"I'm 72-years-old. There's not a hell of a lot they can do to me. I will continue to report what I see and what I feel to be true. "

Right-Winged "Crossfire" Host Needs Anger Management

Robert Novak is best known as the political commentator and host on CNN's "Crossfire."

He began his career during college at the University or Illinois as a print reporter, writing for local newspapers. He then served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, worked as a reported for the Associated Press, and eventually joined the Washington section of The Wall Street Journal. By 1963 he an Rowland Evens teamed up and began writing the political column of Inside Report, which later expanded into the Evans-Novak Political Report, a newsletter to subscribers, and other "insider" fare. He earned a reputation for having strong right-winged perspectives.

In 1980 be began co-hosting Crossfire. Later he appeared in The Capital Gang and Inside Politics. He was suspended from the CNN program after he cursed and then walked off the show of Inside Politics, after a comment by James Carville "He's got to show these right-wingers that he's got backbone, you know?" Novak responded, "Well, I think that's bullshit. And I hate that!" In December 2005 he announced that he was leaving CNN for a position with FOX News.