To: maggief
From that same interview linked on your post #15:
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BLITZER: Here's what you said the other day, at least according to the "Raleigh News & Observer," December 14, 2005: "I'm confident the president knows who the source is. I'd be amazed if he doesn't. So I say don't bug me, don't bug 'Washington Post' reporter Bob Woodward, bug the president as to whether he should reveal who the source is." You were talking about your initial source for this story, is that right?
NOVAK: I was giving a speech, as I do every couple of years, to a conservative think tank called "The John Locke Foundation" in Raleigh.
And I've spoken there for years. And I've said a lot of outrageous things to them, and it never gets in the paper. I'd made the bum reporter's mistake. I didn't think there would be any reporters there.
So that was a stupid thing for me to say. I was just kind of -- it wasn't in the speech, it was in the -- I had given a speech for about 40 minute. We had about ten minutes of Q&A, and that was the last question. It's always the last question that does you in. That was a dumb thing to say.
BLITZER: Was it dumb to say it, or was it not true? Do you believe the president knows who your source is?
NOVAK: It was dumb to say it.
BLITZER: But you do believe the president...
NOVAK: I'm not going to say. I thought it was an off-the-record operation. And I really don't want to go any further into it. I'm embarrassed that it appeared in print. I thought it was just in a private setting, so I don't want to go further into it.
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Geesh, this "I thought it was a private setting" line from public figures -- after they make stupid remarks in a public speech -- is beginning to sound a lot like "the dog ate my homework."
27 posted on
12/28/2005 6:24:38 PM PST by
summer
To: summer
NOVAK: I was giving a speech, as I do every couple of years, to a conservative think tank called "The John Locke Foundation" in Raleigh.
And I've spoken there for years. And I've said a lot of outrageous things to them, and it never gets in the paper. I'd made the bum reporter's mistake. I didn't think there would be any reporters there.
http://www.carolinajournal.com/cjprint/display_cjprint.html?id=1 Syndicated journalist Robert Novak, speaking at a John Locke Foundation luncheon Feb. 11, (2002) had some sharp criticism for President Bush. Page 5
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/1999/02/15/tidbits.html Famed conservative columnist and CNN commentator Robert Novak, speaking in Raleigh Feb. 10 (1999) at a John Locke Foundation lunch, said, "If it weren't for Tom Ellis, I don't believe Ronald Reagan would have been elected president."
31 posted on
12/28/2005 8:18:24 PM PST by
maggief
To: summer
I thought it was an off-the-record operation. He's been around too long for me to buy this.
32 posted on
12/28/2005 8:24:34 PM PST by
airborne
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