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Bridget: big $ale on truck nutz. [Rocky Mountain News]


4:20 PM on Mon July 28 2008
By Jim Newell
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  1. I am pro-choice words. Especially when it comes to Novak.

    Fuck you, Bob.

  2. problemwithcaring says at 4:24 pm, July 28th, 2008

    And here I was all ready to curse God for foresaking the world. Huh. Seems he does care.

  3. AnnieGetYourFun says at 4:24 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Huh. Well, Wonkette, do you feel bad? Do ya? Huh?

  4. sanantonerose says at 4:24 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Ooooo. Feel the shame.

  5. guerilla-nation says at 4:24 pm, July 28th, 2008

    karma’s a bitch, eh bob?

  6. SuperRounder says at 4:25 pm, July 28th, 2008

    The fact that he’s in pain now doesn’t absolve him of the pain he caused beforehand. He was a tumor and now he has one.

  7. tunamelt says at 4:26 pm, July 28th, 2008

    This is just like the time I said “your mom” to someone and they told me that their mother had died of cancer.

  8. NoWireHangers says at 4:27 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Listen, Bridg. If we make exceptions for Novak then we’ll have to make excuses for Dick Cheney, Rick Santorum’s 9-year-old daughter, and WALNUTS! mom.

    P.S. Did you read the posts on Jerry Falwell’s funeral?

  9. mookworthjwilson says at 4:27 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I won’t let me comment…damn…

  10. msvainfl says at 4:27 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget has a comments section on her page, let’s show her some radio silence.

  11. Larry Fine says at 4:27 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Maybe he has the good kind of brain tumor, like the one that Rain Man had.

  12. Noodle Salad says at 4:27 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Maybe we can use mowing down homeless people to diagnose and treat all of America’s illnesses. Sure beats that socialized Muslim crap Barry Obama wants to impose on all of us.

  13. mookworthjwilson says at 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2008

    tunamelt: You should have said “EXACTLY!”

  14. edgydrifter says at 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Well, the important thing is that he’s not dead. Yet. Wait, that’s actually the part that sucks, isn’t it?

  15. ManchuCandidate says at 4:28 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Yeah, Bridgette. Making fun of a lousy old guy driver in a compensating Corvette who later finds out he has a toomah is cruel unlike said lousy old guy driver who leaks the name of a CIA involved in preventing nuclear proliferation for political payback which is just plain fucking hilarious.

  16. FindFuckandFlee says at 4:29 pm, July 28th, 2008

    So the ancient hobo-slayer finally manifests a physical, Blackberry sized nugget of the type of woe his philosophy jams up the asses of 80% of the American population and I have something to apologize about for not giving a shit? EPIC LULZ

  17. Spence says at 4:31 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Would that he have a death-bed conversion, to, you know, good.

  18. NotUrEvryDayWEzl says at 4:31 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Hey, Hitler got depressed and killed himself. I feel bad for him now. :’(

  19. 4tehlulz says at 4:32 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I will admit that Mr. Novak is better than Wonkette in one key thing:

    He leads this site in acts of treason, 1 to 0. Was outing Valarie Plame tumor-induced, too?

  20. I think everybody here hopes that Robert Novak — the douchebag of liberty — fully recovers so that he may one day return to his important work of mowing down homeless guys with his ‘vette.

  21. Nasara says at 4:32 pm, July 28th, 2008

    So, does having a brain tumor now excuse decades of antisocial behavior? Because if so, I’ve had a brain tumor since the age of 12.

  22. Ken Layne says at 4:32 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Hey “Bridget,” Novak’s still an asshole and he still RAN OVER A HOMELESS GUY, the end.

  23. Gopherit v2.0 says at 4:32 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Hmm….choice words? Couldn’t have happened to a better guy?
    It’s not like he’s had the brain tumor his entire life…..which, coincidentally,
    is as long as Novak’s been an evil asshole who WOULD drive away from an accident.
    Frankly, I’d be willing to bet he’d make up a brain tumor story just to get
    out of a $50 ticket.

  24. It’s not a tumor: it’s his brain.

  25. WhatTheHeck says at 4:34 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Does this mean he won’t be going to traffic school?

