White House Asks Reporters to Wear 'Tony Snow' Cancer Bracelets

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/05/white_house_pre.html

White House Asks Reporters to Wear Cancer Bracelets

ABC News' Jessica Yellin Reports: The White House press office has handed out yellow cancer bracelets that say 'Tony Snow' to reporters.

Member of the press office said they would like the press corps to wear these bracelets during Snow's on camera briefing Wednesday, scheduled for 1:00pmET.

Reporters are divided, some plan to wear them but others are aren't.

[Squatch]

1. Yellow Snow

Bracelets?

How appropriate.

[Rainbowreflect]

50. Ouch, I think I hurt myself.

:rofl: :spray:

[Fresh_Start]

2. Why should they wear bracelets?

Do they innoculate the wearers from cancer?
Do they cure cancer in Tony Snow?
Do they prevent anyone else from getting cancer?

Do they prove that the wearer is a Bushie?

[Kool Kitty]

6. The last question is the only really important one.

These days, anyway.

[Judi Lynn]

40. They are either with Snow, or they are against Snow, and with the terrorists. n/t

[triguy46]

51. You're either for cancer or against cancer. n/t

[PassingFair]

55. Shouldn't he be HOME, spending these, perhaps precious moments,

with his FAMILY?

Wouldn't the family values crowd EXPECT that.

[maxrandb]

76. No! That only applies to John Edwards

Didn't you get the talking point?

For John and Elizabeth Edwards, politics is their religion. That's why they're still campaigning.

For Tony Snow, he's returning to work, because hey, he's a brave and courageous man. Besides, as any RWer will tell you, being a propagandist for the Bush mis-administration is "doing God's work".

:sarcasm:

On a personal note. My bride is a breast and thyroid cancer survivor. I would not wish cancer on anyone.

I say, if the presstitutes can wear these bracelets and still ask the tough and pointed questions that need to be asked of this mis-administration, then by all means...wear them.

If they are going to give the man a pass and toss him softballs (like they don't already), then I've got a big problem with it.

Might as well just put leashes and collars on the White House Press Corps anyway.

[Horse with no Name]

3. I think this is totally inappropriate.

Totally.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

33. fucked UP.

UNBELIEVABLE

[Cha]

38. They will stop at

fucking nothing..No detail is too small, no bomb is too big.

[gatorboy]

53. You're either with Tony Snow or you're with the terrorists!

[krkaufman]

110. agreed. n/t

[slowry]

4. Unprofessional and bizarre n/t

[Phredicles]

5. What an apt emblem of the DC media's comfortable servility.

I certainly don't wish cancer on anyone, but in light of Snow's consistent bullying approach it's appalling to me that any self-respecting reporter would go along with this.

I guess the key term is "self-respecting".:puke:

[Monk06]

113. Yeah how about a set of jailhouse braclets. BTW why doesn't Tony wear a rainbow bracelet?

[Nikki Stone1]

7. Can we talk about how they're politicizing cancer?

Or is that something only Democrats do? :eyes:

[NightWatcher]

9. If you dont like Tony (ie the bush mouthpiece and his lies)

you support cancer.

:rofl:

[Nikki Stone1]

20. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh my God! :rofl:

[Dinger]

12. Exactly (nt)

[laststeamtrain]

8. Don't eat the yellow snow, wear the yellow snow. n/t

[kysrsoze]

111. Got the Zappa reference, but the bracelets should be brown to match his nose n/t

[Hekate]

10. Coming from this particular White House, it's just more pressure to conform & be team players...

Nothing against Tony Snow and his struggle with cancer, but Karl Rove's guys just never quit.

The WH Press Corps is NOT supposed to be on Team Bush, and that includes yielding to the pressure for everyone to wear flag pins on their lapels.

Now this. If they don't want to wear the damn bracelets, they look like they're somehow not "supporting" a sick colleague.

Hekate, feeling curmudgeonly

[Phredicles]

14. Even with a good administration, the press rep. is NOT a colleague

of the reporters. That's why the chutzpah of this move is so shocking.

