Robert Novak attacks Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and a touch of John Stewart
By John Amato Sunday May 25, 2008 9:00pm
The Prince of darkness returns! Novakula dusts off his old weather beaten type writer to give us his idiotic tirade against the very popular Sebelius. Here's their response to Novak.
Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran condemned the Novak piece as forwarding his "personal agendas and hyperbole." She pointed out that Novak's column failed to mention the 8.5 percent decline in the Kansas abortion rate since Sebeliushas been in office and added: "Clearly, the people of Kansas don't share Mr. Novak's narrow view of Governor Sebelius, having overwhelmingly voted to re-elect her in 2006 in an endorsement of Governor Sebelius's centrist, mainstream approach."
Wow, she supports women's rights. What a shocker. C&Lers may remember the odious wild man named Phill Kline.
Kline was one of those over the top an anti-choice lunatics that O'Reilly just loved. His positions finally drove him out of a job in Kansas, but he's still hanging around. He was also being investigated for some money issues. Click here for the video.
Anyway, back to Novak, here's a blast from the past Daily Show clip that has been a big favorite here.
Stewart: ..for that Douchebaggery, Robert Novak is hereby awarded the highest civilian honor awarded to douchebags: The congressional medal of douchebag…
It's an honor well deserved.
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Hah,.First
Robert who?
It's "Jon" Stewart. The guy is Jewish.
Correction: Jon Stewart. Thanks, John.
frances @ 3:
Beat me to it, Frances!
I happen to know for a fact that all the site monitors on Crooks and Liars have access to the emails of anyone who posts here.
After stating my disagreement with the way the Hillary statement about RFK's assasination was handled (mishandled) here and saying i will go elsewwhere my email is suddenly getting flooded with spam.
My embarrassment for this site is quickly turning into anger.
First you betray your community of readers and then you seek vindictive revenge on one who disagrees and criticizes.
How childish!
What? No death threats? Is Novak still on board?
Isn't this Shithead !PRO WAR! while the Pope is less than happy with it.
Moral police yourself D-BAG!
ha! i just visited the douchebag's portrait today... hanging in the hallway of famous alumnae in the Illini Union at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana...
not a sharpie in site... it needs a mustache, some horns... it's not just a head shot, so the possibilities are endless...
come to think of it, that's not the portrait i remember... maybe it's a replacement...
i keep hoping to see that it's GONE...
This evil, hateful, sack of cockroach shit Novak, along with that skank Judith Miller are the two worst journalist/co-murderers in modern American history.
i would like to ask the evil bob and the bishop when will they demand that politicians who support the death penalty and priests who covered for other priests who were raping little children to stop taking communion
and why isnt this man in prison for outing a cia operative?
Novak aided and abetted the commission of treason against my country when he printed Valerie Plame's name in his column.
I will never forget that - and I will never forgive him for that.
Is treason a pardonable crime?
A predictable pre-emptive right-wing attack on a popular potential vp candidate.
The Douche-bag of liberty indeed. Just hearing his name again makes me feel like I need to shower. I was very happy to have him hiding in his little puddle of sludge.
Kline is being investigated? Wow - imagine that - a re-PIG-lic being investigated for suspected wrong-doing. What IS the world coming to?
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How come this fool isn't in jail.
Novak really likes the dirty jobs, doesn't he?
Ethically unsound? Character hit-job? "Call my old pal Novak - he's the one for the job!"
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Do these sanctimonious catholic douchebags ever ask pols who are in full support of the death penalty or unprovoked war to stop taking communion?
Just askin'
And let's not overlook how Novak pushes the myth about Obama and his daughters being punished with a baby....when Obama was talking about access to birth control, not abortion.
Attacking her or not, does obama think if he puts some horsefaced woman up to be the VP ,people will lie down and vote for him...no way in hell. He is sunk..he can't beat McCain every poll taken shows that. Hillary beats McCain hands down, BUT, in the news blogs of the good old white boys what do they say, instead of HIllary frosting McCain's balls, they say obama the obummer is creeping up on McCain ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ...he's gonna loose and the DNC, and the good old boys are to blame....they will sink this country into another eight years of crap and crap.
