Highlights From Tony Snow’s First Press Gaggle
By on May 12th, 2006 at 12:48 pm
Highlights From Tony Snow’s First Press Gaggle
New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held his first gaggle this morning. Here are some highlights:
“Can’t comment on national security issues.”
“You’ll forgive me, but I’ll do the talking points on this as the new kid on the block. I’m not fully briefed into everything. I hate to read from a sheet of paper.”
“For today, I am not going to handle international issues or currency issues. I do not wish to set off global tempests. I frankly just don’t know enough on those.”
“I thought this would be nice and congenial and it is obviously just a mess.”
After his performance, ABC’s Chief White House correspondent, Martha Raddatz, described Snow as “a smoothie.”
UPDATE: TPMmucracker has the full transcript.
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Yep, the “I don’t know, why can’t you leave me alooone?” and curling up in a fetal position defence. Real smooth.
May 12th, 2006 at 12:52 pmWhy not put up a furby, that is programmed to say
“I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation” and save the tax payers some money?
May 12th, 2006 at 12:53 pmABCNews.com is really in the backpocket of this Adminstration
from “The Note” blog being a complete joke (basically a clearinghouse for Repub talking points) to this mornings ridiculous phone records poll (2/3 in favor????) to this nonsensical “he’s a smoothie comment”…
I generally ignore them….
May 12th, 2006 at 12:56 pmJUST IN CIA Official’s Home, Office Searched
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cia_foggo
Law enforcement officials executed search warrants Friday on the house and office of
May 12th, 2006 at 12:56 pmCIA’s outgoing executive director, the FBI said.
#2 – Ok, this may sound silly, but what the hell is a “furby?”
May 12th, 2006 at 12:59 pmSnowie seems a bit out of his element. Love that picture. Looks like he swallowed a Scottie. :-D
May 12th, 2006 at 1:01 pmI can just see it now: FOX’s apologies for Rove’s spin on Bush’s comments on Snow’s answers about Foggo’s troubles….
There’s no end to this mess, and the man in the middle is not a good scarecrow.
The worst part of this for Bush is that TV people don’t quit, they have to be fired. When this one quits we’ll know exactly what a Bush firing looks like.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:03 pmKrazny
“Why not put up a furby, that is programmed to say
“I cannot comment on an ongoing investigation†and save the tax payers some money? ”
Furbies are banned from Federal buildings, (or at least they used to be) due to their ability to record.
Zoo
May 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmThey were a kids stuffed animal thing, that also acted sort of like a tape recorder, at least thats what I remeber them like.
Furbys are a little talking toy that were popular a few years ago. Kinda looked like Gizmo from gremlins. they can speak, and can learn language. furbys were banned from High security places because of the potentiol of overhearing and repeating classified information. See the link below.
http://www.hasbro.com/furby/
May 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmBut boy is he a smoothie… Managing not to tell us anything: “Can’t comment on national security issues.” But he did it in such a skillful way.
So the White House correspondent for ABCNews is in awe of this guy because he can give the press no answers with flair? What drugs is she on? She should not only be fired but lose her press license. Pathetic reporting.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:05 pmthat is alot of people interested in one guy. I am guessing that Mr. Foggo better get a really good lawyer.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:07 pm“…Martha Raddatz, described Snow as “a smoothie.†– - Ummm, more like “smarmy.”
May 12th, 2006 at 1:08 pm#8 & #9 – Squeegy & Krazny,
1. God damn it, I feel old right now, even though I’m not.
2. Furby (an alleged toy) giving away national secrets? That’s killing me, it’s so funny.
Thanks guys!
May 12th, 2006 at 1:09 pmMartha Raddatz also calls a bed of nails,” a smoothie”.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:11 pmHe’s really off to a good start. (sarcasm)
What’s he gonna do when the pressure is on him for real? This could get funny. I mean Bush is at 29% approval rating, half the neocons are under investigation or indicted for something unethical, Dick-tator shot a guy in the face, and Rummy has a Vietnam in Iraq. Good luck Snow. I’d hate to be you.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:11 pmJudd, just so you know, I liked it better when it was Snowie’s “frist gaggle.”
May 12th, 2006 at 1:12 pmZookeeper.. Sorry to jump in… Google Furby Images… You’ll laugh!
May 12th, 2006 at 1:12 pm“I frankly just don’t know enough on those.â€
whaaa!?! why hasn’t he been doing his homework these past few weeks?!?
May 12th, 2006 at 1:13 pmIts true Zoo no joke. Furbys can record conversation, and the worry was they would overhear something and spill national secrets.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:13 pm#15 – Good luck Snow. I’d hate to be you.
