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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Talk about your triumphant return. Valerie Plame Wilson -- once a suburban Washington mom whose secret CIA life involved stopping the terrifying trade in black-market nukes -- is back in town this week for a trio of advance screenings of the movie drawn from her memoir "Fair Game." And make no mistake. She looks and sounds like a million bucks in her dual roles as cinematic muse and anti-proliferation crusader. (The slender blond spy of Vanity Fair fame gives covert-agent chic a very good name, indeed). The Naomi Watts-Sean Penn film that opens Nov. 5 recounts her outing as a spook, an ...
This year saw the deaths of artists and athletes, politicians and pioneers, the seemingly ordinary and the obviously extraordinary. The deaths were sometimes expected, like the loss of the world's oldest woman. But often, they were so sudden and stunning, like the death of superstar Michael Jackson, they seemed to take our breath away. There's a common thread for the passings noted here: The lives and deaths of these individuals were felt far beyond their circle of family and friends, a testament to their influence and their simple ability to stand out in the crowd. In looking over the deaths ...
On a blogger's panel at the RightOnline Conference in Pittsburgh this past weekend, I made the point that an effective conservative movement requires committed activists like Paul Weyrich, as well as robust intellectuals like William F. Buckley -- and principled political leaders like Ronald Reagan. At that point, Robert Bluey of The Heritage Foundation, a journalist by trade who was moderating the event, chimed in that an effective conservative movement also necessitates investigative reporters like Robert Novak. ...
I learned of the death of Bob Novak from an e-mail sent to me by an NPR reporter looking for a comment. And I felt awkward, for my last public exchange with the conservative columnist and TV pundit who relished his "Prince of Darkness" nickname had been an ugly one. There is, of course, the don't-speak-ill-of-the-dead rule. But what could I say about a fellow who had blasted me on national television as an ideological hack? There wasn't always bad blood between us. Years earlier, as a substitute host on CNN's "Crossfire," I had come to enjoy wrestling with Novak. When I began that gig, ...
The Prince of Darkness is gone, and Washington won't be the same without him. Robert D. Novak was the ultimate insider newspaper columnist, at once celebrated and reviled by the movers and shakers among the politicians and journalists of the nation's capital. He was also the ultimate shoe-leather reporter, who in his heyday worked nearly round the clock with time left over to drink and gamble and exchange insults with his colleagues. He never lacked for sources or opinions, but the secret of his success was that he interviewed more people than his competitors did. Richard Harwood, my late, ...
Last night I brought you word of Robert Novak's supposed scoop that John McCain would announce his VP choice this week. Novak himself knew that such an announcement would help take some of the wind from Barack Obama's overseas sails, but what he didn't know, and is now a tad upset over, is that the McCain team used him to forward a rumor that is, apparently, not true. From Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:Robert Novak told Fox News that his report yesterday about Sen John McCain naming his running mate this week may have been "a dodge" by the campaign to steal some attention from Sen. Barack ...
Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan is enjoying being feted by the media rather than criticized by it in the wake of the revelations in his new book "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." White House reaction to the allegations raised by the Administration's former chief spokesman has been strong. Despite the generally explosive coverage of the book in the press, there have been several high profile denunciations of McClellan since the book's content came to light. Syndicated columnist Robert Novak penned a column challenging ...
Robert Novak appeared on Bloomberg TV's Political Capital (who knew The Capitol Gang had been reinvented!) with Al Hunt on Saturday. I'm sure they spoke of earth-shattering theories and realizations, but this little piece regarding the Senate Republican's prior knowledge of Larry Craig's pecadillos has the blogosphere humming (via Brave New Films). ...
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