Robert Novak Has Brain Tumor

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[voluptuary_manque]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/business/media/29novak.html?ref=politics

Robert Novak Has Brain Tumor

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: July 29, 2008

The columnist Robert Novak has a brain tumor and will stop writing and making television appearances, at least temporarily.
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“On Sunday, July 27, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor,” Mr. Novak said in a statement on Monday. “I have been admitted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, where doctors will soon begin appropriate treatment. I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period.”

His office in Washington declined to give more information, but referred a reporter to statements made by his assistant, Kathleen Connolly, to The Chicago Sun-Times, the home newspaper of his column.

In an article on that newspaper’s Web site, Ms. Connolly said that Mr. Novak and his wife, Geraldine, flew to Massachusetts on Saturday to visit their daughter, near Cape Cod. On Sunday, she said, he was taken ill, but she did not elaborate. He was taken by ambulance to the hospital, and admitted to the intensive care ward.

Ms. Connolly added that Mr. Novak is alert and talking — he dictated the prepared statement, himself — and that he will undergo a biopsy at some time in the next few days to determine the kind of tumor he has.

Mr. Novak, 77, is one of the most prominent political journalists in the country, with a widely syndicated column he has written for 45 years, and regular appearances on television shows. His memoir, “Prince of Darkness,” was published last year.

He gained an added measure of notoriety in 2003, for being the first to publicly identify Valerie Plame as a C.I.A. operative, a leak that became the subject of a lengthy federal investigation. A small-government conservative on most issues, Mr. Novak has parted ways with Republican orthodoxy at times, including in questioning the justification for the Iraq war.

Last week, while driving in Washington, Mr. Novak struck a pedestrian, who was not seriously hurt, and said later that he had not been aware he had hit anyone. It is not clear whether the brain tumor contributed to that accident.

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Regardless of my personal or political feelings about the man, I don't wish this on anyone.

Some tumors are more easily dealt with than others. My grandmother died of one so deep they couldn't do anything, but I went to college with a kid who survived two surgeries one. He finally decided that he was being Told Something and switched over to seminary.

 

[The_Trouvere]

I have always thought that Robert Novak was arrogant. His smile looks like a sneer.

 

[pellso27]

He IS a Brain tumor

 

[Carnevil9]

Place your bets!! Who will be the first to go: Novak, or Uncle Teddy Kennedy?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Neither one of 'em gonna be missed here.

 

[Stella_Omega]

There are people I care about... Robert Novak is not one of them.

 

[SweetPrettyAss]

Place your bets!! Who will be the first to go: Novak, or Uncle Teddy Kennedy?

I won't miss them much either. Both these guys take advantage of their position to get away with things that would have most people in prison. Novak outed Valerie Plame and got away with it as a "journalist" and he should be in jail, or bailed out, right now for hit and run.

 

[rgraham666]

(Sings)

I don't want to start
any blasphemous rumors.
But I think God's got
a sick sense of humor.
And when I die
I expect to find Him
laughing.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

(Sings)

I don't want to start
any blasphemous rumors.
But I think God's got
a sick sense of humor.
And when I die
I expect to find Him
laughing.

The humor of God . . . is irony!

 

[Misty_Morning]

I can't believe some of these posts.

I am a republican, and yes Novac has grated my nerves at times.

BUT...how can ya'll say such things about ANYONE with this problem?


As a former bleeding heart liberal I have to ask ya'll...where the fuck is your compassion? Or do you save that only for folks of your political persuassion?

Sounds to me as though you say "I care about others...just so long as they believe the same way I do."

one word: hypocrites

 

[KLCK]

Did any of you guys see the Stephen Colbert skit about him.

God I thought he was serios for a moment. What a good lol.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I can't believe some of these posts.

I am a republican, and yes Novac has grated my nerves at times.

BUT...how can ya'll say such things about ANYONE with this problem?


As a former bleeding heart liberal I have to ask ya'll...where the fuck is your compassion? Or do you save that only for folks of your political persuassion?

Sounds to me as though you say "I care about others...just so long as they believe the same way I do."

one word: hypocrites

I am not and never was a bleeding heart anything. What Novak did was a felony approaching treason. Having White House protection does not erase that. Teddy Kennedy is a drunken, skirt-chasing bog trotter and a homicide, to boot. Compassion, my ass. Justice!

 

[rgraham666]

I'm no saint, Misty. Sue me.

 

[Misty_Morning]

I am not and never was a bleeding heart anything. What Novak did was a felony approaching treason. Having White House protection does not erase that. Teddy Kennedy is a drunken, skirt-chasing bog trotter and a homicide, to boot. Compassion, my ass. Justice!

I agree whole heartedly. However, to take delight in ANYONES misery is bullshit.

Kennedy is a major league ass wipe and Novac is in the same category, but each one deserves compassion for this ailment.

Any person that thinks other wise has never witnessed first hand what a brain tumor or brain cancer can do to a person.

Leave the political shit at the door....

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I agree whole heartedly. However, to take delight in ANYONES misery is bullshit.

Kennedy is a major league ass wipe and Novac is in the same category, but each one deserves compassion for this ailment.

Any person that thinks other wise has never witnessed first hand what a brain tumor or brain cancer can do to a person.

Leave the political shit at the door....

I have. Twice. For their families, I may have sympathy. For them, none.

 

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[Boxlicker101]

I don't take pleasure in the tribulations of either of these men, but I also feel very little compassion for them. In common with the general tenor of the thread, I won't miss either of them.

And, yes, my wife did have a brain tumor nine years ago. She was operated on successfully, and it turned out to be benign. That was a truly beautiful word to hear.

 

[DeeZire]

There is no appropriate post for this thread, at least from my vantage point, but I'm here anyway.

Wait a minute! I heard that they're taking a genetically modified substance grown in tobacco leaves and injecting it into the brain to treat this ailment.

Ha! There was an appropriate post for this thread after all, (but only because I listen to NPR.)

The ultimate irony would have been if Novak's ailment could have only been cured by the type of stem cell research the cons are against.

I take that back. The ultimate irony would have been if there was a Chappaquiddick-style tragedy in Novak's past, making him that much more of a weasel than TK.