Glynnis MacNicol at Mediaite has already pointed out most of the dodgy fallacy in Peggy Noonan’s column here.
She failed to point out the clumsiness of Noonan’s writing, which I find unbefitting of the Wall Street Journal:
It revealed what the president doesn’t want revealed, which is that he doesn’t want to reveal much about his plan. (emphasis mine)
It occurs to me that it might have been a deliberate attempt at rhetoric or cadence. Fail on both fronts. So what’s worse? Writers who can’t write or writers with an overstated impression of their own cleverness (and which category do we fit)?
Peggy Noonan reveals self as poor writer. Reveal, reveal, reveal.
Glynnis MacNicol at Mediaite has already pointed out most of the dodgy fallacy in Peggy Noonan’s column here.
She failed to point out the clumsiness of Noonan’s writing, which I find unbefitting of the Wall Street Journal:
It occurs to me that it might have been a deliberate attempt at rhetoric or cadence. Fail on both fronts. So what’s worse? Writers who can’t write or writers with an overstated impression of their own cleverness (and which category do we fit)?