Early in the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency, the higher ups at the Republican National Committee handed down a research request: Make Bob Novak look bad.

Novak had irked the White House with one of his columns. Maybe it was the one reporting on the “incompetence and neglect by the White House” in Bush’s nomination of Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. Perhaps it was one of his columns undermining the justification for the Iraq War.

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