Novak Will Be on Wolf Blitzer at 5pm (CNN)

[Cush]

Ugh

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

1. what an idiot.

cardinal rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging.

[Cush]

2. kick

[Cush]

3. Here we go....

time for Novak to spin.......

[kentuck]

4. How long is CNN going to keep him on the payroll...

He's not an innocent in this. He is an accomplice, at least.

[bluedog]

5. why oh why

didn't they slap a gag order on him.....whys he out running his mouth......

[karlschneider]

6. I'm trying to make sense of what he's saying.......

:eyes:

[Cheswick2.0]

don't even try, it is not meant to make sense, just to gaslight

I spent 15 years being gaslighted by a spouse, I recognize the technique.

[karlschneider]

31. Well, for his sake, I hope he has some money in a mattress, or knows how

to flip burgers. I think he's history as a journo.
:eyes:

[Cush]

7. Novak....

just shut up, you are making it worse....

By his own column, he admits that he screwed her career and possibly jeapordizng lives

[kodi]

8. lying sack of shit.

that's all he is, was, and will ever be.

[Kool Kitty]

9. Why doesn't Wolf bring up the fact that old man Bush

appointed Wilson? Now it's Wilson's fault that he was sent to Africa? And a bit off-topic-did you see the opening of the show that showed Novak walking into some dress-up function wearing a tux? He looked just like Danny DeVito as the Penguin...

[displacedtexan]

10. novak's new job

seems to be to discredit joe wilson's niger report.

[Cush]

11. Lol......

He's trying to rewrite his own columns, lol.....sad....sad....sad.....

[Cush]

12. oh...he has sources

that say she was never worked undercover

[ShaneGR]

13. Wow, he's just MURDERING himself

The CIA told me not to use her name because she would never have another assignment and she might have problems oversees. I used it anyways, because what do I care when she's on vacation.

Great job Novak!

[displacedtexan]

14. now he's blaming the CIA

for NOT telling him that she might be in danger.

he even says that the CIA could have made a mistake!

[Cush]

15. Now he's attacking Newsday

Note to Bob: Shut up

[otohara]

16. More Trashing Of Wilson & Wife

He's a former Ambassador, who had no business going - why did the CIA choose him. She's...well we don't know who she is - glorified secretary, analyst, goffer.

[Mandate My Ass]

42. OMG Did he really say that??

"She's...well we don't know who she is - glorified secretary, analyst, goffer."

Did the dork bother to find out if he was compromising national security or did he think his copy editor should be the one responsible to do that?

"glorified secretary?" What an ignorant misogynistic comment! If a woman works for the CIA she must be fetching coffee for the men.:grr:

[Kool Kitty]

17. Now the Newsday reporters are lying, too?

Oh, poor poor widdle Bobby-evweebody's picking on him.

[annagull]

32. So the Wash Post, Newsday are liars, Bob is Mr. Credibility

Yeah, right. Face it, Novak, you screwed yourself and there is no way out.

[Cush]

18. He's contradicting himself.

oh man.....

[ShaneGR]

19. Uh oh, he just said some other reporters at Newsday, LIED

On National TV. Guess who those reporters are? They're the two who were mentioned as reporters by the White House Counsel in the email to employees ordering them not to destroy materials.

Newsday vs. Novak

This is good.

[eleny]

20. since when is "operative"...

a throw away word? I'm sure the CIA is finding this an iterestng take on their people?

He's startng to get nervous and worried looking. He's trying to hang onto his job. I think he and Rush can chalk it up. Otherwise, he wouldn't be here blatheirng to Wolf.

Oh, now he resents stuff?!!! Ay-yi-yi!

[Cheesehead]

21. Novak's tied himself in knots trying to cover his ass

He's in a panic. Defensive. Parsing words like there's no tomorrow. Still trying to spin his incomptent action. Bye bye Bob!

[eleny]

25. Yop

He's having a hard tme speaking.

Resenting again!!!!!!!!!!

[Cush]

22. Novak:

"Nah, it wasn't Rove,....he wouldn't do such a thing"

yeah, he's a real prince :eyes:

[ShaneGR]

28. he never said that, he never said it wasn't him

He said he didn't understand why Rove would be called a week later and saying, "His wife is fair game."

He never even touched the idea of whether it was Rove or not. If it wasn't, why wouldn't he just say... IT WASN'T ROVE.

[displacedtexan]

23. rove's big mistake

is to send nofacts out to shill for them in person! LOL! the transcript of this interview is suitable for framing!

