Tweety Tells Tony Snow He Is Best Press Secretary in 50 Years

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003531830

Doing his part to sell the president's new war plan for Iraq, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow made the rounds of late-afternoon cable news talk show today.

On "Hardball" with Chris Matthews at MSNBC he fielded some frank questions smoothly, if vaguely. He defended Secretary of State Rice calling sending more than 20,000 troops to Iraq an "augmentation," not an "escalation."

Perhaps impressed with his spinning abilities, Matthews bid him farewell with: "You are the best press secretary since Jim Haggerty."

Haggerty, of course, was a legendary press secretary under President Eisenhower in the 1950s.

Then Snow was off to visit Wolf.

Suck Up!

[SaveOurDemocracy]

1. Why does he blow his credibility like that....

every freakin time?!!! He starts sounding like he's got a clue ... and then he craps his pants.

[Lucky Luciano]

2. Ehhh..not necessarily a suck up..

I could say that in an underhanded way to imply that he is always and totally full of steaming shit.

[Cha]

3. Since a republican press secretary =

a goddamn liar then I guess tony mcsnowjob is the best godamn liar in the job.

And look at all that fucked up experience he got over at fauxsnews.

History will look back on this as the time the fascists tookover with the assistance of the corporatemediawhores. Only time will tell how they got beaten back to the gutter.

[zulchzulu]

4. Precisely...Snowjob is really good at what he does...he lies like a seasoned conman

Tony Snowjob is "good at his job" as was Jeffrey Dahmer was as a mass murderer...

[Oceansaway]

5. .

its them shit sandwiches again....matthews sucks

[Geoff R. Casavant]

6. All the best press secretaries are named "DeeDee."

We should just start calling him "DeeDee Snow."

[The_Casual_Observer]

7. "You son of a bitch, I'm the best that's ever beeeen"

Put that fiddle at his feet. Snow is a piece of shit.

[DeSwiss]

8. Well, Jim Haggerty had Eisenhower to work with....

And Ike wasn't much of a president and really didn't have to DO much in the 50s. Except start the process that got us mired down in Nam. But at least Dwight was a war hero.

But Bush? Look what Tony has to work with. Tweety may have a point. And with Snow making himself the lightening rod with his inanities and dumb remarks, it distracts the press (and I used that term loosely) from a lot more of Dumbo's stupidity. A little of it anyway.

But in reality, Snow's a cretin....

[knowledgeispwr]

9. I didn't see it as sucking up...

I saw it as Matthews saying that Snow is really good at his job: not saying anything and/or spinning for the White House. That's what White House press secretaries do. Depending on your point of view, that can be a compliment or an insult.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. I agree with you...

I had the feeling that Matthews meant that Snow was the best at spinning. He was spinning so hard, I thought he was going to drill a hole in the ground.

[EdwardM]

10. So he is the best liar in 50 years?

I think I see Tweety's point.

[EFerrari]

11. I don't understand why any of you what this shill.

:shrug:

[bluewave]

12. In defense of Tweety

That comment is rather facetious.

[Kelly Rupert]

13. Well, yeah. Snow's performance was spot-on.

Chris Matthews bait-and-switches him on the Senate resolution--first he gets Snow to talk about how discussion and voting in the Senate is a great idea, and then he asks about the impending filibuster of the Reid resolution. Snow then spins that into a mini-speech about the message the resolution sends to the troops, Iran, Syria, North Korea, and the terrorists, and then killed the subject. He turned the message from "Republicans are obstructionist hypocrites" to "Democrats are unwittingly doing the evildoers' bidding" in the wink of an eye. He is an expert in his craft--especially compared to his bumbling predecessor.

To me, Matthews was both paying him lip service as a once-and-likely-future colleague in punditry, and complimenting him on his mastery of spin. It wasn't a compliment of Bush's policies by any means--after all, the truest test of a press secretary is to defend the indefensible.

[Golden Raisin]

15. One skunk telling another

that he smells sweet. We live in a world of lies. Bush and his media toadies say "surge" when they know its escalation. "Spin" equals Lies. In a certain sense Matthews is correct. Snow is a damn good liar. Manages to do it with a straight but simultaneously sneering/condescending/supercilious face. Not easy.