Tony Snow returns.
By on Apr 29th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Tony Snow returns.
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow “told fellow alumni at Davidson College that he feels great and plans to return to work Monday.” He has been off work following a March 27 announcement that the colon cancer he was treated for in 2005 had returned and spread to his liver. Snow, who will soon begin chemotherapy, “said the cancer has brought him closer to religion and his family.”
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I wonder if this man realizes that he was the beneficiary of the prayers and good thoughts of people who despise just about every word that fell out of his mouth?
I wonder how that would affect his thinking if he did?
April 29th, 2007 at 2:47 pmToo bad he’s back, now we have to endure Snowjob II.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:48 pmGod must love liars.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:49 pmI wish him well….
April 29th, 2007 at 2:50 pmbut don’t we have more than enough religion in the white house?
He’ll become a heroic martyr figure for G. Dubious.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pmTubes and all.
Don’t like the man, but I hope his Cancer goes into remission. No one deserves Cancer.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:52 pmis he closer to his conscience though – I doubt it
April 29th, 2007 at 2:53 pmI liked Dana Perino better. She wasn’t as effective a liar as Snow, but she’s much, much nicer to look at.
April 29th, 2007 at 2:55 pmit states religion before family…
that can’t be good news
April 29th, 2007 at 3:03 pmhope he beats it… Cancer is just devistating on the entire family. he has a fight ahead of him thats for sure. I really hope the entire ordeal can give him some perspective, some gravitas, empathy, humanity, compasion and true UNDERSTANDING of who and what he has been representing.
its time for some serious re-evaluation tony
April 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pm> No one deserves Cancer.
gonna have to disagree with you there. this recurrence sounds like karma to me. so much toxic crap has come out of this guy’s mouth he deserves some in the pooper. he’s an apologist and an enabler for mass murderers. I’m sure theres people out there who’ve had or had family whose had cancer, who wouldnt wish it on thier worst enemy. im not one of those people.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:12 pmSorry!
But this is a snow job and has been another PHOTO-OP.
Bush loves those Photo-ops that keeps his critics out of the evening news.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:16 pmDon’t like the man, but I hope his Cancer goes into remission. No one deserves Cancer.
Comment by S.D. — April 29, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
I do not wish him to use SCIENCE to fight his cancer. GOD gave him the cancer so be it.
FUCK HIM. I hope he dies a horrible, miserable death, like the Iraqi people they have maimed and horrifically put asunder.
Fuck him, and the whole cabal of lying theiving scumbag mothefuckers.
I hold my pity and good will for those I WISH TO SEE upon the earth. Not those that deserve the eternal fires of damnation.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:20 pmGood riddance to bad rubbish.
I wonder if this man realizes that he was the beneficiary of the prayers and good thoughts of people who despise just about every word that fell out of his mouth?
I wonder how that would affect his thinking if he did?
Comment by J-rock
That’s a good question, J-rock. I would hope he would be unable to look at himself in the mirror, but I would probably be disappointed.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:21 pmBest of health, Tony.
Speaking of religion, does this mean you will STOP LYING to the American public??
It IS one of the Ten Commandments, you know, along with NOT KILLING and NOT STEALING, all of which the people you work for DO.
On a REGULAR, NON-STOP basis.
Mr. Bush
April 29th, 2007 at 3:22 pmI think Dana Perino should stay as Press Secretary. If I’m going to be lied to, I’d rather it come from a pretty face.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:28 pmi also heard that him sat he wasn’t going to lose his great head of hair…
best of luck to ya, tony!
April 29th, 2007 at 3:30 pmStress weakens natural immunities and facilitates disease. I’m sorry for Tony Snow that he is returning to this intensely stressful job. It seems like reckless judgement on his part.
I’m also sorry not to see the impending implosion of Perino on national television. It seemed imminent.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:34 pmGOD gave him the cancer, It is a total hypocrical stance for him to now say he wishes to use SCIENCE to fight it. Are you not happy with what God has done for you Tony???
April 29th, 2007 at 3:37 pmHMMMM. You ingrateful piece of crap.
May you burn in hell, and die a long horrible death just like the Iraqi people your lies have wrought upon the land of your religion.
I cannot beleive you are actually alive. You are just a sack of protoplasm. Not human.
Tony,
Better start telling the TRUTH. Otherwise, when the time comes, you WILL be with ME and our MASTER,
SATAN.
