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They think they’re so clever, but really they are notNope, they're just ignorant and short-sighted.
They think they’re so clever, but really they are not
TLDR DUmmie dribble. Think of all the time and effort it took to compose that post.
Who wants 1939? Did the Gestapo give people free money and free transportation to their home country if they self-deported from Germany?
But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas ...
Noonan became a national figure as an exceptional speechwriter for Ronald Reagan, best known for penning his speech given after the Challenger accident. Unfortunately, the fact that we all knew it was she who wrote it was mainly due to Noonan's desire to be known as the woman who wrote that speech, which reflected poorly on her.
Noonan became, at least among the intellectuals, something of a celebrity. And, unfortunately, she appears to have reveled in that fact.
It's hard to blame her. Her celebrity and her talent have served her well. But her continued celebrity among intellectuals has come at a price: her ability to think critically. In exchange for her success, she has given her fealty to an establishment that, among other things, was vicious and unfair to her mentor Reagan and to all Republicans.
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In the war between the elite and the hoi polloi, Noonan switched sides.
Nothing betrays this fact more than her lament for the decline of the Washington Post.
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Noonan certainly saw how biased the media was against Ronald Reagan, her boss, and how tolerant they were of the Clintons, for whom she had the capacity for contempt. She has every reason to understand how corrupt the media is, but can't make the leap to grasping the import: the media is not dying because Donald Trump and MAGA killed it or that the economic model changed, but because it killed itself. Lamenting the imminent death of The Washington Post, should it actually die, is as rational as lamenting the death of the old Soviet version of Pravda.
