Robert Novak-A Tribute

Robert Novak was a journalist's journalist. He passed yesterday, and if it at all possible, journalism is the worse for it. He actually talked to news makers, and confirmed information with other sources. A lot of what passes as news in the MSM now is attractive news readers repeating what the NY Times prints, or what some leftist blog prints. Single source reporting that confirms their Statist world view. Journalism is dead, at least from the traditional outlets. In the movie "Comes a Horseman", Richard Farnsworth's character was the metaphor for the last of the breed, a true rugged independent cowboy. I think it may be a correct thing to say the same of Robert Novak. The last of his kind.

I began reading him in as the team 'Evans and Novak', which even in my Marxist days I appreciated because I knew that this was solid reporting. Like many of us, over the years he became more conservative, because he saw the failures of liberal programs (the Great Society for example) and the success of conservative principles applied in the eighties. He found the Lord in his late sixties. We are glad he did. RIP