False Praise for Novak

We are so dishonest in our eulogies.
Robert Novak sided with evil too many times. Burning Valerie Plame was just one of last acts that reminded us of his eagerness to side with power.

We should not forget how he embraced Ian Smith of Rhodesia and fanned opposition to African liberation movements by smearing them as Communist. The same red smear was applied liberally to Martin Luther King Jr. by him and his co-conspirator Robert Evans.

His knee-jerk support for the right-wing in Latin America was typical of the role he played.
For the next three days, we'll be hearing all the b.s. about how nice a guy he was and how charming he was at Washington cocktail parties. Please. Let's not glide over his nasty acts and nasty positions in some ritual of final niceness. Evil is evil and I hope he burns in hell.

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