Ex-Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies of cancer
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Ex-Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies of cancer
Conservative commentator succumbed to illness at age 53
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updated 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
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.
Popular figure at the podium
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.
From local journalism to the White House
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.
Ex-Bush spokesman Tony Snow dies of cancer
Conservative commentator succumbed to illness at age 53
NBC video
updated 1 hour, 48 minutes ago
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.
Popular figure at the podium
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.
From local journalism to the White House
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.
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Funny how nice guys supress internal edits and lie so well
Stay classy, Moving Train.
for the least they could possibly do
guys.........stop being "tough".......treat yourself to a birthday gift when you turn 40, schedule a colonoscopy. it may be the best gift you receive.
Similar to barack I guess
Dick. I fucking hate these forums, and the negativity. Most of you are pricks, I'm out.
Please dont leave like that. Tell us some feel good stories about Tony Snow or something to improve the quality of vibes here ... dude.
Yes Rest in Peace Mr Snow, enjoy your press conference in hell and perhaps you will be lucky enough to get the chance to explain to all the dead kids you helped support killing, just why American killed them and sent them to the playground in heaven so early in the first place.
Good lord. Easy now. At least wait until the body is cold.
for the least they could possibly do
His body got cold the second he cashed in that first pay cheque from Bush.
If this guy died right in the middle of when he had that job, would people say, rip? no they would say this guy is a liar, a crook and fuck him. But since he left that job and time has gone by and whatever else. people seem to forget just what he stood for.
I have not forgotten.
He was the mouth of the snake known as the Bush admin.
i'm not gonna pretend to be all choked up over an assholes death, especially one that is partly responsible for purposefully fucking up America so badly. This was not a nice guy.
Tony Snow was a patriot just working for something he believed in. He happened to have a different vision for America than you. He doesn't deserve to burn in hell for that.
Hey, I'm not "choked up" about his death either. I just happen to have a sense of common human decency. Guess that's just how I was raised.
But hey, if "blinded by hatred" works for you ... have at it. It's a free country.
for the least they could possibly do
not that they are comparable (not even close), but i dont remember everyone being all choked up when Saddam bit it. Am i supposed to weep for everyone who dies?
as far as human decency goes, its not like i'm calling up his relatives and laughing at them or pissing on his grave. I respect the dead plenty. he's toast. its over. Some one just posted on a political message board that he was dead, and i replied that i really don't really give a shit. thats all. no blind hatred there.
Well, you'll get to hear the press conferences in hell when you die, because anyone with as much hate as you have is certainly heading there.
P.S. YOu don't give a fuck about the children. Get over yourself.
You took the time to post because you wanted others to know you didn't give a shit about him. It is one thing to not care (you didn't know him personally, so I can see why you wouldn't), but to come out and post about it? Why didn't you just let the thread go if you didn't give a shit? Because you are angry and hateful.
You are such a fool.
its a message board. people post messages and people respond to them. My opinion of him yesterday was that he was an asshole. now that he's dead thats supposed to change? is this thread supposed to be a big dick suck fest where we all try to say something nice about him because he died? post that shit on another forum!
i'm not a liberal. i'm not gonna argue over which guy is worse. probably not much difference.
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He relayed a lot of misinformation (lies) on an ongoing basis for quite some time..
Hundreds of thousands of people died because of it.
and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
over specific principles, goals, and policies.
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in no possible way was that man a patriot. he was a professional liar, and deserves to be remembered for that, which he will be. but it's a shame he died so young. he could have pulled a Scott McClellan and tried to right his wrongs, and maybe would not have been as half-assed about it.
FUCKING BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH.