TW: Robert Novak has been a fixture in American political reporting for decades. Either through television, his columns or the Evans and Novak report, he was fairly ubiquitous. He is very conservative and opinionated but that did not prevent him from actual relatively unbiased reporting. The latter distinguishing him vastly from the next generation of right-wing media- William Kristol, Limbaugh, Hannity etc. His departure from the scene due to health creates another void in the crumbling edifice of much needed but lacking MSM reporting.
From Kos:
"[The newsletter] was respected for a reason -- while run by two conservatives (and then one), the team was known for hardnosed reporting. Novak had many faults, but he is the conservative writer I've most respected, and his newsletter was a must-read. Why? Because he never let that ideology get in the way of the facts. And in the world of conservative media, that is indeed tragically rare. So if one was interested in what reality-based political observers thought about a race or a particular piece of legislation, there were few better sources than Novak. I was crushed to see him forced into retirement, and he's left a void that no one has yet filled."
From the final Evans and Novak report"
"Politics has a tendency to cast down the mighty and lift up the lowly. Politics makes a fool of any commentator or participant who, explaining the significance of a recent political development, uses the words "never" or "from now on."
Everything about politics—the heroes, the goats, the dynamics, the rules of thumb, the alliances, the enmities—comes and goes. With sadness, so does the Evans-Novak Political Report."
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