[Turbineguy]

11. Hopefully they will

color coordinate with the Bush Albatrosses they wear.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

13. This is a way of once again trying to keep the WH press corp, part of the

WH gang. This is not a good thing at all!

[Matariki]

15. Do they produce an electric shock if the reporter asks the 'wrong' questions? n/t

[AlCzervik]

16. um no. The wh press corpse are already too close, this is way over the line even for them.

[Cameron27]

56. The wh press corpse!

I love it!

[bullwinkle428]

98. Greatest (non-sexual) Freudian slip ever!

:applause:

[AlCzervik]

101. not a slip, thats what they act like-a room full of corpses, like the CSI autopsy room

without the Zazz.

[bullwinkle428]

106. Okay, credit for a great line then!

I shouldn't have sold you short as a comedy writer...I was thinking it was just a miscue that happened as you were typing!

[SledDriver]

17. Loyalty bracelets?

So he knows who to call on?

[brentspeak]

18. It's a subtle attempt to intimidate the reporters, make them feel uncomfortable

If a reporter doesn't wear a bracelet, they'll be considered "uncaring"; if they do, it puts a suggestion in their minds to ask softball questions. "With-us-or-against-us", redux.

[Occulus]

19. I thought it was generally considered bad form to pray for the death of one's spokesman.

My bad.

[ProgressiveFool]

21. It's also a completely meaningless gesture if not done voluntarily

WTF were the WH people thinking? It's creepy, is what it is.

[Robbien]

22. Capitalism at its finest. Go out an buy a useless item

instead of doing something meaningful or fruitful.

[Hobo]

32. Based on your statment...

I guess you mean what Lance Armstrong did with his "yellow" bracelets wasn't meaningful?


Hobo

Peace

:beer: :toast:

[Robbien]

34. Yes. Not as capitalistic as this WH nonsence, but

buying a petroleum product to put around ones wrist is wasteful. Lance did ask everyone to buy the petroleum product from his charitable source, but why buy a useless product which goes into the waste can or junk drawer the day after the purchase? Just send money to the cause without the senseless waste of a non-renewal product.

But in our world, capitalism itself is the draw.

[Ms. Clio]

23. we'll know the whores by their bracelets

good plan.

[Nightjock]

83. Exactly what I was thinking

un f###ing believable!

[Beelzebud]

24. I've been hesitant to say this, but they have Snow up there for this reason.

They put either the "hot blonde" or Tony "Be easy on me, I have cancer" Snow up there for a reason.

[Horse with no Name]

35. I agree.

And it is deplorable but SOP for these thugs.
Same reason they have Condi--if you say she is doing a bad job...you hate African Americans...better yet, you hate African American women.
They make me sick.

[Beelzebud]

36. Yep, I agree. The way they operate is sociopathic.

[Beelzebud]

25. Better not ask Snow too many tough questions. Might be bad for his health.

These people make me fucking sick...

[Judi Lynn]

42. That's it! A tough question, should there ever be one, would indicate the reporter wants to kill him

Grounds for arrest, and loss of his/her paper's access to White House briefings.

[IChing]

26. Some reporters already act like they have handcuffs on in their questions

I'm sure those will be the ones that wear the bracelets.

[kirby]

27. Fuck Snow...

The other night at the WH Correspondents dinner, Tony Snow said that he was looking forward to getting back to the WH so he could provide his 'usual Entertainment with his back and forth with the press pool'. This fucker thinks his job is to entertain rather than inform or be accountable. Its just a game to him. Any remaining shred of compassion I had evaporated when I watched him say that the other night.

[lpbk2713]

28. I think it's highly inappropriate for the WH Press Ofc to propose this.

It suggests "play ball" with us. They should not put the press corps in that position.

[jsamuel]

30. ding, ding, ding

[AnnInLa]

29. Yes! And also wear "I Heart Tony" buttons

I wear a Lance bracelet sometimes, and have a pink ribbon on my car urging others to support breast cancer research, and donate to cancer awareness campaigns. I would not, under any circumstances, wear a Tony bracelet, and neither should WH reporters. But, they probably will. Emotional blackmail, pure and simple.

