George Will: Tony Snow ‘Won’t Make a Particle of Difference’
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By on Apr 30th, 2006 at 11:17 am
George Will: Tony Snow ‘Won’t Make a Particle of Difference’
Today on ABC’s This Week, conservative pundit George Will said the appointment of new White House Press Secretary Tony Snow was an “aesthetic” fix for a “substance problem” and would do nothing to help the Bush administration. Watch it:
Transcript:
WILL: [Snow’s appointment is] just what conservatives really want, is government by Fox News. But he’s a man of wit, charm, intelligence, goodwill and it won’t make a particle of difference. It really won’t. Because it’s not a communication problem. It’s a substance problem. Politics is about something. Now, this is an aesthetic improvement in that room in the White House, period.
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I like it when Will tells the truth like this. (Anyone notice hes been doing it more frequently recently?)
April 30th, 2006 at 11:31 amNow even the real conservatives have had enough of the neo-con Administration. Good. Maybe they’ll finally do what the spineless Democrats have failed to do - regime change.
April 30th, 2006 at 11:34 amSomeone’s off their talking points… GET SOME KOOL-AID, STAT!!
April 30th, 2006 at 11:35 amI think Will nailed this one. It may appear to be change but it won’t make a bit of difference…the man in charge is the problem…and more and more true conservatives are figuring this out and speaking out.
read more here:
http://www.thoughttheater.com
April 30th, 2006 at 11:38 amIt’s not rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic, it’s rearranging the deck chairs on the Pequod!equod!
April 30th, 2006 at 11:39 amStephen Colbert will be on 60 Minutes Tonight. This should be rich after he roasted the Bush Administration last night.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/04/29.html#a8104
Stephen Colbert spoke tonight at the dinner and lampooned pretty much everything he could think of and Helen Thomas. I used the second half of his performance because it included the Generals, Scalia, the Faux press briefing and as E&P reported:
“As he walked from the podium the president and First Lady gave Colbert quick nods, unsmiling, and left. E&P’s Joe Strupp, in the crowd, observed that quite a few felt the material was, perhaps, uncomfortably biting.”
April 30th, 2006 at 11:41 amBoth true and not true. Snow is badly needed at the White House if you stipulate that Bush is going to lose Rove. Note that Snow asked for and got the right ot restructure the White House media operation. Can you imagine McClellan getting that?
April 30th, 2006 at 11:47 amIf you did not see the correspondents dinner you need to watch it. It will be replayed on CSPAN today. There are two really great parts. Colbert, of course. He hammered everyone. There was silence in the room. Finally someone speaks the truth and he isn’t even a journalist.
The other was a rerun of the speech Clinton gave in 1993. He talked about freedom of the press and how important it was because no matter how good the intentions of the people in power, they cannot go unchecked or the power could be abused. You have to hear it to appreciate it. He was foretelling exactly what is happening with this current administration because the media in this country refuse to report what this administration is really doing.
April 30th, 2006 at 11:53 amSoon, this republican will receive the visit of some agents Smith for trying to exit from the neocon matrix…
April 30th, 2006 at 11:55 amBY NOVEMBER HIS APPROVAL RATING WILL BE BACK OVER 70% AND WE CAN START SERIOUSLY THINK ABOUT SYRIA.
Comment by ANVILHEAD — April 30, 2006 @ 11:57 am
You are either typing from an insane asylum OR you are Stephen Colbert’s younger brother trying to break into the satire business yourself. No one actually believes that kind of nonsense. Not even the neo-cons themselves. You’re too far over the edge to either be sane or serious. But either way, turn off the Caps Lock. You don’t have to be a rude psychotic.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:04 pm#10 Using nukes will not be “Game Over” but “Play Again? YES” ==> onto the next insurgency, what in time would be a global one. Russians and Chineses doesn’t like nukes being used in their backyard. And a bilion muslims perhaps would have something ado later. And North Korea will not be contained as soon as you demonstrate them that you’ve waged war against 2 of the 3 “Axis of Evil” countries. Kim would become mad and start “preemtive” strikes. Preemptive? Ha! You’re trumpeting from 5 years ago that you want to bomb Korea to get rid of him.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:08 pm# 10 “HOPEFULLY THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN TROOPS WILL DIE IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS, IF THE IRANS GET LUCKY AND SINK AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER, OR BLOW UP A BASE IN BAGHDAD.”