And don't think every single day we will let them know.
Does anyone else think he looks like "Sam the Eagle" from the Muppets?
You know, I really have no idea why this douchebag has a career. Same with O'Reilly. Here are a couple of nut-jobs with no discernable talent or intelligence who have proven over and over that they will lie like a toddler with one hand in the cookie jar and cannot control their frustrations and temper at all. Are there not enough people that can step into these goofballs shoes? Or are there just not enough people that can step into their shoes AND sell their souls to GOP?
Sigh. An 8.5 reduction in the abortion rate is only something good if 8.5 percent fewer abortions were sought.
She's not my ideal Democrat.
Marge @ 19:
Marge, put down the crazy juice. What polls are you looking at? Let's focus on McCain and stop the circular firing squad. Obama has won. Move on.
Marge @ 19:
That's right Mrs. Novak, defend your man! Man hating Marge, you and your eighty-two cats(all female) really need to STFU!
Left&Left @ 23:
Does anyone else think he looks like “Sam the Eagle” from the Muppets?
Actually, I think he looks like Simon Barsinister from the old Underdog cartoons!
I'm a Kansan in the pro-choice community here and Novak fails to mention a lot of facts. Kline was voted out of office because nobody liked him. He barely won the seat in the first place. He got the job as District Attorney through a vote by the Republican precinct committepeople and he barely squeaked by in that vote.
Kline took private medical records and gave them to an attorney that protests in front of Tiller's clinic. The attorney, Don McKinney, was a donor to Kline and runs a cult out of his home. The private medical records were also provided to Operation Rescue based here in Wichita. Kline is currently in trouble for taking those records out of the office and into his home. Beyond that Kline is the only case of voter fraud found in Kansas where he voted in a district he didn't live in but that's a side issue. Before Kline ran for AG he didn't even have a license to practice law since he let that license lapse.
Sebelius was voted into office because she is pro-choice. She replaced a pro-choice Republican governor whose term had expired. The anti-choice Republican candidates lost handily. The Republicans experienced so many defeats that they withdrew the abortion issue from their party platform.
On the other hand Operation Rescue lost it's tax exempt status. They illegally campaigned for candidates and laundered money through an anonymous PO box in California. They too set up a PAC to try to get Kline elected. So it appears Novak is pointing his fingers in the wrong direction.
I thought I saw him throw down his microphone and storm off the stage...what the hell difference does he make?
Trouble in Paradise @ 25:
Really? In terms of general appearance and propensity for incompetent evil I thought he most closely resembled the Master Cylinder of Felix The Cat. I understand Novak sought legal counsel regarding a libel suit against Jon Stewart but was informed that since truth is an absolute defense in the case of libel any suit was liable to fail. No court in the land could fail to recognize Novak's complete douchebaginess.
he's not relevant.
novakula is a non-entity.
why give him space?
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 29:
Know and laugh at thine enemy. And a perfect excuse for some vintage Stewart.
xoites defends Constitution @ 6:
if you google your email address, you may find a few of the places your email was deposited. also, if you can get the IP address of the headers of some of your spam, you can begin a trackback or turn it over to your ISP for an investigation. The FCC also has a internet fraud department. you're savvy enough to know all this. it may help others as well. I would want to confirm that it wasn't one of the closet repugs, though. some of them are vicious enough to be suspects as well. just my $.02.
p.s., sorry about that spam problem.
Peter G @ 30:
OK. I'll give you that.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 32:
And I got the term 'douchebaggery' from that very clip.
Can Jon rescind his previous award and trade it in for the Congressional Douchebag of Douchebag? What a waste of metal.
katy @ 9:
I am an alumni too, and what a disgrace that they selected Novak for that "honor." I like the sharpie idea though, next time I go down there to buy frozen Papa Del's pizzas I may have to take a trip over to the Union.
#1 Douchebag and traitor...
Douchebag
and a lousy journalist too. i believe he misquotes Obama near the end of his column of dreck.
and why isn't he in jail?
