Former White House press secretary, and faux new contributer.

Good man lost. I thought things were looking up for him

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Originally posted by samh32:
Former White House press secretary, and faux new contributer.

Nice of you to throw that in. He was more recently hired on by CNN. Prayers go out for his wife and three children.

Report: Ex-Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies of cancer
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL (Associated Press Writer)
From Associated Press
July 12, 2008 6:27 AM EDT

WASHINGTON - Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, has died of colon cancer, Fox News reported Saturday. Snow was 53 years old.

Snow, who served as the first host of the television news program "Fox News Sunday" from 1996 to 2003, would later say that in the Bush administration he was enjoying "the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have."

Snow was working for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as press secretary in May 2006 during a White House shake-up. Unlike McClellan, who came to define caution and bland delivery from the White House podium, Snow was never shy about playing to the cameras.

With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook - if not always a command of the facts - he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.

He served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. In 2005 doctors had removed his colon and he began six months of chemotherapy. In March 2007 a cancerous growth was removed from his abdominal area and he spent five weeks recuperating before returning to the White House.

He resigned as Bush's chief spokesman six months later, in September 2007, citing not his health but a need to earn more than the $168,000 a year he was paid in the government post. In April, he joined CNN as a commentator.

In that year and a half at the White House, Snow brought partisan zeal and the skills of a seasoned performer to the task of explaining and defending the president's policies. During daily briefings, he challenged reporters, scolded them and questioned their motives as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing.

Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.

Although a star in conservative politics, as a commentator he had not always been on the president's side. He once called Bush "something of an embarrassment" in conservative circles and criticized what he called Bush's "lackluster" domestic policy.

Most of Snow's career in journalism involved expressing his conservative views. After earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1977 and studying economics and philosophy at the University of Chicago, he wrote editorials for The Greensboro (N.C.) Record, and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk.

He was the editorial page editor of The Newport News (Va.) Daily Press and deputy editorial page editor of The Detroit News before moving to Washington in 1987 to become editorial page editor of The Washington Times.

Snow left journalism in 1991 to join the administration of President George H.W. Bush as director of speechwriting and deputy assistant to the president for media affairs. He then rejoined the news media to write nationally syndicated columns for The Detroit News and USA Today during much of the Clinton administration.

Robert Anthony Snow was born June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., and spent his childhood in the Cincinnati area. Survivors include his wife, Jill Ellen Walker, whom he married in 1987, and three children.

RIP

Great guy. RIP Tony.

This is the first I've heard of his death. I always liked him and how he was so quick to laugh and find humor in just about everything. A lighthearted and sweet spirit!

RIP - you done did good, Tony! Anyone who defends our country, our leader and the Mission will always be remembered as a true patriot!

xoxo

So what? I don't care.

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Originally posted by Duster6:
So what? I don't care.

Obviously, this thread is for those of us who do.

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Originally posted by PinkBlossoms:

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Originally posted by Duster6:
So what? I don't care.

Obviously, this thread is for those of us who do.

thats just duster and his way...


God bless him and his family he was too young...

Got to hear all day today about how great Tony Snow was. All week too. Not to mention the next few years all the reminders. And yet when two of our troops are returned home from the war after being found dead more than a year ago it is just mentioned on page two of a local newspaper or given 10 seconds on the news. Naw I really don't care how many news reporters or other media members die. Unless they are or were Veterans.

RIP....The only island of sanity. In the White House sea of insanity...

My condolences to his family, RIP Tony.

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Got to hear all day today about how great Tony Snow was. All week too. Not to mention the next few years all the reminders. And yet when two of our troops are returned home from the war after being found dead more than a year ago it is just mentioned on page two of a local newspaper or given 10 seconds on the news. Naw I really don't care how many news reporters or other media members die. Unless they are or were Veterans.

Roger that.

As much as I disagreed with Snow's politics, he was a master at the task for which he was employed. He was arguably the most powerful Press Secretary of all time and did an excellent job of furthering the Bush Administration's agendas.

I am genuinely sorrowed to hear of his death.

