RIP Prince of Darkness

Well it is just coming across all the wire news agency's now and I would just like to spend a moment reflecting on the second greatest conservative columnist and writer of the last 50 years (Bill Buckley being #1). I enjoyed watching Novak (aka the Prince of Darkness) during the show Crossfire back when I was still forming my political belief system. I will plan on picking up his memoirs' later this week maybe even today. This is from CNN.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Conservative columnist and former CNN "Crossfire" co-host Robert Novak has died after a year-long battle with cancer, his family announced Tuesday. He was 78.

Novak died at home, just over a year after doctors diagnosed him with a malignant brain tumor in August 2008. He was a veteran columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a regular commentator for CNN for 25 years, beginning when the network launched in 1980.

For most of that time, he was a co-host of the political debate program "Crossfire." But he also hosted a show with his longtime column co-author, Rowland Evans, and appeared as a panelist on shows like "The Capital Gang" and on PBS' "The McLaughlin Group."

He was dubbed "The Prince of Darkness" by friends for his pessimistic persona, and he used the nickname as the title of his 2007 memoir.

Novak got his first newspaper job in 1948, when he was still in high school. He served in the Army during the Korean War before turning to the news business, eventually starting his column with Evans at the now-defunct New York Herald-Tribune in 1963.

In 2003, he found himself at the center of the scandal over the exposure of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, when he published a column revealing her CIA status days after her husband challenged a key Bush administration justification for the invasion of Iraq. The scandal ultimately led to the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury, obstruction of justice and lying to investigators probing the leak.

Novak cooperated with a special prosecutor and was not charged in the case.

And as always, the Democrats are classy and don't mock his death...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4020297&mesg_id=4020321

I'm usually more compassionate, butnot today. Boo fucking hoo. One dirtbag "conservative" down, a gazillion to go...
Diane

His role in that GOT PEOPLE KILLED. Good riddance. No loss.
World just got a little better, actually.

Why did you have respect for him?
He was a horrid, deceitful, harmful man

You've got to be fucking kidding me. He outed a CIA agent at the behest of the b*s* administration!

"...a vile conservative that committed treason against his own country..."
The only thing I will raise is my kilt, so I can piss on his grave.
Fuck you, Novak. Burn in hell.

To be fair it was probably 2:1 in positive comments but yeah, nothing like a bunch of tolerant libs pissing on the recently dead. Oh, and by the way I don't plan dancing on Ted Kennedy's grave but let it be known he was directly responisble for the death of an innocent person.