RIP Robert Novak
Today the Conservative Movement lost one of its toughest streetfighters. Veteran columnist, reporter, and pundit Robert Novak died at the age of 78.
Greg Gutfeld gives him a blog-style obituary over at Big Hollywood:
Men like Novak normally don’t have a cult following, but he did. Because he was cool. While others would carry around dog-eared copies of old Hunter S. Thompson paperbacks, and believe nonconformity means acting like a nonconformist, fans of Novak knew that true rebellion meant rebelling against vacant rebellion. Novak, after all, wore a three-piece suit every moment of his life making him more of a badass than a tattooed and pierced Johnny Depp could ever think of becoming.
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Today would be a good day to pick up Novak’s memoir The Prince of Darkness if you haven’t gotten to it yet. I might download it onto my Kindle tonight.
I’m sure we’ll have plenty of coverage of Novak’s passing tomorrow. It’s bound to be a subject on the cable news shows. One can be certain that some leftist out there is going to say something cruel and stupid.
Another contributor to the thought process leaves us, but his words live on in print.
I’ll miss this icon. Which made the AP’s report on his passing all the more annoying. Three paragraphs into the news of his death; they had to mention he initially failed to stop when involved in a car accident. Now that’s news I can use. Thanks AP.
NOVAK LEFT A LOT TO BE DESIRED BY HIS MIXING HIS RELIGIOUS PREJUDICE WITH HIS POLITICAL BELIEFS, ESPECIALLY, HIS RABID ANTAGONISM TOWARD ISRAEL. HIS BITTER FEELINGS TOWARD HIS FAITH OF BIRTH, JUDAISM, ABOUT WHICH HE ADMITTEDLY KNEW LITTLE ABOUT,SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MADE A PUBLIC ISSUE BY HIM AS PART OF HIS POLITICAL PERSONA.IN THIS, HE COULD HAVE BEEN MORE DISCRETE.