Novak: ‘I Don’t Support This Administration,’ Bush Has ‘Cut Me Off’
Novak: ‘I Don’t Support This Administration,’ Bush Has ‘Cut Me Off’
In a radio interview with Diane Rehm this morning, right-wing columnist Robert Novak tried to assert his conservative credentials by distancing himself from the Bush White House. “I don’t support this administration,” he said.
“The president’s cut me off the list of conservative columnists that are invited there.” He added, “They consider me a lot of trouble.”
CLICK HERE TO LISTENIt would be unsurprising if the White House considered Novak “trouble,” given his unscrupulous journalistic ethics. But nothing in Novak’s previous comments has suggested anything but a close relationship with the White House. Just recently, he said he “never enjoyed such a good source inside the White House” as Karl Rove.
It appears Novak is simply sour over the fact he wasn’t given a 110-minute sit-down interview with President Bush like his counterpart at the New York Times, David Brooks.
Novak explained that his relationships with White Houses are like bad marriages. “It starts nice after the honeymoon and it just gets worse.”
Transcript:
CALLER: I take it from his previous comments that he would consider himself a conservative and fall on the side of government is more of the problem. And I guess it’s hard to reconcile that with support of a conservative administration that has expanded governmental powers in probably the three most important areas — the defense of the country, waging war, and administering justice — it seems to be remarkably incompetent.
NOVAK: Well, you know, I hear these things and I’m just amazed. Because I don’t support this administration. The president’s cut me off the list of conservative columnists that are invited there. They consider me a lot of trouble. Every administration has considered me a lot of trouble. We start good — and particularly with Republican administrations. But it’s like a bad marriage — It starts nice after the honeymoon and it just gets worse.
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Good! has anyone ever questioned the fact that Richard Armtiage[sic] was his primary source other than Novak saying so?
August 6th, 2007 at 5:09 pmMaybe the article he wrote last week exposing a top secret plan to help the Turks rid themselves of the PKK wasn’t authorized by the White House. I assumed Rove didn’t like the plan because it appeared in his column. Maybe the White House liked the plan and Novak decided to deep six it. The plan was contingent on no one learning of the United States’ involvement, so as soon as Novak put it to press it was dead. It was also, obviously, top secret but I doubt any FBI agents will be showing up at his house to find out where he got the classified info. If Rove is turdblossom, Novak is turd.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:12 pmNah…you stay in the sinking boat.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:12 pmWow if Novakula is cutting you off, you got problems.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:12 pmOh yeah….Novakula’s a rogue bad ass columnist with an attitude.
Watch out!
Heh.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:13 pmGuess Novakula made a huge mistake by saying that Rove was his best source of information from the WHite House.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:13 pm**tiny violin playing for Novak**
August 6th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI heard the whole thing - did you know Plame wasn’t covert? Novak said so! Who knew?
August 6th, 2007 at 5:18 pm“I don’t support this administration. They don’t treat me like a god!”
August 6th, 2007 at 5:19 pmPoor baby!
August 6th, 2007 at 5:19 pmNot invited to the White House. He associated with the weasels from the White House and now he is upset because they don’t treat him nice.
Bring out the tissues. Give the little balding twerp a lollipop, and tell him to go home.
What a great lie one of the best I’ve heard in a while.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:19 pmNow I guess Novak thinks that Americans can forget he helped leak the CIA names for the White House. Now we’ll hear alot more of the Bush/Cheney workers use the same trick to make sure their plan works by getting a Republican back in office. This is the oldest trick in the book so let’s hope smart Americans don’t by these lies. Novak is a loyal Bushie and he will die a loyal Bushie.
And by the way, both the media and the blogosphere are brain dead for missing that column. Whether it was a good plan or not, which any attempt to keep the Turks from coming over the border in full force is probably a good plan at this stage, as we have no way of stopping them if they did, it definitely was a top secret, classified plan that had no business being in a newspaper. It’s not the same as exposing the Gulf of Tonkin or acts of war beyond congressional permission, this is definitely included in the blank check Mr. Bush has in Iraq from Congress. My first reaction was that it must have been something the generals backed and Bush/Rove didn’t like, therefore Novak got the leak. Now I wonder if it wasn’t blowback from Novak for no longer being invited to the party.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:20 pmOut of ALL of the thousands and thousands of decisions this administration has been responsible for, from sending our troops into battle to spying on citizens without a warrant, to cutting healthcare for poor children, the ONE decision they FINALLY get right is to turn their backs on Novakula???
August 6th, 2007 at 5:20 pm**tiny violin playing for Novak**
Comment by Zooey
Heh. I have forgotten about that one.
:)
Nice to read you, friend.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:21 pmCaption Contest:
Rove: “I’m gonna bite your neck”
Novak: “No, I’m gonna bite YOUR neck!”
August 6th, 2007 at 5:23 pmNice to read you, friend.
