[jackbill]

One wonders how much of Ms. Levin's problem with Novak is the fact that he is a Jew who converted to Catholicism?

[l33t]

In December 2002, in a story about Christmas in Bethlehem, a CNN colleague again countered Novak's distorted assertions regarding Israeli conduct, this time his claim Israel was not permitting "any Christmas decorations" in Bethlehem. The reporter responded that it was not the Israelis "banning decorations. It is the Palestinians. The local officials have decided, in a form of protest, not to have any holiday decorations..."

Novak is a knee-jerk pathological Israel hater.

[beckett]

Novak has been impossible to listen to since 911. Every stance he takes is off-kilter.

I never really liked Novak much --- too much of an impossible to please, rather smug sourpuss for my taste. But I always respected the fact that he cited reading Whittaker Chambers' Witness as a life-changing event in his life. Post-911, even the Chambers connection can't save the guy.

Novak's position as a conservative in the punditocracy has become an embarrassment.

[ml/nj]

When Novak's colleagues further interjected that the Hamas official was "himself a terrorist," he retorted, "Well, why do you call him a terrorist? I mean, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter."

I must have missed it. Did Thomas Paine blow up the equivalent of today's pizza parlors. Did he invade to homes of Tory sympathizers and murder them and their children in their beds? Did he advocate such methods?

ML/NJ

[Chunga]

Novak is a Democrat. Enough said.