Are you volunteering?
April 30th, 2006 at 12:17 pmI have $5 that says if GWB were able to run again, George Will would vote for him.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:21 pmI think the White House Correspondent’s dinner is playing C-Span right now. They’re smiling, so I think they’re arriving.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:22 pmThis is OT, but I felt I had to let you guys know.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:25 pmIf you can read the Boston Globe, please do so. The front page story is about how Idiot Boy has bypassed at least 750 laws, claiming he can do so if it interferes with his interpretation of the Constitution.
Please read & demand your rep’s get cajonies and reassert their power.
Sorry to interupt.
REPUBLICANS ARE EVIL AND ONLY LIKE TO KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE. THIS IS WHY THEY WILL NOT BE IN POWER VERY MUCH LONGER.
A**head, I typed it in caps so it is going to happen. SOOOOOOOOOO SOOOOOOORRRRRRRYYYY!
April 30th, 2006 at 12:27 pmPlease read & demand your rep’s get cajonies and reassert their power.
Sorry to interupt.
Comment by trueblue — April 30, 2006 @ 12:25 pm
Mine just send me some form letter in defense of the latest neo-con corruption. I’ve just stopped opening the letters, but I’m guessing, he probably never opened mine to begin with…
April 30th, 2006 at 12:34 pm#19 Same here, I’m about ready to send Clay Shaw a letter asking him to please stop wasting taxpayer money by sending me form letters that may as well say, “F you and your opinions.”
April 30th, 2006 at 12:38 pmGeorge Will for once is telling the truth > Tony Snow is just a shill for the Bush Regime! Snow worked for phony FOX News so why expect him to be anything but a liar and stooge for Dubya?!
April 30th, 2006 at 12:41 pmsnow is just another band-aid on the cancer in the bush WH.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:42 pmGoodmorning MR.COLBERT….thank you for speaking for the 66% of us last night!
ANVIL is most certainly off his meds today > Lol. Who in their right mind wants thousands of our troops slain and a aircraft carrier sunk to save the vile Bush Regime? Seems to me that if Bush attacks Iran, and our Navy is destroyed, then most Americans will be pissed at Dubya!
April 30th, 2006 at 12:48 pm“THE STRONGEST SMARTEST HUMANS ALWAYS WIN.”
Comment by ANVILHEAD — April 30, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
***
That excludes you on both counts.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:50 pmThis whole looming attack on Iran is goofy > it is like the Japanese attacking our Navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii > instead of US being the good guys, we become the Japanese?! According to ANVIL we are supposed to rally to Bush when the Iranians sink our Navy ships who are attacking them? Lordy that is twisting facts into pretzils > lol.
April 30th, 2006 at 12:58 pm“THE STRONGEST SMARTEST HUMANS ALWAYS WIN.â€
Comment by DICKHEAD — April 30, 2006 @ 12:23 pm
Maybe not always mister head - keep in mind that a monkey with the IQ of a turnip has won the last two elections… kinda shoots a hole in that theory eh?
April 30th, 2006 at 12:59 pmI’m about ready to send Clay Shaw a letter asking him to please stop wasting taxpayer money by sending me form letters that may as well say, “F you and your opinions.â€
Comment by Lily — April 30, 2006 @ 12:38 pm
Cool - you send one to Clay and I’ll send one to Nathan Deal and we’ll see if we each get a form letter from them in response to that? : )
April 30th, 2006 at 1:00 pmI’m about ready to send Clay Shaw a letter asking him to please stop wasting taxpayer money by sending me form letters that may as well say, “F you and your opinions.â€
Comment by Lily — April 30, 2006 @ 12:38 pm
Cool - you send one to Clay and I’ll send one to Nathan Deal and we’ll see if we each get a form letter from them in response to that? : )
Comment by unbelievable — April 30, 2006 @ 1:00 pm
I guess I should join you all and send one to Domenici. Especially after his tirade the other day. What a jerk, He needs to retire.
