The Unknown Candidate: Tony Snow-Job

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Tony Snow-Job

Tony Snow certainly has the right 'name' credentials to be The House of Spin's new Press Secretary. To "snow" someone, according to my trusty dictionary, is "to mislead or charm with elaborate and insincere words." You know, as in snowing the nation into believing Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed an immediate threat to our national security.

I can hardly wait for this partisan, Fox Spin Doctor to try out his pretty-boy snow-job on the press.

Will mainstream journalists cut through the crap and report the truth this time? If history is any indicator, we're already chin-deep in doo doo.

Read all about it: Tony Snow Becomes White House Press Secretary

Photo Credit: Tony Snow in undated photo. (The Detroit News via AP Photo)

New Direction? Or New Spin?
Baker is in. So is Rummy. Karl is demoted. Card is out. Bolten is in. McClellan is out. Snow is in. What does it all mean? William Rivers Pitt asks if things are really changing in this White House, or are we merely seeing a superficial reshuffling that does not affect the center of things? His assessment is here.
Comment is free: White House Snow job
Sidney Blumenthal remarks: "The hiring of Tony Snow, the former Fox News anchor and talk show host, as White House press secretary is an attempt to put a human face on a damaged administration at war with the press ... Snow arrives in the West Wing at a parlous moment. In the latest Gallup poll, Bush has plummeted to 32% approval, diving without any landing in sight. Rather than change any of his fundamental policies, he has dug himself deeper into his bunker."
Suggested questions for the White House press corps to ask on Tony Snow's first day