Robert Novak: Broke news, shaped views

Mr. Novak was a reporter's reporter and one of the nation's top political columnists. He will be missed! My prayers and sympathies are with the Novak family. God Bless

Finally!

HE DESERVED A FAR WORSE FATE.

HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED FOR WHAT HE DID TO VALERIE PLAME

TRAITOR

Wow, typical liberals denigrating a man who is now dead and can't rebut these hideous comments. That is ONE reason why liberals are mental midgets. Keep your hatred to yourself please, there is no place for it here.

Ah, the dulcet sounds of lib tolerance and openmindedness. So I suppose it's okay to talk like this about the next lib journalist who kicks off, right?

He was an honest man and a great journalist. The Evans-Novak Report was the daily source for what really was going on in Washington, D.C. This junk from MSNBC and the rest of NBC and the other networks which they claim is reporting is only echoing whatever Obama's talking points for the day happen to be. I'm sure the spirit of Bob Novak is going to work overtime now to guide real journalists in accurate reporting - no matter where the chips fall. Adios Roberto.

Only JohnD, a wannabe reporter himself, would tout the Prince of Darkness as a reporter's reporter. He was, and will always be remembered as a traitor to his country.

Being an Independent, I certainly did not agree with what he wrote or said on TV. Having had a young wife that died of the same, it is difficult to see a young life snuffed out so early. Seeing the body shrink away is heart breaking, and not being able to stop the disease. We need a cure for many brain cancers.

THERE WON'T BE TOO MANY PEOPLE THAT'LL MISS HIM, THAT SAYS IT ALL ABOUT A BITTER OLD MAN.

He was a liar and a traitor.

I certainly will not miss Robert Novak in the least. He was hypocritical, immoral and close minded. An angry and frustrated being who could never accept differences. A very self serving and ugly man.

Will we hear the same hatred about Kennedy when he dies?

I think Kenndet has done waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more harm then some here accuse Novak of.

But Novak was a conservatie so anything goes?

Kennedy is flaming liberal who has at the very least one woman's blood on his hands yet when he dies....

There won't even be the ablitiy to comment on him !!!

Talk about double standards !!!

And those of you that can't keep control on your hateful tongues....well class shows every time especially low !!!

Sorry he passed, may he rest in peace.

True, it's not very nice to denigrate a dead man as bitter and mean-spirited despite his mining good sources, but he was, in addition to his being a deluded right-wing clod. Maybe it's a wakeup call for the rest of us. How do we want to be remembered?

He was, and will always be remembered as a traitor to his country.

Posted by: Neal | August 18, 2009 1:21 PM

In what way? Some specifics, please.

Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution. It involves warfare. You should look it up.

The expression of dissenting opinions is not treason. It's a right protected by the First Amendment, and is utilized equally by all parts of the political spectrum.

He was an accomplished political columnist, but certainly not a journalist in the last 40 years. Real journalists don't advocate for a political party, as Novak did. I also agree he was a traitor for outing Plame.

Wow, typical liberals denigrating a man who is now dead and can't rebut these hideous comments. That is ONE reason why liberals are mental midgets. Keep your hatred to yourself please, there is no place for it here.

Posted by: LiberalJerks | August 18, 2009 1:07 PM

Do I need to remind you of conservative comments when famous liberals die? Do I need to remind you of conservative comments when it was reported that Ted Kennedy had brain cancer? The mental midgets are the loony conservatives here pretending that only liberals can be mental morons when it comes to treating others.

We must not speak bad of the dead. We must speak good. Therefore:

Robert Novak is dead? Good.

In typically left-wing bias you'd expect from ABC News, radio "journalist" Vic Rattner today referred to the accident last year where Novak hit a pedestrian while driving a car followed by a sound bite with Novak stating he didn't remember it as if were part of his "combative nature" as a journalist.

Rattner conveniently left out the fact that it was the accident and Novak's loss of memory that led to the diagnosis of his brain tumor.

