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Another Bush Snow Job

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http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-snow26.html

Tony Snow was a speechwriter for Bush, Sr. Currently he is a Bush mouthpiece on Fox News and will now become...a Bush mouthpiece in the White House. :)

Conservative pundit Tony Snow will be named White House press secretary today, Republican officials said Tuesday night.

Snow, a Fox News commentator and speechwriter in the White House under Bush's father, has written and spoken frequently about Bush -- not always in a complimentary way. The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, circulated unflattering observations by Snow about Bush. ''The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment,'' he wrote wrote last November.
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Luke T. said:
Tony Snow was a speechwriter for Bush, Sr. Currently he is a Bush mouthpiece on Fox News and will now become...a Bush mouthpiece in the White House. :)
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Which puts him one step ahead of George Stephanopoulos in his career path, since Stephanopoulos was a Democratic mouthpiece for Bill Clinton before becoming a Democratic mouthpiece for ABC News.
 
BPSCG said:
Which puts him one step ahead of George Stephanopoulos in his career path, since Stephanopoulos was a Democratic mouthpiece for Bill Clinton before becoming a Democratic mouthpiece for ABC News.
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And, for the other side, George Will. He was coaching President Reagan with stolen debate materials and then going on TV as a commentator. I don't think the (probable) coming wailing and rending of garments is so much a liberal/conservative thing as it is a Fox thing. Fox News has got some people really upset because they eschew the traditional TV "news" formula and people love it.
 
Snide said:
Nice! Right on queue!
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Actually a bit late - there's another thread that's been going on for a couple of days speculating on who would be McClellan's successor, with the usual suspects doing the usual "Fox = Republican Soapbox" cant the minute Snow's name came up. BTW, nice catch, Luke.
 
Any move that gets Tony Snow off my radio is a good one. I can listen to Rush for hours with a smile on my face but 2 minutes of Snow has me begging for mercy.
 
Anti_Hypeman said:
Any move that gets Tony Snow off my radio is a good one. I can listen to Rush for hours with a smile on my face but 2 minutes of Snow has me begging for mercy.
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It's that uber-nasal voice, I know what you mean. He's the reason I don't even have cable TV any more.

And to follow up on the OP's theme, I will concede that it's truly a Tony moment for the administration. It's about time Bush came right out and was honestly crazy like a Fox.
 
explain to me what he does, I'm not sure the position exists in Australia.

For some reason the Australian prime minister can face an interviewer and present his ideas, or someone elses ideas, perhaps?
 
MaxHardcore said:
explain to me what he does, I'm not sure the position exists in Australia.
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Essentially, the Press secretary is the minister of propaganda. He's in charge of presenting the Administration's line to the press, whether during a press conference or when they just need the administration's take on a given issue. If an issue comes up that makes the admin look bad, he does damage control. If something comes up where the press needs the administration's take, he writes the press releases and serves as a contact.

For some reason the Australian prime minister can face an interviewer and present his ideas, or someone elses ideas, perhaps?
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Some Presidents make a priority out of face time with the press. Clinton had a weekly press conference, IIRC. Bush only rarely has them, and instead lets his press secretary handle them pretty much all the time.

I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a similar job in the Australian government. A PM can't handle the press by himself all the time.
 
Bush 41 had the best way of dealing with the press. He'd meet with them for about five minutes every morning, take a question or two, then head off to work. Had very few actual press conferences, IIRC, but never got many complaints about being inaccessible.

At first, these five-minute sessions got a lot of coverage on the 6:00 evening news - new president and all that - but the novelty wore off after a little while and they got little coverage. That's why, to this day, very few people are aware of the fact that he once called Saddam Hussein "a stupid wog towelhead who washes himself with sand when he isn't buggering little boys."
 
BPSCG said:
Bush 41 had the best way of dealing with the press. He'd meet with them for about five minutes every morning, take a question or two, then head off to work. Had very few actual press conferences, IIRC, but never got many complaints about being inaccessible.

At first, these five-minute sessions got a lot of coverage on the 6:00 evening news - new president and all that - but the novelty wore off after a little while and they got little coverage. That's why, to this day, very few people are aware of the fact that he once called Saddam Hussein "a stupid wog towelhead who washes himself with sand when he isn't buggering little boys."
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I thought that was what he was quoted of saying regarding Clinton, not Saddam ...

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This formalizes the arrangement that has been happening for years - the Bush administration paying members of the right-wing media to say what it wants them to say.
 
BPSCG said:
Which puts him one step ahead of George Stephanopoulos in his career path, since Stephanopoulos was a Democratic mouthpiece for Bill Clinton before becoming a Democratic mouthpiece for ABC News.
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Well, but the one working for ABC news has better job stability, I bet. :)
 
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