Uh, is this mic on?

The Chuck held court today for a gorgeous blooper and fed the beast with some innocent post-interview questioning that caused former McCain 2000 campaign manager and Republican strategist, Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist, Peggy Noonan to voice their genuine opinions about Sarah Palin and the new Republican gameplan while their microphones were mistakenly still hot.

Just the fact that the acclaimed wordsmith and doyenne of diction, Peggy Noonan uses the word "bullshit" makes this a classic and perhaps the greatest soundbite for a dance mashup since the Barbra Streisand classic. The surrounding content of her profanity is in direct contradiction to her column in the Wall Street Journal this morning which heaped praise on the "transformative" figure that is Palin. It brings this to a level of irony that is to be relished by all political junkies and anyone who gives a less than Christian gesture to the screen when Noonan comes on.

UPDATE: Noonan's column is now complete with a mea culpa posited as her "mugging" by the media. She also proclaimed regret for "blurting" a "barnyard epithet". Sorry honey, when you say "excuse me" before you let loose with your potty word, you ain't blurtin' a thing - that's premeditated cussin'.

On Notice: Peggy Noonan and Bill Clinton

We almost pulled our bi-partisan muscle this morning putting these two up on the same post. Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan and former president Bill Clinton may come from opposite sides of the political spectrum, but they share a cozy nook in the annoying pinhead cafe of public spectacle. Noonan, who is best known for crafting some of Reagan's best speeches (Boys of Point Du Hoc, the national address on the Challenger disaster and also coined the phrase, "kinder, gentler nation" for old man Bush) is showing up more and more bringing her perfectly parsed articulate brand of disconnected cornball bullshit to the pundit circuit. She is the only woman who can make flawless elocution tantamount to smacking gum or talking on a cellphone in a restaurant.

And Bill, angry pissy Bill. The former president has been a grade-a asshole throughout this primary season, sowing seeds of discontent amongst the electorate and allowing out-sourced campaign tactics (i.e. push-polling that uses Senator Obama's full name repeatedly) that would have Karl Rove buying him lap dances if they were hanging out at a strip joint together. I wish I could take credit for it, but Katrina vanden Heuvel of the The Nation quoted a source within the Clinton campaign calling him a "little league dad having a temper tantrum". The always wonderfully dry George Will referred to him as an "olympic class whiner"and his campaign Tourettes as a "metabolic urge" - perfect.