Novak Clobbers Colmes on McClellan Claims

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

If Alan Colmes turns up at your Thanksgiving get-together sporting a couple shiners and a re-arranged smile, don't press the poor guy if he claims to have walked into a door. The FNC host just got clobbered by a certified DC heavyweight -- Bob Novak.

Novak was a guest on this evening's Hannity & Colmes. Colmes first questioned the venerable reporter about the item he published this week regarding the Clinton campaign's claim to have a scandalous story about Barack Obama. For the record, Novak stated this evening that since first reporting the story, "I've had substantiation from another source, another very, very good source, who with his own ears heard Clinton people putting out" allegations about Obama.

That's when Colmes decided to press his luck. Mistake.

View video here.

[Lancey Howard]

Good question.

[tophat9000]

i hope someone mentioned richard armitage.

NOVAK: And it came from Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State. Don't you read the papers?

[ken21]

yeah, i wuz feedin’ da dog

and i read it later.

[dusttoyou]

mcclellan’s mother is former texas comptroller,

carole keeton strayhorn,

Luckily we sent that crazy strayhorn packing last election.

[ken21]

yep.

[haroldeveryman]

Wasn’t Scott McClellan Bush’s press secretary? He was pathetic! Especially having served right after Ari Fleischer and just before Tony Snow! David Gregory and the rest of those hyenas kicked him around like a soccer ball.

[rockrr]

"There was one “leaker”, Richard Armitage, and that’s it. Case closed."

Colmes: "But that's not the leaker I wanted!"

[Theresawithanh]

Thanks, I enjoyed that very much!

And bumping!

[Enchante]

Yet another reason why Alan Colmes is simply unwatchable. I refuse to waste another second of my life listening to that puling, drooling weasel who does nothing but read DNC talking points and his latest email bulletin from “Media Matters” — Colmes is a mindless liberal tool.

[Tribune7]

Novak did several times.

[jmaroneps37]

Cript keeper trying to act like a big boy: sorry pal you lost again.

[MizSterious]

I hope someone will correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s my understanding from my quick reads on FR and fragments of info from Fox News that McLellan was either MISquoted or quoted so badly out of context that the widely reported claims are pure horsehockey. That said, I never thought he was very effective as a press secretary.

[MizSterious]

"I can’t stand the Colmes because he interrupts his opponents to the point where you can’t hear what they say."

'Rat tactic--the more you interrupt, the more you make your opponent look either incoherent or failing that, the more you can obfuscate his message. The idea is not to interview, but to discredit. Novak skillfully handled every bit of it, and I wish he would give "interview" lessons to other conservatives, because most of them haven't a clue how to deal with these tactics.

[ozzymandus]

Colmes has been getting his lying ass kicked regularly as of late. I think people who go on that show are wising up to his bullying tactics and calling him on it.

[cricket]

Have concluded that the 'well-intentioned' Alan has been innoculated against the truth. How else could he sit there; night after night; hear intelligent discourse and rationale dismantle every effort taken from the Leftist playbook and STILL not 'get it'.

Alan's resistance is amazing to behold. Then realized, that only total ignorance or a 'anti-truth vaccine' could be the explanation.

To Alan's favor; have gone with the 'medical option'.

[cricket]

Our Repubs need tactical solutions for winning a ‘political WAR’. And only those who pass; should be made available for public comment; public discourse and debate.