Little wonder today why the network news operations - radio & TV - are losing audiences and viewers. Journalism, as a profession, has passed them by.

The death of Bob Novak is a great loss to Professional Journalism. Novak was one of the best columnists and reporters on the Washington, National and World Scene. He was a very interesting character. Although he was a registered Democrat he turned more Conservative as time went on. In an era when many Journalists have become cheer leaders and apologists for certain political leaders and parties (mostly Democratic), Bob Novak would follow the story where ever it took him. And his critical columns would go after both Democrats and Republicans when either of them messed things up. He was not afraid to ask the tough questions. Bob Novak will be greatly missed. He was truly a one of the best Journalists on the Washington Political Scene..

Novak Bitter? Hardly!

So many of you Lefties appear to have hearts full of love .... NOT!

Novak was an ideologue -which is not a crime nor does it mean one is angry and bitter.

Bob Novak was a highly successful journalist, respected as such by many of his peers - from the left as well as the right. He was the creator of "Crossfire" and was primarily responsible for its success.

As for Valery Plame .... given the information by a source (not Scooter Liddy) he did what ever other journalist would have done ... he disclosed it.

Plame was NOT endangered by the disclosure. And if she hadn't participated in getting her husband, Joe Wilson would not have been hired by the CIA to go to Niger and conduct an investigation, and Valerie would still be a CIA employee. She helped open the can of worms.

I'm sorry for the lost of anyone 's family who loses a love one. I am liberal. We as a people make a decision to be whatever we think we are good at. To judge anyone with our own personal thoughts is wrong when we send negative information out is wrong. Most information from TV is never the hole truth they add more to sensationalize for more viewers and to get top rating. Let the truth be told. God bless his soul & family during time of loss.

I was wondering what kind of crud there would be from the sickest of the sick: the Loony Left!
Mark Silva never liked it when I called these loser morons: the worst mankind has to offer. Hey, Mark, any thoughts on that now?
I would love for the most demented of the demented to explain what Novak did that was traitorous?
The Valerie Plame case? Novak did nothing wrong. He did what reporters do, he reported. And what he reported was traitorous, but factual. But as I often say, facts and the loons on the left rarely have anything in common.
How are these applies, Loons: It is ALWAYS a GOOD DAY when some Loony Lefty DIES. The world should celebrate!

Of the Novaks, I'll take Kim any day.

"... a very minor story"? That about sums up Novak's judgement.

May God rest his soul, but he was either kidding himself or the country when he told Charlie Rose that outing a CIA operative was a "minor story." People are supposed to go to jail for that kind of thing.

Either Novak was a pawn of the Bush adminstration or he was an active agent who knew or should have known that outing a CIA operative was a violation of NATIONAL security.

A TRUE patriot would have said, "Whoa. Wait a minute. Let me check this out first."

Instead, Novak apparently thought nothing of it. He thought nothing of ruining someone else's career. He only thought of advancing the interests of his party (NOT HIS COUNTRY).

Beltway insiders are not journalists. They are partisan and corporate tools, no matter if they are right or left. They do not report news, they attempt to influence it.

How are these applies, Loons: It is ALWAYS a GOOD DAY when some Loony Lefty DIES. The world should celebrate!

Posted by: John D | August 18, 2009 3:50 PM

First....rest in peace Novak. Secondly.....John D, which is worse a few inflamitory words at death or a few lies to the living? You on the right have waged a campaign for the insurance companies with the most outrageous lies I have ever seen. A "death panel" ....are you boneheads that stupid? Besides the fact that the part of the bill you all have totally misled Americans on was put in the bill by a republican, it is a sham and you should be ashamed of yourselves. Stop being a patsy and remove head from rear.

1. It's low class to disparage the dead, no matter how much you disliked the person when he was alive. And in the context of a blog like this, it's guaranteed to open up a volley of shots from our memory-impaired friends on the right.

2. I met Novak in person and read Prince of Darkness. While I still disagree with his politics, he was a gracious, caring and thoughtful guy, and quite principled in his views, which is more than can be said of many people of all political stripes.

