just continued lying about him in print and on the air. But reporters always seem to forget about that when they talk about media "bias."

On Morning Joe Peggy Noonan says:

"I am not one of those 'you must vote' people."

Her argument is that people should be educated before voting. She even raises the question of counting the votes of 18 year olds the same as those of 70 year old business owners.

It's no wonder she doesn't want people to vote since Republicans always loose when people turn out to vote, but I have to wonder what merits of a voter being "educated" she is talking about. Would a simple caliper for that consist of knowing the duties of the vice-President?

OUCH! That is pretty rough coming from one of the top conservative pundits, Peggy Noonan:

On the pundit civil wars, Rush Limbaugh declared on the radio this week, "I'm here to tell you, if either of these two guys [Mr. McCain or Mike Huckabee] get the nomination, it's going to destroy the Republican Party. It's going to change it forever, be the end of it!"

This is absurd. George W. Bush destroyed the Republican Party, by which I mean he sundered it, broke its constituent pieces apart and set them against each other. He did this on spending, the size of government, war, the ability to prosecute war, immigration and other issues.

I wonder if she watched the debate George Bush love fest last night?