Peggy Noonan: The Clinton Fetish Continues

Hillary Clinton (above)

Peggy Noonan's column begins:

Hillary Clinton doesn't have to prove she's a man. She has to prove she's a woman.

Believe it or not, the fact that Noonan doubts the existence of Senator Clinton's ovaries is not the worst part of the article. Without proof, she connects Clinton to a website that, she says, "reads like The Warrior's Id."

"In tone," Noonan says, "the site is very Tokyo Rose."

Now, it's one thing for Noonan to say that the site has a traitorous odor, but it's quite another for her say that it

appears to be the subterranean part of Hillary's campaign, the part that quietly coexists with the warm, chuckling lady playing the jukebox with her husband. ... It is the war room part. I suspect the site is a back door to that war room.

Note to The Wall Street Journal: If you're going to accuse a candidate of slagging another candidate -- anonymously -- the word of an incoherent, intermittently sadistic, cobwebbed lush should not be good enough.

When Rupert Murdoch buys and dismantles your ass, don't expect me to shed any tears.

UPDATE: Sez Mr. Nyhan --

Note all the insinuations that Clinton's campaign is involved with the site: "[T]here is another side of the Clinton campaign, and I found some of it this week," "This appears to be the subterranean part of Hillary's campaign," "I suspect the site is a back door to [Clinton's] war room." But there's no evidence that any of these suggestions are true. The website states "We are not affiliated with the Hillary For President Exploratory Committee, or any official Hillary Clinton organization in any way" and the domain is registered anonymously. In short, Noonan is asserting a connection based on sheer speculation.

Steve Bainbridge, on the other, thinks that Noonan's kool-aid tastes mighty sweet. "If Hillary's campaign is behind this website, they shouldn't be able to hide behind a proxy registrant," he mewls. Yes, but Steve, why should the onus be on Hillary's campaign to prove a negative?

Hey, I heard Rowling's got a new book out! Let's hope it's not as venomously anti-American as the last one, eh Steve?