  26. itgetter says at 4:34 pm, July 28th, 2008

    My bitter rage against Wonkette for this heartless attack on sweet Bob Novak can best be expressed through this clip:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCDgKbKEBjM

  27. choinski says at 4:36 pm, July 28th, 2008

    So he gets out of outing a spy and running over the elderly by playing the tumor card?

    Well played, Satan. Well played.

  28. Dramatist says at 4:37 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Is the idea that it was the tumor that committed treason and hit the homeless guy? Because if so, that’s one bad-ass tumor!

  29. magic titty says at 4:38 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Is she trying to imply the tumor is why he’s been a dick his whole life…or that his illness should excuse the previously mentioned being of a dick. i’m not sure i understand.

  30. CollegeStudent says at 4:38 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget: This is one of theose situations where the things that you said in no way make the things that Wonkette said any less funny.
    And Yes I have alwyas thought that “there might be a reason why he wasn’t cognizant of what happened.” Its because he is a grade A assclown.
    That said, I wish him a recovery faster than the clean up of bloody hair and skull fragments of Corvette windshield.

  31. Delicious says at 4:38 pm, July 28th, 2008

    FMA: Indeed. He’s got years of hit-and-runs left in him.

  32. chadamir says at 4:39 pm, July 28th, 2008

    From the Wikipedia:

    In 2002, Novak’s attitudes towards animal welfare came under scrutiny when he stated in an interview that he attended a cockfight in Puerto Rico and “relished it tremendously”, adding that the United States has “too damn many” anti-cruelty statutes. He also expressed his avid support of dog fighting and bullfighting.

    Can he get retroactive tumor immunity for his love of violence against animals?

  33. FunkyPalmettoBug says at 4:39 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I know I’m going to hell, but I think it made it funnier.

  34. PoliticalGraffiti says at 4:40 pm, July 28th, 2008

    “the Last Scion of Bilbo Baggins” is still fucking hilarious

  35. The Intern says at 4:40 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I think that Wonkette should apologize for calling Novak an 800 year old columnist. It’s insulting.
    He’s really 900 years old, So shame on you, Wonkette, for tarnishing the good name of Bob Novak.

  36. Larry Fine: Lawrence. That was Tony Maero in Phenomenon. Sheesh…you got your tumors all mixed up.

  37. CollegeStudent says at 4:40 pm, July 28th, 2008

    CollegeStudent: wow, too many typos to count.
    It must be my tumor.

  38. Dramatist says at 4:40 pm, July 28th, 2008

    If this is what a tumor makes you do, why are we granted all those kids wishes to go to Disney World? We should be wearing electronic ankle bracelets, not making wishes!

  39. Walter Sobchak says at 4:41 pm, July 28th, 2008

    tunamelt: My fiancee’s mom is dead and she still says it all the time. After a while it makes it funnier.

  40. magic titty says at 4:41 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I thought he *was* a tumor.
    Isn’t this like me being diagnosed as a human?

  41. rockstarjoe says at 4:42 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I think I know where this is going…

  42. DemmeFatale says at 4:42 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Who’s Bridget Johnson?

  43. Dramatist says at 4:43 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I thought the last scion of Bilbo Baggins just ran for the Senate in Oregon.

  44. The Intern says at 4:43 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Dramatist: Since Novak committed treason, it’s the Chuck Norris of tumors.

  45. magic titty says at 4:43 pm, July 28th, 2008
  46. Dramatist says at 4:45 pm, July 28th, 2008

    The Intern: Does that mean if I spell “Robert Novak’s Tumor” in Scrabble, I win forever?

  47. ladymacbeth says at 4:45 pm, July 28th, 2008

    bridgid, dude’s an old shithead, we’re a bunch of unsympathetic shitheads and ‘radio silence’ is a term best applied to the radio.

    but thanks for trying.

  48. BigLar says at 4:45 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget, do I feel bad? Yes, that he’s still alive. It’s also great that you quote a fictional MOVIE when you talk about air safety. You are a fucking genius and should win a Pulitzer for this.

  49. Manofsteel says at 4:46 pm, July 28th, 2008

    DemmeFatale: A Pulitzer prize waiting to never happen.

  50. I think Bridget’s website has a “Object Inspected” tumor.

  51. Deepthroat says at 4:47 pm, July 28th, 2008

    i calll bullshit. what perfect timing… by the way Bridget, Kennedy has a brain tumor and he didn’t… well, but that wasn’t the brain tumor is my point! so… there!

