“Whom Does Robert Novak Serve?,” asks the News Dissector blog, which plucks these gems from BustBob.com:
Richard Perle. Richard Perle reportedly used Evans and Novak to leak classified information in the 1970’s ? and is now a member of the board of Holllinger, which owns the Chicago Sun-Times, the home newspaper of Novak’s syndicated column. See Richard Perle and the Leaks of the 1970s.
Henry Kissinger. Kissinger is also a member of the board of Holllinger, which owns the Chicago Sun-Times, the home newspaper of Novak’s syndicated column. He was the topic of a classified leak to Novak and Evans in 1975 ? which was allegedly leaked by Richard Perle. See Richard Perle and the Leaks of the 1970s.
The Phillips Foundation. Novak is a Trustee of this clearly arch-conservative “non-profit organization founded in 1990 to advance constitutional principles, a democratic society and a vibrant free enterprise system.” Leadership at the foundation, which runs a Journalism Fellowship Program and the Ronald Reagan Future Leaders Scholarship Program, includes: … BELOW:
Continued from BustBob.com:
- Thomas Phillips, Chairman. Phillips is Chairman of Phillips International, Inc. and of Eagle Publishing, the leading conservative publishing house which publishes the Evans Novak Political Report. Phillips is “a member of The Republican National Committee’s Team 100. He is also Chairman of the Chairman’s Council of the Republican Party of Orange County, and he serves on the Board of Directors of The Claremont Institute.” (Phillips Foundationl and Bio)
- Alfred S. Regnery, Trustee. Alfred Regnery is publisher of The American Spectator. He is also President of Regnery Publishing, Inc. a subsidiary of Eagle Publishing, Inc. since 1993. (Phillips Foundation and Regnery)
- Donald P. Hodel Hodel is “the new President and CEO of Focus on the Family and former Secretary of both Interior and Energy during the Reagan Administration.” (Phillips Foundation)
- Thomas Fuentes Fuentes is “Senior Vice President of Tait & Associates and Chairman of the Republican Party of Orange County, California.” (Phillips Foundation)
As the News Dissector blog alleges, Novak is more than a journalist.
He’s a tool.
P.S. Check out BustBob.com. The site has a prepared letter you can send to Novak’s bosses at the Chicago Sun-Times … not sure if that’ll accomplish much, but what the heck!
One stop shopping at the Sun-Times, with both sources and distribution in the same place. A well organized web.
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Interesting both topics from the same link! IMO there is some truth in the ignorance of MSM on this topic. Does more harm than good in following Blair’s leadership in complaining about the British Muslim community. Stupidity reigns, or smart ass polticians with expensive management consultants lie and deceive the people of the UK, and thereby undermining the meaning of democracy. Sounds familiar to the neocons and right-wing republicans in America, doesn’t it?
LONDON (The Guardian) August 15, 2005 — The BBC yesterday robustly rejected fresh accusations of institutional bias after the Muslim Council of Britain [MCB] complained that an upcoming documentary had a “blatant pro-Israeli” slant.
The influential lobby group, whose leader Sir Iqbal Sacranie was interviewed for the program due to be broadcast within the next week, said in a letter to the BBC: “It appears that the Panorama team is more interested in furthering a pro-Israeli agenda than assessing the work of Muslim organisations in the UK”.
It accused the BBC of allowing itself “to be used by the highly placed supporters of Israel in the British media to make political capital out of the July 7 atrocities in central London”.
In the Panorama special, reporter John Ware travels around Britain’s Muslim communities to “discover whether their leaders can tackle the growth of extremism in their midst” in the wake of the terrorist attacks. The MCB said it was surprised that the questions that were asked focused almost exclusively on Israel. The programme is expected to challenge the strict views of some of the groups affiliated to the MCB. Ware is also expected to challenge Sir Iqbal over his decision not to attend the Holocaust Memorial Day and his attendance of a memorial service for Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
Yesterday, Sir Iqbal rejected separate newspaper reports which suggested that the council’s leadership and some of the 400 groups affiliated to it had links with conservative Islamist movements and have roots in the “extremist politics of Pakistan”. He said the allegation was “absolutely preposterous”, adding: “I can’t believe that anyone who knows anything about the MCB could take that statement seriously.”
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I simply do not know why this man is not sitting an a federal jail some place for the rest of his natural life! ALREADY
I have said this before and will continue to say it for as long as I can.
His new nickname should be THE TOOL…..very appropriate to say the least.