Comment by Juan C — August 6, 2007 @ 5:21 pm
Nice to see you as well, Juan. :)
August 6th, 2007 at 5:24 pmYou were played like the sucker you are, Mr. Novak.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:28 pmThat was a really good interview with him this morning. Diane Rehm has a good show.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:35 pmIf this is true, all I can say to you “slimeball” is ‘cry me a river.’ Human society cut you off long ago. You chose to cease to be one of us.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:38 pmWho cares if Bush cuts you off?!?!
You must STILL support him!!!!!!!!
August 6th, 2007 at 5:42 pmHow does it feel under the bus? You ass clown.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:42 pmLOL the Rove-Novak love affair has ended and the feud begins over Bush.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:43 pmNovak thinks he’s more important than he is.
Caption contest:
Novak: “when kissing ass the lips should be just like this”
Rove: “That’s how I like it best”
August 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pmwelcome to the rest of your life traitor bob.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:44 pmHow does it feel under the bus? You ass clown.
Comment by Pat
Now he’s a ‘crying-on-the-inside’ kind of ass-clown.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:45 pmI’d like to line these guys up and just kick the shit out of them. OK…I feel better now. :D
August 6th, 2007 at 5:47 pmOh Jeebus save us. Another leaking Boner in the news.
Quick, break out the garlic and crosses before this Novakferatu finds new necks to suck.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:50 pmPoor Little Bobby. I think he got thrown overboard so that there would be room for Hannity, Limpballs and Glen Beck.
Looks like SnowJob is focusing on talk radio this week. We probably won’t see any more print media folks in these conflabs until Rupert takes over the WSJ.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:50 pmOk, just one more…I’d pay money to have the pleasure of punching Rove out.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:51 pmWhy would the Bush administration consider him trouble?
He’s given them some of the best deep throat jobs that they ever had. Gobbled it all up, and never missed a single damn drop.
The country is nuts.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:51 pmJPV > Novak broke his hip a few months ago, and can no longer get on his knees, so he could not service the White House any longer, if you get my drift > lol.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:55 pmSounds mostly like Novak was trying to establish his bona fides with Rehm and the NPR audience. He’s still a Bushie tool.
August 6th, 2007 at 5:59 pmWho cares if Bush cuts you off?!?!
You must STILL support him!!!!!!!!
Comment by Pyrrho — August 6, 2007 @ 5:42 pm
Sig Heil to the Chimpenfuerher!!!!!
August 6th, 2007 at 6:01 pmoops: !!!
August 6th, 2007 at 6:01 pmNovak is a shameless party hack and loyal Bushie. Once one, always one.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:05 pmHey, Uncle Ho.
Long time no see. :)
August 6th, 2007 at 6:08 pmNovak does use his hands to cup Karl\’s ballsack regularly, still.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:10 pmI was just telling posters on another TP thread to be aware that credit card, and solicitation calls from other companies, are routed through India, which means those calls can be wiretapped and recorded by Bush’s spy apparatus.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:15 pmBob Novak, his credibility is right up there with Steno Sue Schmidt, Judy, Aspen lips Miller and Tim Off the Record Russert. Who cares what those slavish, self serving, cretins say anymore.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:16 pmThat’s pretty sad. Beck is in, Novak is out. Pathetic old has-been.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:23 pmGood. Novak is such a worm, Im sure he is just pouting because he got left off the big Neocon meet and create lies meeting at the WH.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:30 pmI hope he gets mad enough to start telling some of the dirty deeds you know he knows about.
I say Novak’s claim is a ruse’. ‘Oh look, I’m an outsider now.’ Bet he’ll use this to try and gain sympathy from our side, which in the end he will use against us. This sneaky guy is rotten to the core.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:31 pmThis is truly a scary picture — Rove and Novak. There’s only one thing that would extend to nightmare — Cheney smack dab in the middle of them.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:37 pmHe\’s closer to a natural death than most of us. Just sayin\’
August 6th, 2007 at 6:37 pmIt’s kind of sad when people don’t realize they have outlived their usefulness.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:40 pmHave some sympathy for Little Bobby. The poor chap has been jilted and it’s so hard to find a date for the prom on such late notice.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:42 pm“This is truly a scary picture — Rove and Novak.” - Helen Rainier
Rovak.
Ewwww. Sounds like some kind of dystopian robot.
August 6th, 2007 at 6:43 pmLol #47… or as they would say on “Look Around You,” “Thants.”
August 6th, 2007 at 6:57 pmCaption Contest:
“‘Tis mutinyl, Mister Christian!!! I’ll live to see you - all of you - hung from the highest yardarm in the British fleet.”
