Thursday, July 14, 2005
So why is nobody talking about Bob Novak?
The title says it all.
So far, there's been a firestorm over Rove, a slew of interviews (like the one with Joe Wilson this morning on network television), and a lot of non-comments from the White House.
But what seems to be missing from a national public discussion is the part that Bob Novak played in all of this.
Why, I wonder, didn't the court throw his butt in the slammer? After all, he broke federal law by publishing the name of an under-cover agent of the United States government.
Remember the HBO show K Street? Well toward the end of the first and only season, Bob Novak runs up to someone (Mary Matalin, I think) and said something to the effect of, "I've got something to tell you, and there's gonna be trouble"...
By the end of the series, the government was swarming over the offices of Carville and Matalin's consulting firm and threatening all kinds of problems.... what happened to art imitating real life? Right now, I'd settle for real life imitating art!
Mother Jones has some decent stuff available on the unfolding story.
LA ¶ 12:11 PM
The title says it all.
So far, there's been a firestorm over Rove, a slew of interviews (like the one with Joe Wilson this morning on network television), and a lot of non-comments from the White House.
But what seems to be missing from a national public discussion is the part that Bob Novak played in all of this.
Why, I wonder, didn't the court throw his butt in the slammer? After all, he broke federal law by publishing the name of an under-cover agent of the United States government.
Remember the HBO show K Street? Well toward the end of the first and only season, Bob Novak runs up to someone (Mary Matalin, I think) and said something to the effect of, "I've got something to tell you, and there's gonna be trouble"...
By the end of the series, the government was swarming over the offices of Carville and Matalin's consulting firm and threatening all kinds of problems.... what happened to art imitating real life? Right now, I'd settle for real life imitating art!
Mother Jones has some decent stuff available on the unfolding story.
LA ¶ 12:11 PM
