Department of Pots and Kettles

July 14, 2007

From Bob Novak’s Q&A with the New York Times Magazine:

NYT: Your betrayal of [Valerie Plame’s] identity appalled not only Democrats but also some of your former conservative friends, like Bill Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard, who called your conduct reprehensible. Did that sting on a personal level?

Novak: I think it did. I really enjoyed Bill’s company, but Bill is an ideologue, much more than I am, and I think it was very hard for him to maintain a relationship with me when I took positions on the Iraq war and on the Middle East which were so far different from his.

Isn’t Novak calling someone an “ideologue” a bit like Dick Cheney calling someone “secretive”?

True, but Novakula’s was sort of against the war but considering his actions it seems very convoluted.

What gets me about Novakula is that he doesn’t think he’s ever been wrong about anything.

  • What I find so disturbing is the fact Dan Rather lost his post for telling the truth about bushie’s National Guard defection using the arguement the documents were forged. The fact it was the truth totally ignored.

    When Limbaugh made fun of Mike J. Fox’s illness, and described a kidnapped and molested child as someone who had found a better deal than his own family, nothing was said. If anyone ought to be thrown off the air, it is that fat junkie.

    Coulter is another example of pure evil disguised as comedy. Michael Savage…the list of right-wing hate mongers is formidable.

    Don Imus lost his career because he was “racist”. Never mind he regularly called Bush a nitwit, Cheney a war criminal and was decidedly against the Iraq war. He raised millions for needed care and supplies for wounded veterans ; our own government is using and abusing them without end. He spoke his truth, put his money where his mouth is. Just before the hammer fell on him, people were urging him to visit the troops in Iraq. The bushies wouldn’t like that, so the conservative media jumped on a stupid segment on his show, and wiped him out.

    That Novak keeps his job is one more indicator we have a very corrupt government that needs to be impeached and replaced.

  • Novak was not ‘handed’ the Plame name by a Roveite. In the middle of a long discussion with Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state, on Niger and Wilson’s trip there, Novak asked Armitage why Wilson was selected to be sent to Niger and Armitage said his wife Valarie, who works at the CIA, suggested he be sent. Days later Karl Rove just responded “oh you know that too” when Novak asked him about Valarie suggesting her husband go to Niger.
    Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew about these eposodes, yet never charged Armitage with ‘outing’ a covert CIA operator. Why? Its clear he knew there was no violation of the Intelligence Indentity Protection act. Plame was not defined by that act to be covert. She had not been out of the USA in the past 5 years.

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