August 6th, 2007 at 7:09 pmLet’s try that without the typo:
Caption Contest:
“‘Tis mutiny, Mister Christian!!! I’ll live to see you - all of you - hung from the highest yardarm in the British fleet.â€
August 6th, 2007 at 7:10 pmThere is always something a little unsettling about a grown up throwing a temper tantrum. What a manipulative weasel Novak is.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:16 pmDoctor Death has spoken.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:24 pmNovak,
You feasted at the Bush buffet and now that a severe case of botchulism threatens your livelihood, you’re desparately seeking new friends at a different table.
You’re a pariah. Deal with it.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pmAnd another FBF (former Bush friend) feels the lash. There is nothing more forlorn than someone who has sold his soul to the Bush Crime Family and then is no longer of use to them.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:38 pmSlow news day for TP.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:41 pmit sounds like disinformation to me
August 6th, 2007 at 7:52 pmAre you kidding me? Novaks a liar. Ofcourse he supports this administration. He’s a devote republican period. He’s not a conservative his a republican period just like the rest of tlhem.
August 6th, 2007 at 7:57 pmSlow news day for TP.
Comment by Iohannes Scottus Eriugena — August 6, 2007 @ 7:41 pm
Slow news day at TP equals one mega-bored Mr. Pee.
(Yawn.)
August 6th, 2007 at 8:04 pmHack . . . hack . . . hack . . . ack . . . ack . . .
no - vvvv - hack . . .
Barf me a hair ball . . .
Mr. Bill momentarily . . . hack . . . emerges from the grave . . .
Hack. Ku-tunk .. . back down.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:26 pmI am new to Blogs, but not to scoundrels. I have been saying on Huffpost that Novak is not a Bushie. He is a Papist, like Pat Buchanan. If the PKK thing is true it’s Horrible. But it wouldn’t surprise me if Bush sold out the Kurds. The Vatican on the other hand would know about this and give it to Novak. To their credit (and I don’t give them much) a PKK purge would be a bloodbath and what few Christians are in the area are mostly Kurds. History lesson, Galatians in the new testament is the Kurdish region. They were originally European Celts who transplanted as mercenaries. That’s one reason the Turks and Arabs hate them. They are not people like them and in that part of the world there has been no Martin Luther King. This is what I keep harping about ,with these guys it is never what it seems. God, Geopolitics gives me a headache as if we don’t have enough problems.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:31 pmOh, I so long for the days when burk breathed. Speaking words of wisdom, surely he could shed a little light on this debacle.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:33 pmWhat is PKK?
August 6th, 2007 at 8:33 pmComment by Robin Frazier — August 6, 2007 @ 8:31 pm
That’s why we need to shatter the sectarian identity of all the Iraqis. Through Western style schools which instill Western values, while simultaneously broadcasting propaganda through radio stations, this will further deprogram the Iraqis. We need to Tancredo all holy sites, no matter what sect or religion. Then after generations of deprogramming the new Iraqis will be able to contribute to the New American-controlled World.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:36 pmWhat is PKK?
Comment by rockyroad — August 6, 2007 @ 8:33 pm
PKK = Kurdish Workers Party
August 6th, 2007 at 8:37 pmISE, thanks for the heads up re PKK . . . but honestly, are you kidding?
Bush’s little misbegotten experiment in exporting Western values is the root of the current problem. America leads best when we lead by example . . . not when we arrogantly attempt to impose Western values on tribal societies. Propaganda is crap. The receivers resent it. I resent it. No photos of coffins, jail the photogs. No independent reporters in war zones. Imbed them all. Yeah, we love being patronized. Trancredo . . . yeah, he’s a lovely example of democracy in action . . . just ask anyone in his district. He’s not onlly done nothing for them . . . he won’t even talk to them. Can’t speak to constituents in Evergreen but lets put him on propaganda radio in Iraq to spread the word of democracy. Surely you jest.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:44 pmComment by rockyroad — August 6, 2007 @ 8:44 pm
Essentially, all media reflects certain ways of thinking more than others. So, even the most “unbiased” of radio/TV/print can be tweaked subtly in order to promote the desired message. I’m not saying that Bush is the one to do this, I am saying that it is what needs to be done. If the ethnic and religious identities of the Iraqis are behind the violence, then those ethnic and religious identities should be the target of a nonviolent attack. This can be done through education, and propaganda.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:51 pmComment by Iohannes Scottus Eriugena — August 6, 2007 @ 8:51 pm
You’re so full of shit that your eyes are brown.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:56 pmRespectfully, ISE, I disagree.
What we have seen over the past six years in America, and more to the point, in the past six months and past four days more clearly define the problem. Democracy is about government by the people, for the people and of the people. It is governance owned by the people. The rising level of frustration in America is due to the fact that the vast majority of Americans stringently disagree with the course of our governance. We are angry and see no vendication.