  52. SayItWithWookies says at 4:47 pm, July 28th, 2008

    “Think there might be a reason why he wasn’t cognizant of what happened?”
    Oh please, Bridget — Novak is faaaar too much an exponent of “personal responsibility” to jump on the sleazy “tumor defense” bandwagon. I’m thinking he’ll claim to be a member of the unitary executive, and he was investigating the homeless guy for acts of terrorism.

  53. pondscum says at 4:47 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I really hope the Bridgets of the world keep trying to teach us all a lesson. This is as good as e-mail of the day!

  54. glamourdammerung says at 4:47 pm, July 28th, 2008

    And if Novak was that unaware of it’s actions, maybe it should have showed some personal
    responsibility and not been driving around in the first place?

  55. The Intern says at 4:48 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Dramatist: Yes. But it’s a shame that the tumor never played Scrabble.

  56. Monsieur Grumpe says at 4:49 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Yes Bridgette, I am ashamed of myself. From now on, I will dedicate myself to being more humble. As a matter of fact, I will become the humblest person in the world, just like Bob.

  57. rockstarjoe says at 4:49 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Lemme try that again…

    [IMG="http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/8/83/Bart_of_Darkness.jpg/180px-Bart_of_Darkness.jpg"]

  58. Dramatist says at 4:50 pm, July 28th, 2008

    The Intern: Ooh. I really oughta be more careful in what I say about it then. Wouldn’t want to be perceived as willfully insensitive.

  59. glamourdammerung says at 4:50 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Ken Layne: Exactly.

    It annoys me greatly that the same group that screeches about “personal responsibility” always wants to use lame excuses to get out of the messes they make.

  60. rockstarjoe says at 4:50 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Fuck it, I quit.

  61. His black corvette is the perfect carriage for delivering his soul expeditiously to its final resting place. His license plate “HLLBNT” provides further confirmation.

  62. lazynamepicker says at 4:51 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Sounds like a pretty convenient brain tumor, if you ask me. Look for an equally convenient “healing” after the trial.

  63. nietzscheprojectile says at 4:52 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Hah. That wasn’t Wonkette that called out Novak Bridget, it was our evil twin - the Assholettes! However, I do have to give her credit for posting the Jerry O’Connell video making fun of Tom Cruise. Perhaps Tom has a tumor to explain his odd behavior?

  64. vespula maculata says at 4:53 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Is this the same Bridget that used to pose for that calendar? (Showing my age here…)

  65. Canuckledragger says at 4:53 pm, July 28th, 2008

    “Think there might be a reason why he wasn’t cognizant of what happened?”

    Argues facts not in evidence, your Honour. As I recall, the bill of Wonkette particulars indicated that he was cognizant of what happened and, true to his douchebag self, fled the scene of a crime.

    Now, Bridget, if I - or Wonkette - were guilty of giving Novackula a “man made” [*tm - Paranormal] brain tumour, we would have reason to feel regret and remorse. But we didn’t “give” it to him; we’re just laughing because Yahweh did.

    How completely fuckin’ hypocritical it is to loathe a man’s entire life’s work, but then issue pious pronouncements about what a swell chap he is because he’s been stricken by something terrible. Bob Novack is an unmitigated disgrace as a human being, a bootlicking toady of the rich and powerful, an imperious egomaniac who’s never had a single thought to impart on the wellbeing of his fellow human. Hit’n'run is nothing new for him; his entire career is based on it.

    And, Bridget…. fuck you too, just for good measure.

    You like my “radio silence?”

  66. The Intern says at 4:56 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Dramatist: See that you do so. I would really hate to see Bob Novak’s Tumor bring a fellow Wonketter to justice because you hurt its feelings.

  67. ‘don’t you feel bad now for calling “prince of darkness”‘

    A) No
    B) People at the Rocky Mountain News read Wonkette?
    C) Ohhhhh, *bloggers* read Wonkette. Never mind.