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Originally posted by Duster6:
Got to hear all day today about how great Tony Snow was. All week too. Not to mention the next few years all the reminders. And yet when two of our troops are returned home from the war after being found dead more than a year ago it is just mentioned on page two of a local newspaper or given 10 seconds on the news. Naw I really don't care how many news reporters or other media members die. Unless they are or were Veterans.

Foxtrot Alpha!!!!!!!!!!

NO suprise really though.

RIP

I used to listen to Rush more when Tony took his place than not. Good guy; good sense; goodbye, buddy!

RIP Tony. You were a good-hearted family man, and a breath of fresh air to the Bush White House.

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Originally posted by PinkBlossoms:
This is the first I've heard of his death. I always liked him and how he was so quick to laugh and find humor in just about everything. A lighthearted and sweet spirit!

RIP - you done did good, Tony! Anyone who defends our country, our leader and the Mission will always be remembered as a true patriot!

xoxo

Sure it is not blind patriotism that you speak of?
Good man Tony Snow was, but you are something with your spouting about who a patriot is or isn't. Why don't you sign up and be a fighting patriot?

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Originally posted by samh32:
Former White House press secretary, and faux new contributer.

I think u went to far with your remark.. sound like something out of the Huff-Post.

GOD bless his family and friends during this time of great loss.

Tony Snow was very good at what he did. Being a father, a writer, journalist, a musician, TV news host, radio host, White House spokesman.

In ten years of watching him I never heard him put anyone down nor ever be disparaging.

He has given me many hours of pleasure and provoked much thought.

I will miss him.

Colon cancer took his mother and it took him. I pray that his children will be spared.

God speed Tony, you did good and my prays are with Jill Snow and his children.

I ALWAYS LIKED TONY. I WAS SHOCKED AND SAD TO READ ABOUT HIS DEATH YESTERDAY. FELL SO BAD FOR HIS WIFE AND KIDS.

BUT HEY....WE ALL GOTTA DIE SOMETIME. OLD AGE IS NOT A GUARANTEE.

R.I.P. TONY.

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Sure it is not blind patriotism that you speak of?
Good man Tony Snow was, but you are something with your spouting about who a patriot is or isn't. Why don't you sign up and be a fighting patriot? Big Grin

I did sign up to be a "fighting patriot"--leave Mr. Snow and his family alone....

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Originally posted by ipw533:

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Sure it is not blind patriotism that you speak of?
Good man Tony Snow was, but you are something with your spouting about who a patriot is or isn't. Why don't you sign up and be a fighting patriot? Big Grin

I did sign up to be a "fighting patriot"--leave Mr. Snow and his family alone....

Relax and read my post . I said he was a good man ( ). My comment was made to the person who has not served. Her comment was to insult people who do not support this failed mission as not being patriots. Did my stint in the box and if I want to say this mission is a failure, I have that right and it does not make me a traitor. This is from a fellow Spearhead member also. Hanau, Nato site 5, 85-86 before they closed it down.

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RIP

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Relax and read my post . I said he was a good man (if you care to notice since you must be blinded by your hate of others opinions). My comment was made to the person who has not served. Her comment was to insult people who do not support this failed mission as not being patriots. Did my stint in the box and if I want to say this mission is a failure, I have that right and it does not make me a traitor. This is from a fellow Spearhead member also. Hanau, Nato site 5, 85-86 before they closed it down.

Gotcha. Standing down....

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Originally posted by ipw533:

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Relax and read my post . I said he was a good man (if you care to notice since you must be blinded by your hate of others opinions). My comment was made to the person who has not served. Her comment was to insult people who do not support this failed mission as not being patriots. Did my stint in the box and if I want to say this mission is a failure, I have that right and it does not make me a traitor. This is from a fellow Spearhead member also. Hanau, Nato site 5, 85-86 before they closed it down.

Gotcha. Standing down....

Thanks man. No harm done with me. Haven't posted in some time and did not want this. Seen your use of the 3AD patch some time ago and wanted to give a shout to you, but I was trying to stay away from the dust ups. Looks like I should have stayed away from posing like I was before this thread. My most sincere apology to you. Looking at it, I failed to add winking guy to one of my comments, so I will take it out. Was trying to be a smart a*s*s. looks like I just made an a*s*s of myself. Role on my fellow Spearhead.

If you're ever in Philly look me up--we'll have a good time....