From CNN:
Sources close to the White House said Monday that Fox anchor Tony Snow is likely to accept the job as White House press secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan.
The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days.
A source familiar with the discussions said Monday that newly appointed Chief of Staff Josh Bolten asked Snow to make a decision by early this week.
Two sources familiar with the discussions said Bolten wanted to fill the post this week, as early as Tuesday.
Sources familiar with Snow’s deliberations said he has been focusing on family, finances and his health.
The sources said Snow, who has been battling colon cancer, got a good prognosis from his doctor last week and that Snow resolved his concerns about taking the job over the weekend.
Neither Snow nor the White House would comment.
His health permitting, I hope Snow takes the job; not only is he articulate and likeable, but he is quite comfortable in front of the camera—a change from poor Scott McClellan, who, while I’m sure he is a decent guy, more often than not looked like the last oyster at a party hosted by drunk and hungry walruses. Which is to say, McClellan always appeared on the defensive, in constant fear of being cracked open on a rock and swallowed whole by David Gregory—and his demeanor, coupled with his answers, often made it appear that the White House was hiding something.
Plus, he seemed to perspire a lot. Like Nixon. Or Albert Brooks in Broadcast News.
In short, he was the perfect Press Secretary to deal with if you are a Democrat or progressive ideologue looking to push the “culture of corruption” narrative.
Snow, who as a reporter and radio personality himself, is quite familiar with the way journalists will come at him, and should be able to parry their more pointed thrusts effortlessly while handling the position with class and grace.
If he takes the job, that is.
For their part, it looks like some on the left won’t be able to get past Snow’s FOXNews affiliation, this despite FOXNews finishing very respectably in a recent study on media bias. And in fact, if you look in the comments at Think Progress (one of the “respectable” Democratic agitprop factories), you’ll see immediate comparisons of Snow to Bagdhad Bob. “Snowjob,” as they have already taken to calling him, is a lying liar who lies when he’s lying about his lies that he lies about—and of course, he is a shill for the White House (which, that would be his job—but let’s not ruin the kids’ fun; after all, what’s more fulfilling than tearing into a family man with cancer?).
Really. Can Goebbels comparisons be far behind…?
update: Well. That answers that, then.
(h/t STACLU; see also, Sister Toldjah)
two thoughts to…well…make myself look like a contrarian:
1- I don’t know how great of an idea it is to hire a press secretary who would likely poll better that the President. Maybe it’s just me, but won’t that cause some tension?
2- How will Snow and the administration handle it when the press corp starts harping on positions that Snow has taken that are at odds with administration policy?
Not to say either of these are deal breakers…
I can hear it now…
You mean Tony Snow from FAUX NEWS!!!!!!111!!!! He’s a chartered member of the BFEE!!!What? Rush Limbaugh wasn’t available?????!!!!1!!!!
It just took until comment #20 for Goebbels to show up.
The Left is nothing if not completely and utterly predictable.
I think Tony Snow will be great for the job, and the White House press corp won’t be able to do to him what they did to Scott McClellan. I welcome the change.
Tony Snow would do a great job. If George Stephanopolous can go from the WH to the Press, why can’t the press go to the White House? If we can pretend Steph suddenly went neutral, we can sure pretend Tony Snow is neutral now. Not that he’d ever claim that anyway.
DeeDee Myers was on CNN the other day. She said only the first 5(?) minutes of her press conference were televised. Imagine.
Hummm, I think Tony Snow might be too nice a guy for that lions den.
A better chice would be John Boltons straight talking mustache, “Regis”. Watching the press corps reduced to tears would be priceless!
Nice guy he may be, but he’ll chew those assholes up and spit them out. I can’t wait.
Tony Snow would be a cool choice, but please allow me to submit in nomination Brittany Doyle.
Of course, alternatively, who says a Press Secretary needs three whole dimensions?
