http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/novak/ en-us Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:15:11 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321892/posts Bipartisan send-off for insider columnist It's a safe bet that Robert D. Novak would have loved the service for him on a steamy Friday morning at St. Patrick's Church in the heart of the city he loved. ...political consultant Jeff Bell - the late Mr. Novak's godfather and friend - and National Review Editor Kate O'Beirne delivered readings of the Mass... After the Mass came the kind of spontaneous political gabfest that Mr. Novak also would have loved... "Novak cost me an ambassadorship after Nixon had resigned and Ford took over," recalled Pat Buchanan, conservative political commentator and former top... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321892/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:15:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321804/posts Family, Journalists Pay Tribute To Columnist Novak By ANN SANNER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON – Political columnist Robert Novak was remembered Friday as a man committed to faith, family and craft. Friends, family, fellow journalists and political strategists squeezed into St. Patrick Catholic Church in Washington to pay tribute to the proud owner of the "Prince of Darkness" moniker. Attendees at his funeral Mass included Karl Rove, a top strategist for former President George W. Bush and a key figure in the 2003 Valerie Plame-CIA leak case that became part of Novak's legacy. Monsignor Salvatore Criscuolo told Novak's wife, children... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321804/posts#comment Sat, 22 Aug 2009 04:15:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319940/posts It was only two days after 9/11 when "respected columnist" Robert Novak began by promoting Trutherism, writing in his column, titled, "This is No Pearl Harbor", "Security experts and airline officials agree privately that the simultaneous hijacking of four jetliners was an "inside job," probably indicating complicity beyond malfeasance. This makes all the more ominous Tuesday's national consequences." Novak of course was wrong, but like most Truther propaganda, its larger purpose was to serve as an excuse for the actual Islamic terrorists. The column went on to suggest that Bin Laden wasn't even responsible for the attacks, "Unlike Pearl Harbor,... sultanknish http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319940/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:42:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319873/posts Here are the news stories, editorials, and videos that conservatives dugg yesterday, Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Please take a moment to digg these articles at Digg.com, then get back over here! Conservative Diggs & Buries http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319873/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:23:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319395/posts Editor's Note: This special feature on Robert Novak first appeared in the March 2009 issue of Townhall Magazine.Robert David Sanders Novak has been called many names. His close friends call him “Bob.” Most people call him “Novak.” His wife calls him “Robert.” Keith Olbermann has called him “The Worst Person in the World.” His more petulant critics have viler names for him. Many critics and admirers have called him “The Prince of Darkness.” I have had the honor of calling him “Boss.” Since I went to work for him at the end of 2001, Novak has been a mentor and... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319395/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:39:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319287/posts As most everyone has heard, Bob Novak, an original Evil Conservative, passed away today from brain cancer. Greg Gutfeld, of Fox's Redeye, wrote an excellent obituary memorializing a man whose common-sense conservatism and individuality made him a fixture in the political arena. Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2319287/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319137/posts A few years out of college I enrolled in the best journalism school in America. It featured no textbooks, no grades, no degrees, and this particular institution's alumni total fewer than a dozen fortunate individuals.The campus was a dingy, claustrophobic room, whose inner walls were covered with old political bumper stickers, perched on the top floor of a high rise a half block from the White House. This was the nerve center for Rowly Evans and Bob Novak, who died of brain cancer complications early Tuesday morning. Their must-read, reportorial syndicated column began just before the Kennedy presidency's violent end.... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319137/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:00:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319094/posts Reporter, patriot, skeptic of the powerful. One irony of Robert Novak's long and admirable career as a journalist is that he wasn't a curmudgeon, though he played one on TV. In person, he was warm, loyal to friends and especially generous to young writers, even if he was fearless and unsparing toward the public officials he devoted his life to covering—or, to put it more accurately, uncovering. Novak, who died yesterday at age 78, was among America's greatest political reporters. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319094/posts#comment Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:06:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2319020/posts The late Robert Novak Washington D.C., Aug 18, 2009 / 04:57 pm (CNA).