Like Iraqis, we are disenfranchised. Unlike Iraqis, we are vested . . . we have homes, jobs, an infrastructure, families and friends that are stable (at this point). We are too vested to give up and totally rebel. This administration’s policies have so destabilized Iraq that Iraquis are disenfranchised but have no security in their homes, they have not jobs, no infrastructure, their families and friends are being murdered on a daily basis. . . in short, they have nothing to lose.
We need to respect their sovereignity, let them fight it out, just as we did in our civil war, and redefine themselves. We may not like what we get, but they will.
How would your average American feel if hundreds of thousands of Iraqis landed on our soil, destroyed our infrastructure, families and the fabric of our lives then started spewing Irqaqi propaganda and demanding that we shape up?
We ain’t so great. We got anlocholic draft dodging president and VP, a first lady who ran down and killed her high school boyfriend, a congress full of pedohpiles, a refusal to accept homosexuals as decent citizens, a lobby industry buying legislation on a daily basis, and the list goes on. Do we really want to export this?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:02 pmrockyroad,
I am not saying that the US is perfect. All I am saying is that, in the 21st century, bloody civil wars are no longer an option.
Like it or not, the UN Genocide Convention of 1948 demands that Western nations intervene to prevent acts of genocide, which is defined:
Call it civil war, sectarian violence, etc., but this clearly applies to Iraq.
Since the US is part of this Convention, we are obligated to take action. Letting the Iraqis settle it for themselves is not an option.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:19 pmIraq absolutely does not meet the definition of “genocide.” (Darfur does. But they got no oil so Bush has no interest).
The only sense in which Iraq approaches the definition of “genocide” is our stated aim of wiping out “radical Islam.” Because noone has defined “radical Islam” it appears that Bush has defined the term to mean Islam generally. If the stated aim is to wipe out Islam generally, then this administration would be guilty of waging a genocidal war.
I am not ready to charge our administration with that just yet, but with wireless wiretapping, waterboarding, Abu Graib (sp?), Guantanamo, etc. . . . we’re nearing the breach.
None of this justifies the policies. In fact, it must compel Americans and humanitarians worldwide to ask . . . WTF?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:28 pmEven if true, it’s really not. How?
The White House will say one thing, do another.
“Welcome to the White House, Mr. Novakula, Mr Cheney sends this pint of blood with his warmest (brrrr) regards.”
August 6th, 2007 at 9:31 pmComment by rockyroad — August 6, 2007 @ 9:28 pm
Iraq does.
Sunnis organizing to kill Shias = act of genocide
Shias organizing to kill Kurds = act of genocide
Shias organizing to kill Sunnis = act of genocide
Kurds organizing to kill… etc. etc. etc.
The UN has already begun to take action in Darfur, and the UN is closely monitoring the progress in Iraq.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:33 pmYou know what we’re obligated to do? We’re obligated to charge Bush, Cheney and the rest of the thug cabal with treason and war crimes. Then we’d be living up to our obligations. And let’s nor forget wrongful death reparations. Don’t want to pay those? Well, we started the war (or whatever it actually is), and we started it willfully and with negligence. So, what say we live up to our responsibilities?
“Letting the Iraqis settle it for themselves is not an option.” And exactly how do you propose we do that? I know! Let’s invade them! It’ll fix everything!
Got anything realistic, other than pulling out?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:40 pmHmmm..so now that they are not granting him access and making him lots of money he is not going to carry water or essentially be a shill for their destructive greedy policies any longer
August 6th, 2007 at 9:43 pmCrips organizing to kill Bloods ≠Genocide
Bloods organizing to kill Crips ≠Genocide
Confederates waging a war to kill Yankees ≠Genocide
Yankees waging war to kill Confederates ≠Genocide
Hitler smoking Jews in concentration camps = Genocide
Amin slaughtering Ugandans = Genocide
Teenage honor student torching dock ≠terrorism
Nail bomb at abortion clinic kills security guard = terrorism
Iraqi shooting American Marine raping daughter ≠terrorism
Let’s get straight.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:44 pmComment by Marcus Aurelius — August 6, 2007 @ 9:40 pm
Hey, all I’m saying is that we are obligated under international law to prevent sectarian violence. The Republican Party knows this, the Democrat Party knows this, Independents know this. Your confusion isn’t represented in the US government, and I’m glad. Thank God we have a Republic and not democracy proper!!!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:46 pmThe UN has already begun to take action in Darfur, and the UN is closely monitoring the progress in Iraq.
Comment by Iohannes Scottus Eriugena — August 6, 2007 @ 9:33 pm
Oh, dear God… please don’t tell me you trying to sell this “we must stay in Iraq to stop this terrible geocide” Piece of Crap as a valid reason to stay in that bloodbath that, incidentally, is a direct result of the Chimp’s idiotic invasion.
First it was WMDs…
Then it exporting “Democracy”…
Next it was “Fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here”…
And now, it’s Stopping a Genocide?