April 30th, 2006 at 1:31 pmcorrection: WE–NM–need to retire him. And Bingaman is sending me stupid letters defending his votes, or lack there of. Get with it Jeff, or you will get the boot too.
a pissed off New Mexican
April 30th, 2006 at 1:33 pmWhat a jerk, He needs to retire.
Comment by Freebird — April 30, 2006 @ 1:31 pm
Or we could just fire them all in November :)
April 30th, 2006 at 1:54 pma pissed off New Mexican
Comment by Freebird — April 30, 2006 @ 1:33 pm
Guess I should have read your second post first…
If we’re all writing these idiots than how can they NOT know what we want from them? They just don’t care. After all, the retirement package for a public servant is pretty sweet. No real consequences to being fired.
April 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pmIt hurts me when I agree with George Will.
April 30th, 2006 at 1:58 pm“This administration isn’t sinking. It’s soaring. So it’s like rearranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.” Steve Colbert
How positively Shakespearean was that?
Let me tell you…
Back at work on my weekly feature. You’re going to love who the guest blogger is.
April 30th, 2006 at 2:16 pmSnow is being used to disguise the continued WH attempt to squelch the press (as if they aren’t obsequious already). McClellan lost all credibility; Snow is a “fresh face” who speaks with a little more authority. In essence, tho, he is a Fox man, a Republican conservative, a Bush supporter and I hope his honeymoon with the press lasts only as long as the origin of the phrase - one month.
April 30th, 2006 at 2:16 pmWonder why the WH thinks it needs Snow so much when TV anchors, Blitzer, Matthews, Scarborough, Carlson, Phillips, O”Brien(s) et al AND the entire FOX channel are quite successful propagandists on their own.
Did you all hear Blitzer the other day, when he sympathetically repeated himself twice with “Presdent Bush just can’t catch a break.” Are those the words of an objective reporter?
Colbert said McClellan quit to spend more time with Andy Card’s kids. ;)
April 30th, 2006 at 2:37 pmColbert said McClellan quit to spend more time with Andy Card’s kids. ;)
Comment by Zookeeper — April 30, 2006 @ 2:37 pm
Old Scottie didn’t like that very much, did he? Almost as little as Tony liked being called ‘Snow Job”. But it was nice to laugh at their expense rather them laughing at ours, as usual…
April 30th, 2006 at 2:43 pmActually, right now “things” are HOT, but it won’t be long before “things” get a lot HOTTER! There are other worse levels of crime besides corruption that will surface!
April 30th, 2006 at 4:40 pmOf course it will make a difference. It will officially make Fox News the White House News network, and validate their years worth of right wing media bias.
April 30th, 2006 at 5:16 pmThat makes aboslutely no logical sence whatsoever. Wishing that the US suffer thousands of dead seems highly TREASONIST ? ENBOLDING THE TERRORIST ? HURTING THE MILITARY ? or maybe your really a leftwing communist ?
Oh oh I think somenes sub;iminally is a “liberal”
April 30th, 2006 at 7:57 pm/end sarcsim
Think what it would mean if Josh Bolton really did cancel the daily press meetings. He thinks all he would than have to do it hand out print outs for the press to copy..
But think about this. He stops the press briefings. The democrats fill the void. They call their own daily or every other day press breifings…..When the reporters ask questions give them their views. If they want answers to some special questions…research them and have the answers ready next time. Wouldn’t that be a kick. knock the republicans right off the front page. AND THINK ABOUT THIS…THE REPUBLICANS HAVE ENOUGH LIARS AND CROOKS PERFORMING DAILY AND….GETTING CAUGHT THAT THE DEMS COULD HAVE A FIELD DAY FILLING IN THE “CON”servative names and faces.
April 30th, 2006 at 8:12 pmANILINGUSHEAD:
you sure are an idiot. it’s people like you that only confirm that the right wing is full of warmongering nutcases. what, you actually “hope” that thousands of american troops die, just to help bush’s approval ratings?
wait…you’re not really barbara bush are you? just another person that doesn’t want to waste your “beautiful mind” on such trivialities as american troops dying for the sake of your favorite idiot’s political career?
anilingushead’s take on bush foreign policy sounds a lot more like bush-whorin’ policy.
April 30th, 2006 at 8:41 pmThe only good republican is a DEAD republican!!!!!!!
