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Robert Novak, RIP


The conservative America must once again say goodbye to one of its pioneers. Robert Novak died a few days ago at the age of 78 from a brain tumor.

The journalist was known for his column "Evans-Novak Political Report, published among others in the Chicago Sun-Times. On channels like Fox News and CNN, he was always seen as a commentator.

Robert Novak was difficult to put into a political drawer. He was a registered Democrat, however, represented conservative values and was economically libertarian. Above all, he was a convinced anti-communist.

2003 Robert Novak got into the headlines when he called the "Plame affair" lostrat. In his column he published that the wife of Bush critic Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, was a CIA agent. This information, so Novak that he had two members the Bush administration received. Since the unmasking of a secret agent in the U.S. is illegal and the unmasking of Plame as a pure revenge of the Bush Administration to Joe Wilson was seen (of the Bush Administration in a New York Times article attacked had) came not only the men to George Bush, but Robert Novak in great distress. The Democrats and their friends in the U.S. media managed to turn the whole thing a solid political (and legal) affair, although ultimately it was all so bad: Valerie Plame was not an agent a la James Bond, but only one analyst their employment with the CIA as everything else was top secret and Robert Novak's informant in the Bush administration was not someone like Dick Cheney (which the U.S. left would of course like to see in front of a judge), but Richard Armitage, who counted himself not just to the hard-core Bush loyalists within the government. A particularly bad aftertaste gained the credibility of the whole affair, as it was announced that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald knew from the beginning that Armitage was Novak's been an informer.

so much excitement to the end, nothing is added to the Robert Novak but emotionally strong. In an interview he later said that he would make everything way again. He criticized the "hateful and disgusting manner" had tried in his left critics in the U.S. media and Congress, to make the whole affair a political and "ruining me": "My answer today is the following:... To hell with you, you have not ruined me, I have my faith, my family and a good life, many people like me. So they have failed. I would do it all again so I think I Valerie Plame has damaged in any way. "

Robert Novak will be remembered as one of the best U.S. journalists in recent decades in memory, who was known for his thorough research. It was his principle that in each of his columns should have an information that was previously unknown.
"His" Chicago Sun-Times reported his death: "His contributions to the great debates of the day Demonstrated that Bob was someone who thought deeply about his country, its system of government and the challenges both faced. "