Novak questions Deep Throat’s motivations

June 2, 2005

Bob Novak has entered a Twilight Zone so free of irony, he now feels justified in questioning the motives of Mark Felt during Watergate.

Everybody knew that Felt was leaking information to Woodward and Bernstein about the Watergate investigation. The reporters made no secret of the fact that they were getting leaks from inside the FBI, and it was presumed that Felt was one of the leakers. Felt was very unhappy with the Nixon White House, partly for many reasons that were not necessarily noble or patriotic.

So, Bob Novak, who received a leak about an undercover CIA agent and who ran the agent’s name in a column despite protestations from the agency, believes that he’s in a position to question Mark Felt’s motivations and patriotism for leaking information about a corrupt president. Novak will not, however, consider the motivations of the two White House officials who wanted to out Valerie Plame because they were mad at her husband for daring to criticize the Bush administration.

One wonders if Novak can appreciate how unintentionally hilarious this is.

Novak is a creep who used to be amusing but now ought to realize he’s a thoroughly boring has-been. Everything he spouts is a re-tread from long ago, completely predictable. It only becomes interesting when his muttering becomes confused through his increasing senility. Every time he prefaces his rant with “The Democrats [or liberals] I’ve talked to say…” I want to puke.

  • Novakula strikes again! Just like a vampire who can’t see his own reflection, Novak and the rest of his wingnut whores can’t see themselves as they project their crap onto the rest of us. Go back into your bat cave, Novak, you bat-shit whore, because in case you didn’t know it you’ve outlived any usefulness you ever had.

  • What fascinates me is the attacks on Mark Felt by the right which seem to arise for no other reason than certain people calling Felt an American hero. Apparently, only conservatives are allowed to call someone an American hero. Of course, considering that Ronald Reagan pardoned this guy in 1981 (for wiretapping the Weathermen), you would think he qualifies from both sides.

    Everyone, including Novak, seem to concede that Nixon and his justice department were trying to politicize the FBI. J. Edger resisted this, and so did Mark Felt. That doesn’t mean that J. Edger was a good guy, but considering the overreach of power that was the FBI in the fifties and sixties, I suppose it would be best to keep it out of the hands of partisan politicians.

    So it seems, in critizing Felt, the right has revealed its intention to recreate the Imperial presidency. What I can’t understand is why Tom Delay and Dennis Hastert are aiding and abbeting this. Frist, of course, wants the job himself, and weakening the Senate in relationship to the White House probably does not bother him.

    😉

  • Did everyone hear what Jon Stewart said on The Daily Show last night:

    “Pat Buchanan, Bob Novak, and Watergate burgler G. Gordon Liddy don’t like Mark Felt… Mark Felt is truly a great man.”

    Truth — as spoken by the oracle of “fake” news.

  • If you read Novak’s column, it really isn’t that bad. If you want to see true vitriolic nonsense, check out Peggy Noonan’s editorial in the WSJ. She actually sayd that Mark Felt’s actions DIRECTLY LED to Cambodian genocide.

  • Novak decrying Felt’s ethics is almost as funny as William Bennett writing books about virtue.

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