Hooray for Tony Snow

AndrewSullivan.com [Rockefeller snowed] ^ | October 13, 2003 | tony snow/ jay rockefeller

[Sci Fi Guy]

So why didn't the President say it was an imminent threat?

maybe because it wasn't? Remember our goal was to stop saddam before he could nuke our troops or Israel, or pass along chem/boi weapons to his terrorist supporters.

[lawdude]

F'in A.

Had Bush said an attack was imminent, I would have demanded a nuke be dropped in Baghdad and Mecca and Tehran and beautuful downtown Saudi Arabia,... and mebbe one thrown in for good measure at North Korea.

Any more would be over-reacting!

[BillF]

Thanks to Tony Snow and Andrew Sullivan.

Sullivan previously applauded [click here and scroll to Oct. 11, 2003] an alert person (I'm guessing it was a FReeper) who nailed the producer of the PBS Frontline hitpiece about Iraq.

The producer was at the Washington Post website chat, scoll to comments from Boston, Mass. The Frontline lie was the same as Rockefeller was making: the false claim that Bush asserted an imminent threat.

[BillF]

Your Senator is a liar, but you knew that.

[Roscoe Karns]

I saw that and posted it here (Frontline concedes).

Andrew Sullivan is great. Best blog on the web.

[auboy]

This morning on Fox News, Wendell Goller (sp) showed a clip of Rockefeller from yesterday's interview with Tony. Just Rockefeller spewing his lies. Nothing of Tony calling him on his lies. I was livid. Wendell just threw one of Rockefeller's statements lies in the report like it was gospel. Methinks Wendell's Harley leans to the left.

[lambo]

It's just occurred to me that when David Kay finishes his report in nine or so months, the government should radidly release a novel-length and reader-friendly but well annotated synopsis, much like The Starr Report and The Starr Evidence, both best-selling books at the time they were released. The mere act of publishing such a report should signal to those in the middle of the political spectrum, where the swing votes in the 2004 election will be, that there's something here of sufficient importance that the mainstream media cannot be trusted to pre-digest it for them.

[BillF]

Right you are. That's where I first read it, on FR. Thanks for posting it.

It just is outrageous how the Dems and much of the media keep repeating "no imminent threat" and "Bush said that there was an immiment threat."

Snow, Sullivan, and Brit Hume are some of the few who keep reminding people of the truth.

[lawdude]

"I love Tony Snow! Three Cheers!"

Has anyone noticed that FNS has gotten more aggressive in attacking the liar dems where they sit? Tony did it y'day and Brit took on some dem liars this afternoon. He quoted their lies and then... CALLED THEM LIES.

Well, not in so few wrods but he has to TRY to get along in the beltway.

And Cavuto, that roly-poly little trouble maker, did a very good job on some Dem hack this afternoon and called her on her sh!t comments about Rush. He as much as said she was covering truth because she didn't like Rush. He had her backpeddling. Funny

[JamesA]

This is exactly why I watch "Fox news" Snow is amoung the best.

[sandlady]

... based upon the revelations that there don't appear, at least to this point, to be any weapons of mass destruction. I've heard David Kay a number of times now. He has not indicated that. He's talking about perhaps they were all burned up or gotten rid of.

...It's going another six to nine months to find out if he had these weapons of mass destruction or not.

Hmmmm...he sounds a little conflicted. I bet the dems won't let him out to play again anytime soon.

[Hillarys nightmare]

I am proud to say the following; "Rush is right!" The left has no new tactics. They simply continue in their old tried and true Communist play book.
Make up an outrageous lie, distort and impune, don't back away, no matter how damaging the evidence against their assertions, and before too long, the public will start to believe it.

These poor wretches just can't accept the fact that their old tricks are not working anymore, ( ie. Califonia Recall)and the ones who do, have nothing new to offer.

Eventhough I enjoy it when a "real" reporter like Snow, catches them in their own muck, and then exposes them for what they are, my joy is but short lived. Because, before the week is over, there is another leftist(with precieved authority) who is gaining media attention with a "New and improved distortion", as they attempt to again destroy someone or something, that is true, good, or correct.
That is why I refer to them as the party of PERVERTS!

What is the difference between a Democrat and a Communist?
The Communist know what they are doing!
I some times wonder if there is a difference?

[Wphile]

BTTT!

I'm so sick of this "imminent threat" business. W never said it and he made it pretty darn clear, even to an "average American" the likes of which Sen. Rockfeller apparently has absolutely no respect for. Piss off Rockfeller. I heard the speech and I understood it and I didn't even need some arrogant Senator to tell me what he met. The dems are so pathetic.

[Howlin]

The thing is, I thought WE settled this MONTHS ago, simply by looking at the actual speech; back in the days of "yellow cake."

Are they that far behind the news, or are that far ahead?

[MEG33]

During the Rosenberg anniversary threads,McCarthy discussions,Coulter's book discussions I learned more about the tactic of the communists and radicals.The Soviets loved their useful idiots.Castro has many.The CPUSA had MoveOn linked on their site.

[malia]

"Finally, a leftie gets challenged. Thank you, Tony!"

Yes, Tony, thank you. But I hope this is just the beginning!!! You will have a much better show if you challenge every twisted lie. Lies that have been out there since May/June. Be firm! be loud! be strong!

[Wphile]

I guess the dems just think we are stupid. Thank God for FNC. At least they uncover the old quotes and the actual speeches. The rest of the press corps too damn busy fawning over the dems all the time they never bother to check the record.

I think I'll write a letter to the editor tomorrow.

[VOA]

So why didn't the President say it was an imminent threat?

My inexpert guess is because Dubya was playing it safe.
He's watched enough Republicans get slit due to a a paper trail.

Besides, Dubya may have decided that Saddam's threat was only about as "imminent" as
maybe the couple of hours (to maybe a week) it would take for some chem/bio WMD to be
synthesized and deployed, as per the scenario Kenneth Pollack made before
Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched. And this would also fit with
what inspector David Kay has found so far.

[MJY1288]

See post 56 and ask those questions often when a liberal starts spewing the leftist nonsense that we had no post war plan.

My older brother started to prepare to go to Iraq in June of 2002 and he had nothing to do with any War Plans. The plan was well in the planning and he was preparing for the possibility of post war reconstruction and stability for Iraq, the problem was that the War planners thought Bagdad would not fall for 6 to 8 weeks, not THREE WEEKS

This notion that there was no Post War Plan is HOGWASH, and my brother is proof

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

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