The choice is YOURS, Tony. Choose wisely, otherwise I’ll
See you in hell Tony (cause I’LL be THERE),
Mr. Bush
April 29th, 2007 at 3:40 pmMURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA
THe sooner this lying sack of shit dies, the sooner I can pop open a bottle of Cordon Rouge….I have a whole case reserved for anything bad that happens to these BAD people in the BushChaney….Chaney’s MI will call for lots of bubbly…..Waiting impatiently…
April 29th, 2007 at 3:42 pmGlad your back, healthy, and ready to stonewall justice some more. Best wishes, Tony.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:43 pmMaybe a bout with cancer is exactly what Jesus would recommend for Mr. Tobias’s spiritual decline.
April 29th, 2007 at 3:43 pmHow dare you ask me questions about death and destruction in the middle east. Don’t you know I’m a caner victim.?
April 29th, 2007 at 3:51 pmIf Tony were a liberal, Anne and Rush would be laughing at him and making lots of “colon jokes” about him. Or saying he was faking it.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:16 pmHere is hoping he makes a full, healthy recovery in time to go down with Bush’s impeachment.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:19 pmit seems lately that some very rich connected people are surviving cancers, that everyone else does not-I have recently lost relatives with similar cancers, and they were told that there was nothing they could do for them-these are prominent state-of -the art centers-is there a cure out there for these people but not for everyone else? It is bizarre that he would be back at work and not receiving chemo immediately-what is going on? I remember an interview about Farrah Fawcett where she was at death’s door, then a month later she’s fully recovered-this does not add up.
April 29th, 2007 at 4:51 pmCloser to religion and his family, eh? Let’s hope it brings him closer to the truth, as well. Lee Atwater was said to have had a change of heart and mind before his death from cancer. It would be nice if Tony found it both untenable and impossible to speak anything but “truth” – indisputable fact, instead of White House spin and prevarication. The only problem: if he did, Perino would be back in a heartbeat!
April 29th, 2007 at 4:54 pmWell, he can’t complain about his health insurance. 47 million Americans are not as lucky.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:03 pm“Snow, who will soon begin chemotherapy to fight a cancer recurrence, “’said the cancer has brought him closer to religion and his family.’â€
That will not prevent him from LYING for a living. Sheesh! You think he could have learned something else from the experience!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:03 pm“God” gave him the cancer.
How DARE he go against “gods” will.
By using SCIENCE none the less! The very school of thought that “forced ‘god’ out of the schools”!
Tony Snow is ANTI-CHRISTIAN!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:05 pmShows the desperation of the administration that they are yanking him back into work even before chemo…
April 29th, 2007 at 5:11 pmGoing for the sympathy form the press corps? Just needed a better liar than Dana? She does suck at it.
And I agree, being an enabler for these war criminals has gotta have some karmic payback.
I’m sick and tired of all this Perino love. I mean, she’s no Dustee Tucker.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:15 pmI bet in no time I will be as sick of him as I am of Dana Perino. Listening to lies is tiresome.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:35 pmIf you thought the WH press pulled its punches before, and I did, you ain’t seen nothing like the kid glove treatment Snow is in for.
Now whenever David Gregory or John Roberts or any of the 200 members of the WH press corps try to nail down an answer from this slithering tool for the corrupt Bush Administration, they’ll be accused of mugging a sick man.
BushCo is shameless about exploiting situations like this. BushCo will use anyone’s misfortune to milk sympathy for itself.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:37 pmI wouldn’t wish this dx on anyone since colon cancer is always a “death sentence” and the particular stage will dictate precisely how long Tony has. Colon Cancer is not curable, as we know but “preventable” with screening colonscopy, etc.
Now, if in this brief span of 4 weeks, a true “miracle” has occurred for Tony and he has found religion and reconnection with the things of life which matter, then I would expect that his lying will stop as well. You can’t have one without the other: Morality and lying. It does not compute.
Cognizant of what a seasoned spinmeister (aka propaganda-spewing liar) he’s become, cynically, I don’t believe that a religious conversion is possible in that span of time. We can only hope that Tony doesn’t return to his past MO for the cancer and it’s concomitant necrosis within will only accelerate it’s pace when he pollutes himself with the continued contamination of his body/mind from the pernicious effects of deceit, lies, and overt corruption.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:54 pmUnfortunately, Tony’s return will be short-lived and I wouldn’t expect him to last the summer with the chemotherapy he will experience. It will make him so sick that he won’t be able to work any longer. If it’s Stage 4 and metastisized to the liver, he has only a matter of months to live.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:56 pmThis new photo tells it all. This disease ravages so horribly and it can be seen on him at this point.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:57 pmTony Snow = airhead, delusional, deceitful, excellent liar.
