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10 Jul 2009 12:35 pm
The Poison Pill From Wasilla II
Peggy Noonan wakes up as well:
"The media did her in." Her lack of any
appropriate modesty did her in. Actually, it's arguable that membership
in the self-esteem generation harmed her. For 30 years the self-esteem
movement told the young they're perfect in every way. It's yielding
something new in history: an entire generation with no proper sense of
inadequacy.
"Turning to others means the media
won!" No, it means they lose. What the mainstream media wants is not to
kill her but to keep her story going forever. She hurts, as they say,
the Republican brand, with her mess and her rhetorical jabberwocky and
her careless causing of division. Really, she is the most careless
sower of discord since George W. Bush, who fractured the party and the
movement that made him. Why wouldn't the media want to keep that going?
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