3. Novak was a true conservative. For that reason, he was firmly opposed to the invasion of Iraq. The supposed "conservatives" we hear from these days are partisan hack Republicants whose only principle is to acquire power (these are the same glassy-eyed clowns who supported Murderer Bush because he was a "good man" -- utterly devoid of thought or principle).

Rest in peace, Novak. Our thoughts are with your family.

Novak was an excellent journalist. I will miss his work. And that's coming from a liberal. Rest in peace Novak.

Novak was an excellent journalist. I will miss his work. And that's coming from a liberal. Rest in peace Novak.

I love Bob Novak. The positions he held were conservative, but he looked down on all of them. He had great inside information. He will be missed....

(snipped) Novak was a news-breaker, too: He was the first to report the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, after her husband, ambassador Joseph Wilson, publicly criticized the administration of President George W. Bush for alleged manipulation of pre-war intelligence in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq.
(end of snip)

Was this Robert Novak's shining moment in journalism?
if so, how tragic.. all those lies and dead human beings and for what ? For the control of oil.
He was wrong to out Valerie and he hurt the country he claimed to love when in truth, he hated liberals more.
What he did was just plain wrong and showed his loyalty to those who lost the election last November and their incompetent boss GWB.

The news is broke these days - that's for sure - thanks in part to Novak. The Prince of Darkness, despite a long writing career, is partly responsible for the nasty political tone surrounding his affairs and the sorry state of integrity in journalism . The curmudgeon should have retired long ago and will be regretting his Plame fumbling for a long time down there. Bad Karma caught up with this arrogant ego, but fear not - Chicago has not any great writer or civic leader.

He was, and will always be remembered as a traitor to his country.

Posted by: Neal | August 18, 2009 1:21 PM

In what way? Some specifics, please.

Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution. It involves warfare. You should look it up.

The expression of dissenting opinions is not treason. It's a right protected by the First Amendment, and is utilized equally by all parts of the political spectrum.

Posted by: DaveB | August 18, 2009 1:53 PM

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He was an accomplished political columnist, but certainly not a journalist in the last 40 years. Real journalists don't advocate for a political party, as Novak did. I also agree he was a traitor for outing Plame.

Posted by: Jay | August 18, 2009 1:55 PM

those who take issue with others here referring to Novak as a "traitor" should also take issue with Cheney and Bush referring to patriotic Americans who opposed their brand of politics as "terrorists"
but they won't because they're all a bunch of hypocrites.

He was, and will always be remembered as a traitor to his country.

Posted by: Neal | August 18, 2009 1:21 PM

In what way? Some specifics, please.

Treason is the only crime defined in the Constitution. It involves warfare. You should look it up.

The expression of dissenting opinions is not treason. It's a right protected by the First Amendment, and is utilized equally by all parts of the political spectrum.

Posted by: DaveB | August 18, 2009 1:53 PM

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He was an accomplished political columnist, but certainly not a journalist in the last 40 years. Real journalists don't advocate for a political party, as Novak did. I also agree he was a traitor for outing Plame.

Posted by: Jay | August 18, 2009 1:55 PM

those who take issue with others here referring to Novak as a "traitor" should also take issue with Cheney and Bush referring to patriotic Americans who opposed their brand of politics as "terrorists"
but they won't because they're all a bunch of hypocrites.

The compassionate liberal base has spoken again.

Just another "yada..yada" that history will soon forget.

I always thought of him as the Don Rickles of journalism.

Mr. Warmth.

He NEVER outed Plame. Armitage outted Plame. Fitzgerald knew this too.

The Washingtom Post APOLOGIZED for the mess. When you look at the details, you find that liberals grabbed onto it and it took a few YEARS to clear the air. Here is the Post's apology:

"End of an Affair"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460_pf.html

Novak did a good job; it's the liberals who kept us down the wrong track.

I've read most of these comments, I am shocked, that people are that stupid. He had his own opinions, don't we all ! Try to do the right thing. Be nice! RIP!

