Secondhand Smoking Jacks: GILF

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

My husband just pronounced that Peggy Noonan is a GILF. (She's on The Daily Show.)

Anonymous said...: What's G? In Scooter's case it's GFILF.; October 2, 2008 at 8:51:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: grandmother. As opposed to MILF (mother).; October 2, 2008 at 9:01:00 AM CDT
Scooter said...: Is she a grandmother? I am really, really old.

She is catching mucho heat from the hard right for her new book--Patriotic Grace. The theory of the hard right being that we need more partisanship, not less.

I'm somewhat ambivalent. I'm all for grace so long as points aren't lost. And when one compares today's partisanship to that of the era from Adams to Jackson, well, there's no comparison.; October 2, 2008 at 9:20:00 AM CDT
Stephanie said...: Old enough to be a grandmother, yet still gorgeous. No idea about her actual status. I couldn't understand what she was saying, in her Daily Show interview, about what the book says.; October 2, 2008 at 9:27:00 AM CDT
Scooter said...: From the Amazon blurb:

Today, Noonan argues, the national mood is for a change in our politics and it is well past time for politicians to catch up. Americans are tired of the old partisan divisions and the campaign tricks that seek to widen and exploit them. We long for leaders who can summon us to greatness and unity, as they did in the long struggles against fascism and communism.

Yawn.; October 2, 2008 at 10:02:00 AM CDT

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