The more serious part is that SOMEONE in the Bush admin GAVE this information TO Novak for him to dispense at will. THIS is the person most dangerous to our security and is also a Traitor as well. They need some serious jailtime.
Back to the story: Many in the crowd were angry - there was milling about and shock. Some went right back to the steady drumbeat of howling a candidate's name - but I was pissed and so were others. I spotted Begala slinking out of the CNN Bus and sliding behind the crowd by the curb - I shouted, "Hey Begala, you want to explain why Novak just assaulted this man?!" but he was having none of it and made a run for it - I respect Begala in many ways but he was in a situation he didn't want to be in. I wouldn't either.
Then we decided to go to the bus itself and demand that someone deal with this situation. I knocked on the door and no one would come to the door - a young woman walked up and started to go inside so I asked her, "Could you get your producer to come out here and explain why Novak just assaulted this man?" She looked at me blankly, went inside and closed the door to the bus. I was enraged and was going to start banging on the door but thought better of it. Imagine if the roles had been reversed and Brad HAD ROUGHLY SHOVED Novak. Don't you think there would have been sound guys and cops standing on Brad's head until he was safely behind bars?
The arrogance of these people was astounding.
Then, Tucker Carlson - the big, hairy, strong, macho guy with the bow around his neck slithered out of the restaurant. Granted, he had no idea what was going on - clueless as usual, and walked into a problem scene with his doe eyes darting about - the crowd was not there to love him, no one really likes the insipid little sh*t and deep down he knows that - Janeane Garofalo beat him like a circus donkey when she co hosted CROSSFIRE and I don't think he ever got over that.
We got up in his face and demanded to know what he was going to do about it, and he began some sort of whining rant about Novak being an "old guy" - as an aside here about Brad - I've shaken Brad's hand and he could literally CRUSH my hand (and I'm over 6 feet tall at 180 lbs) - he bucks his own wood and is a SOLID guy - yet Novak threw this guy a good 5 feet back and into ME. I've worked in two nuthouses and let me tell you, I've see little 5 foot dudes having to be held down by FIVE 6 feet tall men - adrenalin knows no bounds. Little old ladies carry pianos out of their houses while their houses burn down. When you have gone nuts you get real strong.
So Carlson is whining mercilessly and flipping his hair around like a French Hooker (it's really funny in the video) and saying that we should get over it - much like the last election.
I ask Carlson, "Hey, how about *I* throw YOU five feet and see what happens?" He gives me this blank high school math class stare but within his eyes he can see that I'm serious and the little boy in there is saying, "Please don't do that... Please?" Brad repeats the offer but suddenly Carlson has to turn away to look at some right wing nutcase's "I'm running for President too - but I'm crazier than a shithouse rat" flyer and then start telling the nutjob that he couldn't possibly give him money, that he'd be called up in front of an Ethics committee!
This means that your pal Novak can assault someone in broad daylight and that's okay, but YOU, you little runty schoolboy, with your silly beatlecut hair and mom's bowtie - YOU would be hauled before some ethics committee?
Remember that arrogance I talked about? Throw in a dash of just plain old haughty stupidity.
The nut job does a great job of giving Carlson some cover as he slinks away around the side of the building.
And I'm infuriated because I'd been carrying Baby Pacifiers around since NYC when I went on the Joe Scaroborough show on MSNBC - I was going to hand them out to Republicans - and I didn't have one with me to hand to Carlson.
WHILE Carlson was out talking trash - they actually SNUCK Novak OFF the CNN Bus behind our backs!
But the Mayor comes strolling up to enter the restaurant and Brad says to him, "Hey Mayor - I was just assaulted by Robert Novak right here. What are you going to do abou it?" The Mayor (and we have this on film) says NOTHING and goes inside.. not much later, he strolls out and again says NOTHING. So much for upholding the laws of the state.
