Posted by Randy Barnett:
Peggy Noonan as Roger Rosenblatt:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_03_15-2009_03_21.shtml#1237129961
Tom Smith nicely captures my gut reaction to Peggy Noonan's essays in
the Wall Street Journal and rekindles painful memories of NPR's Roger
Rosenblatt.
I finally realized who it is that Peggy Noonan reminds me of and
why I wish she would just stop. It's Roger Rosenblatt. You don't
see him around much these days (is he still alive?). But in the
'80's he was much in evidence, blathering in his deeply pretentious
yet relentlessly middle-brow way about the most topical of the
topical. God he was painful to listen to. Nobody achieved a higher
ratio of sheer opininated gas to actual content, the actual content
being some thoroughly distilled bromide of public television
contributor class. You'd need an astrophysicist to explain the
profound vacuities he was able to achieve. Anyway, Peggy Noonan has
something of the unmourned Rosenblatt in her, only instead of
pieties of the leftish New England middle-brow liberal arts major
class of '65, we get the pieties of the (very) soft traditionalist
Right.
The rest of his evidence of "The Roger Rosenblatt of the Right" is
[1]here.
References
1.
http://rightcoast.typepad.com/rightcoast/2009/03/the-roger-rosenblatt-of-the-right-tom-smith-.html
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