Even if he believed the spy he outed was already out -- his subsequent column to that, outing the entire operation, should have put him in chains. An actual journalist would know you can't just reveal a covert CIA international operation like that.
Left&Left @ 10:
I couldn't have said it more perfectly myself. You left out the words "neocon traitors". Mister Novak, you opinions are irrelevant, just as you are. Hope you two neocons rot in Hell, preferably in a jail cell in the Hague.You likenesses should be immortalized in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks in "Room of World's Worst & Ugliest Traitors Who Helped Israel But Destroyed their Own Country In The Process And Making The World A More Dangerous Place".
Trouble in Paradise @ 25:
haha - great call. Judging by his attitude, lack of intelligence, and total blindness to anything and everything that's real, I would venture a guess that he's a shake baby. Of course if I was a woman and something that wretched crawled out from my tampon socket I would shake it like a cheap can of paint.
He's about as relevent as Sam the Eagle or Simon Barsinister. Anyone who believes that this guy isn't working for the bush administration and that the administration isn't using the office for political revenge needs to only look at their non-response dealing with the Valerie Plame leak. With all their rhetoric about being tough on leaks and having a zero tolerance policy - and Novak (and Armitage) leaked something, and nothing was done to punish them. There was a bunch of fallout because of that lack of punishment, I would think the administration would do something to them just to try and save a little face (and believe me, they need all the face they can get.
Douchebag,scumbag,call him what you will;Novak is a criminal who should be in prison with the rest of his little flitty black soul types such as George W.Bush,criminal president of the U.S.;Dick Cheney,Benedict Arnold with atomic bombs;Karl Rove,Benedict Arnold with forked tongue; andthe rest of the Bush henchmen doing their damndest to bring Armageddon to a a nice rapturous theater near you.
And yes,
living-abomination@39 He does look like Sam the Eagle,but much,much uglier.
Kathleen Sebelius, is really gaining momentum to be Obama's running mate through the tubes of the internets. I don't think I have to go all the reasons why right now, though if someone wants to know I'll gladly break them out for you. Despite this however, the corporate m$m, seems to really go out of their way to avoid talking about her when the topic comes up. Now they are attacking her? Good, I'm glad; if the m$m doesn't like a candidate, or more like, appear scared of a candidate, the more I know they are infact right for the job.
Sebelius has been since the beginning and will continue to be one of Obama's biggest, as well as most valuable and experienced supporters. I hope to see the Obama campaign and his supporters step up for her here. She is easily the best choice for VP both for Obama and for the Nation.
Obama/Sebelius '08!
Typically White and Bitter Agent Hussein Provocateur @ 41:
if i were obama, i wouldve wittled down my choices for vp to be between sebelius and webb
i am personally going for webb, although he would make either a great sec of state or defense...but i would have no prob at all with sebelius
i have watched her handle the wingnuts in her state, and she is one tuff lady and i could definitely see myself someday voting for her for prez
katy @ 9:
Theres a word and title that describes somebody who colludes in ruining a covert TLA operation and naming a serving CIA officer in 'war time' traitor I believe is the word that most would use.
His GOP loyalties ruined that CIA nuclear non proliferation teams efforts, and prob aided Iran and others, heckofajob Bob.
just wear a cap and watch out for cameras,
I am amazed the CIA or some subsection of it hasnt accidented Bob Novak, suppose he has some protection from the present regime,
oh well I am sure when hes sadly passed on or in 09, the gloves come off.
You can bet there going to be some juicy book or newspaper stories about his personal life and skeletons coming out then, vindictive TLA types have long memories.
Uncle Joe @42
Webb is a great guy and has done terrific work already, but we need to be adding to our Senate numbers and making sure our strongest one, especially those in vital seats stay as long as they can. Plus remember all the talk in both primaries about having a Senator atop the ticket? We shouldn't be adding two; especially when the economy will be the top issue we should have a succesful Gov.
Strictly personally speaking, Webb is just too new to the party for me to be comfortable with him "a heartbeat away". I want a lifetime, true blue dem in that seat, as well as someone who is a mirror to the president as far as ethics, ideals, values and policies go; that would be the KS Gov.
