More CrackerJack Reporting By Bob Novak
By on Apr 11th, 2005 at 9:51 am
More CrackerJack Reporting By Bob Novak
“Contrary to claims on leftist Web sites, no Republican member has called for the majority leader’s resignation.” — Robert Novak, 4/11/05
“Rep. Christopher Shays said Sunday that fellow Republican Rep. Tom DeLay should step down as House majority leader because his continuing ethics problems are hurting the GOP.” — ABC News, 4/10/05
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but he’s Catholic now – the Pope forgave him, he just forgot to tell anyone.
April 11th, 2005 at 11:14 amWhat happened to checking facts before making statements. Mr. Novak’s research team must be vacationing in Rome. Please, whoever is Bob’s boss. Stop letting him write his own column. He just gets into trouble. Make him go back to photocopying white house press releases like he did during the election.
April 11th, 2005 at 11:19 amWhy isn’t Novak in jail for outing Valerie Plume?
Actually, that would make me VERY HAPPY.
April 11th, 2005 at 12:00 pmBob has never let facts get in the way of a political attack… why should he start now.
April 11th, 2005 at 12:22 pmABC News counts as a leftist Web site, except for the fact that they’re not a Web site. They’re part of the librul medja conspiracy. :)
April 11th, 2005 at 12:23 pmoh, c’mon!
Did Shays say Delay should ‘resign’?
No!
He said ’step down’.
Novak is utterly correct.
You guys owe The Dark Prince an apology.
April 11th, 2005 at 2:08 pmWhy was Dan Rathers held to higher standard of Journalistic Integrity than Bob Novak. It’s time for Novak to go! His credibility ifs shot!
April 11th, 2005 at 2:45 pmIt’s time to hold the same Standard of Journalisitic Integrity to Bob Novak that was held to Dan Rather. It’s time for Novak to go!
April 11th, 2005 at 2:47 pmNot only was there the Shays mistake, but Novak also critiques Pelosi for breaking the traditions of the Senate and campaigning against the opposing leader, when not six months ago Bill Frist did the same thing to Tom Daschle. Nice selective tradition there.
I wrote a letter to the Sun-Times about both of these errors earlier; wonder if they’ll print it.
April 11th, 2005 at 2:54 pmFrom the Novak article:
“Accusations of DeLay going on junkets funded by private sources and putting relatives on non-government payrolls reflect common congressional practice.”
Oh, well that makes it okay then…
April 11th, 2005 at 3:54 pmwhere you guys been – his column used to be called evans and nofacts
April 11th, 2005 at 6:30 pmI truly do not understand why Robert Novak has not suffered any consequences for publically revealing the identity of one of our own CIA agents … and during a “time of war”, no less. Doesn’t that qualify as treason ? Why is he still free, let alone still writing in the press and speaking on television ? I don’t understand it … can someone please explain and/or lead me to where I can get an explanation. Thank you.
April 11th, 2005 at 7:33 pmOi! Get real, people!
I hate Bush, Cheney, DeLay, Novak etc. with a passion. They are evil fucking bastards. But…
Novak’s comment appeared ONE day afterthe counter-example proving him wrong. The lead time in print media is more than enough to account for this. Yes, he is an evil bastard and he COULD be lying through his teeth on this one; but it’s also entirely possible that at the time his article was put to bed (hint: if you don’t know what “put to bed” means you don’t even begin to understand the limitations of the print media) that there were no calls from the GOP for DeLay (who could limbo under a snake’s testicles because he’s that low) to step down.
Leaping onto what COULD (but may not be) honest mistakes is what just burned the GOP blogs on the Schiavo memo. I want these bastards out as much as you do, but not only do I not want to engage in tactics that prove counterproductive, I want to be HONEST even if that means I lose (that way my conscience doesn’t keep me awake even though my fear of the Bush administration may).
If you have to adopt those tactics of your enemy that make him your enemy in order to defeat your enemy, your enemy has WON; it is better that you lose the war than you surrender your soul to your enemy because if you lose the war your enemy is to blame whereas if you adopt your enemy’s tactics you are to blame.
If we can’t fight cleanly then we are as dirty as they are. It’s that simple. Novak’s article appeared soon enough after the counter-example that he COULD be innocent. Bush executed people who probably were innocent; we don’t.
April 11th, 2005 at 10:28 pmImagine one day being able to take a wizz on the grave of that old sour puss Bob Novak!
April 11th, 2005 at 10:51 pmNovak’s comment appeared ONE day afterthe counter-example proving him wrong. The lead time in print media is more than enough to account for this.