Snow’s first step should be to turn the White House Press Room back into the swimming pool they decked over. It’s not like a single piece of substantial journalism has ever come out of that place.
Then he can start scheduling meetings with individual reporters in underground garages and parks so they can feel all tingly and reportery…
Hilarious and brilliant.
i’ll second that.
No one has more fun at work than I do. No one.
I, for one, am dumbfounded that the Think Progress commenters haven’t gone for any of the obvious Jeff Gannon jokes. I mean, c’mon, people! GAY PORN COCK OF LIES! You don’t even have to come up with your own material!
(Although I guess this comment is close enough. BECAUSE OF THE HYPOCRISY!)
Now, now, Karl. We’re going to have to talk about that at our weekly meeting.
Tony Snow will do a great job, but Hannity would have been funny as hell. I wish they’d interviewed him, just to get the notion out to the reality-based community.
Was Bernie Mac even considered?
I mean he’s got those eyes where he just looks at you and……..well I can’t do the eyes…..but he’d be great.
Christopher Walken would have been my choice.
alpuccino. Seriously. When I read your words it was like I saw his eyes. You know?
Guys, please – Tony Snow may come out swinging, but Dennis Miller would come out unloading the Bushmaster.
Helen Thomas: Mr. Miller – Do you think the founders ever expected such an Imperial Presidencey?
Dennis Miller: C’mon Helen, I’m not the one who jumped out of the cake the constitutional delegates had at the post-constitution party – you tell me.
Making fart noises with his lips. And proving that old adage that a silent fool passes for a genius.
How about the Clark lady that did all the Pentagon press conferences during OIF?
Talk about the pot calling the refrigerator black. If the acthole were half as clever as Miller, (Dennis or Larry) we’d be blessed.
Actus is just mad because he never, you know, really got Miller’s humor. All those Greek history references n’ whatnot.
Now, if we’d suggested Adam Sandler, hoooo boy!
Personally, I’d nominate Robin Williams, just for the fun of it. Who’s ever seen a stream of consciousness press conference before? Not I. The cable companies could start charging for C-SPAN…
MayBee,
You’ll always be the “Laundry Uterus” lady to me.
I’m still recovering from that one. Clever doesn’t begin to describe it. In fact, there needs to be a new word to describe it.
I’m going with estrosqueamorous.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL!!! heh.
Sean M
I’ve always been amused at how the Reality-Based Party of Toleranc(tm) is so quick with the gay bashing … and how easily the phrases and attacks roll from their lips.
Hey Actus—I’ve just thought of a great idea for you!
The best threads eventually write their own comments. Let’s add a few together and see what we get:
And would prove that old protein wisdom adage that a dishonest, cryptic, self-flagellating leftist fraud passes for a complete asshole every time?
I almost never got to see Snow’s Sunday morning TV show, but a couple years ago, when I was home from church for some reason, I got to watch him eviscerate Sen. Rockefeller. And he did it in such a well-mannered way! I imagine he’ll do an amazing job.
when I was home from church for some reason,
Whatever the reason, I trust you have it in writing. You know, for your afterlife program and all.
Sinner.
Hmmm.
I want a press secretary that would bitch-slap Gregory when he acts up. Either that or ask him when his news organization is going to defend the 1st Amendment by publishing the Mohammed cartoons.
Before you diss Adam Sandler you should check out his web site. He puts up video messages for the troops overseas and flies the American flag in front of his office in Hollywood.
Goldstein, you are a paste-eating retard. Walruses don’t crack oysters, otters do.
That’s really the problem with you rightists. You’re just not informed enough.
Stay in school and read more.
It was his (alleged sense of) humor they were lampooning, not his political leanings.
TW: Some of us don’t count the cost to ourselves…
Walruses don’t crack oysters
What are you talking about? Craig Stadler loves oysters!
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Mr. Meany
Zzzziip! Right over his head.
It’s called “literary allusion”[1]. Might want to look it up some time.
