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For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America.
Naming Robert Novak a BuzzFlash Media Putz of the Week is as easy as selecting
Dick Cheney as Darth Vader of the Month.
BuzzFlash reader Margaret Horrall of San Antonio, Texas, nominated Novak
for recently claiming that he doesn't support the Bush Administration after
years of printing Karl Rove's phone messages to him as fact.
Journalists are supposed to be straightforward and understandable, but Novak's
handling of the Valerie Plame affair is so convoluted, dissembling, and tortured
that we should also present him with the Alberto Gonzales Award for nonsensical
explanations.
Let's face it, despite an occasional column to try and show that he's capable
of independent thought, Novak is just a megaphone for the Republican Party
-- and, until his good buddy Rove announced that he was leaving, a P.O. Box
for the White House.
Like Cheney and Rove, Novak is a bully. He'll just bulldoze his way through
half-truths and contradictory explanations with such bravado and truculence
that he leaves his detractors winded.
Ironically, Novak apparently was proud to title his 2007 memoir, "Prince
of Darkness." What a guy.
BuzzFlash could write a nice sized paperback on the improprieties, partisanship,
and plain weirdness of Novak, not to mention that he was a traitor in the
Plame case. He is still spinning that one, claiming despite Congressional
testimony to the contrary, that Plame was not a covert agent when she indeed
was one.
The guy is just a sleazeball. According to Wikipedia: "In August 2004,
after other journalists had reported on it, Novak admitted that his son,
Alex Novak, is the Director of Marketing for the Swift Boat Veterans' publisher,
Regnery Publishing. At the time he said that he didn't 'think it relevant.'
Two months later, Salon.com reported that Regnery's owner is also the publisher
of Novak's own US$297 (annual rate) newsletter and that Novak is on the board
of a foundation whose chief holdings are the stock of Regnery's parent company."
How many deceptions and conflicts of interest are loaded into just that
one paragraph?
And that's just an appetizer when it comes to what a creep Novak is. Bob's
a true Bushevik all right. His definition of honesty and truth is whatever
benefits him and his wallet. Bob Novak is allegedly a supporter of dogfighting
and cockfighting.
When it comes to journalism, Novak has a collar around his neck -- and his
buddies at the GOP are yanking the chain. Bark now for us, Bob, bark real
loud. They want to hear you down at the RNC.
Robert Novak reminds us how easy it is to separate
journalism from the truth.
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