the prince of darkness:
aka: the pusillanimous puss pocket known as robert novak, the man whose printed revelations were the spark of the entire plame episode, proudly proclaims : “Judging it on the merits, I would still write the story.”
the person who’s initial expose resulted in everything that has transpired in this sorry spectacle, who’s had a great deal of time to consider the results and implications of his infamous column still wants us to believe he did the right thing.
in his about to be released memoir: The Prince of Darkness, 50 Years Reporting in Washington, he even attempts to paint himself as the victim…the subject of what he calls false stories, kicked off his regular CNN gig, and barred from Meet the Press for two years-and out $160,000 in legal fees…the horror, the shame…pity the poor remorseless ideologue who feels betrayed by his own…
yes, after what l’m certain was
no thought at all, given his infallible insights and connections, it is he who was betrayed, unceremoniously set up…..
–He feels betrayed by David Corn of the Nation, whom he liked sparring with on CNN’s old Crossfire program. He said Corn laid the basis for what would become the attacks on Novak: that he let the Bush administration use him to take a shot at a critic.
–He raps Newsday’s Timothy M. Phelps for writing that Novak said his sources came to him with the Plame tip. “My Newsday quote was reprinted endlessly for years to come, as was Phelps’s introductory statement to what I said: ‘Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information.’ I said no such thing.”
–Novak assailed some of the Washington Post’s coverage of the Justice Department’s probe into the CIA leak case, specifically the claim that the administration was shopping the Plame story around town and that she was “fair game” because of Wilson’s attacks on the president. Writes Novak: “It was one thing to be attacked frontally by Joe Wilson and sniped at in the Nation and Newsday. It was much more serious to be misrepresented in the Washington Post, the paper to which I owed so much. Those misrepresentations became the perceived truth about me.”
–Novak really hated a story written by the Baltimore Sun suggesting that he loved the attention of the case and investigation. And don’t get him started about the bloggers: “I was daily accused of treason and denounced in the most obscene terms, with personal threats against me and my family–even my grandchildren.”
–The betrayal he felt from fellow reporters, he said, was summed up in a New York Times column by Geneva Overholser, a former Washington Post ombudsman, which alleged “ethical lapses” by Novak for attacking whistleblower Wilson and his wife. He recalled meeting her for the first time at a party following the annual Gridiron Club dinner when she confronted him face to face: “I don’t see how you can stand to see yourself in the mirror in the morning. You’re a disgrace to journalism.”
–Novak felt more betrayal from conservative pal Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard. He recalls watching Kristol on C-SPAN as the magazine editor distanced himself from Novak, whose conduct in the CIA leak case he called “reprehensible.
yeah sure…..here’s a towel…for whatever needs wiping off
IOKIYAR or whatever, eh bob?…there’s always life after death, and karma’s a bitch and she’s not through with you, bobby.
bah!
ps: be sure and write a review when it comes out on amazon…it’s already been marked down.
lTMF’sA