Dana Perino = airhead, delusional, deceitful, fairly good liar.
The White House will definitely welcome back Tony.
April 29th, 2007 at 5:57 pmThe one thing we can all celebrate is that bleach-blonde airhead Perino will be gone. She was crashing and burning so the white house was hell bent on retrieving Tony, that’s certain. During the past week, Dana had a total meltdown and was losing it…..not a very pretty sight. She’s in way over her head, poor neophyte!
April 29th, 2007 at 5:59 pmIf you thought the WH press pulled its punches before, and I did, you ain’t seen nothing like the kid glove treatment Snow is in for.
…
Comment by Jim — April 29, 2007 @ 5:37 pm
that is a very good point… good insight there…
April 29th, 2007 at 6:25 pmsomething to look forward to…
ugh…
“said the cancer has brought him closer to religion and his family.â€
Well let’s see what being brought ‘closer to religion’ does for him during those press conferences. As a human being I hope he overcomes. As a defender/apologist/accomplice for these fascists I believe they blasphemize the name of our Lord and Savior. Thou shalt not bear false witness, Tony. If you’ve been brought ‘closer to religion’ then hopefully there won’t be anymore Snow-jobs, so to speak.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:30 pmLet’s make sure that the WH press never forgets that Snow is allowing himself to be used by BushCo. In his last weeks and months of life (it’s in his liver, he’s a dead man walking), Snow has chosen to be used, to be a tool for BushCo. That’s because Snow is a “true believer.” He believes that the totalitarian regime of BushCo is where it’s at. “The end justifies the means.” He believes it’s ok to lie and deceive the American people.
Maybe Snow’s “closer to religion” comment means he’s praying for the miracle of rapture, and he’s got do what he can to speed it along. Whatever it is, I have no sympathy for him or anybody who supports BushCo. What they’re up to isn’t in Americans’ interests. What they’re up to isn’t in anyone’s interests, but BushCo’s own interests.
These are bad people. Every time we realize that, when it’s crystal clear that there is nothing honorable or noble about them and that they’re up to no good, we are shocked by that revelation and become paralyzed. It’s not just incompetence. They’re criminals. But we backtrack, question it again and again because it’s so hard to believe. In the time we’ve spent questioning our perceptions, BushCo has moved ahead to consolidate its gains and hold on power. What then do we do? We reassess it all. Again.
BushCo really is that bad, that criminal, that sinister. Really.
Nancy Pelosi can get away with not letting impeachment proceedings begin because we let her. Unless Dems get off the dime, tell the people BushCo is corrupt and needs to be impeached, they’re co-conspiracists with BushCo. Not a day should go by without Pelosi’s office getting swamped with phone calls for BushCo’s impeachment.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:31 pmwhat a week to come back… he’s gonna wish he stayed in bed. for some reason, though, I much prefer being lied to by tony than perino because at least you can tell he’s spinning a whole arsenal of intellectually dishonest parlor tricks, while perino just tries to say up is down and black is white with a straight face.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:33 pmI’m glad you’re doing better, Tony Snow.
You must start telling the truth.
April 29th, 2007 at 6:37 pmI’m glad the cancer has “brought him closer to his religion and his family.” I wonder if it has brought him any closer to realizing the truth about the administration that employs him.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:12 pmI’m going to give Tony boy Snow job (aka, Satan’s helper)…
…the benefit of the doubt…
…I doubt anything he says…
…will benefit any of us…
April 29th, 2007 at 7:15 pmIt is impossible for anyone who has a true sense of his religion, or god, or goodness, or the light, or whatever he calls goodness, to work in and for this corrupt, immoral, unethical and criminal White House.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:18 pmMutually exclusive.
I’m sure theres people out there who’ve had or had family whose had cancer, who wouldnt wish it on thier worst enemy. im not one of those people.
Comment by Chocolate Jesus Love Anulingus — April 29, 2007 @ 3:12 pm
Now there’s what I like to hear. A liberal with the nerve to admit his ill will towards people. None of this wanting the best for everybody crap.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:32 pmChemo sucks. Wouldn’t it be great if there were an immunotherapy that could cure cancer? Urge the FDA to take the first step in immunotherapies by supporting the approval of Provenge for prostate cancer.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:42 pmWow, can you imagine having a job where the number one requirement is lying your ass off and that 75% of the people know you’re lying.