If Obama wants to bring in military minded conservatives, or at least make them feel better, rather than pulling Webb from our Senate numbers, he should "leak" Hagel as his SecDefense (by no means VP however).
Well I'm turning in for the night, but before I go, and should anyone care, I'll post my reasons for Sebelius, c&p'ed from my reply on Cillizza's The Fix comments...
Why Sebelius?
Outside of Bill Richardson, she is by far the most qualified candidate. She a tremendously popular two term, true blue Governor in redder than red Kansas, who btw just used her power of the veto to protect voters rights and say no to the 'Voter ID' law. In an election where the economy will be the lead issue, we should have on the ticket someone who has succesfully ran an entire state(read: no Senators).She also was a Representive, so she knows the ins and outs of congress. And was (the first) Democratic insurance commisioner of Kansas. She fought, won, and said NO to the insurance companies.
Demographics? Catholic, female, older, white, middle American. As she did in her own state, she will turn the middle of the map deep blue. She also is the daughter of a very popular two term Gov of Ohio.
She has campaigned for Obama all across the country since the very, very beginning of his campaign. Her values, ideals, ethics, and decency are inline with Obama's like no other Dem out there.
To say that Obama's pick of Sebelius would be pandering should be an insult to women everywhere, and would be taking a step back for feminism. She is qualified and likable enough that she could be the nominee and beat any Republican on her own. If you Clinton backers really care about the advancement of women in this society, then you should support every strong, qualified women with the same energy you support Hillary with.
The biggest critcism of her seems to be that she was not enough of a "fighter"(HRC?) in here SotU rebuttal. I disagree, look at Obama v Clinton, that "fighting" is counter productive. She absolutely went after Bush, but did so in a way that was welcoming to those voters in the middle and near right. She gave the opposition nothing to dislike or attack her for personally, but left only the policies to debate. That's a debate Sebelius and Obama will win everytime.
How many saw the Faux News reaction to her speech? She left spewster Hume looking scared and speechless. I've seen only one other person with the ability to do that, why not have them both on the ticket?
Obama/Sebelius 08!
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If there's one thing I've learned about Rethuglicans and their shills, it's they don't waste any time turning their guns on prospective Democratic hopefuls, you know, those popular Democrats who have potential to be popular party leaders. From their perspective, the sooner they start their smear campaigns, the better. We must do everything possible to prevent this. Why a shill and traitor like Novak has any credibility is a mystery.
interesting, I'm still predicting Jim Webb.
Just once I would like to see a Dem spokesperson reply to Novak and his ilk like this : Sebelius spokeswoman Nicole Corcoran condemned the Novak piece as "being written by an old, worthless morron of a republican that should be ignored by all human beings." Adding, "Who reads his column? Bigots? Racists? Dead-enders and hangers-on? Surely no one of even average intelligence still listens to what that mummified turd has to say."
Just once you know...
Novak is nothing more than an embalmed corpse that the REPIGLICANS take out of it's crypt and provide electro shocks too as necessary in order to make it spew forth whatever evil they need it to say ..............
Who cares what this traitor thinks?
I much prefer this Novak.
http://extracine.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/kim-nov5.jpg
Shouldn't Old Miser Novak be in prison or something?
Novak is just pissed off 'cause Cheney gets first dibs on the blood of Iraqi children.
bmw 528 @ 35:
i didn't think to look at the time for security cameras... be careful!
yes, ferrofluid, the word "TRAITOR" should be included on the plaque listing his "accomplishments"... i did notice the word "journalist" was not used... "commentator" was...
THAT was a plus, i thought...
frances @ 3:
Jewish?? My brother is a Jonathan too. The name is not related to a religion as far as I know.
Trouble in Paradise @ 18:
Abortion and birth control are the same thing to right wingers. Abortion being just a more extreme form, but both equally sinful.
You've apparently missed the move by the far right to defend pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control perscriptions, even accusing women at drug store counters of aborting babies by using birth control.
Next they'll be sending out flyers showing sad weeping little sperms, tails drooping as they realize they won't get their shot at the egg because some nasty communist condom has stopped them from fulfilling their Holy Mission.
