Tony Snow: “The Iranian people are more pro American than any American university faculty.”

[kpete]

Tony Snow at Wednesday’s Grover Norquist breakfast mtg:

Tony Snow: “The Iranian people are more pro American than any American university faculty.”



http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/26/tony-snow-at-wednesdays-grover-norquist-breakfast-mtg/

[ck4829]

1. Correction: The Iranian people are more pro American than the current Administration

[Avalux]

2. Ah - the reasoning of a neocon.

They continue to try to make us believe the young people in Iran would cheer and greet us as saviors if we take out their government. Now where have we heard that before??

Dumbass.

[Amonester]

26. And they R experts at throwing flowers, everybody in their right

mind (should) know that already. -Snowman Soon

[yurbud]

64. Thank you for killing my parents! and my brother! and my dog! More candy, sahib?

[eleny]

3. And probably more pro-American people than this administration, too, Snow

[underpants]

4. Vee moost punish zee intelligencia

Schnell!

[LSK]

5. is this the Bush admin that is connected to Maliki? or

is this the Bush admin that wants to wage war on Iran?

CAN IT GET ANY MORE CONFUSING PLEASE?!?!?!?!?!

[madrchsod]

6. you mean everyone.tony?

really....everyone? what a stupid little man

[Pacifist Patriot]

7. I'd like to say something...

but my 10 year old is hanging over my shoulder. I won't give him the satisfaction of swearing in front of him. *grin*

[maddezmom]

12. my 6 yr old is in bed let me say if tor you

F-off Tony!! :D


I still censor myself. :)

[Pacifist Patriot]

14. That'll do. Thanks!

[etherealtruth]

8. Yes, yes

... and when we "liberate them" they will greet us with flowers.

or

When we rid them of "weapons of mass destruction" they will greet us with flowers.

[mtnester]

9. Think they too will greet us with flowers and candy?

Man the saber rattlin' and subtle preparation is getting damn near deafening

[Rex]

10. Like Snow would know anything about education.

Laff. :eyes:

[gratuitous]

11. How will that play at Liberty or Bob Jones University?

My, my, my. Will the good folks at Liberty University or Bob Jones University take that kind of a slam from their White House Press Secretary? Or will Mr. Snow get a gentle reminder (kick in the nuts style) from some on the right?

[dogday]

13. Tony Tony Tony--How many Snowjobs must I endure?

Where have I heard how much another country loves us and welcomes us with open arms... I know I heard that somewhere? Right? :sarcasm:

[malaise]

28. del

[rodeodance]

15. whow, i can not believe a WH representative would be so rude. maybe

I can but this is just plain irresponsible!

[Contrary1]

16. I suggest that good old Tony go to Iran personally,

stand on a busy street corner, and poll the citizens of Iran as they walk by.
After that; he can hop on over to Baghdad, and do the same.

Nothing to fear...these folks love the US.

[partylessinOhio]

17. Here we go nuclear.

:nuke:

[Captain Hilts]

19. Yes. This kind of comment is really unacceptable and he should be called on it.

The White House works for US Tony, not for the cranks on Faux News.

[AnnInLa]

18. And, to Dana Rohrbacher:

Looking for a Friday diversion? Have some highlights from last Wednesday’s Grover Norquist breakfast meeting:

* Tony Snow: “The Iranian people are more pro American than any American university faculty.”

* Slap-fight between Snow and Rep. Dana Rohrbacher. Dana sez Bush “has burned this bridge with me” regarding immigration, accuses administration of having a “secret agenda.”
* Snow: “You’ve got an attitude that is so poisonous to the administration.”

http://wonkette.com/politics/gorver-norquist/breakfast-with-the-gop-powerbrokers-231839.php

[saltpoint]

20. This is the nastiest presidential administration of my lifetime.

Total assholes.

[tigereye]

40. I can't believe they get away with saying stuff like that!

:wtf:

this guy is a total tool.

[saltpoint]

42. I never thought I'd live to hear myself say I'm homesick for Scotty

McClellan...

...but this Tony Snow guy is the pits.

Can we hold the Iowa caucus next week? Please?

[tigereye]

53. that Snow was an apparent "newsman" blurs the line even more

and makes his behavior doubly disgusting. Can you imagine someone like Murrow, Cronkite, Brinkley, Browkaw, Rather, doing something like this?

It's loathsome.

