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  Press Briefing by Tony Snow
SNOW: Well, the one thing that the President made clear -- and let me just pull up some of the comments he made when he was speaking with Ambassador Natsios -- is that the government in Khartoum needs to understand how serious we are about getting peace for the people in Darfur.
SNOW: No, what I'm saying is the Democrats -- by saying that their primary mission is to withdraw from Iraq without an assurance of victory means that you set in place conditions that could create absolute chaos in the region and around the world.
SNOW: Again, I've asked you to ask the soldiers what their view is. A lot of these people have re-upped two and three times because they think they're involved in something special.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/10/20061031-8.html   (7448 words)

  
  Tony Snow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (born June 1, 1955) is the White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush administration.
Snow was born in Berea, Kentucky, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Snow is known to reply to reporters' queries in a mocking and condescending manner, especially reporters who work for news outlets that have generally been regarded as unfriendly to the George W. Bush administration.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Snow   (1236 words)

  
 Tony Snow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tony Snow is the host of Weekend Live with Tony Snow, which airs each Saturday from 12-2 PM/ET on FOX News Channel (FNC).
Snow also serves as an FNC political analyst and contributes to the network’s political and election news coverage.
Snow’s career in journalism began in 1979 when he was an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina.
www.kwky.com /snow.htm   (277 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Fox pundit to be Bush's press secretary
Snow, a Fox news pundit and former speechwriter in the White House under Bush's father, replaced Scott McClellan who resigned in a personnel shuffle intended to re-energize the White House and lift the president's record-low approval ratings.
Snow's appointment is notable in a White House that has a reputation for not suffering criticism.
Snow is a smooth-talking Washington insider in a White House led by Texans proud of their outsider status.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002954712_websnow26.html   (720 words)

  
 NPR : I Know Tony Snow
Tony Snow is a standup guy who will handle the radical press corps with great alacrity, but, for the life of me, I can't understand why he would want the job.
When Tony Snow from Fox, the station that balks at the notion of being characterized as a Republican mouthpiece becomes, literally, a Republican mouthpiece, it is a sad moment in U.S. journalism.
Tony Snow is exactly the type of person Bush needs to get his message out in the last few years of his presidency.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5364736   (2075 words)

  
 TIME.com: Why Bush Chose Tony Snow as His New Spokesman -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Snow has talked to President Bush and was assured he will have "a seat at the table and all the access he wants and needs, including walk-in privileges and all that," the official said.
Snow, 50, had his colon removed when he was diagnosed with cancer last year and left his weekday radio show and weekend television show to undergo chemotherapy.
Snow was named Deputy Assistant to the President for Communications and Speechwriting in 1991, and Deputy Assistant to the President for Media Affairs in 1992.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1187608,00.html   (1097 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Profile: Tony Snow
Tony Snow was a speech writer for George W Bush's father
Tony Snow, the man named as the new White House press secretary, is no stranger to life on America's airwaves.
Mr Snow was also anchor of the high-profile Fox News Sunday television programme from 1996 to 2003, during which time he interviewed top Bush administration figures and foreign leaders.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4945752.stm   (469 words)

  
 TalkRadio 570 KLIF - Tony Snow
Tony Snow is the host of Weekend Live with Tony Snow, which airs each Saturday from 11am-1pm on FOX News Channel (FNC).
Snow also serves as an FNC political analyst and contributes to the network's political and election news coverage.
Snow's career in journalism began in 1979 when he was an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina.
www.klif.com /host-snow.html   (909 words)

  
 TIME.com: Snow Weighing White House Spokesman Job -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tony Snow, the conservative commentator and Fox News host, is awaiting a follow-up report from his oncologist before deciding whether to accept an offer to become President Bush’s third White House Press Secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan, an official close to Snow told TIME Tuesday morning.
Snow, 50, had his colon removed when he was diagnosed with cancer last year.
Snow was a guest on "The O’Reilly Factor" on Fox News last week and said: "You got to realize the press secretary not only has to answer questions, but you got to be an advocate for the people asking them when it comes to, you know, getting seats on the plane and doing that.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1187101,00.html   (922 words)

  
 The Belmont Club: The Tony Snow Press Gaggle
Tony addressed a group of journalists in Russia who were following the President, the transcript of which was sent to me by email.
SNOW: There were some draft resolutions underway before everybody headed over here.
SNOW: At this point -- look, I think -- the Israeli leaders have been consulted, and they've been consulted by the Secretary of State and the National Security Advisor.
fallbackbelmont.blogspot.com /2006/07/tony-snow-press-gaggle.html   (3128 words)