[BlooInBloo]

31. Do they also take pro-Tony Snow oaths?

[Cameron27]

57. No, but they have to promise

not to hurt his widdle feelings.

[jollyreaper2112]

37. Do we have any options?

What color ribbon do I wear to show my support for cancer?

[Fresh_Start]

39. send the press corp, 'bring them home from Iraq' bracelets

see if the WH press office is okay with that.

[Morrisons Ghost]

41. Sorry but

I can't go to the link[its blocked here at work}Do'es it say that it is mandatory to wear these? If not I don't see the big deal about this.Its just a symbol to show support for someone with a horrible disease. I don't think that it means that you support his ideology in fact most of the reporters I would guess don't considering what Bushs' poll numbers are.I guess some here would consider me naive but I just have a hard time hating people with cancer.I have seen personally first hand what it does to the human body and how much pain people are in who have it. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy,Bad karma and all.MG

[Horse with no Name]

43. Bracelets, armbands in of themselves are not dangerous

However, the meaning behind them can be. Don't you agree?

[IChing]

Or these band-aides?

[Morrisons Ghost]

77. I guess...

If wearing a yellow Tony Snow Cancer bracelet means you support everything he and Bush believe,I would just assume it was a Lance Armstrong kind of thing supporting cancer research and stuff.I still can dislike someones views and not hate and wish death upon him or her.I refuse to lower myself to that kind of discourse,I was always taught that anger really only hurts the person who is angry, the person they are angry at usually isn't affected by it. I guess we will disagree on this issue,I do however enjoy reading your thought provoking posts{I have been a member here awhile,but just started to post,more of a reader I guess :) Anyway I wish you peace:hi: MG

[Hekate]

105. See my post #10.This is more about pressure to be on Team Bush

Pulling the strings of sentiment and guilt to once again pressure the formerly-independent White House press corps to conform and fall in line.

The members of the press have already shown support for Tony Snow in his time of tribulation. They are not mean-spirited -- they sent him off with sympathy and welcomed him back warmly. Now, back to the business at hand, please.

This "gesture" doesn't come from the ranks of the press corps -- it comes from Karl Rove's Psy-Ops team. There's nothing wrong with wearing a flag pin on your lapel either, but if everyone at the office looks at you funny if you don't -- then there's something wrong with the picture.

That's the source of my discomfiture.

Hekate

[Ms. Clio]

46. nothing these people do is for innocent, sweet, good reasons

That is Rule Number 1.

[WinkyDink]

49. It's ignorant, for one thing. For another, why HIM? Why not, say, Elizabeth Edwards? Why not the

MAIMED TROOPS? Or those with PTSD?

GMAFB.

[Morrisons Ghost]

82. Yes

Good point.MG

[Norquist Nemesis]

64. Sorry, but this Administration has been all about 'symbols' and stagecraft

since day one. Other than handing out bracelets, what has Bush done for this cause? Did they consider including Elizabeth Edwards with that not to mention the thousands of non-famous persons afflicted every year? Instead, they are making a conscious, opportunistic choice to focus on ONE person that's a top official of the WH.

It symbolizes to the American people that the WH press corps walks hand in hand with the Administration and you can bet it will be punctuated with a nice photo-op.

[UTUSN]

44. What could make their control of the press MORE obvious. n/t

[deutsey]

45. Well, I guess it beats dog collars and leashes

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

52. Word. nt

[Virginia Dare]

47. Of course they will do it like the mindless sheep they are...

they're too afraid of being "blackballed" not to. God, I just realized the fricking White House press corps is just like my college sorority.

[WinkyDink]

48. Do these reporters really need these little yellow leashes? Aren't they tamed enough?

There is NO END to these psychopaths' GALL!!

[Bluebear]

54. Emotional blackmail colored yellow. nt

[apnu]

58. Don't you normally BUY the bracelet to show support for whatever the bracelet represents?

Normally these things are for charity (Like Lance's Livestrong that started the whole thing)

So giving them out (I imagine Secret Service Agents with boxes at the door of the press room) sorta defeats the prupose no? Furthermore, wouldn't it falsely suggest to Tony Snow that they are supporting cancer research when in reality they were just handed out for a photo-op? Which is just plain mean and ghoulish IMO.

