Robert D. Novak, the pugnacious political columnist and cable television fixture whose scoops reached across five decades and whose nickname, “the prince of darkness,” was invoked with renewed fervor in 2003 when, acting on a tip, he revealed the name of a C.I.A. officer, setting the stage for a criminal investigation, died Tuesday morning at his home in northwest Washington. He was 78.Despite the fact that he wrote more news and news analysis than Cronkite, and did so for more decades...
and despite the fact that he was a cable news pioneer and appeared on TV for cumulatively more hours than Cronkite...
neither Obama or Hillary will speak at his memorial - though they will be speaking at Cronkite's.
- That's because Novak wasn't a reliable left-wing MSM shill as - YES - CRONKITE WAS!
RIP NOVAK!
ROUND UP OF LEFTIST RESPONSES TO NOVAK'S DEATH HERE AT DD'S AP.
Very good point. Very valid comparison. I can't bear to see what leftists are saying. Not after the way they shamelessly trashed Tony Snow.
ReplyDeleteThis one of Novak's essay, his story about what it's like to face brain cancer, is a masterpiece of writing.
ReplyDeleteI note that his brain surgeon, Allan H. Friedman, chief of neurosurgery at the Duke University Medical Center, was the same surgeon who operated on Teddy Kennedy.
But, because Novak's brain tumor was not primary site, he really never had a chance to survive for long.
I'll miss Novak. I regularly read his columns.