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Conservative political journalist Robert Novak was involved in a hit and run in Washington D.C. today. Novak has worked most frequently with CNN but has also appears on other networks and writes the longest running syndicated political column in the US. He was driving his black Corvette (you read that right) to work this morning when he ran into a man who was crossing the street. Novak kept driving right along, claiming that he didn’t feel, hear, or notice a thing. Pedestrians and bicyclists chased his car and caught up to him at the next intersection.
Journalist Robert Novak hit a pedestrian with his car in the nation’s capital Wednesday morning, Washington police Lt. Michael Lockerman said. Novak continued driving, unaware he had hit the man, he told told reporters for WJLA-TV and the Web site Politico as he got out of a police car.
“I didn’t know I hit anybody,” he said near the scene of the incident at 17th and K streets in northwest Washington. “A bicycle rider stopped me and said I had hit someone.” Novak said he was cited for failure to yield right of way.
[From CNN]
Novak is known as the “Prince of Darkness” – not just because that’s the title of his memoirs, but also because he has a very angry way about him. Something about the eyebrows. Oh, and the way he yells and carries on. And his countenance. So pretty much his whole personality.
You’ll remember that Novak was the jerk who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative in his column back in 2003. He’s also said he “relished” attending a cockfight in Puerto Rico and that America has “too damn many” anti-cruelty statutes protecting animals.
TMZ has a much better write-up than CNN (not a sentence I ever thought I’d say), including an interview with Novak.
Novak tells us he was listening to NPR in his Corvette when suddenly, “Some guy came up and hit my car with his fist. I figured I had done something that had created road rage, but I didn’t know what it was. Then a bicyclist blocked the road in front of me. I asked what the problem was. He said, ‘You can’t just hit people and run away!’”
Novak says the cops came, put him “briefly” in the back of the police car and asked about what he heard at the time of impact. Novak told them and us that he didn’t hear or feel anything. They asked if he had been drinking or on a cellphone. He answered “no” to both.
Novak, who was citied for failing to yield, says he won’t fight the ticket, adding, “I assume witnesses are telling the truth.” And we asked him about his comments back in 2001 — that he hates jaywalkers and thought about running them over. He responded, “I’ve said a lot of things I shouldn’t have said.”
[From TMZ]
True that, Bob. What I find second most confusing about this whole thing is the idea that one of the most conservative talking heads in the nation was listening to NPR. Which makes me wonder what else he’s lying about.
Written by JayBird
Posted in Car accidents, Crime, Media, Robert Novak
12 Responses to “CNN’s Robert Novak involved in hit and run”
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He might be the longest running political columnist, but by outing Valerie Palme, he was a traitor to this country, he is thistight with Cheney and his minions. How evil is Novak? He’d run a man down in his over compensation mobile and not stop to provide comfort or aid to the injured.
Let’s see if he’s even charged, since he’s got drag in DC.
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Strange guy.
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CNN kicked him off after a funny little live incident in which James Carville was basically heckling him, and Novak stormed out of the studio while (still mic’ed) saying “I don’t have to take this shit”
Prince of Darkness my ass. I was hoping this was news that Novak had been run over.
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Jaybird: Lying about NPR…You’re hysterical!!
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I agree, I think he is lying about NPR. I also think he should be charged with a little more than failure to yield the right of way. That is a vehicular citation not when you hit a person.
Oh…and he answered any questions I had about old men driving corvettes. Pricks, the lot of them
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Valerie Plame was no longer undercover. Regular people work for the CIA. I interviewed their during my senior year in college. Less than 20% are even involved in operations (spying). She was a desk jockey.
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So his blowing of her cover was justified? I think not
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Why do the twisted always hit the ones you wish were hitting them?
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Plame was NOT a desk jockey. She was a non-offical operative which means she had no diplomatic immunity and were her activities for the agency discovered, they would be able to deny her links to them.
In other words, she was a deep-cover operative who worked without any agency protection. What Novak did was nothing short of treason and exposed not only Plame, but every one of her contacts to danger and even death.
Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson are patriots and Bob Novak is a treasonous douche.
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This title is misleading.
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The most surprising thing about this story is that Novak is still driving a car at his age and his diminished mental capacity. Have you seen all the slobbering and lunatic rambling he does on TV? That’s OK in the TV studio, but not out on the road in a black Corvette, where he can kill your children while they’re trying to cross the street. This drooling, senile old crank needs to have his driver’s licence revoked before he kills our children.
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This is not the first clue that this man is a lunatic and obviously way too out of it to be driving.
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