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Classless AP Takes Cheap Shots at Just-Passed Snow
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Posted on 07/12/2008 7:04:01 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: Sub-Driver
It seems the UK Telegraph thinks more highly, by a long way, of Tony Snow than our own scurlous Associated Press.

Link to a respectful, factual article on Tony....full of high praise.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2294932/Tony-Snow,-television-host-and-former-White-House-press-secretary,-dies-of-cancer.html

41 posted on 07/12/2008 8:46:23 AM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out O)
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To: Sub-Driver

It seems the UK Telegraph thinks more highly, by a long way, of Tony Snow than our own scurlous Associated Press.

Link to a respectful, factual article on Tony....full of high praise.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2294932/Tony-Snow,-television-host-and-former-White-House-press-secretary,-dies-of-cancer.html


42 posted on 07/12/2008 8:46:59 AM PDT by HardStarboard (Take No Prisoners - We're Out O)
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To: Sub-Driver

Does this surprise anyone?

The reality is the MSM is in a full out culture war against us and they enjoy spitting on Tony’s grave.

The question should be, what are you going to do about it?


43 posted on 07/12/2008 8:53:48 AM PDT by Vision (The light of the body is the eye, if your eye is true all your body will be full of light. Matt 6:22)
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To: BluH2o

Well said.


44 posted on 07/12/2008 8:56:38 AM PDT by ReluctantDragon
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To: faithinchaos

“I’m sure the swamplands of DU & Kos will be even more “classy”.”

I was thinking the same thing. I’m sure the hateful scum at the DU are gearing up their “good riddance” posts in response to Tony Snow’s death.
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Hey, the mods here had to keep pulling the Ted Kennedy threads, remember?
There are jerks everywhere.


45 posted on 07/12/2008 9:24:38 AM PDT by soupcon
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To: KSCITYBOY

crAP


46 posted on 07/12/2008 9:27:43 AM PDT by jnygrl (A big mouth coupled with a small mind is a dangerous combination)
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To: mowowie; ilgipper

I suggested years ago that FR should maintain a roster of leftist media types, one that would include the author and his/her egregious articles. When you readtripe, e.g., the AP article on Tony Snow you would simply access the media roster and check the author’s history. Let me tell you, the media types hate it when they are called on their prejudices.


47 posted on 07/12/2008 9:35:18 AM PDT by Melchior
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To: Sub-Driver
ABC News had a short radio piece on Snow, just a passing mention, and said that Snow was a different kind of press secretary who "delivered conservative viewpoints for the President" or something like that. The implication was that Snow delivered the Bush line and not the truth.

All of the MSM were horrified that Tony Snow dared to put David Bonior and Helen Thomas in their place. He dared to call a liar a liar from the podium. They aren't used to that.

48 posted on 07/12/2008 9:58:18 AM PDT by Sender (Never lose your ignorance; you can never regain it!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Rush on Fox news now, talking about this.


49 posted on 07/12/2008 10:04:48 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: ilgipper
AP really is the problem at the base of the media bias. How can we lessen their influence?
Hear, hear!

The above link is my cut at analyzing why AP is the way it is - and why journalism is overrated as a result.


50 posted on 07/12/2008 10:24:23 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The conceit of journalistic objectivity is profoundly subversive of democratic principle.)
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To: Sub-Driver
I think the classless AP took their line from the utterly tasteless NYT. Their eulogy by a Sheryl Gay Stolberg, included this line:

At the White House, he turned the daily press briefing into something of a one-man show, challenging reporters’ questions and delivering hard-hitting answers, even when he was occasionally short on the facts. More than once, Mr. Snow was forced to apologize, as he did shortly after taking the job, when he erroneously said that Mr. Bush viewed embryonic stem cell research as murder.

As noted in this blog, four paragraphs later, the NYT eulogy for Mr. Snow contains this line: During Mr. Bush’s 2006 re-election campaign, Mr. Snow raised eyebrows by using his celebrity to raise money for Republican candidates — something that by Mr. Snow’s own admission, other press secretaries had declined to do for fear of seeming too partisan.

Wasn't Bush reelected in 2004?? Apparently the NYT is occasionally [and that's being generous] short on the facts.

51 posted on 07/12/2008 10:35:18 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sub-Driver

Rush took this on, on Fox. He said how he was really mad about this.


52 posted on 07/12/2008 10:40:57 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Sub-Driver

Oh, by the way, I was listening to someone else and they were talking about how Tony was extremely hard walking and his office was floor to wall books.

No command of the facts, nothing. AP is mad because when Tony took on their liberal icons, his masterful COMMAND of the facts would reduce them to dust.


53 posted on 07/12/2008 10:42:34 AM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: I still care

Very glad Rush took this on while he was on the air. Classless and disgusting are many among the “party of tolerance and love.”


54 posted on 07/12/2008 12:13:23 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Sub-Driver

CLASSLESS AP is very classless. My folks told me IF I CAN’T SAY SOMETHING NICE, DON’T SAY ANYTHING AT ALL. So since I can’t say what I’m thinking about those A$$HOLES at the A$$HOLE PRESS.


55 posted on 07/12/2008 12:48:16 PM PDT by MaineConservative (Charlie Summers -- an Iraqi Vet and businessman for Maine's CD-1)
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To: soupcon

Yeah, but do you think the mods there at DU will pull any threads or posts celebrating the death of Tony Snow?

Somehow I doubt that.


56 posted on 07/12/2008 1:19:15 PM PDT by faithinchaos (eternal pessimist, recovering optimist)
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To: HardStarboard; Sub-Driver
From the Telegraph's story:
Having briefly served as a speechwriter to the first President Bush, he accepted the call to take charge at the White House press podium in May 2006, replacing Scott McClellan, whose reputation was for seldom saying anything quotable or of substance.
ZING!!
57 posted on 07/12/2008 1:23:49 PM PDT by Constitutionalist Conservative (Global Warming Heretic -- http://agw-heretic.blogspot.com)
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To: Sub-Driver
AP you are so CRASS about death!! You need to go to HELL!!

Tony, Rest in Peace. You'll be at the table with some great leaders -- including Ronald Reagan.

58 posted on 07/12/2008 1:37:27 PM PDT by RightWingTeen (Caution: homeschooled teen with a Brain that works - LIBERALS you can't control me!!)
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To: bushfamfan

Well just having been honest about your failings you’ve taken a few more steps towards being a good Christian...


59 posted on 07/12/2008 2:04:21 PM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: faithinchaos

They delete posts about as much as our mods do.


60 posted on 07/12/2008 3:34:31 PM PDT by soupcon
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