  68. mookworthjwilson says at 5:00 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Walter Sobchak: Even funnier is saying “your mom” to your sister…

  69. Imagine42 says at 5:01 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Nah, guys, Bridget is right. When something bad happens to someone, it immediately absolves them of any wrong they’ve ever done. We’re the dicks for getting on the guy just cause he may have run someone over or something - we should have assumed that he had some kind of brain tumor (actually, I’m surprised none of the commenters did). What’s one little pedestrian flattening compared to such a splendorous career?

    PS Bridget, don’t blame me for taking a dump on your cat. I had a stomach ache.

  70. D) ‘Prince of Darkness’, as applied to Novak, is an exaggeration. Dick Cheney rightly has that title. Bob Novak is merely the ‘Squire of Dimness’ ala Tori Amos.

  71. once again you all have it rong. dis is all a cuver up. mccain is behind dis. novak is fakin it so he dozent loze points on his license for killin that fake homelesss cia guy. if he got any more points takin off, he’d loose his license for the rest of hiz life or someting

  72. edgydrifter says at 5:06 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Are they sure it isn’t just a bad case of anal warts? ‘Cuz with Novak, you know, it’s easy to confuse the ends.

  73. The Intern says at 5:06 pm, July 28th, 2008

    TGY: But if Bob is right below Dick, where does that leave W and Rove?

  74. KilgoreTrout_XL says at 5:06 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Cancer is horrible and terrible, and this is regrettable. In no way does that mean that Mr. Novak did not richly deserve the criticism he got.

    And there’s a big fat fucking line between calling someone names because you think he’s damaging our country and wishing that he gets brain cancer. Jesus. Right-wingers are completely insane.

  75. WagTehGod says at 5:06 pm, July 28th, 2008

    “…the columnist is putting his journalistic endeavors on hold …”

    This isn’t breaking news. He’s been doing this his whole career.

  76. KevoTron says at 5:07 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I do, hereby, choose the following words:

    Cantakerous

    Old

    Shithead.

    oh, yes two more:

    Ass

    Fucking.

  77. edgydrifter says at 5:09 pm, July 28th, 2008

    The Intern:

    Cheney = Prince of Darkness
    Novak = Squire of Dimness
    W = Dim Squire
    Turdblossom = Turdblossom

  78. nietzscheprojectile says at 5:09 pm, July 28th, 2008

    TGY: Beelzebub’s little brother. It explains the corvette as compensator.

  79. tunamelt says at 5:14 pm, July 28th, 2008

    mookworthjwilson: Automatic angry reply: “She’s your mom, too-oo!”

  80. The Intern says at 5:14 pm, July 28th, 2008

    edgydrifter: Thank you for clearing that up. The subleties of wich asshole is more evil is so confusing!!!!

  81. Joey Ratz says at 5:15 pm, July 28th, 2008

    What’s next? “Ann Coulter diagnosed with brain tumor: Demands liberals apologise to her after she said mean things about John Edwards.”

  82. WagTehGod says at 5:16 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Oh, and when Novak identified Plame it was due to severe psoriasis.

    I feel so retroactively guilty now!!!

  83. columnv says at 5:18 pm, July 28th, 2008

    What is radio silence?

  84. edgydrifter says at 5:19 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Joey Ratz: If she announced she had throat cancer it would go a long ways towards deflecting the rumors about her manly adam’s apple.

  85. rocktonsammy says at 5:21 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Damn it to HELL. That Novak is a smart guy. I ran over over the paper boy the other day and the cops said I was high or drunk or something, next time, I’m going with the brain tumor thingy.

  86. Wrongavore says at 5:22 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Yo Bridget Johnson is ugly. http://bridgetjohnson.org/

  87. SayItWithWookies says at 5:22 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Joey Ratz: Ann Coulter is, alas, immune to brain tumors for obvious reasons. When she goes, it’ll be prostate cancer.

  88. WhatTheHeck says at 5:22 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget Johnson’s Diary:
    “I have to confess, I read ‘Wonkette’
    That Ken really makes me laugh, except when he says mean ’ol things about mean ’ol men. But I was really hoping Wonkette would take me to dinner and the movies… and then we could… Oh fuck. I’ve said too much. That’s enough for tonight diary.”

  89. rikitikitavi says at 5:29 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bob Novak titled his autobiography “Prince of Darkness,” so it’s probably okay if we call him that.

    More important, if Novak wasn’t aware that he hit a pedestrian because he has a brain tumor, then he shouldn’t have been fucking driving! Don’t tell me that fatass can’t afford a driver.