  
 Fox News's Snow to Become New White House Press Secretary - washingtonpost.com
Fox News commentator Tony Snow agreed last night to become White House press secretary after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates, people familiar with the discussions said.
Snow will become the first Washington pundit -- and an outspoken ideological voice at that -- to take over the pressroom lectern at a time when tensions between journalists and the administration have been running high, over issues ranging from the Iraq war to investigations involving leaks of classified information.
Snow was eased out of the job in 2003 in favor of Chris Wallace, and was given a weekend television show and a radio program that is also heard on XM and Sirius satellite radio.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/25/AR2006042501602.html   (1232 words)

  
 Bush names Snow as spokesman - Politics - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Snow, 50, replaces Scott McClellan, who stepped down in a White House personnel shuffle intended to re-energize Bush’s presidency, bring in new faces and lift the president’s record-low approval ratings.
One factor in Snow’s decision was that he had his colon removed last year and underwent six months of chemotherapy after being diagnosed with cancer.
Snow is the host of the “Tony Snow Show” on Fox News Radio and “Weekend Live with Tony Snow on the Fox News Channel.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/12486665   (714 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - On Deadline | Archives | The Tony Snow shows
Bush colluded with U.K's Tony Blair to fabricate the war in Iraq (the Downing St. Memos bear this out).However, for me, the most notable in the recounting of this FACT is the former CIA Chief in Europe, Tyler Drumheller.
Tony will now become the mouthpiece for Bush as the President fanatically strives to achieve hemispheric integration and the abolition of our nation's sovereignty.
Tony will be fair with the American people and help add confidence to the Bush Administration which it desperately needs.
blogs.usatoday.com /ondeadline/2006/04/the_tony_snow_s.html   (2672 words)

  
 Snow Pick May Signal Less Insular White House - washingtonpost.com
President Bush's decision to hire conservative commentator Tony Snow as his chief spokesman reflects a consensus among the president and his top advisers that his White House operation has been too insular and needs to be more aggressive in engaging with the news media and other Washington constituencies, according to Bush aides and outside advisers.
Snow, who in his roles as a pundit on Fox News and elsewhere has rapped Bush on several occasions, joined the White House only after extracting a promise that he would become an adviser to the president on day-to-day strategy.
Snow is an outspoken Republican, but he has not hesitated to pound Bush in writing and on air for his handling of the budget, as well as immigration and other domestic policies.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/26/AR2006042600558.html   (1234 words)

  
 Tony Snow
Snow was among the leading disseminators of the oft-repeated falsehood that Pres Bill Clinton rejected an offer from Sudan to "hand over" Osama bin Laden, and he has described the Guantanamo prison camp as "the most humane prisoner-of-war facility in history".
Friends have said Snow was a George McGovern liberal when he came to college, where he was known in the 1970s as the longhair with a penchant for playing the Jethro Tull tune "Aqualung" on his flute.
Snow is a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a well-connected foreign policy think tank whose membership includes DC insiders from Madeleine Albright to Mort Zuckerman.
www.nndb.com /people/917/000044785   (537 words)

  
 Media Matters - The many falsehoods of Tony Snow
Snow is the host of Fox News Radio's The Tony Snow Show, a regular commentator and guest host on Fox News, and a former speechwriter to President George H.W. Bush.
Snow falsely asserted that former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV said his wife, Valerie Plame, "wasn't covert for six years" before she was exposed as a CIA operative by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
Tony Snow is EXACTLY the kind of lying, suck-up, traitorous, treasonous, hypocritical, cement-headed excuse for a sentient being that this administration DEMANDS as a spokesman.
mediamatters.org /items/200604190003   (2200 words)

  
 Tony Snow: Classy, fearless and charming - one of the biggest news stars at MondoStars.com
Tony Snow is the White House press secretary for the George W. Bush administration.
Snow was born Robert Anthony Snow in Berea, Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio.
White House spokesman Tony Snow said: "Perhaps folks have not taken notice of the fact that this is an administration that's been keenly committed both to environmentalism and conservationism from the start."
www.mondostars.com /news/tonysnow.html   (744 words)

