Snow Job

[cranston36]

White House press secretary Tony Snow has been injecting himself quite a bit into the information he dispenses, reportedly (no pun intended), on behalf of the White House.
Recently he stated, “There's an assumption that people have been given marching orders, and at this point, the president is asking folks to take a look at a number of things."
What exactly did Snow say?
He used to be a newscaster at Fox News. That is – he read the news stories and tried to make them sound interesting. A newscaster is paid to do that. So one night they report about a lost puppy, the next day about 9/11 and the day after that about Donald Trump’s Miss USA out all night partying. That’s the way it goes.
Back to the phrase above – Snow mentions an assumption about ‘marching orders’.
Who had the assumption? I didn’t, did you?
What people is he talking about?
What orders were they given?
Then he moves on to the President. I assume he means President Bush (well, there’s that assumption). Snow then mentions some ‘folks’ being asked to look at a number of ‘things’.
First, I’d like to confirm that is President Bush he is talking about, but, all kidding aside, which ‘folks’ is he indicating and what things are they being asked to look at?
This one sentence of Snow’s is the perfect snow job, don’t you think? Lot’s of words and nothing conveyed.
It gets worse.
Snow went on to say (at the same Press Conference) : “I think people are trying to create a fight between the president and the Joint Chiefs when one does not exist.”
I don’t really care what Tony Snow thinks – do you?
In any case – again, which ‘people’ is he talking about? Is he talking about you and I?
He comes off sounding like a bad sports reporter who showed up at a game late. He doesn’t really know who is playing or what they are doing but he is paid to talk so he talks.
I think that Tony Snow must be one of the bright parts of President Bush’s day. I can see him as he pushes Snow out on stage to give ‘em all one more Snow job.
I just want the facts. What we have now is a bad reporter reading bad copy to other reporters.
What do you think?

[Olney Blue]

1. He's a liar.

[jenmito]

2. I agree but I'd like to add...

and it bugs the hell out of me how he takes nonchalant sips of his drink during nearly every question. Is he trying to look cool? Confident? Informal? And what's with the mingling with reporters after the press conference? I never thought I'd long for the days of Scott McClellan.

Also, Olbermann ran a bunch of clips of Snow answering, "I don't know." He was supposed to be "in the loop" yet he claims ignorance on so many things?

[vixengrl]

3. His job is spinning straw out of horse turds.

In other words, making the awful, stupid, ill-advised things this administration does look fairly normal and maybe even positive or at least, useful. The less he knows about what the hell is going on, the better. After all, if you knew the Administration has an utterly disastrous and stupid policy and really markedly disagreed with it--could you do your job and sleep nights? Scottie was jumped all over for not knowing what was what and sounding insincere--Snow's business is to make secrecy and idiocy sound transparent and sensible--he's a professional.

You should see what he charges for an around the world.

[Webster Green]

4. He's a huckster for a hoax..

BushCo Inc./BFEE is a giant con game.