  90. Mahousu says at 5:29 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Ken Layne: There you go again. Novak ran under a homeless guy, not over him. Big difference!

  91. moviechick says at 5:36 pm, July 28th, 2008

    What, did the tumor also make him expose secret agents as well?

  92. yellowdogdem says at 5:37 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Wrongavore: She looks like Porky Pig’s older sister.

  93. How completely fuckin’ hypocritical it is to loathe a man’s entire life’s work, but then issue pious pronouncements about what a swell chap he is because he’s been stricken by something terrible.

    Hey now. The only one stricken by something terrible had his better parts cleaned up by novak’s windshield wipers.

  94. ladymacbeth says at 5:39 pm, July 28th, 2008

    WHY CANT I HAZ CMMNTS ON BRIDDID BLOG!?!?!?!!1?!?!?!

  95. Good to know our gopvixen sports Alan Keyes as her friend: http://www.myspace.com/gopvixen

  96. Mahousu says at 5:45 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Huh?? Novak … was admitted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston …
    So far as I know, Novak is not a “Brigham,” whatever that is, which means … ?!?

  97. lilblackcorvette says at 5:50 pm, July 28th, 2008

    it wasn’t the brain tumor…. it was me….MWA HAHAHA

  98. edgydrifter says at 5:56 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget, hon, just because you’ve made a habit of getting porked by LNS-ers in the back of their dads’ Audis does not make you a “vixen”, GOP or otherwise. Dial back the false self-esteem, missy; you’re not that hot.

  99. DangerousLiberal says at 6:16 pm, July 28th, 2008

    AnnieGetYourFun: I know I feel all shitty about this. But he’s still a dickhead. And I don’t really feel shitty about it at all—bwah ha ha ha ha

  100. DangerousLiberal says at 6:22 pm, July 28th, 2008

    columnv: It’s what you most fervently pray for when Dr. Whora or Rush “Pillboy” Limbahhh is on the old Ay Em.

  101. BadNewsJack says at 6:24 pm, July 28th, 2008

    If he can blame his brain tumor for mowing down old people, then I get to blame my Athlete’s foot for punching a guy in the face.

  102. Makeithurt says at 6:26 pm, July 28th, 2008

    I thought these were two cute little items will look great in his obituary. I know it’s premature, but I’m so excited.

    His son, Alex Novak, is the Director of Marketing for the Swift Boat Veterans’ publisher, Regnery Publishing.

    In 2002, Novak’s attitudes towards animal welfare came under scrutiny when he stated in an interview that he attended a cockfight in Puerto Rico and “relished it tremendously”, adding that the United States has “too damn many” anti-cruelty statutes. He also expressed his avid support of dog fighting and bullfighting.

    His life will be remembered with such relish as the rich depth of shit he’s given the world.

  103. Sheepeater says at 6:29 pm, July 28th, 2008

    If she is a Wonkette reader, then she must not have been around for Tony Snow’s diagnosis.

    And as far as cancer goes, well that’s a slippery slope argument waiting to happen. Cancer is much less a killer than it once was. Do we have to stop calling an asshole an asshole when they get a bad case of hayfever?

    Just sayin’

  104. thefrontpage says at 6:40 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget: Go to hell! Novak’s a jerk, and a Republican tool! He writes inaccurate, crappy columns, and he’s overpaid and a poseur! There, we said it. Deal with it.

  105. ShortShadey says at 6:43 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget - you must not be aware that Jim Newell has a bad case of psoriasis or else you wouldn’t be attacking Wonkette. Can’t you see that it’s his constant itching that’s to blame for his anti-Novak rant? That, and too many Twinkies. You heartless bitch.

  106. wheelie says at 6:45 pm, July 28th, 2008
  107. RuperttheBear says at 7:16 pm, July 28th, 2008

    “Bob, I’m not going to kill you. But I don’t have to save you either.” –The Batman

  108. RuperttheBear says at 7:19 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Bridget’s (her real name?) blog won’t let me comment, or is it just me? I got radio silence I’d like to beam into her skull.

  109. BadNewsJack says at 7:28 pm, July 28th, 2008

    Typical Republican. Doesn’t want to hear the truth from real people. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to be in my ivory tower right about now.

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