Tell that to Mitch Albom, who’s being raked over the coals in Detroit right now.
As a newspaper, our credibility is paramount. On Thursday, we reported that a Mitch Albom column in Sunday’s editions misled readers by saying that two ex-Michigan State basketball players were at Saturday night’s Final Four game.
They were not. The column was written Friday, for a section that was printed before the game was played. Albom was wrong to report that the athletes were there when the game had not yet been played. And the Free Press was wrong to publish it.
April 12th, 2005 at 12:53 amNovak – that old fuck will die in no time.So we can
let him spout nonsense looking the fool all the way.
Evil personified, he’s bound to get his due………..Kharmic justice prevails.
April 12th, 2005 at 1:43 amI’m just trying to understand how Novak is keeping his butt out of jail for outing Valerie Plame. I’m just hoping it’s not by using Gannon/Guckert past-times, ’cause…*shudders*…well, ’cause it’s NOVAK!
April 12th, 2005 at 3:06 amWouldn’t you love to fling a pie filled with entrails at him? Here’s Novak’s e-mail:
April 12th, 2005 at 6:57 amnovakevans@aol.com
DeLay shouldn’t have to step down; instead, his head should be handed to him on a roach platter.
April 12th, 2005 at 8:08 amNovak had to have a fairly long and extensive surgery on his hip. General anesthetics can have a very deliterious on an old brain. He will start makiong more and more mistakes. I was beginning to think he was senile before the hip surgery.
April 12th, 2005 at 8:15 amThe White House gangsters and those who report on the White House gangsters have stolen our democracy!
April 12th, 2005 at 9:12 amWhen you have gangsters in charge of everything, don’t look for culprits to face prosecution for anything… that includes Novak for outing Valerie Plame, CIA Agent.
In the meantime, it was all important to go after and imprision Martha Stewart for selling $90 thousand dollars of her stock. You have to undertand the neocon mindset… it’s ok to risk a CIA agent’s life and make no one accountable. It’s ok for Bush to sell oil search stocks (Arbusto) on a tip from his father, but not ok for Stewart even if she denies the charges. We get neocon thinking: do as I say, not as I do.
April 12th, 2005 at 9:25 amTo be fair to the old coot, (not that we should be necessarily), it is an opinion column, and it won’t be the first time that Bubbly Bob’s baggy-eyed opinions stood in contrast to the facts. (It’s how you get to be Karl Rove’s favorite fifth-columnist.)
BTW, I thought Bob has been dead for years (just look at him on TV) kept alive only by his own recycled bile, the scent of his money, and the fresh blood of virgins. They don’t call him the Prince of Darkness for nothing; the blight of the living dead, just like the rest of the GOP these days.
April 12th, 2005 at 9:52 amA piss on his grave party !!
I’m there !!
Mobud ,, less bush
April 12th, 2005 at 10:24 amI am holding my breath waiting for a retraction or an update by Novak. I do not care if he was one day off in his column. These reporters get away with misleading the public all the time, without any retribution. Look at Judith Miller for Christ’s sake.
April 12th, 2005 at 10:31 amBrian De Ford-
ABC reported it on the 10th. Nothing in the paper is irrevocably “put to bed” until about midnight before printing. He had time to fix it. The “liberal blogs” were reporting the Shays remark, so he must have been writing after it, and he was wrong.
April 12th, 2005 at 11:44 amRobert Novak and Jeff Gannon, are two journalist who went to the same school; if it’s not true fake it. People will believe any thing you write as A reporter journalist. Bob Novak for President.
April 12th, 2005 at 11:56 amBob Novak must stay. He provides the most wonderful comic relief. Eventually the Repubs will implode. Schiavo debacle, SS plan going nowhere, no oil flowing from Iraq…….Let’s hope.
April 12th, 2005 at 12:18 pmWhy is this headed “crackerjack reporting”? Is this irony? Crackerjack means excellent.
April 12th, 2005 at 3:35 pmWell, for all I know, Novak and Gannon may have been in more than the same school of journalism; perhaps they also attended the same ‘military academy’ where the term ‘top brass’ takes on an entirely new meaning.
April 14th, 2005 at 12:02 pmBTW, I still don’t understand why Judy Miller is sentenced to jail over the Plame case and Novak isn’t — Novak publicly outted Plame as CIA, Miller didn’t.
Perhaps someone should do a check on who’s to blame for keeping Vampire Bob out of the hoosegow?
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