Geez, there was this ridiculous little p*ssant calling himself “Mr P” running around here screaming for the annihilation of the Islamo-fascist Sh*teaters, and now, it’s 180 degrees, just like that? We need to protect them from themselves?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pmThank God we have a Republic and not democracy proper!!!
Comment by Iohannes Scottus Eriugena — August 6, 2007 @ 9:46 pm
Well, we do allow idiots like you to sound off endlessly.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:49 pmAgain ISE, with all due respect. . . . we have a democracy. What you equate with a “Republic” form of government is probably what France had prior to the revolution. (”Revolution” being the operative word here). For better or worse, Bush and Cheney would be lucky to escape with their heads if we actually had a Republic here.
What country are you from anyway.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
August 6th, 2007 at 9:51 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity —
LIBTROLL ALERT!!! LIBTROLL ALERT!!!
#78 “Under control”? Where do you live?
August 6th, 2007 at 9:52 pmBob is a has-been and the WH and the world has passed
August 6th, 2007 at 9:53 pmhim bye bye.
Comment by rockyroad — August 6, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
Actually we have a Constitutional Republic.
I am from the USA!
August 6th, 2007 at 9:57 pmISE . . . I’ve got you discount tickets and two nights in Comptonn, CA, complete with a picnick basket, a red bandana for you and a blue one for your significant other.
Enjoy :>)
P.S. If Compton is a little dull, pick up bus passes to Oakland at the Motel 8 . . . non-stop good times.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:59 pmComment by The Republic of Stupidity —
LIBTROLL ALERT!!! LIBTROLL ALERT!!!
Comment by Iohannes Scottus Eriugena — August 6, 2007 @ 9:51 pm
Oh gosh… that is SO flattering… have I really got you THAT spooked?
August 6th, 2007 at 10:00 pmBeing that you’re from the Republic of the US of A, you’ll particularly enjoy the sites in Compton.
FYI, might just want to add the PD phone number to your speed dial before that picnic.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:01 pmActually we have a Constitutional Republic.
Comment by Iohannes Scottus Eriugena — August 6, 2007 @ 9:57 pm
Oh, you say the sweetest things… **blush** And I thought you hated me!
August 6th, 2007 at 10:01 pmNovak can claim to be critic of the Bush when he gets paid to write how the surge is working come September.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:03 pmFYI, might just want to add the PD phone number to your speed dial before that picnic.
Comment by rockyroad — August 6, 2007 @ 10:01 pm
———————
August 6th, 2007 at 10:06 pmAre questioning the competence of the LAPD?
ISE . . . just a tad worried about you. If you’re wearing that bandana and run into anyone with a tear-drop tatooed beneath their eye . . . best bet is just to run. Good as the police and FBI are . . . this dude killed someone in prison.
Take care. Keep that faith. It ain’t genocide if it’s just you. : .> )
August 6th, 2007 at 10:09 pmIn answer to someone’s question, I think PKK is the Kurdish insurgent army in Iraq, which the Turks on the border might invade in order to wipe out their leaders? The Turks have a large Kurdish population, which might want to join the Iraqi and Iranian Kurds to form a kurdistan. The Turks do not want to lose territory to Kurds.
Thanks, Robin, for the neat history lesson about how Kurds descend from Galatian Celts. Just fascinating! History can be wonderful when it lets you know such interesting things.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:10 pm#90 ISE . . . eyes open wide . . . Compton . . . Northern California. Not even close to LA. Ooh. Baghdad . . . not even close to Afghanastan. Perhaps a lack of geography classes in American high schools is where Bush lost his way.
Oh yeah, God bless those LAPD officers who did such a fine job of nabbing Paris Hilton . . . the terrorists among us. Whew…close
August 6th, 2007 at 10:12 pmWhat?
You mean Eazy-E lied to me?
August 6th, 2007 at 10:17 pmPrior to the US invasion of Iraq, we ran a very effective flight program protecting the Kurds. It worked. Why don’t we just re-establish the same program, protect the Kurds and run the same type of program along the Iranian border?
August 6th, 2007 at 10:18 pmYeah, ISE . . . you just keep believing any idiot willing to spew info to you that satisfies their agenda.
When we ask, “Who exactly is listening to Bush, Cheney and Rove?” . . . now we know.
At least we can identify one.
Quit the dark side! See the light . . .
August 6th, 2007 at 10:22 pmRR,
Compton is in LA Co. California!
And Eazy-E was not “any idiot.”
Frankly, I’m offended.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:30 pmP.S. If Compton is a little dull, pick up bus passes to Oakland at the Motel 8 . . . non-stop good times.
Comment by rockyroad — August 6, 2007 @ 9:59 pm
Oak-town… Oh yeah… 8 murders in the last 4 days… t’ings be happenin’ in Oak-town alrighty.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:34 pmISE . . . frankly, you’re an idiot. Get a map.
