Huffington: "Tony Snow seems to be missing the humanity chromosome"

[Human Torch]

Quick, somebody get Tony Snow a compassion cocktail -- with an empathy chaser! For years now I’ve been praying for public officials to start speaking their minds and not hide behind a smokescreen of mindless, focus group-tested, politically correct pabulum. But an interesting thing is happening with Tony Snow. Since becoming press secretary he has, indeed, been speaking his mind. But the kind of mind that’s being revealed is very troubling.

His reaction to the U.S. death toll in Iraq hitting 2,500 was “It’s a number.”

His response to the kidnapping of Pfc. Kristian Manchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker was to grumble about the media “focusing on them” instead of the fact “that since Zarqawi was killed, hundreds of bad guys have been rounded up.”

Snow seems to be missing the humanity chromosome.

MORE: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/tony-snow-you-can-take-t_b_23360.html

[patrice]

1. There was also his bit about how Murtha and others have

something at stake, so they are against Bush's War.

Implying BushCo and supporters are clear-eyed objectivists with nothing to bias them in favor of the war. . . . Right. :sarcasm:

[marmar]

2. I cannot stand Tony Snow...

At least you could laugh at Scotty's pathetic-ness. Snow is just an organic, garden-variety asshole. And I think he's got some serious cultural sensitivity issues.

[tridim]

3. If it weren't for his "scared shitless" look on the helicopter,

I'd believe he was a robot/computer of some kind, Snow 1.0.

The guy is certainly a freak of nature.

[ladjf]

4. That is a prerequisite for his job.

[niyad]

5. EVERYONE in that crowd is missing that chromosone.