[Individualist]

24. Stuttering, stammering

and lying every time he opens his nasty mouth.

[Kool Kitty]

26. No matter what he says, Novak still looks like a scumbag.

If the CIA told him not to reveal her name, why the hell did he do it? What was the point of revealing her name? To what end? Who would this serve? And when is this prick going to admit she was a covert operative, as was stated in the WH memo from Gonzalez? And why doesn't Wolf ask him these things?

[Cush]

27. Oh come on Novak

This wasn't meant to destroy Wilson or his Wife?

Then why the f*ck did you report it???

[Caution]

29. I'm not watching

but what is being described here are the classic symptoms of someone caught in a lie. I can't believe this idiot is saying that he was told by the CIA not to release her identity and that he did it anyway because he didn't care about her safety on vacation!

[eleny]

33. I figure he doesn't care

because he's protected at the highest levels. With the Rs holding the majority in Congress, what does Novak have to worry. I wonder if he's invested in Deibold?

[eleny]

30. Wolf was such an enabler

feeding Novak answers. It was disgusting. As if CIA folks aren't our "treasure". This is the new way to support the troops, huh? Out them and then knife them right in the eye.

Novak has to go.

[displacedtexan]

34. excellent point!

i agree!

[Cush]

35. Novak must dizzy

from that spin job of his

[Kool Kitty]

36. I hope I can explain this the way I'm thinking it...

is this a roundabout way of the administration trying to disprove Wilson's report that the Niger claim was a lie? Stupid way to do it, yes, but perhaps they didn't think it would blow up like this? Claim that since Wilson was sent by his wife, and because they're supposedly "partisan", that they tried to cast the administration in a bad light? (Of course, the fact that Wilson also contributed to Bush is never brought up. Sounds like a "bi-partisan" to me.) Did they think that the only thing that the press would pick up on was the connection between Wilson and his wife, and not that she was outed? A crackpot plan, yes, but who knows the way their minds work? Maybe they thought they'd get away with it because everyone just loves this pResident so much, they'd never think badly of him?

[9215]

38. Good questions

IMO Wilson's story about no Niger-Iraq-uranium connection was really getting on the WH's nerves; he really was the guy with the proof that Bush lied in his SOTU. It was a serious situation and, true to form, instead of refuting Wilson's claims substantively, because they couldn't, they had to to go after his character alluding to nepotistic cronism, which, coincidently, is a BFEE trademark. I'd guess that in the future, if the truth is ever written, that Rove giving this stuff to Novak was done because he was desperate to get the hounds off his and the BFEE's ass and maybe didn't even see the consequences or decided it was worth the risk.

Just some thoughts

[knowledgeispower]

44. I think you might be right on that

It makes sense that they would have done it to get back at Wilson (though he himself has said that he doesn't think that is why they did it) or perhaps they did it to intimidate any others (namely within the CIA) that were going to come out and criticize the administration.

But perhaps they did just ROYALLY fucked up in applying the usual spin job. I like that idea. Not only are they evil, they are just fucking stupid too.

[Unknown Known]

37. Novakula is scared shitless

He's is desperate now to save his do-nothing shill job on CNN.

Everyone lies except Bob Novak - yeah, right Bob. This is almost too pathetic to watch. He's self-destructing right before our eyes.

I wonder if Bob will soon be having a "heart attack"?

[9215]

40. If he croaks

or Cheney or any of em' I won't believe it until their coffins are disinterred and a DNA analysis is done.

Yea, I'm suspicious alright, hee, hee.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

39. this is all "in the family" bullshit

If Novak had any guts, he'd be open to TV interviews on other networks. Blitzer is nothing but kid gloves.

[molly]

41. I kept waiting for his eyebrows to fall off

his mind is in the 1950's. Women can't hold positions of power and importance.

[Snellius]

43. How did Novak know he wasn't being used as a pawn?

Novak told Wolf he was incensed that Wolf had reported that the story had been farmed out to six other sources before he finally agreed to be the only reporter to run with it. Now, how would Novak know whether or not these "administation officials" had talked to any one else about Plame's identity? Did he ask his sources, after the fact, whether they had talked to anyone else? The whole art of using people as pawns is insuring that they have no idea how they are being used.

[MoonRiver]

45. What I heard was somebody trying desperately to cover his ass.

He was even aggressive toward Blitzer, who basically just presented a simple repeat of the facts everybody knows. Blitzer is hardly an enemy of BFEE, but you wouldn't have known that from Novak's paranoid statements. So, just what is Novak hiding about his beloved rightwing machine?