Comment by unbelievable
Sucks for him, but SO much fun for us. We deserve this kind of fun, after all. ;)
May 12th, 2006 at 1:15 pm#20
I beg to disagree. We don’t deserve any more from this ‘administration.’ I, at least, have had just about enough.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:18 pmWe deserve resignations and an apologys.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:19 pmA new poll from the Washington Post suggests that the President Bush may be winning a double victory with his illegal NSA domestic surveillance programs. Americans seem willing to buy the White House’s “tough on terrorism” hype at the expense of the law and their own civil liberties. And as an added ironic bonus, the President gets another opportunity to decry leaks that supposedly jeopardize national security.
For the dismal details, see:
May 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pm“Poll: Double Win for Bush on NSA Phone Records”
Sucks for him, but SO much fun for us. We deserve this kind of fun, after all. ;)
Comment by Zookeeper — May 12, 2006 @ 1:15 pm
I’m usually not sadistic at all, but in this case, I wholly agree. These people have become fodder for the late nigt comedians, and have no one to blame but themselves. And it’s hilarious.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:20 pm#17 – Marley, you are right, I laughed. Those are the ugliest things I’ve ever seen. What kind of sick bastard of a parent would buy something like that for their little darling? Good god…
Thanks!
May 12th, 2006 at 1:21 pmWe deserve resignations and an apologys.
Comment by Krazny — May 12, 2006 @ 1:19 pm
Ever hear that you teach people how to treat you? Every day that We The People collectively allow their antics to endure, we’re telling them that their behavior is acceptable to us.
I know many in here would do and would love to do more. We just don’t have the strength in numbers yet. And as long as the fear outweighs the pain, we will watch the apathetic masses tolarate even more heinous behaviour from these clowns.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:23 pmnice job tony, anyone else screwing up this bad on THE FIRST DAY. would be fired. Can you get your ’safe’ job back at fox? You can be replaced with a looped tape that repeats the same thing over and over…”I can’t comment on ANYTHING because EVERYTHING is under investigation.” ABC, smoothie is a paint additive to eliminate ‘fish eyes’ in paint. It is pure silicone,slick as snot and hard to get off your hands. Now I get what your saying.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:24 pm#19 – Ok, Krazny, I googled the furby thing like Marley suggested, and they are real. Ugly things. Slip that under the closet door and scare the kidlets, I say. I guess they don’t have to worry about furbies anymore, now that they have Rove and Libby. ;)
May 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pmSo, furbys can speak, and can learn language. furbys were banned from High security places because of the potentiol of overhearing and repeating classified information…
Sounds like furbys and LIBs have a lot in common!
May 12th, 2006 at 1:28 pmHe’ll be wearing cement overshoes in Chesapeake Bay soon enough! Poor jamoke!!
May 12th, 2006 at 1:30 pm#21 & #22 – Sorry, I didn’t mean to sound flippant. I’m hanging on to my sense of humor by my fingernails.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:33 pmZoo did you post #30, or did someone steal your screen name?
May 12th, 2006 at 1:40 pmNo, why does Zoo use my handle? I don’t believe that I have ever seen that on any boards, and I have been using Styve as my nom de guerre since 2000.
Styve
May 12th, 2006 at 1:47 pm(short for Stuyvesant, the name of an uncle that died on Guadalcanal at age 20)
nice graphic http://f3.yahoofs.com/blog/433d24dbz187ae184/94/__sr_/750c.jpg?mgo3MZEBECwgMpe5
Sadly I can imagine seeing this graphic in the future on Crooks n liars or the most liberal site available the Huffington Post
I think conservatives are more upset about this spying program than liberals
May 12th, 2006 at 1:48 pmthen again – there’s dusty springfield: “i only want to be with you”, “wishin’ and hopin’”, the telling “son of a preacher man” and many more…
May 12th, 2006 at 1:50 pmyea – an exception to every rule…
oops! disregard #35 – obviously wrong thread…
May 12th, 2006 at 1:51 pmWay to go “Oliver” Snow. Nice first Gaggle! CAn’t wait for the televised briefing on Tuesday.
May 12th, 2006 at 1:58 pm#33 – No, I didn’t post #29, hence my post #32. ;)
May 12th, 2006 at 2:07 pmPost numbers are getting weird again. If it helps to clear up some confusion (and how could it possibly?), I see Zookeeper at comment #29, Styve at #30, Zookeeper again at #31 referencing #s21 & 22, and then Krazny at #32 asking Zoo if she was at #30 (which she isn’t on my screen), and then Styve again at #33 asking about Zoo.
Perhaps the fine folks at ThinkProgress can explain and straighten out.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:19 pm“Martha adds that she isn’t sure that she got any of the quotes verbatim… She couldn’t hear.” That last line really tickles me.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:21 pmHe blew it. Big surprise.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:22 pm.
here is comment #30 as it appears to me. this is really wierd.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
and the ZooKeeper tag is a link, back to this page?
