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Here is what is going on:

Tony doesn't particuarly want the job. He was in gov't before, he just had all that stress with the cancer, he was loving his talk show, loving doing it, and thinking life was good 'as is', so it was really disappointing on one level that it even came up.

That being said, Tony realized that he has been a very vocal critic of Scott, and offered some suggestions, and has done an excellent job communicating with his listeners in a very informative and authoritative way without coming off as confrontational.

Tony is a patriot and loves this country... personally and on some level he doesn't want to do it, but his sense duty to country, and the honor he rightly places on 'being mentioned by the great mentioner', combined with the very honest belief that he could really help are compelling him to take it.

The 'negotiations' taking place from Thursday into the weekend were not about money or petty items like that. Tony wants to make sure that if he gives up his mouthpiece on the radio, where he is able to make good argument and break through the media fog, and challenge misconceptions, he won't be stripped of the very reason they want him. That is... what good would it be to have a great communicator like Tony, only to handcuff how he communicates what the president wishes to convey?

I mean we know Tony won't be "smacking down" anyone... I mean we all think it would be great, but he won't be "allowed" to ask reporters if they had been smoking rope... at least not with any regularity.

In short Tony was worried about being asked to do a job at the WH "like he is doing on the radio" but then be deprived of the very technique and argument style that worked in the first place.

The 'negotiations' were about what his role is, how he can 'ad lib'... Tony works on the radio because he actually believes in what he is talking about, and can pursue it with vigor and intellectual honesty. He worries about how 'well' he will do when called on to defend something he isn't as excited about as the WH.

Regardless Tony can have out whenever he wants. I for one think that if it ever comes to that Tony could have such a field day with the Washington Press Corps. I'm talking just 'over the line' Bulworth type going out of business rant on the lot of them. Hit the MSM, but call out punks by name, esp Gregory and Thomas. Next day, resign and return to Radio.

It'd be a great way to 'return' with additional audience, you'd strike a cord with at least half of Americans immediately, and an additional 30% down the road next time their PoV is offended by the MSM and they remember 'when Tony gave them whats what'

I for one think that if it ever comes to that Tony could have such a field day with the Washington Press Corps. I'm talking just 'over the line' Bulworth type going out of business rant on the lot of them. Hit the MSM, but call out punks by name, esp Gregory and Thomas. Next day, resign and return to Radio.

What he also might do is a burn-the-house-down kind of book about the professionally incompetent propagandists who call themselves journalists in that town, with the bullseye for the first flame thrown on that hideous drunk Helen Thomas's lipstick smeared mug. (Someone who cares about that poor old woman has to tell her that people with DT's should hang up the Revlon. Permanantly. In fact, there oughtta be a law.)