How can Tony Snow say all this crap with a straight face?!?!

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Video_Snow_blames_CBS_host_for_0322.html

MR. SMITH: -- is that these people, who certainly serve at the will of the president, at the pleasure of the president, have been kicked out for undue political influence.

Even on the front page of your Washington Post today you have the lead prosecutor in the big tobacco case saying that the Alberto Gonzales Justice Department, quote-unquote, "Political interference is happening at Justice across the department. When decisions are made now in the Bush attorney general's office, politics is the primary consideration. The rule of law goes out the window."

MR. SNOW: Harry, you're sounding like a partisan rather than a reporter here. Let me -- please permit me to try to explain what's going on, because if you take a look also at reporting in The New York Times, what they have said is a look at the documents indicates that there was no political interference; when people have looked at the available documentary evidence in the case of the U.S. attorneys, zippo.

So I think what you need to do is to stop trying to make a (break ?) for political interference and maybe do what we're asking members of Congress to do, which is to figure out what the facts are.

...

MR. SMITH: Here's the other thing, though. When it comes down to invoking executive privilege, I want to just return to you some of the words that you wrote during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. "Most of us want no part of a president who is cynical enough to use the majesty of his office to evade the one thing he has sworn to uphold, and that is the rule of law." Is that not what we're all most interested in here?

MR. SNOW: No, what we're interested in is the facts and in the rule of law. And let me -- again, please permit me to explain what's going on, because you've mischaracterized the offer we've made. You've put it in a slanted way. And I'm shocked. I really am shocked.

Yeah, I'm sure you're about to have a heart attack, Snowjob, because you're so damned shocked.

:puke:

[NYCGirl]

1. He gets paid well for it. NT

[CottonBear]

2. He's paid a lot of money to lie. It's simple greed. Plus, W probably won't let him quit now. n/t

[saltpoint]

3. "Once you get past dignity and self-respect, the rest is a piece of cake."

JR said that on one of the episodes of DALLAS, when challenged by someone wwho realized he was up to no good.

Maybe JR is Tony's model.

[Roland99]

6. Good analogy. J.R. Ewing is the epitome of a Republicon.

[Fresh_Start]

No conscience and already sold his soul to the devil

so he may as well get as much money as possible.

[chieftain]

4. Because like all W apologists, he is an ethical degenerate.

[Cosmocat]

5. from the man who coined the term "defeatocrats" ...

he certainly isn't encountering any ethetical dilemmas ...

I will say this, you can see him starting to wear down ... While he is a partisan hack, and has no quams with it, it still is a never ending string of having to face people on a daily basis and try to paint what these criminally insane scumbags are doing as "governance" ...

They let Scotty go FAR to long, and Snow is encountering a press that is about 30 percent actually doing its job, about 20 percent more than Scotty ... I can see Snow starting to wear ...

[chieftain]

9. You're right. He gets testier every day. When Ed Henry can

make you look bad, it shows how laughably implausible is the horse manure you have agreed to spread.

[Roland99]

16. Well, heck, this was Harry Smith! CBS Morning feel-good show host!

[whistle]

7. Tony Snow: "...and I'm shocked. I really am shocked".

Rick Blaine: How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Capt. Louis Renault: I'm shocked ... shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.



Croupier: Your winnings, sir.

Capt. Louis Renault: Oh, thank you ... very much. Everybody out at once!

-- Casablanca, 1942

[MrModerate]

8. He's at heart a showbiz guy, an actor . . .

Trained to disregard reality if it interferes with him playing his role. In a creepy way, it's a matter of professional pride.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. His role model is Reagan. nt

[LiberalFighter]

10. Will SOMEONE please give Snow ELECTROSHOCK!!!

[formercia]

11. Snow is an amoral talking head...

seems to be the norm for the M$M for the most part...That was the plan..


The Snow Job...

[DemGa]

12. Because the conservative mind

cannot feel shame.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

13. So Snow agrees with David Iglesias of NM

who said to "know what the facts are" before judging him.

[Parche]

15. SNOW BLOWER

He didnt have a straight face at all, did you see everytime he was asked a question
his face would contort to weirdness................

[GreenPartyVoter]

17. Plausible deniablity. He only knows what they tell him