Robert Novak, the old conservative journalist, died today. He was a cranky old bastard, which is precisely the reason Cranky Greg was so fond of him.
Cranky Greg recently read Novak's autobiography, The Prince of Darkness, and it was an excellent read for those of you who are interested in America's political history of the past 50 years. It was the one autobiography where the author really revealed warts. Most autobiographies make Cranky Greg laugh, but not this one.
In any case, Novak will be missed by those like Cranky Greg who get so tired of hearing the conventional wisdom and who detest "journalists" who fail to scrutinize those they like, such as Barack Obama.
Novak was his own man, and did his own thing, and his reporting was accurate. He didn't care if his reporting hurt a Republican's political career or a Democrat's political career.
He was definitely a man of the old school. Smoking, drinking, reporting.
Cranky Greg is going to miss Robert Novak, and it is too bad that Novak is going to probably be remembered for the Valerie Plame affair, which was ridiculous in its own right - not because of anything Novak did.
The recent passing of Walter Cronkite had the MSM in a frenzy of self-adulation and worship of Walter Cronkite who mostly wrote and read scripts. Novak was more valuable to Americans in his day because he was a reporter.
But MSM won't slobber over themselves at Novak's passing. Which explains everything.
