Columnist Robert Novak spoke today here in Raleigh at a luncheon
for the John
Locke Foundation, and at the beginning of his remarks he
mentioned
Newt Gingrich's comments about him yesterday at an American Spectator breakfast. To recount, Gingrich
said:
"Sometimes he's right and
sometimes he's just venomous. Robert Novak is a personality. He's
allowed to be who he is. He was once a good reporter. He's now just
a personality… I made mistakes. I also created a Republican
majority, balanced the federal budget and reformed welfare. That
doesn't count in Novak's world."
Novak, to his credit, showed some restraint which you can see here:
Novak today also
reminisced about his newsmaking incident in December 2005, when
during his last visit to the Locke Foundation he unwittingly told
the crowd (not expecting that any media folks were there) that
President Bush should know who leaked Valerie Plame's name to him.
An amusing recount of those events.
