{"id":2427,"date":"2004-08-30T09:31:27","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/2427.html"},"modified":"2004-08-30T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2004-08-30T14:31:27","slug":"make-that-itwoi-novaks-that-shamelessly-tout-swiftboat-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/make-that-itwoi-novaks-that-shamelessly-tout-swiftboat-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Make that two<\/i> Novaks that shamelessly tout Swiftboat nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"

Right-wing columnist Robert Novak wrote four columns<\/a> about the Swiftboat group’s attacks on John Kerry between Aug. 2 and Aug. 27 — a little better than a column a week on the subject. All of them, naturally, supported the group’s smear.<\/p>\n

Considering Novak’s political agenda, it’s not surprising he’d repeat the right’s favorite lie incessantly, but four columns in a month did seem a little excessive, even for a polemicist of Novak’s reputation.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Novak may have been getting a little added push<\/a> on the issue.<\/p>\n

Among the stoutest defenders of “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” the best-selling book arguing that Mr. Kerry lied about his record of service in Vietnam, is the columnist Robert Novak.<\/p>\n

In his syndicated columns and on the CNN program “Crossfire,” Mr. Novak has lauded the book and referred to veterans who criticize Mr. Kerry – most notably John E. O’Neill, the book’s co-author – as “real patriots.”<\/p>\n

Unmentioned in Mr. Novak’s columns and television appearances, however, is a personal connection he has to the book: his son, Alex Novak, is the director of marketing for its publisher, the conservative publishing house Regnery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In a telephone interview, Robert Novak said he saw no need to disclose the link. <\/p>\n

“I don’t think it’s relevant,” he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, of course not. Novak’s son is responsible for generating attention for a book full of lies about a Dem war hero, while Novak was going above-and-beyond to generate attention for the same book in nationally syndicated newspaper columns and through his position at CNN. Not relevant at all.<\/p>\n

How a dishonest hack like Novak keeps his job is a total mystery to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right-wing columnist Robert Novak wrote four columns about the Swiftboat group’s attacks on John Kerry between Aug. 2 and Aug. 27 — a little better than a column a week on the subject. All of them, naturally, supported the group’s smear. Considering Novak’s political agenda, it’s not surprising he’d repeat the right’s favorite lie incessantly, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}