August 6th, 2007 at 10:53 pmISE . . . I’ve got a map.
http://www.google.com/ maps?f=d&hl=en&geocode=&saddr=Compton,+CA&daddr=los+angeles,+ca&sll=34.057245,-118.64547&sspn=0.482969,0.858307&ie=UTF8&z=12&om=1
August 6th, 2007 at 11:01 pmBlood and Crip Compton Gang Territories
http://www.streetgangs.com/maps/commap.html
Blood and Crip gang territories of Compton and surrounding unincorporated areas of Willowbrook, Athens, Rosewood and the areas of Carson, Lynwood and N. Long Beach. Notice how the northern part of Compton is dominated by Blood gangs while the southern portion of Compton has a greater Crip presence.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:04 pmLord protect us against the “radical islamists.” Thank you God for the police and the FBI. No worries here.
Yeah ISE, you’ve got at least as great a grip on reality as the Bush administration.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:07 pmAh so in other words “You kicked me out of the clubhouse, so now I don’t like you!”
What a whore, put him in jail where he belongs.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:46 pmDamn . . . you
You’ve got LAPD posting nonsense.
Well, Tsar me till I wet my pants!
“Genocide” . . . . my wet pants.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:46 pmPoor Mr. Opportunist-Novak.
What a Crock! Does he think the American people are so gullible we’d believe him about anything?
Please! Mr. N., expand your phantasmagorical mock-journalism at thou Fox/Dow News:
August 6th, 2007 at 11:49 pmA perfect platform for Lies to coalesce against the People.
Where is the ACLU when you need them?
August 6th, 2007 at 11:52 pmNovak will have to deal with his own conscience for outing a covert agent for the CIA and ruining her career and endangering the lives of other agents who worked with her when her cover was blown just to settle a political score. It is a pity that other members of the Bush White House were not indicted for outing Plame, considering they were clearly responsible. Especially Rove who testified 5 times in front of the grand jury.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:04 amNovak will have to deal with his own conscience (if he has one) for outing a covert agent for the CIA and ruining her career and endangering the lives of other agents who worked with her when her cover was blown just to settle a political score to get back at her husband. It is a pity that other members of the Bush White House were not indicted for outing Plame, considering they were clearly responsible.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:05 amBush/Cheney played Novak for what he was worth and like the used up Iraq generals on the ground, he became expendable also. When the going gets tough? –>dump the heat.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:09 amKarl Rove & Bob Novak:
THE “DOUCHEBAG DUO.”
August 7th, 2007 at 12:18 amBush only likes lickspittles like the Fox News Boys.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:19 amTool. Useless tool.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:22 amCrappity ass. He wants to be used both ways. Now, he’s going to write a tell-all tome and want all of the media attention he can generate. “I had access . . . no one had my access . . . the admin screwed you and I’m gonna tell you how . . ” everyone’s going to suck up to this pariah. Ick. It’s going to happen.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:26 amWho kudda known that FISA needed revision? Who couldda seen that the dems would buckle? Who couldda had the impagination, when six years ago today, a memo landed on GWB’s desk saying that Al Quaeda (sp?) planned to follow the World Trade Center example and planes to strike “lightening” against the United States, who couldda known that a war might spike petroleum and defense stocks, who couldda known that Novak might be a mouthpiece and dumped as being a bigmouth by the Cheney Bush Administration? Who wouldda thunk?
duh.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:39 amI Don’t Support This Administration,’ Bush Has ‘Cut Me Off’
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Oh Boo Hoo! Another crybaby from the Republican/Fox party gets the boot. Good riddance to bad baggage.
August 7th, 2007 at 12:48 amNoval has an ego bigger than his fat ass. Who care if he’s been cut off. At least he has that in common with America because w’ve all been cut off from this admisnistration. Bush listens to only what he wants to hear anyway. He and Cheney sholud be behind bars!
August 7th, 2007 at 1:38 amIf he’s cut off from the insider feed anyway, maybe he can try objectively reporting and telling the truth instead?
August 7th, 2007 at 2:00 amYou can’t be serious when you say, “It would be unsurprising if the White House considered Novak ‘trouble,’ given his unscrupulous journalistic ethics.†For years the man has shilled for this administration, promoting their ideology, serving their need to get their appalling vision of the world out there. The man has had a symbiotic relationship with their right-wing thinkers, enablers and doers, his ear pressed lovingly to the mouth of one or other of them. Maybe his punctuation and phrasing are punctilious, but “his unscrupulous journalistic ethics� I think not.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:02 amNovak is the most self-absorbed, self-serving, churlish, thin-skinned, cry baby of the lot, and that’s saying volumes when you consider the bunch. He used Rove, Rove used him. He thought Rove needed him more than he needed Rove, he has now learned the Rovian Tancredo lesson — “don’t bother to darken the door of the WH” — when they don’t need you anymore, they actually do kick you in the nuts on the way out. But gee, this was a good moment for research biologists who have long wondered about the possibility of a two headed talking Ass - voila! - Assinine Novakii.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:35 amNovak should have gone to jail for outing a covert CIA agent.
