A Well Connected Washington Jerk

Vanity Fair consistently wins the award for ‘magazine that is actually worth paying $4.50 at the supermarket’ for. April’s issue included a profile of uber-connected Washington columnist and TV host Robert Novak, by David Margolick.

Below he recounts an encounter with an man who was outraged that Novak outed CIA Operative Valerie Plame in his column:

“You’re a traitor!” he shrieked, “You’re a traitor!” The man was hushed up, and program resumed and Novak talked more politics. But afterward, as Novak made his way out to the CNN bus, his tormentor follows, taunting him some more and allegedly shoved him from behind. Novak, a short septuagenarian, grabbed the much larger man by the arm and gave him a shove back, sending him sprawling. Then he prepared for more serious skirmishing. “Novak looked like a little caged animal, fist locked and cocked back…like a garden troll gone insane.” Before he could take another swing, his Crossfire counterpart Paul Begala dragged him away.”