“Jeez, did someone open the Ark of the Covenent?!”
Oh yes, that’s what occasions comments here. That one of the bloodhounds doesn’t engage in reasoned, mannered debate, and not that the bloodhound on the other side, who doesn’t engage in reasoned, mannered debate ever, is a monumental pussy and ran crying off to momma when someone called him on his shit. :rolleyes:
–Cliffy
Heh. His own wife calls him a snakehead. Of course, I have to imagine that Mary Matalin calling one a snakehead IS a term of endearment…
I’m wondering if CNN brass said “Hallelujah!” when Novak did this as he finally did something that voided his contract and let them fire him. While most major electronic media don’t have “contract void if signator leaks the name of a CIA operative in a separate media venue” clauses for their employees, most do have “NO DEAD AIR” commandments that this could conceivably violate and allow his firing.
I always think of that when I see Carville. One of my favorite Family Guy bits.
I’ve seen both him and Bob Novak in person a couple times and, IRL, Carville is much handsomer. He’s just got squinty eyes, but that’s because he’s always smiling. He’s so animated it’s hard not to smile at his antics. Novak, OTOH, is like a three-toed sloth. I saw him at a restaurant once and it was like he’d oozed across the table. shudder
That said, he shifted ass quick enough the time he jaywalked in front of my car and almost got hisself killed.
–Cliffy
I would hardly call that storming off. I thought he was just going to the bathroom.
But then again he always has an expression that he just realized that he had some bad meat at lunch.
I think it may have been a setup deal. It didn’t appear to me either Carville or
the moderator reacted much and Novak didn’t seem that mad two seconds before
he left either.
[HIJACK]I’ve read that in addition to being an impossible-to-work-for prick, Candid Camera host Allen Funt was a legendary womanizer- does anybody know what teenaged Allen was doing 9 months before Novak http://www.cpj.org/Briefings/2004/DA_fall04/Smyth/Robert_Novak.jpg was born?[/HIJACK]
Well, I, for one, expect the FCC to give Novak the same amount of hell they gave Janet Jackson, et. al., for their breach of decency standards. Really, saying “bullshit” on national television like that. Won’t someone think of the children? 
Put me in the camp with those who think Novak realizes that he is about to be thrown under the bus by his “buddies” and is slowly cracking under the strain.
I never have liked Novac as a conservative commentator. He’s always made my skin crawl, so if this gets him canned then great. I’ve always found Carville pretty entertaining, though I usually disagree with his positions. And it did seem to me to be run of the mill stuff that Novak would normly just deal with by lifting his nose a little higher.
CNN is not subject to the FCC. The FCC only regulates Broadcast channels, not cable.
On the bright side, Bernie Goldberg can now add him to “100 More People Who Are Screwing Up America,” for this crude assault on civility and good manners.
Didn’t you almost hit Mort Kondracke with your car once as well?
Oh, my God! Cliffy’s the Capital Gang Killer!
Can we give him a medal for that or something?
Only if we can verify hits on Buchanan and Hunt.
I dunno; it just seemed to me like the other two remembered they were on live and needed to keep the show going. And Carville’s used to pissing people off, so that probably didn’t come as too much of a shock to him.
Wow. I figured mine to be the minority opinion around here, but I didn’t think it would be this lopsided.
It was bullshit. Novak asks Carville to let him finish; Carville uses that as an opportunity to make a personal (and professional) insult regarding a completely different matter. Normally that’s par for the course with these “debate” segments, but this was over the line. It’s a serious matter. It’s sure to be touchy subject for Novak, personally. Since it’s regarding an ongoing investigation, Novak probably couldn’t defend himself even he wanted to. And even absent all that, it’s an incredibly cheap shot.
Novak overreacted, but only by TV standards. Anyone who said that in real life would have to worry about getting punched.
VarlosZ is right! The mean old Mr. Carville shouldn’t have hurt little Bobby’s feelings like that. That Carville is a poopy pants. You should have seen Little Bobby when he got back to his room, clutching his teddy bear and blubbering. His cries of “Why didn’t Jimmy let me finish?” will stay with me to my dying day.