Robert Novak, the clandestine columnist

[Lucille]

http://www.hillnews.com/under_dome/022504.aspx

Can Robert Novak succeed on the stage by playing the outraged husband of a CIA agent whose identity as a deep-cover spy had been revealed by a certain syndicated columnist?

The answer will become apparent March 6 when Novak dresses up as retired diplomat Joseph Wilson to perform before Vice President Cheney and some 500 other guests at the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner at the Capitol Hilton.

In pursuing his day job as a nationally syndicated columnist, Novak identified Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA operative working in the field of weapons counterproliferation. The July 14 column has triggered a full-press FBI probe to find the leaker, amid much journalistic soul-searching.

Novak swears he’ll never tell anybody, including Wilson, who will also be at the dinner watching Novak (aka Joe Wilson) sing of his sad plight to the tune of “Once I Had a Secret Love.”

The lyrics begin:

“Novak had a secret source/who lived within the great White House/and one day his secret source/told him of my beloved spouse …”

Novak, also a pundit on CNN, isn’t talking. But some other insiders, including Gridiron President Al Hunt of The Wall Street Journal, confidently predict that the Novak-Wilson number will prove to be a showstopper

[LeftCoast]

1. Gee, that's not offensive

I'm probably wrong, but it doesn't seem like this will go over well...

[salin]

8. rude - ugly - and ... making light of the consequences of his actions

rude - goes without saying.
ugly - makes light in front of the husband of taking an action that could put the wife's life in danger

not to mention - this lead - is about compromising national security related information... disrupting intel gathering about weapons of mass destruction... HE (and his informant) have put our national security at risk... and he makes light of it.

What a disgusting excuse of a human being.

[HFishbine]

2. Now that has to be disappointing to Novak

I'll bet he was hoping to dress up like Valerie Plame.

[Fovea]

3. When you display that kind of hybris

People scoot away from where you are standing, because by the time you smell the ozone, it is too late.

[rfranklin]

4. The best finale would be...

for Novak to drop dead from a cerebral hemmorhage as he croaks the last line and his dentures come flying out and land in cheney's soup.

[jbfam4]

5. I don't think that is funny....

After watching the congress debate on the investigation and voting down Shelia Jackson Lee I find it very sad.

[dae]

6. That is truly abhorrent. n/t

:puke:

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

7. disgusting

A felony was committed. A United States attorney is investigating.

Novak, having abetted a traitor, scoffs at this infamous treason as though it's one big joke. Meantime, the "responsible" press yucks it up as the incipient threat to our freedom stalks the stage.

I'm sure the patriotic CIA crew will be very pleased to see this skit.

[yorgatron]

9. if i were joseph wilson

i would pound the crap out of novak.