"Novak 'in good spirits'
by Mark Shanahan & Paysha Rhone, Globe Staff | July 29, 2008
Conservative political commentator Robert Novak was awaiting the results of a brain tumor biopsy at Brigham and Women's Hospital yesterday. The Chicago Sun-Times columnist, perhaps best known for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame, was taken to the hospital by ambulance Sunday from Cape Cod, where he and his wife were visiting their daughter. "He's in good spirits," said assistant Amanda Carey, who said she wasn't sure when he'd get his biopsy results. Novak, 77, insisted on writing his own media statement from the hospital's intensive care unit yesterday morning, Carey added. "He wanted to write it." In it, Novak wrote: "I will be suspending my journalistic work for an indefinite but, God willing, not too lengthy period."
Depends on whom you ask, Bob. I never read your stuff anyway!
The columnist struck a homeless man with his black Corvette in Washington, D.C., last week and drove away, but the man was not seriously injured and Novak was only issued a $50 citation, according to the Associated Press. Novak kept driving until stopped by a bicyclist, who said the man was splayed on Novak's windshield. Charlie Spiering, a reporter who works for Novak, told the Sun-Times yesterday that "it's really too early to tell" whether the brain tumor affected Novak's driving that day."
How much you want to bet he uses it in his defense?
He IS GOING to be CHARGED for leaving the scene of an accident, right?
