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Robert Novak --- Oh what a tangled web we weave...
Can somebody, anybody retain his or her integrity on the right these days? Read this sterling example of Robert Novak's rectitude:
(Capitol Gang, Sept. 14, 2002 with Mark Shields at mid-Outrage of the Week) ...Yes, I realize I am going overboard with my opening accusation.
Mark Shields: In an Orwellian abuse of the language, conservatives, including even the respected Cato Institute, insist that they're now for Social Security choice, not for dreaded 'privatization'. Yes, and war is peace.
Robert D. Novak: I'm still for privatization.
(Crossfire, Oct. 28, 2002)
[Democratic consultant] Steve McMahon: I thought they were accusing the Republicans of wanting to privatize Social Security which, after all, is what Republicans wanted.
Robert D. Novak: That's a Democratic term.
But having Robert Novak, an intelligent individual but with a too-often and obvious display of partisanship, drink (maybe in his case, gargle nightly) the Kool-Aid and adhere to Commandant Rove's marching orders banishing private/privatize/privatization from the right's vocabulary, is simply journalistically and personally unethical.
If a journalist will directly lie about something he stated six weeks earlier, why believe anything he or she says or writes?
As the young say: you're so busted.That you are Bob. Not that you care.
Maybe, just maybe, Novak underwent the same treatment sought by Jim Carrey in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and had certain selected memories deleted.
Yes, this is the same Novak who demanded that Dan Rather reveal his source(s) for President Bush's Texas Air National Guard records and memos used during the broadcast on Rather's now infamous "60 Minutes II" report.
Conveniently or blindedly, Novak fails to realize his decision not to reveal his White House source(s) after he wrote a column outing CIA agent Valerie Plame 1) put a U.S. intelligence officer's life in danger, 2) ended her overseas career, 3) caused Plame-involved overseas projects to be immediately closed down, wasting thousands of dollars in taxpayer money and 4) has reporters Judith Miller and Matthew Cooper facing jail time.
You're quite the class act Robert Novak.
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