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Tony Snow has been forced to give up his job as White House press secretary because it put him in the poor house, and Dana Perino is taking over.
I don’t know which half of that sentence is funnier.
Here’s the reason Snow has given for his departure:
Snow, battling a recurrence of colon cancer he […]
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The word is that Freddie Thompson is planning to show us his this week.
The campaign of Fred D. Thompson, who has been running for president for months, formally announced yesterday that he would formally announce his bid for the Republican nomination for president next Thursday.
That’s as effective and succinct a statement as I have […]
The Iraqi parliament has now taken off for their August recess. But that’s not the real story. It was, after all, already known that’s that what they were going to do (despite all the king’s horses, and all the king’s men).
Here’s the AP report on the subject, hot off the press:
Iraq’s parliament adjourned […]
White House press secretary Tony Snow (7/20/07):
Q Do you have the numbers from the attacks in other parts of the country that are covered by the surge?
MR. SNOW: No, but we’ll try to pull that together, because I think what you’ve seen is a declining level in the overall pace of attacks.
Daily attacks in Iraq […]
It really couldn’t have been much fun to be Tony Snow on Friday the 13th in the spanking new White House press briefing room.
First up, Martha Raddatz of ABC News:
Q Is the Iraqi government and the Iraqi parliament taking the month of August off?
MR. SNOW: Probably, yes. Just not –
Q They’re taking the entire month […]
Tony Snow this morning brought his own unique clarifying perspective to bear on President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence.
Here’s a quote-collage synopsis of Tony’s performance:
It’s correct that “politics did not play into this decision at all”. To “think of this as the bestowal of a favor is simply utterly to misconstrue the nature” […]
Loyal readers may remember the good old days when 1115 would regularly report the results of original investigative reporting.
We may have stopped publishing these reports, but I never dismantled my network of undercover flies-on-the-wall and flies-in-the-ointment. They stayed in place like some cold war era spy network. Accidental field reports (e.g. webcams left […]
Remember, the White House Press Secretary speaks for the President. His answers are the official position of the White House and the President. This isn’t Kellyanne Conway spinning on Crossfire, it’s Tony Snow at the White House podium.
I’m waiting on the edge of my seat for the excuse and scolding for daring to […]
You may have read or heard some or all of the following statements.
Gen. David Petraeus: During Secretary Gates’ recent visit to Iraq, we agreed that in early September, Ambassador Ryan Crocker and I would provide an assessment of the situation in Iraq with respect to our mission and offer recommendations on the way ahead. We […]
Tony Snow, in one of his finest moments:
Q But doesn’t the indefinite holding of this many prisoners under these circumstances really undercut the President’s arguments in favor of democracy worldwide, as he just spoke about in his speech –
MR. SNOW: How does it do that?
Q That’s what I’m asking you.
MR. SNOW: No, the question doesn’t […]