  
 Crooks and Liars » Tony Snow
Snow underwent surgery Monday to remove a small growth in his lower abdomen, a procedure he said last Friday was being done "out of an aggressive sense of caution" because he had colon cancer two years ago.
Tony Snow admitted that they knew about the conditions at Walter Reed before the article hit the stands, but he hedged his bets as he went on.
SNOW: I’ll just repeat our position, which is, as Speaker of the House, she is entitled to military transport, and that the arrangements, the proper arrangements are being made between the Sergeant of Arms office in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Department of Defense.
www.crooksandliars.com /category/white-house/tony-snow   (3332 words)

  
 Tony Snow Hints Secret Prisons Could Return -- But Avoids Being 'Snarky'
Snow bristled at questions, suggesting that reporters were “impugning” CIA officers and military personnel instead of trusting them to act responsibly.
Q Tony, when the high-profile prisoners were transferred to Guantanamo, we were told that the CIA prisons were empty.
SNOW: I said it was -- no, I said it was dormant during the period -- what happened was, when there was no law it was described as being dormant.
www.jonesreport.com /articles/181006_snow_secret_prisons.html   (1121 words)

  
 Tony Snow's Cancer Returns - Cancer information on MedicineNet.com
March 28, 2007 -- White House spokesman Tony Snow is facing a recurrence of colon cancer.
Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy in 2005 to treat the colon cancer.
"The news that Tony Snow has suffered a recurrence of colon cancer, coming on the heels of Elizabeth Edwards' announcement last week that her breast cancer has returned, points to why recurrence is such a worrisome issue for cancer patients," Frye says.
www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=80093   (582 words)

  
 President Announces Tony Snow as Press Secretary
Tony already knows most of you, and he's agreed to take the job anyway.
As a professional journalist, Tony Snow understands the importance of the relationship between government and those whose job it is to cover the government.
I appreciate Scott's offer to help Tony Snow prepare for his new job, and I'm proud to welcome Tony as part of our team.
www.whitehouse.gov /news/releases/2006/04/20060426.html   (635 words)

  
 Tony Snow - SourceWatch
"Snow In May?" National Journal / The Hotline Blog, April 25, 2006: "Snow is said by Republicans familiar with the negotiations to have asked for guaranteed access to the president's ear and to an unusually large degree of latitude to reconfigure the WH press operation.
Snow, not content to be a herald, also wants near-complete control over what he says from the podium, be it bromides, platitudes or substance.
Tony Snow, Fox News star, begins as the new White House press secretary on the day Karl Rove is called back to the federal grand jury," Guardian Unlimited (UK), April 26, 2006.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Tony_Snow   (1636 words)

  
 Media Matters - Even more Tony Snow falsehoods
But Snow ignored the bipartisan finding by the Senate Judiciary Committee that the investigators had possessed sufficient evidence but that FBI attorneys had applied a too-stringent standard for establishing probable, preventing the investigators from petitioning the court for authorization.
Media Matters previously noted that Snow had falsely asserted that Wilson said his wife "wasn't covert for six years" before she was exposed as a CIA operative by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
SNOW: As a matter of fact, when they seized the laptop of Zacarias Moussaoui, FBI agents decided not to go ahead and look at the contents because they were afraid they couldn't establish probable cause because they had no definite proof that the guy was a terrorist.
mediamatters.org /items/200604220001   (3251 words)

  
 Tony Snow | NewsBusters.org
Snow's smart enough to realize that the White House simply doesn't enjoy the kind of popularity it would need to survive a war with the beltway media right now, and the last thing he needs is the Milbanks of the world attacking his credibility on the eve of a major policy change in Iraq.
Snow was a veteran journalist and commentator before becoming press secretary, giving him much more experience than McClellan had before taking the job.
Snow got into a tussle with Gregory after the NBC journalist told him, in a lengthy remark, that the public may wonder why the president's statement and report today on the war on terror did not admit more failings on the administration's part.
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 Tony Snow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Tony Snow On President Bush: 'An Embarrassment,' 'Impotent,' 'Doesn't Seem To Mean What He Says', Here's some of what he's had to say about the President
Tony Snow openly and publicly used the racist epitaph "tar baby" on his first day on the job.
For Tony Snow to get a free pass from the corporate new media and get away with it shows how much the corporate new media is a shill for Republicans.
www.anycities.com /andyhifi/news/tonysnow.htm   (5899 words)

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