Seems that Mr. Robert Novak has a case of the vapors!
Novak: Women’s ‘venom’ toward Bush is ’so vicious.’
Appearing on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show yesterday, conservative pundit Robert Novak claimed that “women, particularly,” are making our current political discourse more “vicious”:
Hugh Hewitt: “The political dialogue, public and private, becomes more rancorous. The dissenters, particularly the Negro, poor and the war protesters turn to direct action, and most uncivil disobedience. What this adds up to is nothing less than a rejection of conventional forms of political action.” It goes on. Do you see the same thing playing out again now, Robert Novak?
Novak: I hate to say it, but I think the hatred toward George W. Bush is just mad. I listen to, sometimes in the car radio, on talk shows, and the venom that comes out of the mouths of some of these women, particularly, I’m not trying to be sexist, but they’re so vicious toward him. And I don’t think that really contributes. And also, the bloggers, I don’t read the bloggers very much, but it is really, it’s really vicious.
I swan! Indelicate ladies! Negroes who don’t know their place!
What is the world coming to?
Quickly! Bring ’round the smelling salts!
Oh, I thought Novak had shriveled up and died or something, after that little temper tantrum he threw on CNN. Maybe if someone throws some water and garlic on him, he will. See, I’m so venomous! Male-wingnut vapors indeed.
Novak is a sexist, evil, asshole.
Plus, well, women have a lot of reason to hate Bush, don’t we. I mean, all the rolling back of women’s rights that he’s managed to get through, and with the likelihood of more in the future (what with his court appointments) just makes it stupid NOT to hate him if you’re a woman. And that goes double if you’re a poor, gay, and/or not white woman or man. In fact, unless you’re a rich white dude, I can’t think of a single reason for anyone to not, at minimum, dislike him intensely.
(a) I love your fainting couch.
(b) isn’t Bob Novak in exile?
(c) Negro? Really?
Because Ann Coulter has done so much to raise the standard of polite discourse. Sheesh.
Actually, I think to a large degree (there are always exceptions to everything) and in part because women are socialized to avoid the whole “game of politics” that when women do get involved in politica and public advocacy, they tend to take it more seriously. You know, like maybe it was real or something. Or like it mattered.
I think it comes as a shock to a lot of the Republican pundits and members of the machine that anyone does. How often do we get the “hey, you lost, that’s the way the game is played” meme from them, even (or especially) on issues of deep personal importance, like health care, job equality, civil rights, marriage equality, etc.
Given the current state of things, I’m far more shocked that more people (of any gender) aren’t being “vicious” than that some are.
Wait, did he really say “Negro”?
jeffaclitus, I’m having a hard time believing it, but that’s what it says in the transcript.
Wow. Even my recently deceased hundred-year-old grandmother had long since quit using the word “Negro” by the time she died.
I didn’t know there was anyone left who still used the word, and on a public broadcast, no less.
Waitaminute, I thought that Ann Coulter was the one lowering our political discourse.
PS - I love your tags.
What does “PogMoTHoin” mean? Go F*** Yourself? Or something like “Crown your Heart”?
L*O*V*E the new blog! I missed the blogwar..had the flu…..Am sadthat Ilyka has thrown in the towel, andthat a lady lost her job over JG being a dick. Seems you’ve lift Feministe, and I missed that too! Hope you are feeling OK about it all, and happy to have you here!
“Póg mo thóin” means, roughly, “kiss my ass” in Gaelic.
I think it comes as a shock to a lot of the Republican pundits and members of the machine that anyone does. How often do we get the “hey, you lost, that’s the way the game is played” meme from them, even (or especially) on issues of deep personal importance, like health care, job equality, civil rights, marriage equality, etc.
That’s the problem with treating politics as a sport — unlike football or baseball, politics actually affect the everyday lives of real people, not just fantasy millionaires.
I rather like the fainting couch myself.
Do we have the whole transcript? Sounds like Hewitt - from the references to “negro,” “war protesters,” “direct action” (l’accion directe was a phrase coined, I think, be the leftist elements of the French Resistance - and then re-used by the French before the student uprisings of 1968), and this, [quote from the post above]
“It goes on. Do you see the same thing playing out again now, Robert Novak?” Sounds like the “it” is a quote - perhaps something Novak said in the late 60’s or early 70’s. I suspect the entire piece might have some entertainment value.
Yeah, if you click the link at “women, particularly,” you can see the whole transcript.
Hewitt was actually reading from a Novak column from 1968, shortly after Bobby Kennedy’s assassination.
While Novak is passed out on the fainting couch, could someone please drive a stake through his heart, chop off his head, and stuff garlic into the neckhole? If he immediately reverts to dust, I’ll be in his lair nailing his coffin shut.
Oh, was that mean? I guess Jonathan Harker was actually the antagonist and the protagonist was in fact the title character.
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please come have a read and if you have a chance, a link back would be much appreciated. Cru
“Wow. Even my recently deceased hundred-year-old grandmother had long since quit using the word “Negro” by the time she died.”
Well, Novak’s got about another 90 additional years on her. Doesn’t everyone remember his first book, “Why the 13th and 14th Amendments Are Bad Ideas”?
As for the website’s name, I think The Pogues also took their name from that anatomical Gaelic expression.
Norbiz, the name was shortened to “The Pogues” from “The Pogue Mahones,” the anglicized version of the phrase, due to label pressure.
totally OT, but SO glad that you are blogging zuzu!
This is slightly off topic. For those who are kind of sloppy with handling Unicode or ASCII or are scared of those words but want to spell it right for blogrolls, the name of this fine blog replete with Gaelic orthography is PÓG MO THÓIN in all caps or Póg Mo Thóin.
I have no idea how to pronounce it but it has to be cooler than “Leck mir am Arsch.”
Heya Zuzu, congrats on the new Blog. Looks great! Vancouver ain’t all that shit-hot. Trust me.
Gee Whiz, Mr. Novak, D’ya think that the presence of functioning anacronisims cluttering up the landscape being utterly obnoxious when saying some of the dumbest things in creation & getting paid more to do it in a week than the avarage slob makes in a decade might be part of the problem? Mayhap this venom that has you fudging yer Stanfeilds be tinged with resentment? Just askin’.
It’s pronounced pogue ma hone. The hands and heart derive from the Claddagh Ring, otherwise known as an Irish wedding ring. The hands stand for friendship, the heart for love, the crown for loyalty, and the ring for eternity. Great to see you blogging Zuzu.