For Blubberin' Bob This Was Act Two

Well friends, it looks as if the was Part 2 of the an original Novakula horror story. Via Vanity Fair Roundtable On the afternoon of last year's New Hampshire primary, Robert Novak was in the Merrimack Diner in Manchester broadcasting a segment of Crossfire. It was a garden-variety event for Novak, then on his 12th presidential campaign and his umpteenth edition of CNN's gabfest, until a local man, furious with Novak for outing a covert C.I.A. agent in his syndicated column, started shouting at him during a commercial break. "You're a traitor!" he shrieked. "You're a traitor!" The man was hushed up, the program resumed, and Novak talked more politics. But afterward, as Novak made his way to the CNN bus, his tormentor followed, taunted him some more, and allegedly shoved him from behind. Novak, a short septuagenarian whose three-piece suits hide a considerable gut, grabbed the much larger man by the arm and gave him a shove back, sending him sprawling. Then he prepared for more serious skirmishing. "Novak looked like a little caged animal, fist locked and cocked back," an unsympathetic observer later wrote, "like a garden troll gone insane." Before he could take another swing, his Crossfire counterpart Paul Begala dragged him away. Now there is a perfect description for Blubberin' Bob "a garden troll gone insane". This is also an eyeopening description of just where the bow-tied ignoramous Tucker Carlson, who also can't seem to hold a job, learned the craft on how to be obnoxious. Maybe the next installment (Part 3 of the Novakula series) will be Kovakula dressed in his green troll suit (with prisoner on the back) the frog jump off to a waiting police van. One can only hope.