1. See The Walrus and the Carpenter, by Lewis Carroll
What is this thing called church? Is it near the titty-bar?
Hmmmm.
If it is then success is assured….
With titties!
Why do you think we catholics worship a woman? Even her name gives me the chills: coredemptrix. Ooohhh!
So how many Hail Mary’s for the above comment?
I’ll pick you and ed up en route to the coredemptrix. I’ve got a fistful of dollars and a palmful of rosaries.
tw: piece, as in what is left of my immortal soul. Damn you Thailand!!! And Vegas!!! And Paris and New York, and God, Tokyo, and East Lansing and Ann Arbor and Pontiac…
Verc:
Dearborn gets off scot-free?
How’d that happen?
Verc,
Your “titty-bar” makes me think of nursing sows with their ample teats on a counter and piglets slurping away.
Does this mean that men are more cute piglet than gross pig? A reprieve, gentlemen!
Zzzziip! Right over his head.
It’s called “literary allusion”[1]. Might want to look it up some time.
I’ll get right on that. Right after you look up “sophistry.”
Not much of an allusion, illiterate, in this case, when you go on to clarify it and fall flat on your face doing it, is it?
Stay in school!
Dearborn… I feel so empty inside.
I’m not quite sure where to go with that one, Babe. I’ve seen a few things in Tijuana, but I was young and poor back then. Is she really going to…Oh.My.God. With the clowns? And the midgets? And the clown midgets? What’s that pony doing? Ewwwww…
Whoosh!
Mr. Meany:
‘The deuce are you on about? Jeff was alluding to Carroll’s nonsense poem, a fact you apparently missed.
Sources say they expect to denounce it in the next few days.
…in constant fear of being… swallowed whole by David Gregory…
Judging by Jeff Gannon, Scottie’s reaction to being “swallowed whole” has got nothing to do with fear.
Good question. I understand that Windsor gets a pass due to the great collective of Canada’s progressive debauchery, that brightest of all beacons of free speech.
As actuse demonstrates daily, the law is an ass: evidently borders are also.
Anyway, Americans 20 miles away have responsibilities, damn it, just not in Dearborn?
Mr. Meany,
That short reference Jeff made was to a whimsical tradition – redolent of the Walrus and the Carpenter’s hypocritical attitude to oysters as. And for the record it is sea otters who crack oysters, not otters in general. At lest next time when you mock someone get it completely accurate, since your mockery had you in a froth over your illusion to his supposed inaccuracy.
Mr. Meany otter know better.
And there it is. Took you guys long enough.
*Is she really going to…Oh.My.God. With the clowns? And the midgets? And the clown midgets? What’s that pony doing?*
/falls off the chair laughing
Um, that would be the otter who cracks bivalves with rocks, not walruses who lack the appendages with which to grasp the oyster and beat it on a rock in much the same way that you beat your head on the keyboard in an effort to crack wise, although I am sympathetic since “a party hosted by drunk and hungry walruses otters” lacks the comicality that you were so desperately reaching for.
Why did you have to call him articulate.
RACIST!!
:-D
Oh I did. Then he stopped being funny. Must be all the pantwetting.
Earl, et al. See here for the source of the allusion.
And once you’re done, ask yourself why someone with such obvious smarts as you (“bivalve”? “Appendages with which to grasp…”? Such precision!) is wasting his time giving zoological tutorials in response to a throwaway literary allusion on a wingnut blog thread about Tony Snow’s potential ascendency to Press Secretary.
Actus, there is help out there for your little problem. Just see your physician and I’m sure your trousers will be pee-free in no time.
Verc: And Ferndale, though what happens in Ferndale is best left in Ferndale. And never mentioned again.
Word – times. Ah, good times, good times…
The lack of reading comprehension is bleedin’ amazing amongst these proto-Stalinites.
The poem is called “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, see, and the W & C really, really are jonesing for some oyster, so they contrive a little Story Time to lure the defenseless oysters on-shore and then Bam! snacktime for W & C.
