Media Matters Shows Snow Well Qualified for Bush Post
by RonChusidMedia Matters has compiled a list of several untrue statements made by Tony Snow to back the Republican agenda. No wonder Bush wants to hire him as press secretary. He sounds perfect for the job.
Hotline quotes David Gergen on the choice of Snow:
“Tony Snow does have the leverage that neither of his predecessors would have had. And that is, if he walks out on them because they’re not open enough, it would be hugely devastating to the administration, so, that he, unlike Scott McClellan, can go in and say, gentlemen, this isn’t good. The press has a legitimate need here. We have got to give it to them. And they know that the moment he walks out the door and disgusted, if they are really totally closed or they lie or whatever, that is a bleak, bleak day at the White House. His predecessors never had that leverage.”
Somehow I doubt that this is the official job description for the post in the Bush White House. At least I can think of two benefits of having Snow in the post. That’s one less person lying for Bush who is claiming to be a “journalist” and this might draw more attention to the connection between the White House and their unofficial propaganda outfit at Fox News.
UPDATE: DNC Warns of Snow Job
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Ron,
re the Pamela Leavey blog earlier on gas prices.. i have recommended a mention for blogtrack .. just to let you folks know.
Thanks Roman!
Let’s see now. Tony Snow–an openly far-right-wing Republican “journalist” with a long paper trail–will provide all the “fair and balanced” spin that fascist Karl Rove will command him to recite at the daily press briefings.
Well, on second thought Tony’s just perfect for the job. Lies are second nature to him in his big-money gig on Faux News. He lies all the time, doesn’t he? And it’s all on videotape, too, just in case somebody wants to look it up.
But jeez louise what a smile! Hard to get pissed off at a lair with that cute little-boy grin. I’ll bet Tony’s roomie swoons every time he raises his head and does it. His mommie loves it as well.
OK, that was a cheap personal shot. But it’s chicken feed compared to the slime that Karl and his fascist swine crowd have regularly spread all over anybody who contradicts them.
Maybe it was just hard-ball politics as usual when the first election was stolen by the right-wingers in the Supreme Court, and then another election won by the slime of the thugs who Swiftboated Kerry.
But now look at what they’ve done. We torture people, keep them locked up forever, thus destroying the constitutional principle of due process. We ignore masses of people dying in New Orleans because they are Black and poor. We start a war based on LIES–yes, lies–and watch the troops die because they don’t have sufficient body armor. The list goes on.
And now here comes the little-boy grin of another Republican spin doctor. After a while, you just get fucking SICK of this shit.
John P,
I said early on that the job requirements included:
Able to lie in heavy media spotlight.
Pissed off, yeah, looking at him makes me want to puke.
Hate that feeling.
The White House Snow
Well one thing is for sure Tony Snow, the new Press Secretary, will give Helen Thomas a good run for her money. I don’t think the Press room will be the ‘quick sand terrain’, that it proved to be during the McClellan reign. Snow is certainly a more …