"Douchebag for Liberty" freaks out

Robert Novak, conservative columnist, talking head, and Quisling best known for leaking the name of a CIA operative to facilitate a White House political payback, seemed to be a little frazzled tonight. (Longish download, QuickTime format).

As one commenter on the Media Matters for America site pointed out, Novak stormed out after getting needled by Carville--something he should be well used to by now--but conveniently before the topic turned to the Plame leak investigation, which was the next topic on the moderator's subject list.

Love to talk more about this, but "The Daily Show" comes on in about 5 minutes, and it should be fun to see if they got hold of this story.

Thanks to scratch & sniff for the heads up while I was at Drinking Liberally.

UPDATE 1: Novak's conniption fit was the lead story on "The Daily Show"--and today just happens to be Jon Stewart's birthday. [Thanks, Gary, for pointing out that I misheard Stewart, who's a Sagittarius--although I stand by the rest of the paragraph.] The moon is indeed in the seventh house, and Jupiter is more than just aligned with Mars, they're making out in the back seat. The first 10 minutes of "TDS" was the funniest they've turned in in quite a while. I imagine it'll be on Crooks & Liars; I'll update when it does.

UPDATE 2: Crooks & Liars doesn't have the "Daily Show" opening yet, but does have links to a lot of blogs talking about Novak's tantrum. Have fun.

UPDATE 3: CNN has suspended Novak. Interestingly enough, as they point out over at DailyKos, his employer suspended him after 25 months of not once calling him publicly to account for his role in the Plame case, and only after he sulked off the set a couple of minutes before he was about to be asked for the first time about his role in Plamegate. Coincidence? How odd that Novak has been hanging out there in plain sight, for over two years as what Poppy Bush would have called "tne most insidious of traitors," but he gets suspended for saying "bullshit" on the air.