What's happening to Tony Snow?

[Crankie Avalon]

Here's how he looked when he first became press secretary (what a year or 18 months ago?):



Here's how he looks now:



Is he on chemo or something?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. Yes

[Crankie Avalon]

4. May I ask what type of cancer?

Boy, do I feel out of the loop!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

13. Snow, 51, had his colon removed in 2005 and underwent six months of chemotherapy

after being diagnosed with colon cancer.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=d8o4i6ig5&show_article=1

[Crankie Avalon]

18. Geez, 2005!!!

Thanks. I'm very embarrassed.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

25. Metastasized and spread to his liver now... n/t

[emulatorloo]

36. Self Delete wrong place n/t

[saracat]

2. You must know that he is! What a strange post!

[Crankie Avalon]

6. I'm sorry, I didn't. Really. nt

[saracat]

12. Sorry.It is just that it was everywhere!

[Quantess]

38. I hadn't heard about it, either.

Sometimes I miss the hoopla du jour.
Similarly, I bet some people still haven't heard that David Vitter likes kinky diaper sex. :shrug:

[atreides1]

3. Is he on chemo or something?

Very likely that he is undergoing chemo for his cancer, either that or lying for men of evil is taking its toll on his body and soul!!!!

[wicket]

5. Not to be cruel but, have you been living under a rock???

His battle with cancer has been all over the news for months.

[Crankie Avalon]

15. Well, I've been in a new relationship for several months and I guess I wasn't paying...

...much attention to him.

I'm embarrassed. You're not being cruel.

[wicket]

44. S'ok

Congrats on the new relationship :hi:

[givemebackmycountry]

7. He's dying...

Slowly.

Why he doesn't leave these jackals and spend time with this family is beyond me.
The longer he stays, the less respect I have for him.

Look at how the LIVESTRONG bracelet hangs on his wrist.

Mine fits like a rubber band around a sausage...

[Sanctified]

16. He probably has to stay to keep his health insurance.

And to make sure his wife gets some death benefits after he dies.

[in_cog_ni_to]

23. I'm sure the thug has more than enough money to pay his medical bills and to leave his family after

he's dead.

He just wants to keep spewing his shit until the day he dies.

[napi21]

26. Well, I said that about Spector when he was being treated too.

Arlan looks great now! I'm sure the change we see in Tony is due to the Chemo, but I think you ar being a bit too dramatic when you say he's dying.

[WinkyDink]

28. Because HE is a fellow jackal?

[musette_sf]

37. isn't that one of his own personal

"Support Tony" bracelets? you know, the ones that were distributed to the press corps after his illness was announced?

[DS1]

8. He ate all people in the top pic, but now they've shackled him to the podium

he's starting to starve

[bicentennial_baby]

14. ....

:spray:

:spank:

[Uncle Joe]

9. If you had to stand up in front of the American People, virtually everyday

and make excuses for this maladministration, your hair would turn gray as well.

[babylonsister]

10. He had colon cancer; it seems to have spread. Here's an article:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=d8o4i6ig5&show_article=1

[Crankie Avalon]

20. Thank you. I'm a real maroon! nt

[eleny]

11. Yes, he's being treated for liver cancer

[tridim]

17. He's living out his final days as a liar

His God is going to be hella pissed.

[soothsayer]

19. He's morphing into this guy

I feel bad for him. My dad died from the same thing. (the cancer, not the morphing)

[Hawkowl]

22. I thought the same thing!

However, I will not feel bad for him until he apologizes for his constant lying. He personally has to bear some responsibility for the continuation of the occupation and the resulting deaths.

[soothsayer]

24. I'm trying to hate his job while being a friend of his soul, but yeesh, yeah

I wish he'd have a deathbed turnaround.

[WinkyDink]

29. And whose soul is HE a friend of, besides the Murderer-in-Chief's?

[soothsayer]

39. good point

[Kolesar]

32. Who came first, Max Headroom or Gerald Ford?

[in_cog_ni_to]

21. His colon cancer spread to his liver and it's inoperable. n/t

[WinkyDink]

27. It's called "terminal illness".

[Zywiec]

30. What, no cancer jokes?

I guess everyone wants to wait for his actual death.

