Bob Novak, the so-called Prince of Darkness, comes through with a winner of a column this morning.First, he cites several Clintonistas who are running around saying that their campaign has some scandalous stories about her top competitor, Barack Obama, but has graciously decided not to use it. In the interest of avoiding the politics of personal destruction, let's all just bow our heads and offer blessings on their little hearts for not using these stories (yet taking the time to tell us that they have them and could use them should they so desire).
He also gives more mention to the occasionally-rumoured Presidential aspirations of race-baiting Lou Dobbs. Next to BillO, there are few news network commentators that I find more disingenuous or annoying.
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Haha....that's cool. Actually I don't so much blame Novak for the Plame affair.
Really that would be like blaming Woodward and Bernstein for Watergate.
They were only exposing what the plumbers were up to.
On Karl though, did you see that he's now a contributor to Newsweek?
I didn't see that, no.
I do hold Novak accountable though, he is the one that actually put the name in print, and set the whole thing in motion. Doubtless they would have found another puppet, but he is the one who did it.
They should all be held accountable. But to say that Novak was just doing the type of investigative reporting as Woodward and Bernstein is slightly paradoxical. I think there is a big difference.
In hindsight, I can see the difference, but I do see Karl and Krew as wayyyy further down the moral spectrum for some reason.
Agreed, but neo-platonics aside, its like Nazi Germany calling Emperial Japan evil. Or like a country that sets up schools to train latin american terrorists, and has overthrown legitmate elected democratic governments in Iran, Guatamala, and Nicaragua calling for a war on terror to promote democracy.
Holy Run on Batman!
But seriously folks. Surely there is some moral ambiguity, but at the same time it is a pretty black and white issue. Something is either wrong, or not wrong. Moral relativism is dead. I would argue that Novak's actions come down in the former camp along with Rove.
What was he writing about in newsweek? Trying to re-write the narrative I assume?
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