Columnists don't buy Novak's Plame explanation
Cranky, incontinent traitor Bob Novak a lying Bushdiver, say pundits
"To maintain credibility with readers, columnists have to write honest columns. It's not our job to be an errand boy for politicians seeking vengeance against enemies. It used to be that confidential sources sought to blow the whistle against abuses of power. Now, at least in this instance, they're used to abuse power and to allow those in power to assault enemies without leaving evidence."
"A failed attempt to restore whatever credibility he had before the episode began. He seeks to have it both ways -- to appear to be a champion of a free press and to appear to have cooperated with authorities. I'm not buying it."
Novak's whole convoluted explanation of his behavior is another page out of the 'Eddie Haskell Sucking Up to Authority for Access and Self-Exoneration' handbook. To be fair to Novak, I'm sure he has said just exactly what he was told to say."
"It's funny how it's OK for Bob Novak to tell secrets, but not the New York Times. The First Amendment applies to everybody, or it applies to nobody."
Novak "plays it both ways -- shoe-leather reporter and de facto GOP operative."
"Ever since his column named Plame, he has gone through a convoluted process of behind-the-scenes legal maneuvers and public posturing calculated to take care of number one while aiding the Rove operation as much as possible under the circumstances. This guy wasn't exactly Captain Courageous for journalistic principle when he talked to the prosecutor and then the grand jury."
"What - a - douchebag."
"A failed attempt to restore whatever credibility he had before the episode began. He seeks to have it both ways -- to appear to be a champion of a free press and to appear to have cooperated with authorities. I'm not buying it."
Novak's whole convoluted explanation of his behavior is another page out of the 'Eddie Haskell Sucking Up to Authority for Access and Self-Exoneration' handbook. To be fair to Novak, I'm sure he has said just exactly what he was told to say."
"It's funny how it's OK for Bob Novak to tell secrets, but not the New York Times. The First Amendment applies to everybody, or it applies to nobody."
Novak "plays it both ways -- shoe-leather reporter and de facto GOP operative."
"Ever since his column named Plame, he has gone through a convoluted process of behind-the-scenes legal maneuvers and public posturing calculated to take care of number one while aiding the Rove operation as much as possible under the circumstances. This guy wasn't exactly Captain Courageous for journalistic principle when he talked to the prosecutor and then the grand jury."
"What - a - douchebag."
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