Things that suck: Robert Novak

In "no shit, really?" news today, Robert Novak has decided to end his illustrious career at CNN, choosing instead to hide behind his friends at Fox News Channel.

Robert Novak sucks. And I'll tell you why. Let's see if I can sum this up - correct me if I'm wrong (not that anyone reads this rubbish anyway)...

1. Joe Wilson investigates White House assertions that Iraq had smuggled/tried to smuggle uranium from northern Africa. White House uses these claims as a basis to go to war with Iraq. Wilson, of course, finds nothing. That's because the intelligence gathered was from forged documents (yellowcake forgeries). Go figure!

2. Mr Wilson writes an op-ed piece for the New York Times entitled, "What I Didn't Find in Iraq" - and later that same week, the White House retaliates by springing a leak. 6 times. They offer up the name of Mr. Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, a former CIA agent working on WMD cases, to at least 6 Washington journalists.

3. Robert Novak ends up being the only one to use Mrs. Wilson's name in an article. Because he is a complete douchebag. Why do I say this? First, take a good look at him. Yep, douchebag. Second, check out these quotes, both from Novak:

"Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this," Novak said on "Crossfire." "There is no great crime here."

and then a couple weeks later...whoops, "My BAD!"...

"They asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative and not in charge of undercover operators," Novak said.

Novak would later say that he was working on a column when a White House senior administration official told him the CIA asked Wilson to go to Niger in early 2002 at the suggestion of his wife, whom the source described as "a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction."

Then another senior administration official gave him the same information, Novak said, and the CIA confirmed her involvement in her husband's mission.

In his column, Novak attributed the information about Plame's involvement in Wilson's trip to Africa to two unnamed senior administration officials.

Novak said that he will not reveal the names of his sources. But does admit that he's a spineless douchbag. Think about it - they leak the information out to 6 journalists, thinking, "One of them has to be stupid enough to publish this." And guess who does? The walking sarcophagus windbag from Crossfire!

On top of that - he hid from Jon Stewart - he was supposed to be on the Crossfire set the day Stewart had his famous run-in with Tucker Carlson. So he's a pussy as well!

Douchebag.