Evidently, CNN has suspended Novak and Novak is contrite.

I’m surprised. I saw him stand up and walk out – I was multi-tasking but the TV was on – and it seemed to me that he was just responding to Carville’s abject rudeness. Carville was snarling something about Novak wanting to please far right-wingers.

I didn’t blame Novak. I thought, “Good for him, there is some sh** up with which he will not put. Maybe this will teach Carville to keep a civil tongue in his mouth and to learn that all is not permissible in partisan debate.”

Apparently, that’s not the lesson being taught — or learned.