By Drew Grant 10/10/11 8:50am

Occupy Wall Street

George Will vs. Jesse LaGreca on ABC's "This Week"

Jesse LaGreca Continues to Destroy Media Bias of Occupy Wall Street on ABC’s This Week [Video]

Occupy Wall Street’s articulate champion of the Nu-New Left, Jesse LaGreca, finally made it to air this Sunday when he was invited on ABC’s This Week with Christiane Amanpour. Watch the Daily Kos writer made famous by his un-aired Fox News interview hold his own against the likes of George Will and Peggy Noonan. We’ve also transcribed Mr. LaGreca’s segment below for those of you at work without headphones. Read More

By Jason Horowitz 11/04/08 6:32pm

Obama’s Speechwriter on Reaching Out, Advice From Peggy Noonan

CHICAGO—Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s chief speechwriter, said that if Obama wins tonight he will deliver an address that seizes the “first opportunity for most of the country and the world to look at him as bigger than a party and as a president” and emphasize a broad message of “reaching out” across traditional divisions.

Favreau, Read More

By Matt Haber 10/20/08 3:10pm

When Kristol Met Sarah…

In his New York Times column today, William Kristol quotes The Wall Street Journal‘s Peggy Noonan saying of the Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, "In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics."

Ms. Noonan, of course, knows from vulgarity when it comes Read More

By Matt Haber 10/03/08 2:29pm

The Wink Heard ‘Round the World

Whether they think Sarah Palin or Joe Biden "won" last night’s vice presidential debate, pundits and critics are in agreement about one thing: Governor Palin’s wink was really important.

As Governor Palin told ABC News’ Charlie Gibson, "You can’t blink."

But she sure can wink.

Here are some takes on the gesture that launched Read More

By Matt Haber 10/02/08 4:03pm

Calling ‘Bull Hockey’ on Peggy Noonan

Last night, Wall Street Journalist columnist and former presidential speech writer Peggy Noonan appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to talk about the elections and plug her new book, Patriotic Grace.

About halfway through the interview, Mr. Stewart got off on a mini rant about why the candidates are no longer Read More

By Jason Horowitz 9/01/08 7:29pm

Arianna Huffington on Internet Porn

A Huffington Post luncheon at the Nicollet Island Inn earlier today explored how "the new media are impacting the ’08 race." Hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the panel was conducted like a TV show, the hosts agreeing with each other and sometimes talking over the panelists, who included Tony Blankley, Huffington, Laura Ingraham, Read More

By Joe Conason 4/04/05 12:00am

Schiavo’s Advocates Contradict Themselves

From somewhere beneath all the ostentatious breast-beating over poor Terri Schiavo, the unresolved contradictions of modern conservatism are beginning to emerge. Amid the sideshows and distractions, which now feature Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader as well as the Bush brothers and Randall Terry, embarrassing reality intrudes despite the powerful urge to ignore it.

That reality Read More

By Michael M. Thomas 1/07/02 12:00am

In the Age of Paradox, Action Supplants Attitude

In our self-proclaimed headlong abandonment of the Age of Irony, we may be rushing into an Age of Paradox. Which in an inside-out, topsy-turvy way makes sense, if you think about it, since Irony carried to extremes ends up as Paradox, at least as this correspondent sees it.

For instance, while it’s generally assumed (and Read More

By Adam Liptak 11/12/01 12:00am

The Gipper and the Sycophant: His Character – and Hers

When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan , by Peggy Noonan. Viking, 338 pages, $24.95.

A bunch of old Reagan hands got together this spring, a couple of months into the new administration, and reminisced about their old boss, now 90 and lost to Alzheimer’s. They also took some shots at the new Read More