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Contentious exchanges between White House press secretaries and members of the media have been fairly commonplace during the past few presidential administrations. However, the one that took place Wednesday between White House press secretary Robert Gibbs and April Ryan of American Urban Radio, in which Gibbs essentially compared Ryan to a petulant child, is among the most heated (and entertaining) in recent memory. The testy exchange was sparked by Ryan's insistent questioning of White House social secretary Desiree Rogers' role at the recent state dinner, which has been in the headlines because of the fallout from Tareq and Michaele Salahi's...

WASHINGTON – A close associate says Jody Powell, who was White House press secretary during Jimmy Carter's presidency, has died. Powell, a Georgia native known for his deep Southern drawl, worked on Carter's presidential campaign in 1976 and served as the Carter's spokesman between 1977 and 1981. The cause of death was not immediately known.

It has been one year since Tony Snow died. How I miss this man! Just wanted to put up a thread to remember a very good man who kept the press people on their toes in the White House. How I wish we could see another Tony Snow there!

Oil is going to reach $150 USD per barrel by winter. Gasoline will hit $6 USD per gallon in the USA. What are we going to do then?

McCurry doubts Clinton's fitness for office Mike McCurry: "Flabbergasted that he could be so reckless" The former White House press spokesman, Mike McCurry, says he has "enormous doubts" about President Bill Clinton's fitness for office. Mr McCurry told the BBC's Newsnight programme President Clinton's behaviour was "surely reckless" and "contrary to the way you would expect a rational human being to behave". Asked whether he thought Mr Clinton was fit to be president, Mr McCurry, who had maintained his silence on presidential issues since his resignation in October, said: "I have enormous doubts because of the recklessness of his...

Like it or not, the reality is that we live in an extremely self-centered society. If you take issue with this statement just watch how pedestrians enter into crosswalks during rush hour. Ignoring that pedestrians only have the right of way when they are within the crosswalk, today’s bipeds don’t hesitate at all to walk directly in front of moving vehicles, expecting to be protected from trauma by their imagined “right” to occupy a space versus a 4,000lbs vehicle. While this example illustrates how being self-centered – or arrogant...or vacuous – can cause personal harm, these same character flaws can...

As all the left wing pundits are promoting Scott McClellan’s new “Tell All” book about the Bush administration it’s been revealed that the publisher is a close ally of George Soros and has published Soros’ books along with a multitude of other left wing authors.

Fox News alert as seen on TV. Tony Snow to resign as White House press secretary effective Sept. 14.

Tony Snow to step down as WH Press Secretary...

Financial pressures force Snow departure By TERENCE HUNT, AP White House Correspondent WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Tony Snow said Friday he'll leave sometime before the end of the Bush presidency because of financial pressures. He declined to say when he would depart, but that, "I'm going to stay as long as I can." The 52-year-old Snow, the father of three children, earns $168,000 as an assistant to the president but made considerably more as a conservative pundit and syndicated talk-show host on Fox News Radio. He was named press secretary on April 26, 2006. The White House has...

White House Press Conference with Tony Snow. See the Presser Live at 1 PM, 10 minutes from now, today on CSPAN 2 with our friend, Tony Snow. Dinasour is away for the week so you will have a generic post here, minus the swell bells and whistles, but good enough for government work. You can view CSPAN on live at: http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS . Welcome all. Bahbah is watching so be kind, this is my final freeper poster exam!

Naming Tony Snow press secretary is President Bush's most promising decision since Hurricane Katrina winded him nearly seven months ago. The president should let the veteran commentator craft and disseminate the administration's message in clever and concrete ways, as the capable Snow can do. Snow approaches his position with something outgoing press secretary Scott McClellan lacks: the ability to communicate. McClellan, surely a nice man who loves his country and his family, looks pained and frightened at his briefings. Sniffing blood in the water, reporters chomp into him like sharks devouring a walrus. This leaves McClellan with little to do...

When the White House press corps first starts asking questions of new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, the first question should be, "Sir, exactly what are you trying to hide?". There are a plethora of glib answers one could give to such a question, but the fact remains, Mr. Snow was a regular poster over at Free Republic ( http://www.freerepublic.com ), and as one can see from the link and quote below, overnight when it was announced he would be the new press secretary, the mountain of information Mr. Snow had submitted and had posted on the site disappeared....

The Washington press corps -- working in an industry that's been transformed by talk radio, 24-hour cable news and the Internet -- still views the White House briefing room as it was back in the 1950s -- or the '60s, '70s, '80s or even early '90s. Despite dramatic changes forged by live coverage and instant analysis, the press fondly adheres to the notion that the briefing can be conducted the way it used to be. But as Tony Snow, the new White House press secretary, will soon discover, the briefing is no longer a briefing, it's a TV show. Gone...

In naming Snow, president chooses a press secretary unafraid to voice his 'own opinions' WASHINGTON - After being tapped by President Bush as the new White House press secretary, Fox News personality Tony Snow on Wednesday wasted no time switching on his spin machine, describing his past differences with the administration as an asset now. "They want people to express their opinions," Snow said of the famously insular Bush White House. "You're not coming here to drink the Kool-Aid, you're coming to serve the president." As an outspoken conservative pundit, Snow has called Bush politically "impotent" and complained in his...

Just wanted to share a photoshop I came up with, depicting the vultures in White House Press Room, under the new Snow regime.

President Bush introduced conservative TV commentator and radio talk show host, and FReeper [until, as I read on Free Republic, Jim Robinson, in anticipation of the announcement, suspended Tony's FR account] Tony Snow as his new press secretary. The president briefed members of Congress at the WH on the war on terror. The First Couple met with the 2006 National and State Teachers of the Year. Secretary of State Rice Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq today for an unscheduled visit with new Iraqi leaders. Part of the visit is a show of support for the country's new leadership....