August 7th, 2007 at 3:43 amHey, Marie! Watch it! “Twerp” okay, but what’s “balding” got to do with it? Suppose I wrote, “What’s ‘balding’ got to with it, you fat, ugly broad”?
August 7th, 2007 at 5:27 amWow what adifference a election makes, the Mental Miget in the WH. is now a total bonified Incompetent and held to it. His party is now known as Ciminals Murders and Sex Offenders. Now mr novack wants nothing to do with his pals at the WH. am I suppose to forget that he and armitage leaked a CIA agents name to the public so he could look good in the eyes of the people he supports.
Look people this story is a day old and today marks the Anniversary of SIX YEARS ago that this Administration recieved its warning that bin Laden was going to hit this Country and the Warning was ignored.
Yet mr novack who betrayed his country by reporting what he was TOLD to report for the benefit of a story and the luxsurry of the inside track is now trying to play his insidious traitorous self as a reporter on the story about Turkey and yet he still takes NO accountability for his act of being a traitor and outing A CIA operative.
August 7th, 2007 at 5:35 amDon’t know why Novak would be in trouble for reporting the Turkey plan - speculation about it has been in the European papers for a while - unless the WH still doesn’t know that Americans can read the European papers - talk about being divorced from reality…
August 7th, 2007 at 7:40 amHang it up Novak.
I couldn’t stand to listen to your whiny voice regardless who you were loyal to.
You are better off being shut out from this administration. Why did you wait so long to tell the truth about Plame? A bit “squirrelly” eh? Much like an 8th grader…..always squealing behind someone’s back.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:42 amNovak’s drug dealer has less power than Limpballs.
August 7th, 2007 at 8:46 amAnother rat leaving the sunkin ship.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:18 amlet’s suppose or except that armitage–good team player that he is–did reveal valerie plame’s name and let’s suppose that is supposed to get scooter libby and cheney and rove off the hook–and i guess novak too. does that mean if four people rob a bank, only one can be guilty? if the intention of each was to blow plame’s cover and if each person’s actions did that with respect to anohter party, then why are not all in violation of the espionage act.
August 7th, 2007 at 9:54 amNever forget that a journalist (which Noavak prolly thinks he is) must have a confirmation to publish. Armitage was the source, but Rove was the confirmation. In theory, without Rove, Plame could not have been outed.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:21 amBack to the original comment by Bob: Why hasn’t Richard Armtiage been indicted for disclosing Valerie Plume’s identity?
August 7th, 2007 at 10:50 am“Don’t know why Novak would be in trouble for reporting the Turkey plan - speculation about it has been in the European papers for a while - unless the WH still doesn’t know that Americans can read the European papers - talk about being divorced from reality…”
Comment by JoshuasGrandma
There is a vast difference between the speculation regarding what results will be produced from overt negotiations between the US, Turkey and Iraq regarding the PKK and a covert operation involving US special forces to actually hunt down the PKK. Today’s Turkish Weekly quotes Novak as its source for saying US forces will actually be part of the fight. As Novak mentions right in his article, exposure of the US intervening militarily ruins the plan to intervene militarily.
In regard to what the negotiations will overtly produce is the coming agreement between Iraq and Turkey which Maliki promises to sign declaring the PKK a terrorist organization and allowing hot pursuit by Turkey over the border for PKK who go into Turkey. That is vastly different than the US covertly hunting the PKK down inside Iraqi borders. The Kurds are on board for the negotiations and know that the hot pursuit doctrine was coming. What they didn’t know, and everybody now knows, is that the US will be hunting them down inside the Iraqi border, hot pursuit or not. Given all the US mistakes in Iraq when it comes to identifying and pursuing people that have led to the deaths of too many innocents, I think the Kurds will not be pleased to here the US plans to get involved militarily in covert fashion or that the US was trying to keep this operation from the Kurds during negotiations with Turkey over the PKK.
It also quite different to speculate as to what the US might do than to report what the US actual covert operational plans are - those are classified and top secret.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:55 amwah!
August 7th, 2007 at 11:37 amBooHoo. Are conservatives now such weasels that they practice back paddling in open view? Next thing you hear will be Novak saying: “they made me do it”. Talk about opportunists rationalizing the shift in the public oppinion, trying to preserve their own lagacy as tough talking, slogan formatted strong armed phrases. Did we mention he is tring to sell his book? Wake up, John Doe Public, it was never for smaller government, or less taxes for you, or pro life blaablaa: It was about power and influence. Everything else just a means to an end, contol of us, so inferior minions. And the sad part is, that there are still people who believe the Novaks of this world. Instead of ignoring his bad guesses and aiding and endangering of real serious people, they smear their inappropriate slime to cover up the crimes of a government for their own egocentrical gains.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:51 amWow, you leftists just don’t get it, do you?