Too bad for his family. Otherwise, who gives a rat's patoot?

(ps, yes I'm a liberal, a Vietnam Vet, and I feel the same way about Ted Kennedy)

I don't give a frog's fat ass what anyone thinks of Novak, but it takes an incredible lack of class to taunt someone who died a few hours ago.

"writerofwrongs" when did Bush or Cheney call Americans opposed to their policies "terrorists"? If that is true, I would like to see the quote. If it's not too much trouble, please provide a link/cite. Thanks.

Bill r., me and the right have not waged any war with the insurance companies. I don't work for the insurance companies. I, like most, in this country do not believe the government should be taking over nearly 1/5 of the economy, not our health care system.
Blinkin, your post was nice until Point 3. The invasion of Iraq had little to do with acquiring power and to call Bush "Murderer Bush" is about as asinine as your friends on the far side of the left who denigrate Novak.

He miss-used his political power for profit and fame. What he did in the Valerie Plame incident was inexcusable, he should have been a stand up guy and came for the fore with his information. He ruined a good man, "Scooter" Libbiy's career and his
reputation. Let's hope the good Lord is more forgiving then I.

writerofwrongs, I didn't have time or space to detail my entire political philosophy. I like to keep my comments short and to the point. I thought that we were talking about Robert Novak, not about Bush, or Cheney, or Obama, or Gingrich, or . . .

Like Herbie, I'd like to see a cite. There's lots of stuff that has been said so much that people have come to accept it, even if it's not true. A primary source, please, not the Daily Kos or the Huffington Post.

By the way, does your handle mean that everything you write is wrong?

August 23,2005
NEW YORK Meeting briefly with reporters Monday aboard Air Force One, Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman subbing for Scott McClellan, said that President Bush believes that those who want the U.S. to begin to change course in Iraq do not want America to win the overall "war on terror."

Now I was born at night.....but it wasn't lastnight. Sounds like traitor to me.

Bill r., that comment is nowhere near being treasonous or traitorous.
But facts are facts: Harry Reid two years ago saying the war is lost. Lots of Dems and liberals said we can't win or that we lost the war. That is a fact. Now if you want to consider that treasonous or traitorous, that is your right. I just find comments like that weak and a disservice to our men and women in uniform.

Oh and Paul, Novak exposed Plame for fame and fortune? A man in his early to mid 70s at the time, already famous and already wealthy! Wow, you Loons really are clueless little nuts, aren't you?

I dunno, bill r., sounds pretty far-fetched to me.

Treason is defined in the Constitution as making war on the United States or giving aid and comfort to those who do. Is saying that we shouldn't be fighting this war, or this opponent, treason? No, that's exercising the First Amendment free speech right. Was Jane Fonda's trip to Hanoi during the Vietnam war treason? Closer, but probably not, because arguably they weren't making war on us, we were making war on them. (Didn't win many friends among those who wear the American flag as a do-rag, though.) Is an American citizen who joins al Qaeda and participates in a terrorist attack on the United States committing treason? Probably so. Nothing that Bob Novak said, or that you cite in your example, rises to that level, though.

Yeah, he 'broke' the news alright.

I was wondering what kind of crud there would be from the sickest of the sick: the Loony Left!
Mark Silva never liked it when I called these loser morons: the worst mankind has to offer. Hey, Mark, any thoughts on that now?
I would love for the most demented of the demented to explain what Novak did that was traitorous?
The Valerie Plame case? Novak did nothing wrong. He did what reporters do, he reported. And what he reported was traitorous, but factual. But as I often say, facts and the loons on the left rarely have anything in common.
How are these applies, Loons: It is ALWAYS a GOOD DAY when some Loony Lefty DIES. The world should celebrate!

Posted by: John D | August 18, 2009 3:50 PM

ROFLMAO!!!!!

Way to go, Dolt!!! Good boy! Get that blood pressure up with another rant! Won't be long now and that stroke will leave you a drooling, incontinent vegetable. Let me know and I'll send a casserole...

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