Snow Makes Solo Debut at Chaotic Briefing

ksl.com/AP ^ | 5/12/2006 | JENNIFER LOVEN

[defconw]

I don't trust them either. Tony has something Ari didn't have! US!

[acsrp38]

The cuss jar is not in that picture

[American Quilter]

Just got here--thanks for the ping!

[Scarchin]

Sorry if this is a repeat or old news.

You can subscribe to the briefings via podcast from the White House Web page.

[dinasour]

You can subscribe to the briefings via podcast from the White House Web page.

I just want them to show up anywhere.

Because of the non standard format of this gaggle, they my not have had a stenographer.

[American Quilter]

If Tony flew in like Superman, they would have reported on his failure to optain an FAA permit.

And if he'd answered every question perfectly, they'd have accused him of being scripted.

[dinasour]

The cuss jar is not in that picture   No problemo.

[Mercat]

Let's see. There are certain collective words, like a gaggle of geese, a parlement of owls, a murder of crows, an unpleastantness of ravens.

[dinasour]

And if he'd answered every question perfectly, they'd have accused him of being scripted.

LOL. Yep, I hadn't thought of that, but you're absolutely right.

[Howlin]

New White House press secretary Tony Snow suffered a couple missteps in his first question-and-answer session with the White House press corps Friday.

I wonder how much I'd have to donate to FR to get Jim to allow us to use profanity for just ONE THREAD??????

You know what I'm saying????????????????????????????

[defconw]

This might be a repost. but I am just catching up.

http://www.examiner.com/a-105992~New_White_House_press_secretary_continues_to_challenge_media_coverage.html

[FOXFANVOX]

"As the new kid on the block, I'm not fully briefed on the issue," he said.

All of this created an atmosphere of contention among the elbow-to-elbow press corps.

Gee, looks like the reporters can not accept the honest answer of I do not know. Probably, because it means they might have to actually go out and report rather than having the White House hand their story to them on a platter. Once Tony gets a little experience under his belt, he is going to have great fun with these "nattering nabobs"!

[humblegunner]

Surely someone could have calculated that the number of people who attend the gaggle wouldn't fit into X square feet. Seems like a pretty dumb mistake.

Snow is used to "callers" that take up no space.

[defconw]

Ari Fleischer held the gaggle in the office, they obviously could not nail Tony on anything he said, so in order to have something to write about they whined about the space!

[dinasour]

I think that was discussed this a bit in an earlier thread.

They are complaining about the rebuttals that the White House posted here: (probably written by Tony)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/setting-record-straight/

[defconw]

WOW! New feature at the White House! Was it under News?

[princess leah]

"Looks like Tony's Honeymoon with the media didn't survive the Wedding ceremony"

Yea, they it stopped at "if anyone here objects, please speak now"....and off went the liberal idiots blah,blah,blah!

[defconw]

Well I am not surprised, but Tony does have some friends, and more importantly he will fight back. He's an excellent writer.

[defconw]

Oh never mind, I usually get these from the GOP. (Setting the record straight), but it would appear that Tony is now involved with them it sounds like him.

[Enchante]

I sure hope the cleared their desks and locked everything away before they let a swarm of MSM reporters in there!! I can easily imagine reporters slipping away with any documents they noticed lying around......