{"id":12460,"date":"2007-08-07T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/12460.html"},"modified":"2007-08-07T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T17:30:08","slug":"were-supposed-to-feel-sorry-for-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/were-supposed-to-feel-sorry-for-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re supposed to feel sorry for Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poor Bob Novak. About a month ago, as part of a series of sycophantic meetings, the president invited<\/a> conservative writers\/pundits such as David Brooks, Rich Lowry, and Kate O’Beirne over to the White House for a chat. Novak wasn’t invited — and apparently he’s feeling a little bitter<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n

From an appearance on The Diane Rehm Show yesterday:<\/p>\n

CALLER: I take it from his previous comments that [Novak] 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This from the man who recently said<\/a> he “never enjoyed such a good source inside the White House” as Karl Rove.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Novak seems to have thrown quite a pity party for himself during the Rehm interview.
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\nTim Grieve noted<\/a> a few other choice tidbits:<\/p>\n

* On the criticism he received after outing Valerie Plame: “The abuse — you can’t imagine the abuse I get in e-mails. People say things in e-mails … that are absolutely … dreadful. [Plamegate] cost me financially, it cost me very heavy legal fees — about $160,000. And then you have, beyond that, I wasn’t on ‘Meet the Press’ for a number of years, and it helped poison my relationship with CNN.”<\/p>\n

* On his professional colleagues: Novak complained that he got “very little support” during the case from his “shameful” journalistic colleagues, who he said let their liberal ideology trump their commitment to real journalism.<\/p>\n

* On the media in general: “What I tell [conservatives] is to go in the closet: don’t tell anybody you’re a conservative, don’t tell a soul, because you’re not going to get the job, and you’re not going to get advanced,” Novak said. “You just say you have ‘no political leanings’ … because a conservative label on someone would really be an impediment to their careers.”<\/p>\n

It’s as if Novak lives in some kind of parallel universe in which conservatives have limited access to microphones, as compared to our<\/i> universe in which the opposite is true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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