Novak Walkout Bigger Than Clinton's?

NewsMax ^ | 8/5/05 | Carl Limbacher

[wagglebee]

CNN commentator Robert Novak's decision to storm off the set of "Inside Politics" yesterday has already received four times as much news coverage as a similar meltdown by ex-President Clinton.

Clinton walked out in the midst of a 1994 interview with NBC in Prague.

A Lexis-Nexis search conducted midday Friday turned up 39 stories on the Novak tantrum, detailing how the conservative columnist exploded during a debate with fellow CNN'er James Carville, yanked off his microphone and walked away.

Novak's actions were almost a mirror image of Clinton's, who pulled the plug on a Jan. 14, 1994 interview with NBC reporter Jim Miklaszewski after becoming angry that the NBC'er had dared to ask him about Whitewater.

"You've had your two questions, Jim," Clinton snarled. "I'm sorry you're not interested in the trip." The president then leaped to his feet, tore off his microphone and stormed off the set.

The next day, Clinton was asked about his tantrum during an interview on ABC's "Nightline."

"There's no point in going into it now," he insisted. "I don't have to talk about it anymore."

Despite the fact that the presidential meltdown came in the midst of a network television interview, the episode attracted surprisingly little media attention.

A Lexis-Nexis search turned up just 9 reports on Clinton's tantrum for the entire week after it happened.

[johnb838]

And ABC, recently expelled from Russia for treasonous broadcasting activity did not suspend Clinton either.

[RexBeach]

I once saw Novak go ballistic at an airport in FL. My God, he can really wail. "Don't you know who I am?" Stuff like that. He's nuts.

[johnb838]

This article makes the assumption that it was Novak the conservative against Carville the liberal, and you can't assume that. Novak is no conservative and Carville... he's more of a hard core Stalinist.

[oyez]

I guess you can tell I don't watch much TV.

You have a blessed and special life.

[scott7278]

There's a good first-hand account about it by Dee-Dee Myers; you almost need to start at the question "One of the outgrowths of that was ..." for context:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/myers3.html

[leadpenny]

" . . detailing how the conservative columnist exploded . ."

He didn't explode, Carl.

If he'd been any more polite he would have said, "Excuse me."

[FerkFick]

1994 vs 2005

Well, right off the bat...no Internet to fuel the media flames. To be fair...if we had the Internet in 1994, we'd be all over it.

[Darksheare]

Hi troll.
You've been here before.

[Betty Jane]

Novak was making a point that Katherine Harris was getting the anti-Republican treatment by the media, and that maybe she could win, like Reagan did. Carville was interupting, and Novak told Carville to let him have his say. Carville then said something like, "Bob, you just have to prove youtself to your right wing fans like you did in that editorial." Novak got up and said, "this is B.S."

The moderator then implies, after the break, that Novak knew they were going to talk about Plame. Nothing said about the cheap shot Carville took while he was trying to change the subject of media bias.

[leadpenny]

"I will look around to see what made Novak so mad... "

He'd had it up to here with Carville's insulting remarks about Novak just needing to look tough for the folks at the WSJ. He should have challenged him to a duel.

[leadpenny]

You wasted a departing post on Clinton. You've got no class.

[MississippiMan]

Clinton's face reddened with anger and said something like 'How you could ask a question like that after the statement she just made is beyond me', Clinton then stomped off. So this is how we met the liberal activist Ginsburg, and the leftist-MSM went ohhhh and fainted.

Actually, I don't think Clinton walked off. Instead, he stood there and basked while the whole crowd, including many other members of the media, APPLAUDED Clinton's absurd slam of Hume.

MM

[pankot]

How can anybody fault him for walking out on Serpent Head? I wouldn't want to be in the same building (city?) with him.

[NATIVEDAUGHTER]

Novak is a good guy...so what that he blew up one time....?..he's a staunch conservative in an era of Neo-Con phonies....

[leadpenny]

I see you're gone but you're stupid post lives on. Nice going, idiot.

[Betty Jane]

Legitimate studies of the normal media showed that they dogged Clinton and published everything the right ever said about him founded or more often unfounded.

There was really interesting piece opf film that ABC had of CLinton on his campaign plane. The piece was filmed before the New Hampshire primary in 1992, after Gennifer Flowers has popped up with her tapes of Clinton and her talking about covering up their affair.

The tape never made the news until after 1996. In this tape, Clinton is feeling up a stewardess. If this tape, that ABC had shot, had been shown Clinton wouldn't have had won the election, because he wouldn't have been allowed to lie about his sexual behavior. So, yeah, you're right, the press was tough on him.

[maggief]

Here's the photo the AP is running, via yahoo:



In this photograph taken in June 2003, Karl Rove, senior advisor to President Bush and Robert Novak are pictured together at a party marking the 40th anniversary of Novak's newspaper column at the Army Navy Club in Washington DC. Novak was suspended indefinitely by CNN after he swore and walked off the set during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville. The exchange came on CNNs 'Inside Edition' during a discussion of Florida's Senate campaign. (AP Photo/Lauren Shay)

[tumblindice]

You state "Legitimate studies of the normal media . . . "
but provide no cites, and get in a bonus dig at those who regard the MSM with fear & loathing.

FYI, t-child: "Experts agree" that Willie got more `byes' from the press than all the mulligans he's ever given himself on the golf course.

[ANGGAPO]

Bob has always been a horses pa toot.