[dirtboy]

What a steamin' pile.

[Pukin Dog]

Yep, the Dems are losing it. Good to see. One cannot think straight when blinded by anger.

[JohnGalt]

First David Frum excommunicates Bob Novak as an 'unpatriotic conservative' and hints he is an anti-Semite, now this loser is hitting him from the otherside.

Bob must be doing a good job.

[theDentist]

So, when a Conservative Journalist refuses to name a source, he's criminal, negligent, and probably a puppet of the Republican Party, but when a Liberal Journalist refuses to name a source, he's loyal, courageous, and an inspiration for us all.

Just wanted to be sure I have it right.

[BJungNan]

Is it me or is the lead of this article completely contrary to what Novak has explained the situation to be?

[mhking]

Senator Jay Inslee, the Democrat from Washington, said he intended to see "whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs."

That one statement is what this entire mess is about. The Dems figure they've found a piece of something that they can use to beat up Rove.

Rove has been at the core of the White House and it's positive efforts for this entire administration at the expense of the Dems.

They hate this Administration and this President and anyone connected with him so much that they will resort to nothing - including trotting out lies as truth - to get to their ultimate goal.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

If this guy had 1/1000000 of Novak's career he would be a success. I smell the hatred coming through again.

[Ima Lurker]

I forced myself to watch Crossfire yesterday because I wanted to hear what Bob Novak had to say about this. I thought I heard him say that no one from the Bush Administration leaked this information to him. Did I fall asleep and dream that or is that what he said?

If someone from the Bush Whitehouse did leak this I feel certain Bush will want that person found and fired. Bush is not Clinton! I would be more apt to believe Wilson leaked it himself.

[finnman69]

This piece of sh*t article is very Mark Morford like in its cynical nastiness.

[Richard Axtell]

"Let's get through this quickly: Leaking the classified identities of CIA operatives is a felony..."

Granted. Now... is the name of Wilson's wife one of those that is classified? If not, then... will you appologize to George Bush for your irrational accusations, and foolish jumping of the gun? Also, are you so stupid to swallow this obvious "McDermott-Newt-Cell Phone taping" like gambit, and not see through it? I thought so. Clearly, we have no dearth of willing idiots in the press.

[KellyAdmirer]

"Waaahhh, Novak won't give us cookies and ice cream and he makes us eat those nasty vegetables, waaaaaahhhhhh!!!"

These guys have to be smoking something intense if they think Novak will ever give up his sources. And Walter Cronkite is about as much a journalist as Saddam's information minister "Baghdad Bob" was.

[LS]

Is this the same guy who defended the release of the Pentagon papers?

[joesnuffy]

not to worry
if a special counsel couldnt find enough evidence in 8yrs of clinton in the white house
and twice that number protecting the flyboys in Mena from his mansion in Little Rock
They aint got doodley squat on GW...
They puff themselves up and posture for the cameras reeeeel well though...
and put on quite a show

[baseballmom]

bump for later read

[Born Conservative]

The story really didn't make much of a splash back then (Bob Novak's columns seldom do). In the hot and lazy summer, power outages in the Northeast and the corpses of Saddam's kids sucked up all the newsprint.

A story several MONTHS old, and they are just NOW coming out with allegations that someone in the Bush White House illegally leaked the name of a CIA operative? Right now the media is blowing this WAY up into the stratosphere; if this were a story, then it would have overshadowed the power outages and the Hussein boys on it's own merits.

Besides, Valerie Plame is an ANALYST; I don't see how the publishing of her name would endanger field operatives.

[Light Speed]

Robert Novaks relentless.."Israel bashing"..is a hint that there is something off with this guy morally.

For someone who glories in having the inside word of whats going on in Washington..coupled with his penchant to rebuke other debaters in public forums,..and sneer at them.....Novak simply sets himself up for the eventuall fall.

I was glad when he left the Mclaughlin group.

"On a scale from 1-10..10 being nuclear..is Novak a weasel?"

[Burkeman1]

Walter Cronkite, okay, is a journalist.

LOL! Kronkite was a pompous, self important news handout reader with delusions of himself as some sort of intellectual.

[#3Fan]

According to various liberals, White House staffers leaked the name to 6 newspapers. Why don't they ask the others who it was?

[CyberAnt]

Bob Novak has now said that NO ONE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE gave him the information.

As Usual .. the dems are on a witch hunt - and as usual the door will hit them in the face. They think the DOJ under Askcroft is as inept as Reno - fools!

The dems are not going to like what information gets outed - and hopefully it will shut them up - at least for awhile.

[chilepepper]

He left out... Patrick Leahy's friend Charles Shumer...