Is that succinct enough for you poor learning-deprived souls?
Jeff references and links to a UCLA study that purportedly paints Fox News as just slightly right of center—and other news outlets as left. The problem is that while there is a lot of scholarly work out there on the subject that he didn’t choose to cite, this one study was based on work done by two former fellows at conservative think tanks (bias alert!). But not to get ad-hominem here, through the Conservative authors’ own twisted logic, the ACLU is actually rated as a “conservative” organization and the NRA was labeled “conservative,” but just barely.
For full de-bunk of this study (w/ sources cited), please feel free to visit http://mediamatters.org/items/200512220003
“And once you’re done, ask yourself why someone with such obvious smarts as you (“bivalve”? “Appendages with which to grasp…â€Â? Such precision!) is wasting his time giving zoological tutorials in response to a throwaway literary allusion on a wingnut blog thread about Tony Snow’s potential ascendency to Press Secretary.”
But, Jeff, Earl used the word “comicality” which, considering his wholly unjocular pedantry, gives his comment/s a perfect farcicality which especially Tony Snow would appreciate. And, thus, your troll’s unwitting witty tie-in to topic.
Uh, incandenzaH? There are numerous other studies (just do a Google search) that are based on different criteria that suggest similar bias.
Bottom line: The metrics used in the study are either legitimate or not. There is no conservative or liberal about it: either you accept the methodology or you do not.
I’ll leave it to you, however, to slowly absorb the irony of citing Media Matters as your choice to debunk a supposedly “conservative” study.
And the moonbats are out in force. John Cole’s place is very much a freaking nut house.
Of course, that’s been the case for some time.
I know. Have you seen the numbers they run on the sunday talk shows? Them and FAIR. Nuts!
Although the really good criticism of the UCLA study is how they measure the left/right split of the organizations. They use it based on hcongressmen citeng them in the congressional record. Its unclear how a wingnut citing the ACLU would rank the ACLU. Its also unclear whether we can assume that congressional record frequency and volume is equal in proportion to the left/right split.
Its a clever idea, but problematic.
Sean,
I guess everyone else decided to pass over the low-hanging fruit.
Liberals don’t hate gays. We hate demagogues who scapegoat gays. Unlike you, we don’t demand a Constitutional Amendment to prohibit freedom.
Scottie could be straight, gay or smooth as a Ken doll, and he would still be Chummy McSharkbait, a soulless flack.
But you already knew my answer, right Carnac?
Jeff, I wouldn’t back down from the walrus reference. I’m sure a wiley and determined walrus could find a way to eat an oyster, perhaps by crushing an otter who’s just cracked open one and taking it.
Yeah, we did. Hatred of Bush trumps all for you guys, which actually was the point about Gannon in the first place.
You must be too young to remember the ERA and the 16th Amendment. To your credit, though, you’ve more recently shied away from creating new amendments to prohibit freedom and moved on to rescinding existing amendments that protect them (see Amendments 2,4,5,9 &10).
Thanks for responding, Jeff. I linked to Media Matters only because they had a very logical and well-supported run-down of the UCLA study. If you have issues with that article, perhaps you can tell me what it is you disagree with. (Or is it just an ad-hominem attack on that particular source?)
John ate oysters, I think, and he was the Walrus. Or maybe it was Paul. In a garden, beneath…some waves, or something.
What “you” is working against the 4th?
I’d be in favor of a federal privacy amendment.
I dreamed that I watched the “Wizard Of Oz” the other night. It was quite frightening when Dorothy looked behind the curtain and found actus…
Oh, and by the way…
I think tapping Tony Snow was brilliant! He’s very civilized, but has razor sharp teeth. Can’t wait for him to go head to head with that asshole David Gregory. With a head as big as Gregory’s, the first good zinger shoulds make it explode.
Decker
What freedom are you talking about?
