Early today I set

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Early today I set up a thread over at TPMCafe where people could speculate and discuss just what it was that happened today on CNN with Bob Novak. It’s actually an amazing mix of speculation and deft insight with, okay, a few wild flights of fancy mixed in. But I was just reading through them and running the images through my mind over and over again as I tried to make sense or evaluate what this or that commentator was saying. And at the risk of saying something mind-numbingly obvious: what a friggin’ bizarre episode that was.

I mean, I’ve seen people storm off sound stages a few times. But there’s something even weirder about it than that. A psychologist would have the appropriate terminology. But there’s some element of inappropriate affect scattered through the hullabaloo. I just watched it yet again. And even now it’s not quite clear to me what Novak’s so upset about.

It’s like some spastic teenager or maybe the copywriter who pens the screeds for the World Wrestling Federation just started doing a re-write of the script we’re all living through.

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