Remembering Robert Novak

1:39 pm EST August 18th, 2009 | News | 17 Comments

This was surely his finest hour…

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17 Responses to “Remembering Robert Novak”

  1. Ol'Froth says:
    August 18, 2009 at 1:49 pm

    I prefer to just forget him.

  2. Amused Observer says:
    August 18, 2009 at 1:57 pm

    Media Matters and Oliver keeping it classy. There will be plenty of time to stoop to their level if one so desires when the coward from Massachusetts finally succumbs from karma.

  3. NSangoma says:
    August 18, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    ~
    An evil, evil, man.
    Speak not ill of the dead.

    He is dead, good.

    NSangoma

  4. Quaker in a Basement says:
    August 18, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    Mark Twain once published a short etiquette for attending funerals. He included the following:

    If the official hopes expressed concerning the person in whose honor the entertainment is given are known by you to be oversized, let it pass — do not interrupt.

  5. Crapola says:
    August 18, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Media Matters and Oliver keeping it classy.
    You know, besides the fact that the MM post was from 4 years ago, your reading comprehension and attention to detail are fucking flawless!Spare us the concern trolling. We know that regardless of what OW or any of the rest of us post up on here that you’re going to ruin your pants in your haste to piss on Ted Kennedy’s grave when he finally “succumbs from karma” (How the fuck exactly do you succumb “from” something, BTW?).

  6. Amused Observer says:
    August 18, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Well thought out pseudonym Mr. 225, twas not I that plumbed the archives of MM and placed a link in the posting. Your nick fits.

  7. joaquin says:
    August 18, 2009 at 2:40 pm

    That was his finest hour?
    Oliver you are a complete fool. You should read more and ‘get out’ more.

  8. Indeed says:
    August 18, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Did the Douchebag for Liberty (TM) die with the marbles still in his mouth.

  9. Indeed says:
    August 18, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    Oliver you are a complete fool. You should read more and ‘get out’ more.

    What do you ‘mean’? Could you be more ‘specific,’ please?

  10. Oliver Willis says:
    August 18, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    “Seriously”. I “mean”, come o”n”.

  11. somejackass says:
    August 18, 2009 at 3:42 pm

    Media Matters and Oliver keeping it classy.
    You know, besides the fact that the MM post was from 4 years ago, your reading comprehension and attention to detail are fucking flawless!

    Amused Observer was wrong to throw stones at media matters, but c’mon. Oliver, the guy just died, and we’re not talking about a dictator or war criminal here. Celebrating the death of those you disagree with is not going to win converts.

  12. Indeed says:
    August 18, 2009 at 3:54 pm

    This hit it right:

    Robert Novak, an authentic American monster, is dead. May all good people spit three times. Most of what he believed was wrong. He was unkind and uncharitable. He was also a real reporter once, when we had reporters, before the colleges got hold of them. He was a grouch. He was mean. He was a white man with a sports-car complex, poor bastard. Like so many monsters, he was a Catholic. Unlike them, he came by it honestly, which is to say, through conversion. I always kind of liked the guy. He was a genuine crab. I would’ve drunk scotch with him, and I wouldn’t have felt badly if I woke in the morning with a bandaged hand and no memory of punching him in the face. They don’t make them like Bob anymore. Properly considered, he was the conservative answer to Hunter S. Thompson, who was himself a mad sort of conservative, or, at least, gun-happy. They would’ve liked each other, I suspect. Good night, sweet prince.

    http://whoisioz.blogspot.com/2009/08/honorable-man.html

  13. Rheinhard says:
    August 18, 2009 at 4:15 pm

    Well, I think we all know what this means.

    Bill O’Reilly’s interns will be working overtime scouring and trolling left leaning blogs to scrounge up enough random “Good Riddance!” type posts to fill a standard issue 3-minute “far left haters” rant. With bonus agreement from Bernie Goldberg! Don’t miss it, tonight on the FACTOR!

  14. David in NYC says:
    August 18, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    we’re not talking about a dictator or war criminal here

    Maybe not, but he sure as hell was guilty of treason (cf. Valerie Plame).

    Look, I hate, loathe, despise, and abhor the CIA and everything they have ever done (exploding cigars, anyone?). But if outing an undercover operative of the national government during wartime (remember the “War on Terror”?) isn’t prima facie evidence of treason, then I don’t know what would be.

  15. Amused Observer says:
    August 18, 2009 at 5:51 pm

    LOL,
    Hey that italicized latin must mean you are really really smart. Big Apple Dave may like to review the actual facts in the case before making a further fool of himself. One of the legal definitions of treason is giving comfort to the enemy. Just how closely would you like the letter of the law to be applied?

    Considering Indeed’s post, is the phrase “Like so many monsters, he was a Catholic” politically correct? I would assume the phrase “Like so many murderers, he was black” would not be considered politically correct. It is however not a racist statement.

    The first example seems bigoted but perhaps the statistics exist to back it up. Monster seems a bit too subjective a word to have specific statistics attached to it with any sort of firm correlation however. I suppose in a far far stretch it could be contrued as racist if one was working with the idea that the catholic religion was specifically enough associated with certain ethnicities but again that seems a stretch.

  16. Randy Brown says:
    August 18, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    Fuck Novak.

    End of discussion.

  17. Indeed says:
    August 18, 2009 at 7:10 pm

    Remembering Robert Novak:

    http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0412.sullivan.html