Tony Snow announcement as Press Secretary at the White House set for 9:10 am Eastern / 6:10 am Pacific . . .

See for example this thread first. McClellan got the old heave-ho To be replaced by Tony Snow And what the left ruesHe came from Fox News! He'll tell Hel'n Thomas where to go!

WASHINGTON - Conservative pundit Tony Snow will be named White House press secretary, Republican officials said Tuesday night, in the latest move in President Bush’s effort to remake his troubled White House. Snow is expected to be named on Wednesday. He will replace Scott McClellan, who is stepping down in a White House makeover intended to re-energize Bush’s presidency, bring in new faces and lift the president’s record-low approval ratings. McClellan had served as Bush’s chief spokesman — the most prominent public figure in the White House after Bush — for nearly three years. Snow, a Fox News commentator and...

Helen Thomas. Get out! No soup for you! CONGRATULATIONS, MY FRIEND! MIDI - LET IT SNOW Helen Thomas is very frightful...yes, the old bag is so spiteful Someone saves the day we know... Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow Scum Gregory had been screaming...poor McClellan got a reaming Someone saves the day we know... Tony Snow, Tony Snow, Tony Snow As I'm listening to the news...there is one thing I so want to hear That the sergeant at arms was called...Helen's thrown out on her rear Then John Roberts calls seconds sloppy...that guy has a little floppy Someone saves the...

WASHINGTON — Tony Snow will be named new White House press secretary on Wednesday morning, FOX News has learned. Snow is expected to be at the White House for the announcement. He has been mulling the offer for the last several days.

Alan of all people announces that Tony will be the next Press Sec, announcment from the White House will happen tomorrow morning!

Breaking on CNN, Tony plans to take the job at the White House.

At the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans. He assembled a best-and-brightest team with résumés bristling with brand names like his own--Princeton, Stanford, Goldman Sachs. "He used to brag that he had all these Supreme Court clerks from Harvard working for him," recalled a campaign veteran. Bolten was happy to let others preen in meetings while he waited to make a killer point at the end. He has thrived by showing, very quietly, that he is indispensable. Now as President Bush's...

Based on suggestions from the breaking post about Scott McClellan’s resignation, here are some auditions of the nominees so far: Dennis Miller “President Bush and China’s President Hu Jintao met today over a passive aggressive plate of low fat Chinese chicken salad and Asian style Rice-a-roni. Hats off to the chefs down in White House kitchen for working so hard to make our foreign friends feel at home. I heard the last time Vincente Fox was here the Minutemen infiltrated the shmorg line and built a wall along the salsa/guacamole border with 700 beef enchiladas. And by the way, darn...

POLL: Would Tony Snow Be A Good Press Secretary? Yes 89% No 11% Total Votes: 1282

AUSTIN – Nearly 10,000 supporters of Gov. Rick Perry received a video e-mail on Tuesday telling them his GOP primary opponent, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, is in cahoots with a lying, Bush-hating liberal. The Democrat in question, former Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes, is on the host committee for a Strayhorn fundraiser scheduled for today in Austin.

In a July 17 story, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of the Washington Post had to admit, in recapping White House statements about the Valerie Plame case, that White House spokesman Scott McClellan was usually careful to disavow involvement "in any illegal leak, though his public statements clearly left an impression of a White House aloof to the affair." This is the key to understanding White House statements about the case and the reported White House role. If you read the transcripts of McClellan's briefings, it is clear that McClellan had denied a White House role in a criminal disclosure...

Public relations bills submitted to the Port of Los Angeles by a Fleishman-Hillard executive who is now Mayor James Hahn's press secretary were marked up by more than $1,700 in 2003 without documentation that extra work was done, according to records and interviews. Shannon Murphy, who left the firm less than two months later to replace Matt Middlebrook, who joined Fleishman-Hillard, declined to be interviewed but said in a statement that the handwritten additions to her billing statements were "outrageous." A company official said the "write-ups" lacked supporting documentation that the extra work was ever performed. The paperwork appears to...

For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary December 17, 2004 Press Briefing by Scott McClellan The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room Press Briefing 12:47 P.M. EST MR. McCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everybody. The President was pleased to be joined this morning by congressional leaders, September 11th Commission members, and some families of victims of the September 11th attacks as he signed into law the most far-reaching intelligence reforms in nearly 60 years. The President's most solemn responsibility is the safety and security of the American people. And the reforms he signed into law today build upon the significant steps...

Texas native McClellan named press secretary 06/21/2003By DAVID JACKSON / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON – President Bush officially named fellow Texan Scott McClellan to be his new press secretary Friday. Currently deputy press secretary, Mr. McClellan replaces Ari Fleischer, who is leaving the White House later this month to re-enter the private sector. "I am, one, sad that Ari is leaving," Mr. Bush told reporters as he introduced his new top spokesman. "Fortunately, I've got a good man to take his place." Mr. McClellan, 35, who began working for Mr. Bush when he was Texas governor four-and-a-half years...

Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary, is famous. But I knew him back when he was merely infamous, as chief Republican spokesman on the House Ways and Means Committee. He spoke with a cool, quick certainty, unhindered by any sense of conscience. A profile in GQ--not many Hill staffers receive such attention--dubbed him the "flack out of hell." The typical press secretary shovels out fairly blunt propaganda, the kind reporters can spot a mile away and sidestep easily. But Fleischer has a way of blindsiding you, leaving you disoriented and awestruck. Once, about six years ago, I called to...