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Legendary conservative columnist Robert Novak has died. What is your memory of him?
From 1963 until 2001, Bob Novak and Rowland Evans wrote “The Evans & Novak Political Report,” a leading conservative journal. (It stopped with Evans’ death.)
Novak was an original panelist on “The McLaughlin Group” from 1982 to 1990, until he became too conservative even for moderator John McLaughlin. So he helped found “Crossfire” on CNN, and had a lot of fun with it. He even enjoyed the nickname given to him by an old friend noting his usual mood, “The Prince of Darkness,” to the point where he used that as the title of his autobiography.
For a while, I called him “Darth Politics.” But he did seem to have fun with the business of journalism, and I appreciated that even though I almost never agreed with him.
Bob Novak was 78. I hope that when God is done giving him a good talking-to, he can sit down with James Reston and once again do “Meet the Press” with Tim Russert.
Novak started out as a solid, talented journalist, who, although opinionated, didn’t let that compromise his professionalism. But time wounds all heals, and he was eventually seduced by the dark side to cross the line into advocacy and entertainment, because there he became the news. His right-wing tirades, however, still had coherence and content, unlike the hydrophobic hyperbole of the lesser lights of his fanatic fraternity.
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