Just when you think the Reps. can't get any worse, they do. It's astonishing to me.

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. And they will greet us with flowers and kisses. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

22. How about these faculty-types hit the bricks in protest?

Tony, STFU.

[originalpckelly]

23. Actually, there are a lot of pro-America pro-west individuals in Iran...

and they even tried to shout down that fascist pig Ahmadinejad!

:woohoo:

They're our kind of people, because they aren't religious nuts! And by the way, Iran's President is like a freaking super-conservative, he's Bush for Shi'a Islam. I mean the Supreme Leader is like Cheney too.

It's pretty freaking weird the parallels.

But if we bomb Iran, those pro-American and pro-west people will no longer support us. Would you support a nation if we were nuked or just plain bombed by them?

[yellowcanine]

24. Tony is confusing "pro Bush" and "pro American" again.

[kevinmc]

25. Norquist should be Abramoff's Cellmate ..n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

27. absolutely not. NO. no no no no NOT.

They really need other roomies, guys who have been inside for a bit, and have missed out on the taste of freshly used peanut butter.

Putting them together would only allow them to conspire to create more dangerous situations in the world.

[maxrandb]

29. Are you "Effing" kidding me?

The White House Spokesman said that???

There is nothing short of impeachment that will save this country. The Republican Party in it's current form needs to be stomped to a bloody pulp of festering sores, only capable of crawling away to the margins of power. It must never be able to gain complete control over all branches of government.

I'm reminded of what Churchill said. I've modified it for our Democrats in Congress. "So let us bear ourselves and brace ourselves to our duties, so that if America and it's Democracy should last a thousand years - men will still say; 'This was their finest hour'".

[Lusted4]

30. To think , our tax dollars pay for what that creep says. nt

[Lusted4]

34. I used to think Scotty was a smarmy creep. nt

[Rosemary2205]

31. LIBERATE BERKLEY!

Gawd Snow is a tool.

[TornadoTN]

32. Let me get this straight, Mr. Snow

Educated, thoughtful professors at U.S. universities are anti-American because they overwhelmingly reject this administrations policies or disagree with you at certain times? Even when their opinions are firmly in the majority of the mindset of this country?

So I guess it is true that you have to go through dumb, blind, and stupid to be a Republican.

[Swamp Rat]

33. Translation: Librul professors are worse than Islamo-fascist Shia terrorists.

He apparently agrees with Horrorwitz.

[Zodiak]

50. Thank you, Swampy.

I promise you that academics have heard the subtext of that statement loud and clear. Bush's hounds are getting fired up for some old-fashioned McCarthyism.

[janx]

35. Context?

The link contains no context, only the quote. ?? Is there a way to find out more about this? Who is the source?

[Botany]

36. Fuck you Snow

Both of my parents were faculty @ different colleges & Universities.
My Dad is a combat vet from Korea, has a degree from Columbia,
TAUGHT CLASSES FOR A.E.I. in the 1980s, worked for the RNC @
one time, and has supported education and learning about our
history and Government for almost 60 years.

You are not good enough to sweep his front porch.

Say Tony, weren't you the one who sold the Clintons stole shit from
the White House story in 2001?

I feel sorry for any cancer cells in your body .... they must
hate how toxic your are.

Once a Freeper always a Freeper ... and Tony was a Freeper.

[Loge23]

37. Let's do away with edgabucation anyway!

Who wants educated people? They read!
No place for that in this administration.

[Unperson]

38. What a fucking dolt.

[Peace Patriot]

39. I think we should stop reacting to this mindrot and start asking

how such a asshole is in a position of power in our government--I mean really asking. Like, with a full investigation of the 2004 election, of Diebold/ES&S and of how the "Help America Vote for Bush Act" of 2002 got written and passed. There were some dirty Democratic hands in it, unfortunately (Christopher Dodd, Terry McAuliffe, for two), and a complicity of silence that followed, as the $3.9 billion electronic voting booty was distributed across the country, corrupting everything in its path. But it will mostly involve the two biggest crooks in the Anthrax Congress--Tom Delay and Bob Ney, across whose desks the bill was passing at the same time as the Abramoff bribes.

The 2004 election needs to be annulled, and all of Bush's court appointments voided. These people have no legitimate right to be running our government--and their illegitimacy becomes more obvious every time they open their mouths. They do not represent the majority of the American people, and never did.

