Boston Globe/NPR Journalist Tags Novak a "Mendacious Lycanthrope"

MRC ^ | Tuesday March 29, 2005 | BrentBaker

[fight_truth_decay]

Mendacious lycanthropic misanthropist?

[skaterboy]

SEEBS has credibility?

[foolscap]

Novack is a lying werewolf?

That is what I thought to. Maybe a lycanthrope has nothing to do with lycanthrophy but they seem awful close.

[Waco]

Woofwoofwoofwoof

[Bernard Marx]

Naw, he was really thinking of Wolf Blitzer.

[GOPJ]

...warned CBS, which is carrying the tournament: "If you use him as a talking-head anywhere on your network, you've sacrificed credibility for celebrity in a big way."

For starters, CBS doesn't have credibility to worry about -- that ship has sailed. Also, NPR doesn't have credibility since their totally biased reports on Terri -- and that's leaves Novak, who's just fine and credible the way he is...

[Endeavor]

He is a Fighting Illini fan and an alum. I don't know why he roots for Maryland, too.

[SuziQ]

Charles Pierce sounds like an irritable inglubian.

[rlmorel]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Please not to show that picture!

[Tacis]

Charley is halucinating, no question. Has there ever been a concept with less substance than the "credibility of CBS?" Pierce may have talked about the "sobriety of Fat Teddy," "the integrity of democrats," or "the diversity of the Congressional Black Caucus" and come up with concepts that had more weight or substance than the "credibility of CBS."

[Verginius Rufus]

Lykanthropos is an ancient Greek word meaning "man-wolf" or "were-wolf."

Lykos is Greek for "wolf" (from the same Indo-European root as Latin lupus, Gothic wulfs, Old Slavic vluku, Russian volk, etc.).

There was an area near ancient Athens called Lykeion with a sanctuary of Apollo Lykeios and a gymnasium...because Aristotle lectured at that gymnasium, we have the word lyceum for educational establishments.

The epithet Lykeios ("of a wolf") was applied to Apollo either as "wolf-slayer" (shortened from lykoktonos) or as the Lycian god (the Lycians being a barbarian nation of southwestern Asia Minor).

[RikaStrom]

There wolf

gotta love the classics

[Verginius Rufus]

There is a portrait of Bob Novak, along with those of other notable alumni, in the Illini Union on the U of I campus. It may be that he lives in the Maryland suburbs and therefore feels an obligation to root for the University of Maryland as well.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

Do you think he was trying to say Novak hates gymnasiums, but was doing it in an NPR/CBS sort of way, so it would be all mixed up and phony, but sound true on the surface?

[driftless]

I think he meant to say lycanthropic mendicant....a very, hairy beggar with sharp teeth.

[savedbygrace]

So Feldman's line was "There wolf"? OK, I can live with that.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't know enough about this guy to make a guess at his mental processes...maybe he just ran across the word "lycanthrope" recently and wanted to use it of someone, whether it made any sense or not.

Wolfman Jack died in 1995. Maybe Novak can stake out a claim to be Wolfman Bob.

[an amused spectator]

This is the kind of stuff that happens when you pickle your tongue in Teddy Kennedy's arsehole...