The Republican Party is locked in a battle for its very soul. The battle is between the neo-con Bushites, and the old-line conservatives who are more Reagan-like. Perhaps you guys can’t see any difference, but the very clear one is that the Reaganites didn’t want to go to Iraq. They also don’t like the wild spending sprees, the intrusive government power-grab, and the easy road to amnesty for illegal aliens. The Reaganites include people like Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, Tucker Carlson, Phyllis Schlafly, David Keene (of the American Conservative Union), Richard Viguerie, and among the candidates Ron Paul and probably Tom Tancredo. On the other side are the Bill O’Reilly’s, the Glenn Becks, the Sean Hannity-types, as well as Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson - and, of course, George Bush. You might not care who wins this battle, and you might be happy just to see the Republicans self-destruct, but at least understand what is going on. This is not about personalities. It is about a vastly different view of what America’s role in the world should be. Are we interventionist or are we willing to live and let live? The neo-cons obviously stand for intervention. Where do you stand?
August 7th, 2007 at 12:08 pmSo, if only Novacula had not been “cut off” then this administration would be the best the country has seen in 100 years.
August 7th, 2007 at 1:20 pmHow f*ching selfish of this soggy turd. The epitomy of selling out to gain access.
The only reason Novak was never charged with outing Plame was because he received full immunity from Fitzgerald in return for his full cooperation and testimony. Unlike Judy Miller he wasn’t willing to go to jail for Rove or Libby.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:13 pmI’d just like to be able to finish the job of breaking Novak’s nose. Someone must have punched him out once before, probably for the same chicken-shit stuff he’s put over on the public for years. Rove=Goehring, Novak=Goebbels. Both belong in front of a firing line.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:47 pm110 minutes!!?! That’s a LOT of fart jokes to have to listen to…
August 7th, 2007 at 5:24 pmNovak is an idiot. Anyone who makes his living off of political commentary and boasts on television that he doesn’t vote is a joke.
August 7th, 2007 at 7:15 pmWell I put on my Geopolitical cap again and it hurts because what comes out is so disgusting. But first thanks, and more thanks about The PKK info. If the Kurds are spooked into civil war WE GOT BIG PROBLEMS. More History anthropology etc, Kurds live in E. Turkey, W. Iran, N. Iraq and N. Syria. In their wisdom the Colonial powers managed to draw lines on the map that screwed the Kurds. A combined Kurdish uprising which could be set off by being double crossed and sold out(can you blame them) would throw the whole region into Chaos. If you think it’s bad now. This could work 2 ways. It could give Bush a chance to say “Oh no we can’t stay involved this it is a civil war” or It would be a perfect excuse to go CRAZY. The Bushies of course can’t see past either of these options. They wouldn’t be able to Deal with anything like this any better than they have been dealing with Iraq. Of course they think they can. There in lies the danger. Novak may have done the world a favor but he’s got a long way to go to balance the scales. Like I said you never know who they are working for.
August 7th, 2007 at 10:33 pmJoshuasGrandma ,
August 7th, 2007 at 10:46 pmThe bigger problem is American don’t read the american papers or much else. Have you got a link to the European source?
Regarding the Turkish Kurds (PKK) and the Iraqi Kurds.
In a strange way, they have at this moment different interest. And, if they will not coordinate these interests, it could become a loose-loose situation.
See my two postings on this subject
August 8th, 2007 at 8:29 am(a) PKK should do ‘whatever it takes’ to provoke Turkey to invade Northern Iraq
(b) Framing Kurdistan
#131
“Wow, you leftists just don’t get it, do you?”
Sorry dude we get it.
“The Republican Party is locked in a battle for its very soul.”
Battle lost.
“The battle is between the neo-con Bushites, and the old-line conservatives . . . the Reaganites didn’t want to go to Iraq. They also don’t like the wild spending sprees, the intrusive government power-grab, and the easy road to amnesty for illegal aliens.”
Unfortunately, you sooul-seeking repubs voted as a block for the war, for spending sprees and for the intrusive power grab.
“The Reaganites include people like Bob Novak [bloviator who outed a covert CIA agent] , Pat Buchanan [all purpose nut case], Tucker Carlson [still a clown sporting that damn bow tie], Phyllis Schlafly [bomb abortion clinics . . . God’s work], David Keene . . . [who?] , Richard Viguerie, and among the candidates Ron Paul and probably Tom Tancredo [heck of a job you’re doin’ for your constituents . . . yeah, those foldks who lost their minds and elected you again].
Yes, as a former repub, I recognize the difference in stated philosophy, but actions speak volumes. I’ve looked from one pig to the other and they look the same.
August 8th, 2007 at 1:42 pm