CNN SUSPENDS ROBERT NOVAK
Associated Press
Updated: 11:24 a.m. ET
Aug. 5, 2005
NEW YORK - Robert Novak, whose revelation of a CIA officer’s name in a 2003 column has sparked a federal probe, was suspended by CNN after he swore and walked off the set during a live telecast of “Inside Politics.”
CNN correspondent Ed Henry said afterward that he had been about to ask Novak about his role in the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity, which Novak has repeatedly refused to comment on aside from some references in his column.
The incident occurred Thursday as Novak and Democratic operative James Carville were handicapping the Senate candidacy of former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Novak said the opposition of the Republican establishment in Florida might not be fatal for her.
“Let me just finish, James, please,” Novak continued. “I know you hate to hear me, but you have to.”
Carville, addressing the camera, said: “He’s got to show these right wingers that he’s got a backbone, you know. It’s why The Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show ’em that you’re tough.”
“Well, I think that’s bull---- and I hate that,” Novak replied. “Just let it go.”
As moderator Henry stepped in to ask Carville a question, Novak walked off the set.
The rest of the article, with links to a video, can be found at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8830305/ .
Snave's note: I am sure I would also find it difficult to get words in edgewise with Carville. While Carville's remark may have been fairly tactless, I'm not sure I think it was a bad thing for him to say. We don't often get to see or hear people on TV being that blunt with conservatives nowadays. Novak's reaction? Pretty predictable: swear and have a tantrum when someone else calls it as they see it. Now the right-wing pundits will milk this one for the next couple of weeks, and call it something like "persecution of right wing media figures"!
Carville has written some enjoyable books, by the way, if you are of the left-wing persuasion.
Updated: 11:24 a.m. ET
Aug. 5, 2005
NEW YORK - Robert Novak, whose revelation of a CIA officer’s name in a 2003 column has sparked a federal probe, was suspended by CNN after he swore and walked off the set during a live telecast of “Inside Politics.”
CNN correspondent Ed Henry said afterward that he had been about to ask Novak about his role in the investigation of the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity, which Novak has repeatedly refused to comment on aside from some references in his column.
The incident occurred Thursday as Novak and Democratic operative James Carville were handicapping the Senate candidacy of former Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Novak said the opposition of the Republican establishment in Florida might not be fatal for her.
“Let me just finish, James, please,” Novak continued. “I know you hate to hear me, but you have to.”
Carville, addressing the camera, said: “He’s got to show these right wingers that he’s got a backbone, you know. It’s why The Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show ’em that you’re tough.”
“Well, I think that’s bull---- and I hate that,” Novak replied. “Just let it go.”
As moderator Henry stepped in to ask Carville a question, Novak walked off the set.
The rest of the article, with links to a video, can be found at http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8830305/ .
Snave's note: I am sure I would also find it difficult to get words in edgewise with Carville. While Carville's remark may have been fairly tactless, I'm not sure I think it was a bad thing for him to say. We don't often get to see or hear people on TV being that blunt with conservatives nowadays. Novak's reaction? Pretty predictable: swear and have a tantrum when someone else calls it as they see it. Now the right-wing pundits will milk this one for the next couple of weeks, and call it something like "persecution of right wing media figures"!
Carville has written some enjoyable books, by the way, if you are of the left-wing persuasion.
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And if you're strongly biased against assholes, I'm quite sure Carville's books are of limited interest at best, on the same order as books by Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. As for Novak, he's an old man whose best reporting days were sometime in the Reagan presidency and his voice is thick, nasal, and deeply annoying. That being said, at least his hair is clearly his own. I still haven't figured out what small mammal's pelt Tucker Carlson wears on his head.
MC, one man's meat is another man's poison.
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