BOB NOVAK ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT

[johnfunk]

... one week after being diagnosed with a brain tumor.

MORE: News has just been posted to the Sun Times blog of Lynn Sweet

[napi21]

1. As much as I detest his ideas, I hate to see anyone with an affliction

like that. I knew a fellow who died from that, and it's awful.

[TahitiNut]

13. I had a close friend who died of an inoperable brain tumor.

She was my age. Other than her three (adult) children who were her only immediate family, I was her primary emotional support as she confronted her terminal condition. It was an agonizing six months ... horribly difficult for everyone.

RIP, Joyce. :cry:

[sharp_stick]

2. Awww shucks

I'm really going to miss his insightful yet treasonous scrawl.

[johnfunk]

3. I just hope he has doctors as good as Kennedy's... maybe...

... he'll have an epiphany and drop a piggybank full of dimes. I'm not betting on it, but anything can happen...

[lpbk2713]

4. "Retired" implies he was previously gainfully employed.

I didn't know there were any positions in the field of geriatric alcoholic lying hatemonger. :shrug:

Who knew?

[burythehatchet]

5. average IQ of news viewers expected to rise significantly

[emilyg]

6. In "dire" state.

I don't wish that on anybody.

[tularetom]

7. I don't wish death on him

at least not a death by natural causes. I want him to live long enough to be convicted of treason in the Plame incident and stood up in front of a firing squad.

[sammythecat]

8. Could this back up his claim of not seeing the guy he hit?

My mother-in-law died from lymphoma in the brain. Before she was diagnosed, and the reason she went to the doctor in the first place, was her erratic and sometimes irrational behavior. It got to the point where we knew something was wrong with her. We first started noticing changes a good 6 months prior to her diagnosis.

To hit someone with a car and claim to not have noticed makes no sense, but this is just the kind of behavior my MIL exhibited. Irrational and sometimes ridiculous. She started to become a different person and it wasn't a particularly pleasant one either. Medication helped a lot with that after her diagnosis and I can't help but wonder if something similar could be happening with Novak. I'm certainly no fan of Bob Novak but, like I said, I can't help but wonder.

[devilgrrl]

9. How unfortunate. I'll so miss his lies and miserable demeanor.

eom

[skip fox]

10. Wait . . . Satan doesn't take a holiday or retire, does he?

Ain't Novak in the same league.

Evil doesn't take time off.

(I don't want to see anyone go through a terrible death, but this man has been a purveyor of lies, and instrument of the powerful and heartless, and an traitor to human consciousness.)

[UTUSN]

11. Since there is no grave, will the PC nannies allow DANCING now?!1 n/t

[Clear Blue Sky]

12. Sad news for him and his family. Best wishes to them.

[morgan2]

14. he has to spend a few months in his coffin

to recharge his vampire body.

[Maestro]

15. I certainly did not want him to leave the public eye this way.

He needs to be known for the idiot he was. I wish him well in his recovery, but seriously, his brand of "journalism" was bad and I hope people do not forget this.

[Disturbed]

17. If his condition improves, I bet he will be back.

I cannot envision him not doing so.

[dembotoz]

16. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm-wonder what DROVE him to it.