THEN the HEAD of the local Republican Party shows up and Brad asks him the same question. He says, "Novak makes a lot of money - maybe you should sue him." and struts off.
We mull calling the police and then decide to think about it so we head for the Kucinich headquarters to warm up and get some cheap food and liquids. I've already called Don Waller (co founder of Take Back the Media.com) and told him about it and he's started posting the story.
Back to the story: Many in the crowd were angry - there was milling about and shock. Some went right back to the steady drumbeat of howling a candidate's name - but I was pissed and so were others. I spotted Begala slinking out of the CNN Bus and sliding behind the crowd by the curb - I shouted, "Hey Begala, you want to explain why Novak just assaulted this man?!" but he was having none of it and made a run for it - I respect Begala in many ways but he was in a situation he didn't want to be in. I wouldn't either.
Then we decided to go to the bus itself and demand that someone deal with this situation. I knocked on the door and no one would come to the door - a young woman walked up and started to go inside so I asked her, "Could you get your producer to come out here and explain why Novak just assaulted this man?" She looked at me blankly, went inside and closed the door to the bus. I was enraged and was going to start banging on the door but thought better of it. Imagine if the roles had been reversed and Brad HAD ROUGHLY SHOVED Novak. Don't you think there would have been sound guys and cops standing on Brad's head until he was safely behind bars?
The arrogance of these people was astounding.
We got up in his face and demanded to know what he was going to do about it, and he began some sort of whining rant about Novak being an "old guy" - as an aside here about Brad - I've shaken Brad's hand and he could literally CRUSH my hand (and I'm over 6 feet tall at 180 lbs) - he bucks his own wood and is a SOLID guy - yet Novak threw this guy a good 5 feet back and into ME. I've worked in two nuthouses and let me tell you, I've see little 5 foot dudes having to be held down by FIVE 6 feet tall men - adrenalin knows no bounds. Little old ladies carry pianos out of their houses while their houses burn down. When you have gone nuts you get real strong.
So Carlson is whining mercilessly and flipping his hair around like a French Hooker (it's really funny in the video) and saying that we should get over it - much like the last election.
I ask Carlson, "Hey, how about *I* throw YOU five feet and see what happens?" He gives me this blank high school math class stare but within his eyes he can see that I'm serious and the little boy in there is saying, "Please don't do that... Please?" Brad repeats the offer but suddenly Carlson has to turn away to look at some right wing nutcase's "I'm running for President too - but I'm crazier than a shithouse rat" flyer and then start telling the nutjob that he couldn't possibly give him money, that he'd be called up in front of an Ethics committee!
This means that your pal Novak can assault someone in broad daylight and that's okay, but YOU, you little runty schoolboy, with your silly beatlecut hair and mom's bowtie - YOU would be hauled before some ethics committee?
Remember that arrogance I talked about? Throw in a dash of just plain old haughty stupidity.
The nut job does a great job of giving Carlson some cover as he slinks away around the side of the building.
And I'm infuriated because I'd been carrying Baby Pacifiers around since NYC when I went on the Joe Scaroborough show on MSNBC - I was going to hand them out to Republicans - and I didn't have one with me to hand to Carlson.
WHILE Carlson was out talking trash - they actually SNUCK Novak OFF the CNN Bus behind our backs!
But the Mayor comes strolling up to enter the restaurant and Brad says to him, "Hey Mayor - I was just assaulted by Robert Novak right here. What are you going to do abou it?" The Mayor (and we have this on film) says NOTHING and goes inside.. not much later, he strolls out and again says NOTHING. So much for upholding the laws of the state.
THEN the HEAD of the local Republican Party shows up and Brad asks him the same question. He says, "Novak makes a lot of money - maybe you should sue him." and struts off.
We mull calling the police and then decide to think about it so we head for the Kucinich headquarters to warm up and get some cheap food and liquids. I've already called Don Waller (co founder of Take Back the Media.com) and told him about it and he's started posting the story.
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