Important Stuff -- Or Not: Robert Novak 1931-2009

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Robert Novak 1931-2009

Robert Novak, one of the last old-time journalists, died yesterday after a year of fighting brain cancer. He said when he was diagnosed that he was retiring, but of course, he didn't -- couldn't. Novak was a conservative, although he was not ideological. But just the fact that he was not a liberal drone was enough to make him hated on the left, although he took Republicans to task just as he did democrats. The left called him the Prince of Darkness. He was an honest man. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would not be liberal. Although he wrote a column, he was a reporter. Unlike current journalists, he knew his job was to report the facts, not change the world. He put those facts in a column so he would be free of meddling liberal editors who like to spin the news to represent THEIR truth. His death represents the further death of journalism.

3 comments:

Joe said...: "There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would not be liberal."

What a great line! A liberal may be defined as one who believes that what he/she says is true simply BECAUSe he/she said it, whether it actually happened or not.

Novack was one of the few good-guy journalists we had left.; 12:38 PM
Tonto said...: LR - you must know how Novak felt everyday he went into work. I heard Glenn Beck talk about what it was like when he passed co-workers at the offices at CNN and wonder if that happens to you.; 5:31 PM
Lone Ranger said...: The only people who even recognize my presence are the people on the overnights who really know me. To know me is to love me. But I'm sure they regard me as the crazy uncle with the good table manners. I often say that I have powers of invisibility because my "colleagues" walk by me as if I weren't there. There are a few other conservatives in the newsroom, but they are smart enough to keep a low profile.; 9:08 PM

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.