Looks like he's feeling much, much better. That's our "Don".
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.
Kind of a tough crowd here for one of our own! Let’s give him a chance.
Someone give this man a link! It’s too dreadful and distasteful to try to explain here.
I like Tony Snow, but Christ he ain't. Dollar signs are a massive temptation to an ordinary mortal. I like to think I am an honorable Christian man, but I am honest enough to know that there is a very short list of things I wouldn't do if someone pulled an armored car up to my house and started unloading bags of cash!
Don't wrestle with pigs: you both get muddy and pigs like it.
“Tony jumped the shark...”
I agree. I was hoping he just felt obligated to present the President’s views while being an employee and all. But it appears that was his true feeling.
I read your reply ... and thank you for it.
But, you’re way too angry at so many things, bordering on the irrational, that it’s impossible for me to engage in a further conversation with you.
So let’s just release our discussion.
I do wish you Godspeed.
Bordering on the irrational? OK, if you say so.
We’ll agree to disagree.
Best to you.
Do what you gotta do Tony! Keep the faith!
and God’s speed.
See...I KNEW we could agree on something. ;-)
Its going to take more than Tony Snow to get me to watch CNN for anything.
Oh BS, it's good more conservatives are on other channels.....why preach to the same choir?
Well, I just tried to turn off Shep and went to CNN, but I got Lou Dobbs, so I turned back to Shep.
Good for Tony. I have been watching CNN exclusively since Fox News became McCain campaign headquarters. CNN is far more balanced. Cafferty really slams McCain, which is why I watch.
“Talk about being the only chicken in a hen house full of foxes.”
Sort of makes you feel bad for the foxes.
Why would he go to CNN instead of back to Fox? I would think Fox would welcome him with open arms. I just don’t understand this - maybe they offered a s**t load more money?
references are to the arrest the other night of Richard Quest of CNN, who was caught in Central Park having a kinky episode with a rope, meth, an unnamed man, and a “sex toy” in the trunk of his car..... [of course since it is hardly illegal to possess a “sex toy” I don’t know why that was mentioned, but it does add to the entertainment]
Quest, 46, best-known for his work as CNN’s business travel specialist and his eponymously-titled show Quest, was arrested in New York’s Central Park with methamphetamine in his pocket.
Initial reports indicated he had been arrested for loitering and violating the park’s curfew.
Quest was busted around 3:40am when police found him and another man inside the park near 64th street, sources say.
The park is normally closed between 1 am and 6 am.
But there’s more to this scandal than meets the eye.
The New York Post is reporting that Quest not only had drugs in his pocket, he also had a rope around his neck that was tied to his genitals.
Aside from the strategically placed rope, the newspaper also reports that a police search uncovered a sex toy inside the boot of his car.
And here’s the punch line...
The Post (with nary a whiff of irony) says “It wasn’t immediately clear what the rope was for.”
I’d draw you a diagram, but my editor would most likely castrate me.
No, I wasn’t offended. I just didn’t think you understood that I admire Tony Snow and meant nothing against him at all. It’s just that I don’t think CNN has ever been a ‘trusted’ news source much less ‘the most trusted’.
You are forgiven. lol!
Looks like he's feeling much, much better. That's our "Don".
LOL. The Snowlioni.
And he is looking very well.
BO, Yep, you hit the nail...I had the same thought. He could be the single voice of reason at CommieNN and make a pile o’$$$ at the same time...I pray his health is good enough to put up with the stoopid people there...
God bless you, Tony. Even if I could get cnn on the DISH family package, I still wouldn’t taint my TV, even for you.
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