Sigh. I couldn't be more disappointed in the rampant insanity of my fellow countrymen if I found out they were resorting to human sacrifice to appease the Gods. Oh, wait, they're already doing that - it's called Operation Iraqi Freedom.
In the article Novak references a claim that Sebelius is "'laundering' abortion industry money." I was under the impression that abortion was a procedure, rather than an industry. Moreover, I don't think Planned Parenthood is making all that much money for their completed abortions, or that the sum total of payment for abortions performed is all that grand or lucrative. Perhaps he meant "abortion lobby." Regardless, it must rank as one of the stupidest things I have ever read from a pundit. Does anyone at the Post proof these things?
Brian @ 47:
Yeah, you want to back to those wonderful days when women died on the table after a long and futile labor killed both her and the baby because sanctimonious right-to-life-nuts would rather blame the Will of God for deaths that could have been avoided.
In 1981 I regained consciousness on a gurney in an emergency room to see two doctors hovering over me. I had passed out again. Through my enormous pain they explained to me that they had discovered that I had an ectopic pregnancy.
If you had your way, I would have died that day because you would have happily denied me a lifesaving abortion. My 11 yr. old daughter would have lost her mother and my two subsequent children would never have been born.
You so-called "right-to-lifers" are completely superstitious in your eager willingness to allow the loss of a woman's life even when the fetus will not survive, as if your vengeful Old Testament God needs the occassional sacrificial blood of some pregnant woman to be appease Him. That's not my God.
Go sell crazy somewhere else, I'm not buying. I live in the real world where your holier-than-thou horseshit has no currency. And I'm not buying your fake sympathy for the unborn. It is unjustifiably self-righteous, morally indefensible and intellectualy lazy, a deadly combination.
I'm amazed that the CIA allows Novakula to still walk the earth. I wouldn't have thought his life would be worth a plugged nickel after he betrayed the CIA and the country. Friggin' traitor.
ITH @ 59:
Novak wasn't doing that to be any more accurate there than in any of his other rants. He's doing it solely to inflame the "Right-to-lifers", (what a misnomer that is, since they're more accurately death fetishists).
To see how well it worked, read the knee-jerk reaction of Brian @ #47.
rooth hussein @ 60: awesome rebuttal!
Rusty Shackleford @ 63:
thnx
lilybelle @ 21:
I'm with rooth hussein @ 58.
How about instead of only considering abortion rates, we consider why so many women are seeking abortions in the first place?! If men would not insist on their conjugal rights (I really don't know why having sex is considered a right, especially in a marriage) or in forcing women to have sex (by rape or other coercive means) against their will, well that would certainly make a dent in the number of abortions.
If men would not have such an abhorrent record of abandoning their children, whether those conceived out of wedlock or by leaving/divorcing their wives to go spread their seed hither and yon, more women would feel confident and comfortable that they would have fathers around to support and nuture the unborn children they consider aborting.
The fact is that the best way to reduce or eliminate abortions except for absolute medical reasons, is for sex education to be universal and for birth control to be made available for everyone who wants it. Many women who do not have health insurance cannot afford the safe and reliable methods of avoiding pregnancy. We also have religious groups opposing education, and preaching against abortions while at the same time espousing the 'biblical" myths that it is woman's duty to submit to her husband. And, we have pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for birth control as it's against their religious convictions.
Getting folks all riled up about abortions and "pro-life" crap (seriously, who is against life?) is just abother way to keep them from becoming aware of what is really happening right under their noses. While the corporations, the world financial institutions, and those who run our government are usurping our wealth, resources,
rights and freedom, we argue about whether a woman should be able to control her own body. Anyone who thinks there is a god who is overseeing this mess is clusless.
If they want to deny communion to pro-chioce Catholics, are they going to deny communion to death penalty Republicans? Tie to start taxing churchs and then they can just spout all the BS they want.
tas @ 66:
"are they going to deny communion to death penalty Republicans?"
Not with the church's track record on ignoring the word's of Christ when it comes to war. They have traditionally been behind virtually all the wars that have taken place wherever they have been ever since about 5 minutes after the Ressurection.
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