[Little Wing]

59. SCREW THAT!

[lutefisk]

60. Snow really should have vetoed this plan - it's so very wrong...

If he was ok with it, that's just another reason I have absolutely no respect for him.

[tridim]

61. Why not arm bands? That would be more appropriate for this dictatorship.

The gall of these people is simply nauseating.

[rhiannon55]

62. So, will he just call on the ones who are wearing the bracelets?

Nice way to separate the sheep from the goats, I guess...AND keep the hard questions to a minimum.

[Donnachaidh]

63. Dance Press Poodles DANCE!

Bark when we ask you, sit up and beg for treats -- hey, we'll throw you a bone! Now FETCH! :sarcasm:

[partylessinOhio]

65. I have no feelings for Tony Snow. He came from Fox. He will die with *

in the WH because he is brainwashed. I don't feel sorry for him at all.

Very few in those pressors are professional. Wearing those YellowSnowBracelets is NOT what the press corpse should be doing.

[sofa king]

74. His chances of dying peacefully, at home, are excellent.

Unlike the people for whom all those other yellow ribbons are worn.

[annabanana]

66. AHA! They want the leash to be VISIBLE!

Naw... That's not coercive. .

[sofa king]

67. Lying, Yellow Ribbon Found in Bold Smoke Screen

Thank you very much; I'll be here all week. And if you liked that, try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

68. Sure. When he and his bosses wear orange suits.

[musette_sf]

69. i guess this means it's time

to start wearing my black "FVCK BUSH" bracelet again.

[lpbk2713]

70. They're going to reassign seats in the WH Press Room again ....

those without bracelets will be assigned seats in the rear. Probably the left rear.



:sarcasm:

[mitchum]

71. Will it match the collars and leashes that those lapdogs already wear?

[AzDar]

72. Well, we'll soon (ostensibly) be able to determine who may be an actual journalist

and who definitely is NOT.
Unbelievable.:wow:

[bobbolink]

73. I'm so glad they're so dedicated to balance of powers....

:nuke:

idiots..........

any reporter who does this doesn't understand this country!

[tabasco]

75. The Bush mafia really needs sympathy right now.

They have stooped to a new low to deflect attention away from their crimes.

[n2doc]

78. How about "Bring the Troops home NOW" Bracelets?

They really needed to make the Snow bracelets collars, with leashes.....

[Judi Lynn]

79. They need to raise their sights. Being the nation's watchdog means observing a duty

to focus on the BIG picture, and getting involved in personal lives and health situations of individual people is not professional.

The idea is tacky. Childish. Small town-ish. Stupid. Second rate.

It's not all about any one person, it's about the entire country, and the countries this country impacts for better or for worse.

Draining away their attention to a medical condition of the White House Press spokesman is a diversion from the LARGE matters which are wildly urgent.

[jeffrey_X]

80. Ridiculous

eom

[undeterred]

81. He's going to die.

So said the gastro enterologist who did my routine colonoscopy on Monday. She said it very matter of factly. After that they gave me drugs and when I woke up she told me my colon was boring.

[FloridaJudy]

89. Boring is a good thing!

When it comes to medical tests. You wouldn't want an interesting colon. Trust me.
Congratulations.

[undeterred]

91. thank you

I had all my cancer screenings done in April, and I'm completely boring. Way to turn 50.

[symbolman]

84. I'd say

"FUCK Tony Snow and the TUMOR He's RIDING IN ON.."

Goddam, there is NO DEPTH they will sink to. This is ONION Material.

SO PATHETIC, Desperate. I'd RUN from any woman that treated me like this..

What's next, an alzheimer patient in a wheelchair with a drool cup for the Job?

They are peopling and destroying the Constitution, our govt and the Country by FORCING Ineptitude on US, it's REAGAN MACH 10..

[lies and propaganda]

85. Kinda like asking the troops to pray for the boy king.

these people are all batshit crazy.

[KamaAina]

86. Someone get down there and pass out Elizabeth Edwards bracelets

now!

