Candidate Haiku #9
by W
he's just dick gephardt
what you see is what you get
prairie liberal
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Yes, I really wrote a haiku about Dick Gephardt. And I didn't have to imbide any foreign substances.
Looking to check on my Sosa-Clinton prediction, and found an amusing paragraph by Peggy Noonan in WSJ. I've always thought that this former Reagan speechwriter is one of the biggest BSers among right-wing pundits. Her low point had to be a column she wrote in which she was supposed to be channeling the deceased Paul Wellstone*. Noonan has Wellstone renounce the political beliefs that he held during his lifetime. Not only is this in incredibly bad taste, I think it betrays a pretty infantile take on life. I am reminded of the scene in the movie The King of Comedy when the protagonist fantasizes about being on a This-is-your-life-type television show and the people who rejected him in high school come on and say "You were right and we were wrong." Peggy Noonan, meet uber-loser Rupert Pupkin.
But back to the present, Noonan is plugging a new book comprised of her WSJ columns and writes the following:
A number of thoughts and observations in this book became Officially Accepted Truths of the event and its aftermath, and were, to the best of my knowledge, said here for the first time. "God Is Back" spoke of the resurgence of religious feeling on the mean streets, "Welcome Back, Duke" celebrated the return of a certain kind of manhood, and "Courage Under Fire" attempted to make New York's firemen more nationally celebrated and understood. I feared early on that what they did was not getting serious enough attention in the country.
Um, excuse me, Peggy, but do you really think you were responsible for making the FDNY our national heroes?! Do you really think that you wrote anything that thousands of op-ed writers didn't write at the same time?
In WSJ-world, the poor are lucky to avoid taxes, and martyred firemen are lucky to have Peggy Noonan standing up for the them.
Woody
*Forgive me, but if Wellstone really has to communicate with the living through Ronald Reagan's speechwriter, then he must be in Hell!
6:20:29 AM 
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