[depakid]

31. My only thoughts are whether we'll see a Lee Atwater type of deal

In a February 1991 article for Life Magazine, Atwater wrote:

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The '80s were about acquiring -- acquiring wealth, power, prestige. I know. I acquired more wealth, power, and prestige than most. But you can acquire all you want and still feel empty. What power wouldn't I trade for a little more time with my family? What price wouldn't I pay for an evening with friends? It took a deadly illness to put me eye to eye with that truth, but it is a truth that the country, caught up in its ruthless ambitions and moral decay, can learn on my dime.

[Nite Owl]

35. I would hope for at least that much

it seems that with conservatives unless something bad happens to themselves or their families it is still meaningless. They lack the empathy gene.

[soothsayer]

40. oh I thought you meant opening up a crappy bbq place after having NO knowledge!

red hot and blue hired a chef and paid him something like $25,000 for ONE DAY to show them how to make ribs, etc. It's not the worst you'll have---and for many people it'll be their first exposure to a dry rub---but it sure ain't great. But they do have peanut butter and banana sammitches on the menu, so I gotta give 'em credit for that.

[endarkenment]

33. He has chosen to spend his last days on earth as a public liar.

You have to wonder about that.

[Swamp Rat]

34. He's wasting his precious remaining moments on Earth lying for the 'Worst Person in the World'

sad... pathetic. :(

[Faygo Kid]

42. I posted this in May 2006 when he took over as Press Secretary. Lots of comment then. Still true

Tony Snow weeps today - for himself, of course (NBC just now).

Posted by faygokid in General Discussion (01/01/06 through 01/22/2007)
Tue May 16th 2006, 07:16 PM
Look, I wish no illness on anyone, but NBC Nightly News just had a report about Tony Snow and the illness he has faced over the last year. Tearfully, the new Bush press secretary said he told Chris Wallace that it "was the best thing that ever happened to me." I didn't think Brian Williams would be able to refrain from breaking down.

Here, Brian thought, is a peer. Not some anonymous person in Peoria who lost their health insurance, or a single Mom in LA trying to raise two kids on two minimum wage jobs, or a laid off 56 year old whose pension has been taken from him and has been "laid off" and has no chance - none - of again finding a good job. No, Brian wept, as Joe Klein or Richard Cohen would, because this was truly a Peer. A wealthy, inside-the-beltway journalist with nice hair. One who just assumed the job of Press Secretary to an Administration that long ago surpassed Nixon, Harding, Buchanan, et al as the worst in American history, and to a president without honor, honesty, intelligence or competence.

Should we suspect that Tony might have worn his heart on his sleeve to gain favor with the press corps? Or perhaps to bring a tear to the eye of a Nightly News viewer with cancer in Des Moines who lost her son in Iraq in 2004 and can only say after seeing it, "That Tony Snow. So brave." Can we be that skeptical? Or even worse, that he is simply manipulating us to begin his tenure? What, the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Perle-Wolfowitz-Feith cabal do something like that? My good friends here can consider whether this administration would ever stoop so low.

Deep breath now. I am sure that Tony feels the pain of American and Iraqi mothers; of Bush Pioneers aching with agony over continuing to reap the riches of their tax cuts in light of this war. While the anonymous Someones go ahead and die. Somewhere.

So, here is my suggestion. If Tony wants to weep, and to have Brian Williams and the rest of the Washington press corps weep, why not head over to Walter Reed Hospital and pick up a 21 year old kid with a quarter of his brain blown off and bring him to his next press conference. Or another, maybe a 19 year old young woman, with three limbs gone who will someday maybe run for office and be accused by a much older Ann Coulter of cowardice. Or a Hispanic kid who will be demonized or exploited as cheap labor, depending upon which way Karl Rove thinks the winds will blow. None of these kids make NBC Nightly News, but I am to weep with Brian Williams for Tony Snow.

Good luck, Tony, sincerely, but I will save my tears for others.

[Swamp Rat]

43. I hope he spills the beans on his deathbed,

If he has any beans to spill.

Otherwise, Bushler will just reanimate him... in a box.

[hisownpetard]

41. Evidently one thing that the chemo has left intact

is his super-sized ego. God help him.