- The death of Robert Novak has led many to remember the career of the expert political journalist. Some noted his conversion to Catholicism later in life, with one former colleague calling it his “most important” change of heart.Novak died of a malignant tumor at his Washington, D.C. home on Tuesday. One half of the Evans-Novak “Inside Report,” begun in 1963 with journalist Robert Evans, Novak was known for his ability to explain the feuds and factions of American politics with the help of his many inside... cna http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2319020/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:20:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319005/posts David Zurawik, the Baltimore Sun’s TV critic, didn’t even wait a full 24 hours after Robert Novak’s death to launch a stinging criticism of the former Crossfire host on the newspaper’s website on Tuesday. Zurawik lamented the apparently contaminated state of political discourse on cable TV and placed much of the blame on Novak in the blog entry titled, “Robert Novak on cable TV: A Polarizing Presence.” The critic began by announcing his intention to focus on the conservative’s television legacy, instead of his “place...on the political and journalistic map.” He then when right into his attack on Novak, which... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2319005/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:49:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318912/posts NEW YORK A lengthy Q and A with the ailing columnist Robert Novak-- who died today at age 78-- appeared last November in the Washingtonian. At the end, Barbara Matusow got around to asking about the CIA leak case and outed spy Valerie Plame Wilson. Novak replied: "From a personal point of view, I said in the book I probably should have ignored what I’d been told about Mrs. Wilson. "Now I’m much less ambivalent. I’d go full speed ahead because of the hateful and beastly way in which my left-wing critics in the press and Congress tried to make... editorandpublisher.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318912/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318765/posts Columnist Robert Novak has died after a battle with brain cancer, FOX News confirms. He was 78. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that Novak died early Tuesday morning at his home in Washington. Novak had been a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times for decades FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318765/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:51:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318761/posts The family of legendary conservative journalist Robert Novak has announced that he passed away earlier today at his home after a long battle with brain cancer. Novak was 78. I have long admired Robert Novak. He was conservative, but he was not afraid to report the truth about Democrats and Republicans alike. I did not always agree with him, but I greatly respect him. Novak wrote the story of his life as a reporter in Washington in the outstanding book, Prince of Darkness. I wrote a review of that book after reading it and posted it here back in November... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2318761/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:44:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318722/posts Bob Novak hired me away from HUMAN EVENTS in late 2001. “Poaching,” HE Editor-in-Chief Tom Winter called it. I was not the first early-20s reporter Novak would pluck from HE’s newsroom. Nor would I be the last. Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318722/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:58:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318730/posts Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak, one of the nation’s most influential journalists, who relished his “Prince of Darkness” public persona, died at home here early Tuesday morning after a battle with brain cancer. “He was someone who loved being a journalist, love journalism and loved his country and loved his family, Novak’s wife, Geraldine, told the Sun-Times on Tuesday. Novak’s remarkable and long-running career made him a powerful presence in newspaper columns, newsletters, books and on television. On May 15, 1963, Novak teamed up with the late Rowland Evans Jr. to create the “Inside Report” political column, which became the... Chicago Sun Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318730/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:06:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318718/posts ...Bob was Illinois and early in life was most at home in sports bars and, throughout his years in Washington, at unfashionable University of Maryland basketball games.... By day, however, Novak worked political sources like no other reporter. That is why so many people would be astonished when his political sources would become known. It was stunning when Novak revealed that the Democratic senator who dismissed the McGovern for President campaign as being about little more than “amnesty, abortion and acid” was none other than Thomas Eagleton, who McGovern would later (albeit briefly) choose as his vice presidential nominee. Who... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318718/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:56:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232497/posts The Western world has never taken Islam with the full seriousness it has earned. Down through history, once Islamic armies have conquered a land, with very few exceptions, that land has remained Muslim. A Christian will wish in vain that the great circle of Christian lands around the Mediterranean (and on up into Syria, Iraq, Iran, and northwards into Georgia) had not fallen irretrievably into Muslim hands, most of them before 732 A.D. For Christians who think that the future of the world favors movement in their direction, a study of the latent dynamism of Islam is not a little... AEI Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232497/posts#comment Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:41:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135690/posts Robert Novak recently sat down with Barbara Mutasow of the Washingtonian magazine for a deeply personal interview. This article was first published in the November 2008 issue of The Washingtonian magazine. Whether you like him or hate him, Robert Novak's combination of insider dope, political pronouncements, and glowering TV presence have made him a Washington institution. So the announcement in July that he was suspending his newspaper column because of a brain tumor came as a jolt. What other journalist has been tearing up the town with so much relish for the past 51 years? I spent some time with... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135690/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:03:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130338/posts Whether you like him or hate him, Robert Novak’s combination of insider dope, political pronouncements, and glowering TV presence have made him a Washington institution. So the announcement in July that he was suspending his newspaper column because of a brain tumor came as a jolt. What other journalist has been tearing up the town with so much relish for the past 51 years? I spent some time with Novak five years ago for The Washingtonian, chronicling his journey from secular Jew to devout Catholic. Somewhat to my surprise, the scowling, sardonic columnist turned out to be a peach of... Washington Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130338/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:21:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128551/posts In serious conversations among Republicans since their election debacle Tuesday, what name is mentioned most often as the Moses, or Reagan, who could lead them out of the wilderness before 40 years? To the consternation of many Republicans, it is none other than Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House. Gingrich is far from a unanimous or even a consensus choice to run for president in 2012, but there is a strong feeling in Republican ranks that he is the only leader of their party who has shown the skill and energy to attempt a comeback quickly. Even one... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128551/posts#comment Sat, 8 Nov 2008 11:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126160/posts No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress NO REALIGNMENT | No mandate for Obama, no lopsided Congress WASHINGTON -- The national election Tuesday was not only historic for the election of the first African-American president in the nation's history but also for how little the avalanche of Democratic votes changed the political alignment in Congress. suntimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126160/posts#comment Wed, 5 Nov 2008 18:27:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111703/posts Gen. Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama for president, in effect ending Powell’s brief interlude as a Republican, was the least surprising and most predictable event of an unusually unpredictable election cycle. The interaction between Powell and the Republican Party was never a marriage made in heaven. Accordingly, it is hard to remember that as recently as 1992, influential Washington Republican power-brokers were seriously promoting Powell as their party’s nominee for president. Regarding Powell as “our Eisenhower,” they considered him the solution to a bleak landscape of possible candidates in that year’s election. Fortunately for all concerned, Powell declined their... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111703/posts#comment Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109373/posts A year ago, Robert Novak mentioned secret vault of information of Obama's sex scandal hidden in the hands of Hillary Clinton. According to Robert Novak, Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it. The nature of the alleged scandal was not disclosed. The secret vault was never to be used, and Hillary Clinton retreated from the race for President candidate of Democrat Party. The issue has not gain much attention afterward by... various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2109373/posts#comment Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:07:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102096/posts Can John McCain possibly win this thing? Can he actually win in November? The outlook is bleak: The polls are ugly, the Electoral College map is grim, the economy is getting worse, and McCain's choice of Sarah Palin may have energized the Republican base, but it has appalled and frightened many outside that base. Still, McCain's campaign has come back from the dead more than once: He survived his early support for immigration reform; he not only survived but has prospered from his support for the Iraq war surge, and he rebuilt a primary campaign that was in a state... The Lima News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102096/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:55:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076618/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The main reason I am writing this column is that many people have asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor and what I have done about it. But I also want to relate the reaction to my disease, mostly compassionate, that belies Washington's reputation. . . . . . When Zelda said to call 911, I again resisted, but she again prevailed. I promptly suffered another seizure in the ambulance, the second of three seizures that day. I gained admittance to the high-quality Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, which has... Creator's Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076618/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:48:19 GMT