...and he's good lookin', too!!!
Posted on 10/28/2006 8:39:24 PM PDT by paulat
What He’s Trying to Say
By BEN WALLACE-WELLS
The White House, like any castle, has its own peculiar rituals, and in the five months that Tony Snow has been President George W. Bush’s press secretary, he has begun to learn them.
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...a man named Lester Kinsolving, a radio host and reporter for a Baltimore station with a big grin and game-show-host wavy hair, will interrupt a back-and-forth on, say, the operational capacities of Al Qaeda to read confounding questions he has written out, word for word, before the press briefing began.
“Tony,” Kinsolving began one morning in September, “The Washington Times noted on Page 1 that the Congressional Black Caucus will remain exclusively black. Does the president support or oppose this racial segregation, which excluded California Congressman Pete Stark — who risked his life for civil rights in Mississippi — because Stark was born white?”
Snow grinned and shook his head and began to point to some other reporter, any other reporter.
“No, wait a minute,” Kinsolving said, “are you just going to evade that question?”
“No,” Snow said, beginning to laugh, enjoying the exchange, his deep voice booming, “I’m going to laugh at it.” He did. So did the rest of the room.
Snow, who is 51, is 6-foot-4, with a genial lectern slouch and a chin that looks as if it were built for contact. But the first thing you notice about him is his facility at managing the fragile balance of a press room, its constant teeter between sincerity, open hostility and absurdity.
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...and he's good lookin', too!!!
Good choice for a Senate run or VP.
Tony was an inspired choice for press secretary.
For it to be positive, Snow must have told them -- off the record -- that he's pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-amnesty (actually I think he has said as much on this one), and anti-Second Amendment.
Ping.
You don't know Tony at all.
Having a problem are you. Take it elsewhere.
Tony Snow '08
Tony is pro life. He ain't no Cafe Catholic.
BTW aetius, tony snow is a freeper from way back.
You should have seen him 20 years ago!! Va va va voom!
Very nice!
After he left the first Bush White House, he stayed friendly with an obscure White House employee from New Jersey named Linda Tripp, who stayed on during the Clinton administration. When Tripp decided to write a tell-all book about the Democratic administration, it was Snow, of all her Bush White House contacts, she asked for help. Snow put Tripp in touch with the conservative literary agent and columnist Lucianne Goldberg. Later Tripp befriended Monica Lewinsky, who confided that she had been having an affair with the president, and a scandal was soon born.
That's what The Beltway Boys both said this afternoon.
Sure beats the heck out of osama-obama.
No truer words....
.....and one of his two best aspects is, it is hard to not like the guy (except if you are Helen Thomas or David Gregory) and he knows how to communicate with people so they can understand the issues. You might not agree with them but he gets you to understand where he is coming from.
Oh and one other thing he was a freeper, I suspect now with his new gig, he is a lurker.
Hey Tony don't forget to change your clock tonight.
oh Tony....had a crush on you back in highschool, based solely on your voice (subbed for Rush back then) and you columns. So happy to find out that you were totally gorgeous as well.
sigh........
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