Posted on 04/22/2006 8:00:41 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON Conservative commentator Tony Snow, on the short list to replace Scott McClellan as White House press secretary, played a small but pivotal backstage role in uncovering the sex scandal that nearly sank the Clinton administration.
Snow, who worked as a speechwriter for President Bush's father in the early 1990s, introduced White House whistle-blower Linda Tripp to literary agent Lucianne Goldberg, who later helped Tripp tease out Monica Lewinsky's detailed description of her affair with Bill Clinton.
In summer 1996, Snow reached out to Goldberg, a longtime friend, after Tripp called him for help writing a tell-all book about Clinton.
"Tony called and said, 'Do me a favor, talk to a friend of mine who wants to write a book about the White House,' " Goldberg said Friday from her Manhattan apartment.
"Nothing sinister. I get these calls all the time. I don't even think he thought Linda had a book in her."
The Fox radio host and occasional Rush Limbaugh stand-in became friends with Tripp when both worked for the elder Bush.
Tripp, a clerical worker who shared Snow's conservative views, remained at the White House after Clinton took office and Snow left.
Goldberg disputes reports that Snow, 50, later intervened to patch up a feud between Tripp and herself.
"The rift between us was never that big," she said. "He never called me a second time."
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I've heard the same about Tori Clark, that she won't do it. But I do think she's better than Tony. With her out, he's first choice - but, again, he better also get a policy position or else he'll be dead meat within the WH in less than two weeks upon job entry.
"How can food be less expensive if it is grown in South America and shipped to the U.S. - the price of shipping is expensive."
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The answer to your question is the same answer to the question of what is driving Detroit to the cemetery. Unions, unions, unions.
Unions were a necessity when they came into being; unfortunately, they replaced the power mad problem they came into being to address. The cost of picking fruit is miniscule if you have non-union labor, less than the cost of the fruit.
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This Vietnam Veteran remembers calling into TONY SNOW, one fine 4th of July years ago, to expose then CNN Reporter PETER ARNETT's knowing better than to call our U.S. Army soldiers ...killers of their own in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War
This was on that morning's RUSH LIMBAUGH Show.
Long ago PETER ARNETT was an on hand witness to the true heroism of my fellow U.S. Army Soldiers at the 1st Major Battle of the Vietnam War. This in the Valley of Death known as the IA DRANG Valley of November 1965.
A battle later immotalized in the 2002 RANDALL WALLACE Motion Picture titled "WE WERE SOLDIERS" starring MEL GIBSON as my Commanding Officer, Lt. Col. HAL G. MOORE.
Months after my telling America on Talk Radio that PETER ARNETT "Just knew better"...than to be doing what he was doing...
...PETER ARNETT was no longer on CNN.
MEL's -PASSION- sparked by -WE WERE SOLDIERS-
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Yes, handsome indeed. And now, that he'll be standing up, you'll get to see how tall he is (I believe 6'4")
Dan Senor.
Thanks for the help, him too. But he's associated with the CPA in Iraq. I don't think that works in his favor.
It does and it doesn't.
If you go strictly by polls and the sensitivity of the issue, it works against him.
If you go by getting more informative and aggressive on the issue, in a professional way of course, it favors someone with his kind of experience and knowledge.
I remember when California had strong, strict, labor laws and thought, "Why the need for unions?"
The old way of getting produce to market changed radically - to include the middle men, who have more middle men. And I never did understand why Florida oranges were shipped to California when California had a plentiful supply of citrus.
Milk thrown out by the gallons to keep up the price. Cheese bought by the government to keep the price up. All of these products are taxed over and over, tax upon taxes. Bread, think about all the taxes that get a loaf of bread to your table.
The system is screwed up. The monetary system is ridiculous. Somewhere there must be an economic genius who could think up a common sense method of exchange.
Why should a family have to pay anywhere from 5% to 15% interest for 30 years to finally own a home - to a bank that does nothing but "make work" paperwork and count "money" that has no worth?
Wait till the day China owns the U.S., and countries begin calling in the loans we have made with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Which, when I think of it (often), why would the greatest country ever known to mankind need to take out loans? Our currency is worthless without the backing of something of value, whether it be production or silver or gold.
The pork we hear so much about is the excess money that Congress spends after Social Security, etc., recipients are paid. They give IOU's to the Federal Reserve - and I'd have to go back to the 1930's to explain that fiasco.
I'm tired. Tired of it all! Don't even get me started on stockholders.
Bad impression but funny. That is Mark Levin, not Ann Coulter.
If that's the case how about Zell Miller. He would be fun.
Isn't Dan Senor a Democrat? He recently married a CNBC newschick (Campbell Brown).
IF you believed the polls. I never did.
Understatement... and thank God he won't.
Also, look who's doing the "adoring." GWB's legacy will be borne out historically to be great. All people think of with Clinton was the blue dress. No, President George W. Bush will never have such a legacy.
Wascally Wabbit amungus?
This is such a stupid article.
Tony will talk about it as Press Secretary or as a journalist, one way or another he will get the story out..
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