Novak Hits Pedestrian

By Eric Pfeiffer | July 23, 2008 4:20 PM | | Comments (0)

The story bloggers are following most right now according to Memeorandum has nothing to do with the presidential election, but is instead about political reporter Robert Novak. Novak admitted to striking a pedestrian on a bicycle while driving his black Corvette, but said he was unaware of the incident until another pedestrian informed him. It's been a long week for Novak, who appears to have been taken for a ride by sources claiming John McCain would announce his vice presidential running mate this week.

BobNovak.gifThe Moderate Voice's Shaun Mullen alleges Novak wasn't following traffic laws:

Novak, 77, has earned a reputation around the capital as an aggressive driver and has said that his secret desire is to be king of . . . er, a race-car driver.

Not a lot of Novak sympathy out there, especially from Jane Hamsher, who speculates of Novak's motivation:

Trying desperately to get home before sunrise, no doubt.

Talk Left links to a Politico piece, which interviews the intervening pedestrian. The details are rough:

As he traveled east on K Street, crossing 18th, Bono said a "black Corvette convertible with top closed plowed into the guy. The guy is sort of splayed onto the windshield."

Bono said that the pedestrian, who was crossing the street on a "Walk" signal and was in the crosswalk, rolled off the windshield and that Novak then made a right into the service lane of K Street. "The car is speeding away. What's going through my mind is, you just can't hit a pedestrian and drive away," Bono said.


CQ Politics colleague Jonathan Allen just noted on MSNBC that Bono is a former editor of the Harvard Law Review.


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