The freedom to boink your adult sister (no one stopping you) or are you trying say that the definition of freedom for you is the demand that the government officially recognize and sanction it by judicial fiat?
Scottie could be straight, gay or smooth as a Ken doll, and he would still be Chummy McSharkbait, a soulless flack.
Meow Decker!
If Vert has been to Bangkok, he can surely testify to you that bivalves can be cracked via grasping techniques not involving any appendages at all.
The Patpong ladies, like walruses, are estrosqueamorous.
Absolutely NO comment. Under advice of counsel I plead the Fifth. But it is quite true…Ewwwww.
Mike Ditka, your new WHPS.
bivalves can be cracked via grasping techniques not involving any appendages at all.
True enough, but I’m sure there are not many walnuts that don’t quiver with fear while watching pro figure skating in prime time.
You’re bloody rich
You’re clean and sober
You still own your own songs
Nobody ever tries to kill you
You’re shagging Barbara Bach
…and people say you’re the dumb one?!
Decker sez:
I’m afraid to ask. I’m even more afraid that Decker is on the verge of suggesting that marriage = freedom.
Heh.
Bachelor. Probably a virgin.
sorry, i’ve been hearing this several nights a week. i have a night off, and can i get away from it!? no! thanks verc.
oops, sorry, it’s oliver twist.
Balzac, c’est vrai, all of the above.
But I did do that Caveman movie. Karma, man, karma.
Oh, fuck ME, I can’t believe this. Me, Mr. Meany, left one particularly pointed post yesterday about how writing and thinking don’t work the way Goldstein thinks they do and scolded him for his lousy, LOUSY cherry-picking of literary allusions and guess what?
…the comment disappeared.
Suck cocks and rot in hell, Goldstein, you censorious bastard.
At lest next time when you mock someone get it completely accurate, since your mockery had you in a froth over your illusion to his supposed inaccuracy.
Go to hell.
Uh, I didn’t do anything to any comments in this thread other than respond to them. Are you sure you used the same fake name for each one?
For instance, here’s another Mr Meany comment.
I note, too, that people responded to it, which suggests they read it. I also responded, though I responded to a guy named earl, who gave a lesson in bivalves.
You may apologize any time you please. Because honestly? You looked like a fucking tool yesterday when you called me a paste eater. Today, though, you’ve reached a whole new plain of presumptuous dickheadedness.
Wait, here’s another one you left.
Did you actually check through the thread for these? Or do you just like calling people morons and telling them to suck cocks in hell?
Fuck yourself.
But first, do me a favor and apologize. So that I can ban you knowing you folded like a good little liberal beach chair.
….
Yeah. That’s what I thought.
Well, Goldstein, you paste-eating retard, it’s your word (you being a defender of the abysmal liar Domenech) against mine, but I know for a fact the last comment I left here and an earlier one have disappeared.
Apologise to you? When you’re sucking my cock in hell, I’ll apologise if I don’t have a Kleenex on hand.
Ban this, you fucking liar.
I suspect you wouldn’t know a fact if it crawled up your ass and started massaging your prostate.
So. It’s your argument that I deleted an earlier comment of yours, but left up the bit about my being a paste eating moron? And about my sucking cocks in hell?
Hmm. Interesting—though you’d think with all the sycophantic wingnut protectors I keep about, there’d be evidence, like perhaps someone responding to something you said that is no longer there.
More likely, however, is that you didn’t post the comments you think you did—or else you put them in another thread. Because I gotta tell you, I’m surprised you were able to figure out how to post the three I can find.
But I’ve decided to take you up on your offer and bid you goodbye.
Unless you have the balls to post under your real name, which I doubt. Pussies like you talk big from the safety of Mommy’s basement, but when push comes to shove, you’re nothing but sad, sedentary, fat-assed nobodies who get off on dishing out insults from a distance.
So go find another place to troll. And take your vagina with you.
So go find another place to troll. And take your vagina with you
So that’s where the Ruth’s Chris ad went. I was wondering.
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