Posted by
Moshe Phillips on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 9:01:10 AM
Robert Novak was a phony Conservative, an apologist for
Muslims & supporter of Hamas
John Podhoretz's writes at
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/jpodhoretz/76342 about Novak:
Robert D. Novak, the controversialist whose combination
of hard-line conservatism and hard-charging reporting made his column essential
reading for nearly four decades, has died. Bob went to his grave a Catholic,
though he had been born a Jew, and passed through mainline Protestantism on the
way. He had, as they say, “issues” with his Jewish roots, expressed largely in
a hostility to Israel that made little sense given the overall nature of his
views on a wide range of subjects—he was, for instance, an intimate of and
close friend to the late Jack Kemp and agreed with Kemp on nearly every
particular, but Kemp was a supporter of Israel, and Novak an opponent of it.
In 1989, when I was an editor at the Washington Times, I
assigned a reporter a profile on Richard Darman, then George H.W. Bush’s budget
director. There had been rumors that Darman had been born a Jew, and I asked
her to check them out in the pre-Internet days. She uncovered a news story in
the Providence, Rhode Island, newspaper about Darman’s bar
mitzvah, of all things. And when she asked him about it, Darman was deeply
unsettled, asked her not to publish anything about it, said he would be her
best source, said it would devastate his wife and children. She came back and
reported this to me, and I said we would be sure to make it the lead of the
piece. That weekend, on his CNN show, Bob Novak denounced the piece as the
“Shame of the Week,” an act of injustice against Darman and his privacy and the
sanctity of his family.
Debbie Schlussel
(http://www.debbieschlussel.com/7138/noted-anti-semitedead-conservatives-pat-buchanan-lament-friend-of-hamas-robert-novak/)
writes:
He shamelessly announced on “Crossfire”: "There are
many Americans who support HAMAS, and I am one of them".