It’s Tony
25 April 2006 7:13 pm by Taylor Marsh
It's Tony!
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The champagne is popping at Fox “News.”
David Gregory reported on “Scarborough Country” that Tony's the man to replace Scott.
As regular readers know, I'm a fan of Stretch. But sometimes things come out
of his mouth that strain all credulity. Like tonight, when Gregory professed
that Tony Snow was an “outsider.” Ho-boy, talk about a walk into unreality.
David, babe, Stretch, you're killing me.
Gregory then reported that tomorrow Snow would be announced as the new press
secretary, which we all expected. But you've got to wonder how Snow is going
to live some of his comments down. Via the indispensableThink
Progress, which I've been saving until it was reported that Snow
was Bush's new boy, here's a partial list of quotes on what Snow really thinks
of President Bush, aka his boss. Check out the link for more.
Bush's man Brit must be positively misty.
– “George W. Bush and his colleagues have become not merely the
custodians of the largest government in the history of humankind, but also
exponents of its vigorous expansion.” [3/17/06]– “President Bush distilled the essence of his presidency in
this year’s State of the Union Address: brilliant foreign policy and
listless domestic policy.” [2/3/06]– “George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.”
[11/11/05]– Bush “has a habit of singing from the Political Correctness
hymnal.” [10/7/05]– “No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes
to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.” [9/30/05]– Bush “has given the impression that [he] is more eager to please
than lead, and that political opponents can get their way if they simply dig
in their heels and behave like petulant trust-fund brats, demanding money
and favor — now!” [9/30/05]– “When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy
who can’t say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president
has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody
has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesn’t
seem to mean what he says.” [The Detroit News, 12/28/03]– “George W. Bush, meanwhile, talks of a pillowy America, full
of niceness and goodwill. Bush has inherited his mother’s attractive
feistiness, but he also got his father’s syntax. At one point last week,
he stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words,
like a soul tortured with Tourette’s.” [8/25/00]– “He recently tried to dazzle reporters by discussing the vagaries
of Congressional Budget Office economic forecasts, but his recitation of numbers
proved so bewildering that not even his aides could produce a comprehensible
translation. The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose
malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby.”
[8/25/00]