May 12th, 2006 at 2:30 pm#40 – Wayne, that’s not me at #29. On my screen #32 is me telling whoever commented with my name at #29 to f*ck off.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:31 pmPost numbers are getting weird again
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — May 12, 2006 @ 2:19 pm
Why I stopped using them and do this… less confusion.
I would guess Santo’s plagerism and rants must go… reordering the numbers. One guess.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:32 pmThis is what I’m showing at #30
He’ll be wearing cement overshoes in Chesapeake Bay soon enough! Poor jamoke!!
Comment by Styve
May 12th, 2006 at 2:33 pm#44 – That’s not me.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:35 pmI didn’t think it was, the tone was all wrong. I don’t know why I have an extra post, but oh well.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:45 pmI wonder how long the “I am just an ignorant wanker” dodge will be considered charming.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:46 pm#49 – I may be a lunatic, but I’m not batshit insane! ;)
May 12th, 2006 at 2:46 pmApologies, Zookeeper. I didn’t see the link under one of those names. Perhaps TP will change the screen name on the post that isn’t yours to the e-mail address of the person who impersonated you. I think that would be fair. Then we can all tell that person not to impersonate someone from our community.
May 12th, 2006 at 2:58 pmHowever, this is the first time i’ve seen a White House official publically declare his actions resulted in a obvious mess.
Gotta give him some small credit for self-introspection, a quality sorely lacking.
May 12th, 2006 at 3:12 pmroo,
He’s new. They’ll let it pass this time, but next time he admits he made a mistake, you can probably bet they’ll be looking to replace him. Admitting mistakes is anathema to these people.
May 12th, 2006 at 3:51 pm[...] This one is a hoot (via MSNBC hat tip Think Progress) Fox News Press Secretary Ton Snow has not been quite programmed correctly yet: “You’ll forgive me, but I’ll do the talking points on this as the new kid on the block. I’m not fully briefed into everything.” And then he said, “I hate to read from a sheet of paper.” [...]
May 12th, 2006 at 3:52 pmI enjoyed reading all of your insightful comments without benefit of any opposing views – if you would all just learn to spell “ditto” …. Have a great weekend, progs!!
May 12th, 2006 at 4:25 pmAnd despite your post, we still don’t have an opposing view, just the milky crap squirted from you ass MA.
May 12th, 2006 at 4:32 pm#52 – No apology necessary, Wayne. Somebody’s being cute. *sigh*
May 12th, 2006 at 4:53 pm#55 Freak
May 12th, 2006 at 5:02 pmwithout benefit of any opposing views
Comment by mighty aphrodite — May 12, 2006 @ 4:25 pm
You aren’t opposing – you’re controversial. Opposing is when someone can argue on merit.
You still haven’t shown the relevence between inspirational sources and the correlation between multiple law enforcement agencies and our high incarceration rate. Because you can’t. You weren’t being opposing to my premise. Just controversial. As always.
Shoo fly!
May 12th, 2006 at 5:28 pmTony thinks he’s still with Faux News. The little shit is so arrogant and so stupid he can’t even think like a human being.
May 12th, 2006 at 6:07 pmSo Martha Raddatz described Snow as “a smoothie.â€
The dictionary defines “smoothie” as one with an igratiating manner, ususally insincere, a dissembler, or a phony.
Janeane Garofalo uses the word to describe rat turds.
Either one works for Tony Snow.
May 12th, 2006 at 6:57 pmYou aren’t opposing – you’re controversial. Opposing is when someone can argue on merit.
Comment by unbelievable — May 12, 2006 @ 5:28 pm
Then (s)he cannot be controversial either.
I think the word you are looking for is blatherskite. Or balderdash. Or jabberwocky. Or preposterous. Or fripper. Or fiddle-faddle.
Or simply prattling fool.
May 12th, 2006 at 8:27 pmTangent to misleading media;
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I know some have seen this before, now given that what we have seen of the Media and others, read this again, it makes alor more sense now eh?
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We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity [[Cant have the 'Sheeple' knowing]] of what we are up to during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller,
( founder of the Trilateral Commission),
in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission,
in June, 1991.
SO what Exactly is an Intellecutal Elite?
Bush? hahaha
Cheney? Yeh right.
Rove? Just a Liar
Libby? another Liar
Cunningham? Corrupt
Delay? hahaha
Wilkes? Oh Pleez
Rummy? War Lord
Perle? Another misleader
Wolfowitz? Another Liar
SO where are these ELites hiding?
May 12th, 2006 at 9:24 pm“I hate to read from a sheet of paper.” Yes, I imagine teleprompters are a lot better, and don’t make you look ‘unprepared’. Not as easy as you thought it would be, huh,Tony? What in the hell have you been doing the last few weeks? It’s not like you didn’t know this was coming. And you are supposed to be a “professional”? Hmmm…
May 13th, 2006 at 4:31 amYou’re doin a heckuva job Snowie!
May 15th, 2006 at 8:43 am