The new WH Press Sec is an honest-to-God, capital "F" frickin' Freeper.

[expatriot]

Surreal, man. Tony Snow has been a capital "F" Freeper since 1998.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/user-posts?name=Tony%20Snow

We know how the 32% on THEIR side will react... but what about the other 68%?

[Skittles]

1. he is a piece of real shit

who better to answer for bush inc?

[TomInTib]

2. Like Daniel in the lions' den. But this time the lions have righteousness

on their side.

I'm saying he walks within 8 months.

[opihimoimoi]

4. If that...most likely gone in the wind in 3 to 4 months...

They honestly think they continue to fool with more spin/BS...amazing...but then, dats all dey have...lies and BS...

They are unable to express the Truth and must rely on the Neg Cards...Denigrate, Decieve, MisLead, Distort, Blame, Project, etc.

The Peeps are stirring in the Coop.

[elperromagico]

3. That selection makes sense for them.

Snow is a member of the media. He knows their methods. And perhaps the White House suspects that the press might ease off on "one of their own."

At the very least, Snow will be more animated than the robotic Scotty McC.

We'll see how well it works.

[unschooler]

6. Real journalists won't think of Tony Snow as "one of their own."

He's another Faux propagandist, but now he gets to admit he's reading a Rovian script.

It should at least be entertaining, however. :shrug:

[ginnyinWI]

7. The fun the Big Three networks had with Scotty

is nothing compared with with the fun they're going to have with this guy. And we know he's been pre-loaded with KoolAid, so yeah, it should be interesting to say the least.

[elperromagico]

8. Until about a year ago,

I would have been hard-pressed to call the press corps "real journalists."

[unschooler]

10. I almost edited to say exactly that.

The WH Press Corps is a mixed bag. Some impressive people and some nuts.

[unschooler]

5. It just gets worse and worse. What wingnut are they going to hire next?

:shrug:

[Fridays Child]

9. Breaking: Tony Snow member of online extremist hate group.

That ought to be the meme.

[bowens43]

16. Exactly.

It's time we start collecting the very worst of what we see on the freak republic and start forwarding it to all news organizations so that they can see exactly the type of 'people' that comprise this administration.

[tulsakatz]

11. I heard Snow had been offered the job........

..but the last I heard (a few days ago) was that he had not decided to accept.

Has this been confirmed or is it just FR gossip?

[caledesi]

12. Tony Snow is the person who hooked up Linda Tripp with

Lucianne Goldberg bec he hated Clinton so much.

He's a real bastard.

[libodem]

13. He's the kinda guy that says with a laugh that the reason

the middle class have the largest tax burden is because there are just so darn many of them. Our tax dollars are just a candy store for their latest folly.

[ShortnFiery]

14. Why were they in such a damn hurry to get rid of Scotty?

When nobody is seemingly waiting in the wings to take over the position?!?

This is ultra-strange, aye?

[Zorra]

15. Snow needs to understand the freeper mentality in order to lie

effectively in order to further the cause of fascism.

[Raksha]

17. I'm sure Freeper-boy will find his new job very liberating

for however long it lasts. Now he won't even have to pretend to be "fair and balanced" any more!

[radfringe]

18. but what about the other 68%?

let me start by just pointing out that the Press Secretary doesn't create the lies - he just repeats them

this is not a RAH-RAH support of Snow being Press secretary, just pointing out the job duties...

how effective Snow will be as PS will depend on how well the WH Press Corps will be at asking the HARD Questions and following up on the answers

as far as the other 68% - mostly won't make a difference except to those of us who really follow things. What will make a difference to the 68% is the reporting - will the press corp be lapdogs or tenacious terriers?

To go sliding downhill - you need SNOW

[SeattleVet]

19. Looks like it's been scrubbed already. It worked a while ago,

but the link now brings up no messages. I hope someone archived the bile before they cleaned all of his posts off the site!

[Norquist Nemesis]

20. Hopefully, someone will send the archives out to Countdown

at the very least. Just for good measure, send it to Matthews, Wolfie, and... :shrug: See who is the first to be "on the story!"

[gratuitous]

22. I would have thought they'd be very proud

After all, Snow is the first of their membership to hold a job and not live in Mom's basement.

[grasswire]

21. I think they've purged his posts

They should come right up on the link, and don't.

[wicket]

23. His posts are all gone

n/t

[SeattleVet]

24. He was a freeper for 8 years, so a Google search

should turn up most of the scrubbed stuf, eventually.

I *really* hope that someone had the presence of mind to archive all the garbage before freeperland got rid of it.

[Norquist Nemesis]

25. A few google group search results here

But still looking for posts by Snow vs. referencing him.

Maybe someone can help?

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?hl=en&q=Tony+Snow+freerepublic.com

[SeattleVet]

29. If you use "by Tony Snow" you find some of the posts that

he made, without most of the extraneous replies and such.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22by+tony+snow%22+site%3Afreerepublic.com&btnG=Search

or http://tinyurl.com/p3bnk

View the cached versions, as FR has sent all of SnowJob's posts to the memory hole in an attempt to keep his words from coming back to bite him in the ass.


His archives and columns are still all available over at TownHall, another of the far-righty sites:

http://www.townhall.com/opinion/contributors/tonysnow.html

A wander through the archives there before they get scrubbed to the memory hole may be worthwhile.

[yellowcanine]

26. Pass the frickin popcorn. This is going to be fun. Tony Snow has a

thin skin and he is arrogant - the two things you definitely don't want in a press secretary.

[wicket]

28. Amen to that!

:popcorn:

[woo me with science]

27. Of course he is.

People are acting as though the press secretary at the WH is supposed to be impartial. He is their mouthpiece, for pete's sake. What did people expect?

[leftofthedial]

30. repukes "mainstream" the most extreme neocon winger fascists

can you imagine any Democrat in power giving a DUer that powerful a position?


The same thing has happened in the media. The fascists made Limbaugh's message of hate, lies, radical global fascism and ultra-RW treason a mainstay of prime-day-time talk radio. The only progressive voices remotely comparable from the left to Limbaugh's voice form the right are people like Mike Malloy or maybe Sam Seder and they are relegated to the "graveyard shift."

The Dem focus on the center is maddening.