Posted on 04/21/2008 1:40:02 PM PDT by abb
Topic: Miscellaneous items Date/Time: 4/21/2008 3:51:11 PM Title: Snow joins CNN as political contributor Posted By: Jim Romenesko
News Release
For Release: April 21, 2008
Tony Snow Joins CNN as Political Contributor
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning today, it was announced by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S.
A well-known and respected observer of politics with a longstanding news background, Snow will contribute to CNN as the network continues to broadcast winning political coverage.
Snow most recently served as press secretary to President George W. Bush from April 2006 to September 2007. For 10 years beginning in 1996, he appeared on Fox News Channel, hosting Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live with Tony Snow and other programs. From 2003 to 2006, The Tony Snow Show aired on Fox News Radio. Before joining Fox, Snow served as a substitute "From the Right" co-host for CNN's Crossfire.
"In the White House, Tony brought a remarkably human touch to the discussion of public policy, which he will continue to do as part of the Best Political Team on Television," Klein said. "He will contribute a unique breadth of political and journalistic expertise to what is already the most provocative and wide-ranging political analysis on the air."
"I'm delighted to be able to join CNN during the most exciting and unpredictable political year in memory,” Snow said. “The big challenge in 2008 is to develop deep, creative and aggressive analysis of both political parties, their candidates and campaigns. I’m eager to get started, since this race is sure to shape American politics for years to come."
During the 1990s, Snow was a regular guest host for Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. He was the writer, correspondent and host of a PBS news special, The New Militant Center, a regular commentator for National Public Radio and a frequent guest on numerous televised news programs. Snow joined the administration of President George H. W. Bush in 1991 and served first as chief speechwriter and then as media affairs adviser.
In addition to his experience in government, television and radio, Snow spent more than two decades as an award-winning newspaper writer beginning with the Greensboro Record in 1979. He went on to be a columnist for USA Today and Creators Syndicate and an editorial page editor for The Washington Times.
CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.
Ping.
Talk about going into the lion’s den.
No! Not the Darkside!
Talk about being the only chicken in a hen house full of foxes.
YEAH!!!
I’ve missed seeing Tony on tv. Wish he’d have his own show again.
ping
Alas, poor Tony, we knew you when.....
Now you are just one more presstitute working for the Demoncraps media organ.
Shame on you!
CNN REALLY IS in the tank for the Republicans...
I knew it!
;->
Good for him! Good for us too.
Normally one would need a knotted rope, a bag of meth, and a sex toy...but I think Tony Snow can handle it without the accoutrements.
Tony, I’m sure you will do your best to try to bring some light and reason to the dark side..... but just remember that you’re dealing with ‘colleagues’ now who think a romp in Central Park at 3:40 am with a noose, some meth, and a gay boy toy is a good way to live.......
"If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you're not forever a speeder, are you?" White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner.
Tony, you will fit right in at the Clinton News Network.
Suprised he didn’t end up back at FOX.
LOL. Looks like you beat me to the draw by 3 seconds on this one!!!!
Does this signal his jumping the shark?
Hmmm, I’m going to have to figure out when Tony will be on so I can only switch over to see him and then run quickly away.
I am glad for him.
CBS would have been smart to replace Katie Couric with Tony Snow. At least Snow will bring some free air to liberal news central.
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