[xultar]

88. That's what I'm talkin about!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't wait to spot the fuckers wearing the TS BS

[xultar]

87. This is some clusterfucked shit. So they can look @ his name when they shower & shit

Inappropriate. FUCKING OVERTHE GAWDDAMNED TOP

[Solly Mack]

90. Crass

[NNN0LHI]

92. Kind of makes me wonder if lying Tony even had a relapse or maybe it was just more propaganda?

I wouldn't put anything past these scum.

Don

[displacedtexan]

93. Who paid for the bracelets?

Who made the bracelets?

Who profits from the bracelets?

[Marr]

94. And when some don't, the noise machine can squawk about how they just

"hate Tony Snow" and "want him to die" or something along those lines. Put on your Bush seal of approval and help remind everyone that Bush's press stooge has cancer. Yeah, right.

This is incredibly inappropriate and the person who made the request should be fired.

[GeorgeGist]

95. I'm not the least surprised ...

that they chose yellow and that their focus is singular. They've never seen a victim they couldn't use for propaganda.

[Oeditpus Rex]

96. There's not supposed to be even a hint of collusion

between journalists and those they cover.

If I were still a sportswriter and wore a Giants cap in the AT&T Park press box, I'd be shouted down by the other writers and likely reprimanded by my editor.

If the Giants requested that writers wear their caps, they'd be shouted down in every sports section in the country.

[slj0101]

97. There is something very wrong about that.

While I certainly wouldn't wish such an ordeal on Mr. Snow, it almost reeks of manipulation the way the WH press office is admonishing the press to do this. It's just more bait for the RW gasbags to accuse the "liberal media" of not caring about Snow's cancer battle. Sick, and exploitative.

[nashville_brook]

99. Don't wear the yellow Snow -- Just say no!

[quiet.american]

100. I had to check out the link because I thought this was an "Onion" story.

UNBELIEVABLE.

But what's more unbelievable is that Tony Snow is going through what he's going through, and still lies and propagandizes on behalf of Bush with an almost religious fervor. It makes it very hard to feel any sympathy at all for him.

[StarryNite]

102. Nice to see they are

so compassionate and concerned for that one little prick but what about all of our troops who are being killed and maimed?

[GETPLANING]

103. The Press should ask the White House to wear handcuffs

EVERYTHING they do is political. They are worse than the Soviets.

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[Cha]

107. It's really too fucking

much. Why don't the pressbitches bow down and tony can knight them.

[The Gunslinger]

108. Are they going to wear Elizabeth Edward's bracelets too? nty

[YvonneCa]

109. Lance Armstrong...

...started the yellow bracelets for his cancer support (LIVESTRONG) organization. Many cancer survivors...including John Kerry...wear them all the time. Watch any of his speeches at johnkerry.com...he's always wearing the yellow cancer bracelet.

Either I'm getting a touch of paranoia, or this is ON PURPOSE. This administration is co-opting the symbol, from Kerry to Bush (via Tony Snow).

[Norrin Radd]

112. Do they get brown shirts to go with the yellow Snow bracelets? n/t

[SoCalDem]

114. Hah! Why not just have 'em all wear big yellow headbands (pic)

or a big ole yellow pimp hat

[Norrin Radd]

124. LOL!

That headband looks like it were made of muppet.

[SoCalDem]

115. Failure to comply will result in dress code

[Hubert Flottz]

116. That would match that streak up Bush's back...

Commander Crybaby ran away during the Vietnam war.

[B Calm]

117. only when the White House wears bracelets for the uninsured....

[eppur_se_muova]

118. Yellow bracelets with big, bold, black letters: LYING CAUSES CANCER

Call that a low blow if you want. I'd never be able to keep a WH press pass for a second.

[Kerrytravelers]

119. Wow. Should they all wear matching t-shirts, too? It's school dress-code day!

:eyes:

[RufusTFirefly]

120. Bracelets are new ultra small versions of Bush's debate transponder backpack? n/t

[qanda]

121. That's just not appropriate!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

122. How disgusting

It's a combination of loyalty oath and the Costanza "I don't want to wear a ribbon" thing.

[RedStateShame]

123. I have one already. Oh wait, it says "Tony Snow: Cancer."

Ooops.