[TlalocW]

41. Great. So here's the plan

Bush makes a speech declaring Iran the 51st state of America and tells all the Iranians between 18 and 42 they've been drafted and need to oust the current government. Then sits down and tries to figure out why the Iranians aren't doing what he wants while the grown-ups in congress do the work of America.

TlalocW

[Zenlitened]

43. Tony Snow channels the unquiet spirit of Joe McCarthy.

Same shit, different mouth.

Unreal.

How anyone can call themselves a Republican these days, without hanging their heads in shame, is just beyond me.

[sutz12]

44. I thought they hated us for our freedom.....

:shrug:

[Sequoia]

45. Such insight you have there Frankenstein.

If they're so pro american why do we want to bomb the hell out of them?

[Marr]

46. Considering the fact that his boss has a 28% approval rating, it

would seem less than realistic for Mr. Snow to assume that his beliefs are America's beliefs.

Seems to me that the truly "un-American" element here is Mr. Snow's own little faction.

[Cass]

47. What an ass. I cannot wait for this bunch of thugs to be out of power.

:grr:

[Cabcere]

48. What a...

f*ck!ng b@st@rd. :grr: That is just disgusting, and, to be quite honest, a very un-American thing to say. How do you like that, Tony-boy? :evilfrown: :thumbsdown:

[progressoid]

49. I'd call him a douche bag, but that's offensive......to douche bags.

[Bobbie Jo]

51. Translation: regime change.

[Tyo]

52. Ah, it 's the old Radical Socialist America-Hating Ivory Tower Libs thing is it?

Isn't that kinda late '60s? Tony is showing his age.

[DrunkenMaster]

54. an oldie but a goodie!

My old man used to tell me when I was a kid that, "Son, there are more communists in the Universities of this country than there are in the entire USSR."

Sigh. He's also decided to protest illegal immigration by boycotting Mexican food. All of it. No beans or rice at home, no tortillas, nothing.

A brilliant response.

[Fleshdancer]

55. If the Repubs hate professors so much....

then why do they encourage their kids to go to college? Why not encourage them to enlist instead? That way they can go to Iran and spend time with the pro-America crowd there instead of spending time with the evil treasonous professors. :eyes:

[Lilith Velkor]

56. What a smarmy bitch.

[sofa king]

57. A lie worthy of this most dishonest regime.

It's a lie completely contradictory with the facts.

In fact, the average Iranian is almost certain to be more familiar with a couple of Americans than Tony Snow is, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. and Norman_Schwarzkopf,_Sr.. Together, the grandson of a President and the father of a future general conspired to overthrow the democratically elected Iranian government of Mohammed Mossadeq in the CIA-sanctioned Operation Ajax.

After reinstating the Shah and ensuring that the Iranians would never again have a true political voice in Iran, the United States also gave material support to the foundation of the Shah's Gestapo-like secret police organization, SAVAK. SAVAK presided over an untold number of murders, assassinations, tortures, kidnappings and disappearances, and terrorized the Iranian people for twenty-five years, while Iran's oil resources were de-nationalized and sucked up by American corporations for a fraction of their actual worth.

Iranians are taught these facts as children. It's why they call us "The Great Satan." It's why they took our embassy personnel hostage--to prevent a similar overthrow of the Khomeni government. They hate our fucking guts and they have every reason in the world to hate our guts. If they get the chance to defend their country against us, two million armed and frothing insane Iranians will take up arms and be willing to die in waves to kill just a few dozen Americans at a time, anywhere Americans can be reached.

If Tony Snow doesn't know this, someone had better inform him in a hell of a hurry.

[petronius]

58. Any university faculty is more pro-American than the Bush White House

Tony Snow is a crackpot liar slinging schoolyard insults because there is absolutely nothing positive he can say abou his boss...

[sakabatou]

59. .

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

60. Under his breath ".....but that won't keep us from bombing the crap out of them."

[treestar]

61. They can't wait until we invade to bring them democracy

:sarcasm:

[salin]

62. *yawn* when the pres spokesperson becomes absurd

far beyond spin and far into the ridiculous - which only plays with probably 20% of the population of far-far right wingnuts - it demonstrates a willingness of the admin to take their party into irrevelance in the future. This is the presidents press person - playing the DeSouza (sp) line of ridiculousness ala "I now sympathize with the motives of Osama - and its REALLY all the liberals fault".

[yurbud]

63. therefore, we should nuke them until they hate us?