Novak Spreading Lies About Democrats

It looks like columnist Robert Novak is up to some more Republican dirty tricks. He has never minded being a tool for the Republican's to use when they don't want to dirty their own hands. After all, he's the one who outed a CIA agent on orders from the White House, because the agent's husband was embarrassing the Bush administration by telling the truth.

Now he's trying to spread lies about the Democratic frontrunners in the presidential race -- probably again on orders from his Republican masters.

In a recent column, Novak wrote, "Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it." Of course, he would not reveal the "scandalous" information.

Upon hearing of the column, Obama demanded that Hillary either reveal what she thinks she has, or "renounce these tactics". The Clinton campaign denied the accusation, and labeled it a "Republican trick". That is exactly what it was -- an attempt to smear both Democrats.

I have to hand it to Novak. For a Republican dirty trick, it's a pretty ingenius one. He not only spreads the rumor that there is something "scandalous" out there to be learned about Obama, but he also makes Clinton look bad by painting her as the one spreading the rumor. He was trying to kill two birds with one stone.

We must remember that it is highly unlikely that Novak would be privy to anything happening in Democratic circles. It is no secret to Democrats that he is a tool of the White House and the Republican Party.

Anything that Novak says about a Democrat must be taken with a grain of salt, and the knowledge that it is most likely not the truth.