New Bush Press Secretary is former Fox News Host

[NoCalMike 0]

Any good that man did is refuted by all the bad he did, many times over.

 

Next...

 

 

Agreed.

[SuperJerk 0]

Way to use cold, hard logic to refute a point that I was actually even making. Bravo.

Dude, your clever little retort doesn't even make any sense. Just get Reagan out of my face.

 

Perhaps my use of sarcasm confused you, but I'm not going to lay down for your total lack of anything rational to say just because you want me to.

 

Your "he didn't really win the Cold War" rant was completely irrelevant, and was also devoid of any factual information to support your opinion. The question was whether or not any leader since John Kennedy has been able to inspire the American people. Reagan did. Whether you agree with his policies or not, he did exactly what you're claiming hasn't been done.

 

For someone who wasn't even old enough to wipe his own ass when Reagan was president, you sure seem to have a lot of hostility towards him. Well, let me tell you something, I actually remember what America was like before Reagan was president. And having Reagan as president was like a big national bottle of Tylenol to get rid of the headache that had been the 1970s. Sure, the Tylenol was over-priced and paid for with a maxxed out credit card, but that Tylenol was really needed. America in 1989 was a much better place than it was in 1980. And, right or wrong, Reagan's the one who go there. He reminded us how great we'd once been, and how much potential we had.

[Art Sandusky 0]

Didn't do a thing to change my mind, but at least you explained yourself and made it sound rational.

 

Again, fuck that noise anyway. To ignore the other factors that bettered us throughout the 80s (yes, let's give the polarizing supply-side leader the credit instead of technology creating new fields and possibilities at a frentic pace) is nuts. "He makes us feel good" isn't any way to be a good leader. Heroin makes you feel good too, but it sure isn't healthy for you. Reagan gets far too much of a pass because of the fuzzy feelgood element.

[SuperJerk 0]

Didn't do a thing to change my mind, but at least you explained yourself and made it sound rational.

 

You just summarized the internet.

[SuperJerk 0]

Cancer claims ex-Bush press secretary Tony Snow

 

Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.

 

"America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character," President Bush said in a statement from Camp David, where he was spending the weekend. "It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day. He brought wit, grace, and a great love of country to his work."

 

Snow died at 2 a.m. at Georgetown University Hospital, according to former employer Fox News.

 

Snow, who served as the first host of the television news program "Fox News Sunday" from 1996 to 2003, would later say that in the Bush administration he was enjoying "the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have."

 

Snow was working for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as press secretary in May 2006 during a White House shake-up. Unlike McClellan, who came to define caution and bland delivery from the White House podium, Snow was never shy about playing to the cameras.

 

With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.

 

He served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. In 2005 doctors had removed his colon and he began six months of chemotherapy. In March 2007 a cancerous growth was removed from his abdominal area and he spent five weeks recuperating before returning to the White House.

 

"All of us here at the White House will miss Tony, as will the millions of Americans he inspired with his brave struggle against cancer," Bush said.

 

Snow resigned as Bush's chief spokesman last September, citing not his health but a need to earn more than the $168,000 a year he was paid in the government post. In April, he joined CNN as a commentator.

 

Vice President Dick Cheney was "deeply saddened" by the news of Snow's death, his spokeswoman said.

 

As press secretary, Snow brought partisan zeal and the skills of a seasoned performer to the task of explaining and defending the president's policies. During daily briefings, he challenged reporters, scolded them and questioned their motives as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing.

 

Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.

 

Although a star in conservative politics, as a commentator he had not always been on the president's side. He once called Bush "something of an embarrassment" in conservative circles and criticized what he called Bush's "lackluster" domestic policy.

 

Most of Snow's career in journalism involved expressing his conservative views. After earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1977 and studying economics and philosophy at the University of Chicago, he wrote editorials for The Greensboro (N.C.) Record, and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk.

 

He was the editorial page editor of The Newport News (Va.) Daily Press and deputy editorial page editor of The Detroit News before moving to Washington in 1987 to become editorial page editor of The Washington Times.

 

Snow left journalism in 1991 to join the administration of the first President Bush as director of speechwriting and deputy assistant to the president for media affairs. He then rejoined the news media to write nationally syndicated columns for The Detroit News and USA Today during much of the Clinton administration.

 

Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, called Snow a "renaissance man."

 

Robert Anthony Snow was born June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., and spent his childhood in the Cincinnati area. Survivors include his wife, Jill Ellen Walker, whom he married in 1987, and three children.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_re_us/obit_snow

 

This is sad...I can't imagine dying that young.

 

 

Bold prediction: Hannity, Coulter, Limbaugh, et. al., will decry liberal media bias when Snow doesn't get the same treatment Tim Russert got last month.

[Gary Floyd 0]

I remember seeing him on both "The Daily Show" and "Real Time" (a show I don't watch often) and he seemed like a really nice guy.

[Guest The Elements of Style]

Expressing sympathy while still getting a dig in at Fox News. Y2Jerk, a true postwright.

[SuperJerk 0]

Expressing sympathy while still getting a dig in at Fox News. Y2Jerk, a true postwright.

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