Where in the world is Tony Snow?
There has finally been a Tony Snow sighting, sort of. He's sending emails to reporters criticizing White House coverage by the NYTimes, CBSNews, and USA Today. That his first act would be to go after reporters is really pretty amazing.
But my main point is this: Tony Snow, who officially started the job on Monday, still hasn't stood in front of the cameras or the White House reporters yet!!!
Last week, the statement was that McClellan would end Friday and Tony Snow would take over Monday. That didn't happen. Then, on Tuesday, they said Wednesday was supposed to be McClellan's last day.
Today's press gaggle was held aboard Air Force One by Dana Perino. Where the hell is Tony Snow? If they're waiting on a good day for him to start, they may be waiting awhile.
(Just today, around 1:45 PM, they finally removed Scott McClellan's picture from the press briefings page replacing it with a generic blue banner. What, the Fox News reporter didn't have a spare head shot laying around?)
But my main point is this: Tony Snow, who officially started the job on Monday, still hasn't stood in front of the cameras or the White House reporters yet!!!
Last week, the statement was that McClellan would end Friday and Tony Snow would take over Monday. That didn't happen. Then, on Tuesday, they said Wednesday was supposed to be McClellan's last day.
Today's press gaggle was held aboard Air Force One by Dana Perino. Where the hell is Tony Snow? If they're waiting on a good day for him to start, they may be waiting awhile.
(Just today, around 1:45 PM, they finally removed Scott McClellan's picture from the press briefings page replacing it with a generic blue banner. What, the Fox News reporter didn't have a spare head shot laying around?)
posted by mikevotes at
9:40 PM
5 Comments:
Maybe after this week Snow is ready to quit. If things looked bad a couple of weeks ago when he agreed to step in, then he must really but sweating stepping out as the public spokesman of the daily decline of the administration.
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zen, at 10:38 PM
it's indeed curious. perhaps he's formulating replys to Rove questions. Or prascticing the ever popular' We wont comment on anything that is under current investigation."
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Yukkione, at 10:50 PM
Wouldn't it be great if the first question for Snow started with something like...
"Now that Karl Rove has been indicted...."
Trial by fire hardly says enough.
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Praguetwin, at 4:43 AM
"Did Karl Rove also assure you that he had nothing to do with the outing of Valerie Plame?"
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zen, at 7:23 AM
My working theory as I've been watching this is that the intention was to shield Tony Snow from some bad story that was coming, to let him start on a good day. There's a little evidence that the administration knew the USA today story was coming and maybe tried to keep them from printing it, and then there's the Rove possible indictment.
That was my guess, that they were hiding him, so the first image of him wouldn't be a press secretary under fire. If they wanted to change the image, having that as the first image is not the way to do it.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 8:08 AM
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