April 30th, 2006 at 9:03 pmEven Will sees through Snow hire…
From Think Progress:WILL: [Snow’s appointment is] just what conservatives really want, is government by Fox News. But he’s a man of wit, charm, intelligence, goodwill and it won’t make a particle of difference. It really won’t. Because it’s not a…
April 30th, 2006 at 9:34 pmGeorge Wills take on the oil prices was a joke. I didn’t hear his take on Snow because I was so freaking mad listening to him act like there wasn’t a problem with the oil companies walking away with more profit than Kuwait had for oil. Drives ME CRAZY!
April 30th, 2006 at 10:39 pmI can’t stand George Will, but at least he’s shown he’s capable of practicing some honesty here lately.
April 30th, 2006 at 10:56 pmTony Snow is not being elected as president
of the United States, He’s simply replacing a White House Press Secretary. I think Tony will make a difference in as much as it’s possible for him to do so from his position. As Mr. Will Said; “Politics IS about something” But I look at it this way, now, Tony Snow is a part of that politics from the inside and very close to the President. Tony is not only going to deliver the message, he may help form the message and some of the politics behind the message. If Tony says: “Mr Bush you can’t say that because”, who is to say that the president will not listen to him and that Tony will not have an impact?
How did I do, George?
April 30th, 2006 at 11:08 pmTony Snow, pretty-boy television man, is not going to stop televising the press briefings. Besides he thinks he is going to be able to deliver winning spin.
May 1st, 2006 at 12:27 amwill’s just another front runner trying to retain a bit of credibility. He still stinks
May 1st, 2006 at 12:44 amy NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer Sun Apr 30, 3:44
WASHINGTON - It’s time for the White House to go on offense and “get our mojo back.” Josh Bolten said Sunday in his first interview since taking over as the president’s chief of staff.
Bolten made no promises of pulling up
President Bush’s all-time low approval ratings, but he said he and Bush have decided they want to be more open with the media and the public.
“We’ve taken advice from a lot of folks that we ought to put the president out more in ways that the American people can see what he’s really like,” Bolten said on “Fox News Sunday.”
~~~
Only after a decade of the Bush/Rove Propaganda machine, we are now gonna see Bush and “What he’s really like”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!
Yeh Right. More Fluff for the Puff.
May 1st, 2006 at 7:43 amDoes that mean Duhbya is gonna come out of the Closet?
And Tell the Truth? Hell No, George’s whole life is a fabrication of silver spoon Eastern Establishment Ivey League “Old International Liberal” greed.
He is a journalist, in the sense that Vaclav Havel was. Comedy is a form of being underground. Hopefully he doesn’t smoke like Havel, though.
May 1st, 2006 at 8:45 amOf course, Will is right. By definition, the press secretary doesn’t make policy, he’s just the mouthpiece for the administration. His appointment is not going to change anything. Perhaps he’ll be more in the loop than his predecessor was, which could conceivably be a good thing because he may provide more information. I’m not sure why anyone would be so up in arms over the choice of Snow — one would expect any administration to choice someone from the same side!
May 1st, 2006 at 9:08 am..oops, that was “choose,” not “choice.”
May 1st, 2006 at 9:10 amThis administration has done more damage to itself, to the American people, to international relations, and to the economy than ANY OTHER administration in the history of the U.S.
Our debt increase, the falling dollar, and on and on it goes.
Bush is an arrogant SOB - I voted for him in 2000 as the “good Republican” I was but
have since wised up. He did not receive my vote in 2004.
I am truly disappointed in the American political process. It is corrupt. It is Imperialistic
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:38 pmand it is wrong.
[…] It’s like putting lipstick on a pig. The hiring of Tony Snow and the other changes at the White House won’t mean a thing if Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld keep pushing the same failed policies. George Will sums it up perfectly: [Snow’s appointment is] just what conservatives really want, is government by Fox News. But he’s a man of wit, charm, intelligence, goodwill and it won’t make a particle of difference. It really won’t. Because it’s not a communication problem. It’s a substance problem. Politics is about something. Now, this is an aesthetic improvement in that room in the White House, period. « Chris Matthews sucks up to Tom Delay […]
May 2nd, 2006 at 10:22 pm