John Hawkins has a really interesting interview with Bob Novak at Right Wing News today. John asks Novak about some of the stories in his new book and about the state of politics and media in general. Here is an excerpt:
John Hawkins: In your book, you described how Nixon, when he was Vice-President, walked in to appear on a telethon and unleashed a string of profanities and yet no one reported it. Today, just about anything and everything a politician does in public will be reported. Do you think that's an improvement over the old standards?Robert Novak: It's really hard to say. I was a newspaper pool reporter for that incident. It was the day before the 1960 election in Detroit, for a telethon, and there were 4 (reporters) there and none of us reported it.
You had a lot more access in those days because the politicians knew we weren't going to report everything, so we got a lot more information....On the other hand, maybe it would have been the right thing to do to tell the country some of the personality problems that Nixon had. But, if we did that, we wouldn't have had the access.
Reporters don't get much access to the politicians now. Barack Obama is notorious on the campaign trail for never seeing any reporters at all. It's a difficult question.
...
John Hawkins: (Laughs) You started the book with the Plame affair and obviously it has been in the news a lot over the last couple of years. You gave the impression in the book that you thought it was all nonsense. Would you say that's correct and could you tell us what you think of Joe Wilson?Robert Novak: Yeah, I think it's complete nonsense. I think that she was not a secret agent. ...They tried to promote her for this, tried to make a lot of money out of the (whole thing). I think Joe Wilson is an operator, he tried to get in on the front line of the Kerry campaign, in the 2004 (campaign) and they kicked him out and now he's trying to get in with Hillary Clinton.
Permalink | E-mail This | Technorati Links | Sphere: Related Content | Digg this! | FARK It!
Filed under:
Media
Comments (4)
Joe tried to get with the R... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kim | August 20, 2007 11:03 AM | Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Joe tried to get with the Richardson campaign earlier. This may be Richardson's Trojan Horse to the Clintonistas. It amazes me that she has accepted him.
The Plame Affair, long and notorious as it has been, is just taking off. Thompson is the only one who has been speaking as if he knows the truth of the affair, which is that Libby is innocent, Russert is a perjurer, Fitzgerald is an unconstitutionally appointed obstructer of justice and that Joe Wilson and Jay Rockefeller are traitors. I actually consider that Val has been victimized, sometimes I do.
====================
1. Posted by kim | August 20, 2007 11:03 AM |
Score: 5 (5 votes cast)
Posted on August 20, 2007 11:03
2. Posted by Jim Addison | August 20, 2007 12:49 PM | Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Novak will always tell you exactly what he thinks. It's odd that one of the last surviving "investigative columnists" is a conservative - if a surly and irascible one.
2. Posted by Jim Addison | August 20, 2007 12:49 PM |
Score: 4 (4 votes cast)
Posted on August 20, 2007 12:49
3. Posted by John in CA | August 20, 2007 6:07 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
If anyone finds Hawkins' interview of Novak interesting, Mark Levin had Novak on his show a couple of weeks ago.
I did a blog post on it in:
Bob Novak on the Mark Levin Radio Show.
Apologies for the shameless linky to my own post, but there is no transcript of the interview. There you'll find my rough transcript of some of the questions and answers and links to the audio of the interview.
I found it quite interesting. Especially his viewpoints on Jimmy Carter.
3. Posted by John in CA | August 20, 2007 6:07 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on August 20, 2007 18:07
4. Posted by kim | August 21, 2007 3:48 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Thank you, John.
===============
4. Posted by kim | August 21, 2007 3:48 PM |
Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Posted on August 21, 2007 15:48