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News & ArtsTuesday, August 18, 2009
Politics Robert Novak, Prince of Darkness...
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM
...dead.
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I hope he suffered, I hope his family goes broke as his insurance decides that his treatment really can't be covered.
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I don't actively wish illness or death for anybody.
Having said that - that's one sonuvabitch I ain't gonna miss.
Having said that - that's one sonuvabitch I ain't gonna miss.
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Well, it's not as good as if he'd died 10 (or 40) years ago, but it's better than if he was still alive.
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Man, I hate to be one of those people who relishes in the death of a sick old man, but that sick old man was one enormous asshole.
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I think we're all being a bit hasty in our celebrations. If watching horror movies has taught me anything, it's that a motherfucker that evil can't stay dead for long.
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Hey Dan, completely opposite of Robert Novak is Garfunkel & Oates. Why haven't there been any recent slog postings about their shows which are days away? Or about their just released (mp3) album? We need a break from all these gloom and doom postings about deaths and crashes!
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It really doesn't matter whether Novak was adversarial to your political dispositions. He was interesting and worth hearing. To say otherwise demonstrates closed-mindedness and provinciality.
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From HuffPo: "He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in July 2008, less than a week after he struck a pedestrian in downtown Washington with his Corvette and drove away."
Y'all shouldn't feel bad because karma's the bitch.
Y'all shouldn't feel bad because karma's the bitch.
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"If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives." - Robert Novak
Talk about your provinciality, @12. I will say he had the correct perspective on Israel (equating the occupation of the West Bank with Apartheid), but outside of that he was a complete and total antediluvian scumbag. Rest In Peace, I guess. Scumbag.
Talk about your provinciality, @12. I will say he had the correct perspective on Israel (equating the occupation of the West Bank with Apartheid), but outside of that he was a complete and total antediluvian scumbag. Rest In Peace, I guess. Scumbag.
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they're also trashing Novak on the WashPost comments section -
"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmor…"
"http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmor…"
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I was taught never to speak ill of the dead, but it's hard to remain silent about this guy. He possessed and encouraged such meanness and hatred towards good people and ideas that it has to be said that his passing is - at the very least - a relief. Maybe his brain tumor was responsible for at least some of his vitriol. He unjustly had a very comfortable earthly existence. The best thing that I can say about this is that his poison spewing is over.
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I would normally think of something wittier that hasn't been said but I think what we were all saying when Jerry Fallwell died still applies:
Ding Dong the Bitch Is Dead.
Ding Dong the Bitch Is Dead.
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Remember, always use an iron spade or shovel to remove the head of the undead, put garlic in its mouth and turn the head backwards, and a wooden stake in the heart.
But incineration works in a pinch.
But incineration works in a pinch.
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May God have mercy on his wicked soul.... nah, on second thought, may he burn in his own private Hell.
Or maybe be reincarnated as a very poor, gay, black woman in the middle of Africa.
Or maybe be reincarnated as a very poor, gay, black woman in the middle of Africa.
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@31 Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
And while I like Dan Savage, and agree with much of what he writes, I'm sure even he'll admit that he has sometimes had his head buried deap in his ass.
Novak, on the other hand, was born, lived, and will be buried with his head up his ass.
And while I like Dan Savage, and agree with much of what he writes, I'm sure even he'll admit that he has sometimes had his head buried deap in his ass.
Novak, on the other hand, was born, lived, and will be buried with his head up his ass.
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@12 (He was interesting and worth hearing ...)
So are Satan and Sarah Palin interesting, if you're a believer. Let's see what Valerie Plame, and the families of anonymous sources he named, and others touched directly by his evil hatred have to say about him. I say good riddance.
So are Satan and Sarah Palin interesting, if you're a believer. Let's see what Valerie Plame, and the families of anonymous sources he named, and others touched directly by his evil hatred have to say about him. I say good riddance.
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it's not often that someone dies and my genuine first thought is "good", but that's definitely the case here. im sure it'll be more like "hallefuckinglujah" when bill o'd-bagreilly kicks the can.
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A Prince of Darkness may be dead, but the evil Emperor is still out there cackling like the Penguin.
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