If you were watching CNN yesterday afternoon you were treated to the sight of a grown man throwing a tantrum on live TV.
Robert Novak swore and walked off the set Thursday during a debate with Democratic operative James Carville.
It was during a discussion of Florida's Senate campaign. CNN correspondent Ed Henry was about to ask Novak about his role in the investigation of the leak of a CIA officer's identity. Before the question was not even asked when Novak responded to Carville's rant by saying "Well, I think that's bull---- and I hate that". He then stormed off the set.
The thing the press has seemed to forgotten is only a few weeks ago one of CNN's staff used the same word live on the air in response to the same story!
Last month on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight, anchor Lou Dobbs introduced a story about the details of a leaked account of what White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told the grand jury. Just after Dobbs explained that "President Bush's political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plame leak," but before the taped story from reporter Dana Bash could begin, a woman -- presumably positioned nearby Dobbs' microphone on CNN's set -- could be heard loudly whispering her own rejoinder: "That's bull$@*#!"
PowerBlog! posted the story on July 19. You can see (and hear) that report here.
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