April 29th, 2007 at 7:55 pm#50- Willy-
And the (25, or 29-percent of retards are too deluded to know/ care)
April 29th, 2007 at 8:06 pmyou can learn alot about ‘progressives’ by reading your responses to this post.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:29 pm#48 ILL WILL?
Like CHEERING the DEATH of Paul Wellstone?
Or the malady of Tim Johnson with a brain hemmorhage?
Rush, Coulter, Malkin, Savage, O’Reilly, Hannity, etc.
ALL hate mongers.
I wish them NO HARM and NO ILL WILL.
God will judge the good and EVIL (see above), and if the fire-and-brimstone evangelists are RIGHT,
these coxuckers plus EVIL people like Bush, Cheney, AbuGonz, Rummy, etc. will be members of
SATAN’S BAND
for eternity….
Tony, best of health.
For the sake of your FAMILY and your IMMORTAL SOUL,
you better start telling the TRUTH,
or you wil end up ETERNALLY DAMNED like ME, and I will
See you in hell Tony (cause I’LL be THERE),
Mr. Bush
April 29th, 2007 at 8:32 pmMURDEROUS WAR CRIMINAL
COWARDLY TRAITOR TO THE USA (TM–BushCrimeCo)
My cancer experience drove me closer to reality, not religion.
April 29th, 2007 at 8:55 pmI’m kinda glad Tony Snow is back, that way we don’t have to deal with
April 29th, 2007 at 9:14 pmmedicore ramblings of Dana Perino. Welcome back Snowjob, you were
sorely missed.
you can learn alot about ‘progressives’ by reading your responses to this post.
Comment by paul
What have you learned from mine, paul?
April 29th, 2007 at 9:34 pmWhich religion does Tony claim to be a member of? Which of the worlds religions extolls the virtue of lying?
I wonder if he will do like Lee Atwater and try to make amends for all of the evil he did.
April 29th, 2007 at 9:39 pmAs a cancer survivor, I am amazed he is coming back to work so quickly. I don’t know the protocol that will be followed but if it is like the chemo I had, he is in for such a tough ride that he had better hope he’s found Jesus because there were times I couldn’t believe things could get any worse.
Personally, he’s not my cup of tea but I hope he gets better.
Veritas–are you a doc and did you go to school in Cambridge, MA?
April 29th, 2007 at 9:59 pm“said the cancer has brought him closer to religion and his family.â€
Really? Dealing with it the first time didn’t do that? He had to get hit with it a second time?
But, Tony, are you really as close as you could possibly be to religion and family? Couldn’t you be a little closer? Maybe if you quit your job…
April 29th, 2007 at 10:01 pmyou can learn alot about ‘progressives’ by reading your responses to this post. Comment by paul — April 29, 2007 @ 8:29 pm
Classic projection paul. You know, when some liberal person gets sick, your wingnut friends like Pat Robertson claim that they are sick because god is punishing them for being evil. Aren’t you glad that progressives don’t believe in the “vengeful god” theory?
Paul, you’re a sad, pathetic little man, that came here *hoping* people would say nasty things about someone that’s clearly suffering a horrific disease. Snow, is a disgusting despicable human being – but do you really think we wish that kind of suffering on others?
Sorry, son, but that’s YOUR pathology, one that you suffer with campus shooters, not the pathology of *progressives*. Dum bass wingnut hatemonger.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:45 pmHe is wished well.
April 29th, 2007 at 10:48 pmI hope his cancer brings him closer to God real soon.
I don’t get why people feel sorry for WILLING CO-CONSPIRATORS IN TREASON.
A bullet, a noose, or cancer. Sounds fine to me.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:10 pmGlad to see him recovering but he should really look at his lying and repeating lies of the administration…it is appalling to hear each day.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:30 pmI’m glad he’s doing better… I hope he recovers. I think he’s a liar and doing a terrible disservice to the country with his job, but he doesn’t deserve to die of cancer, no one does. Even those jerks against stem cell research.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:33 pmI wonder if a brush with death will make him more honest and compassionate. Hey, Tony, how about that stem-cell bill? You pathetic pu$$y.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:58 pmspewing bullshit must be good for the immune system.
now watch the whitehouse press corp slober all over him, kiss his ass, and let him get by with murder.
when you put tony snow’s cancer up against the iraqi civillian murders,
mmmmmmmmm you decide.
jej
April 30th, 2007 at 12:00 amStress is really not good for people who are seriously ill. So Tony is going to go back out there and lie and lie and lie for Bush. That can’t help but be stressful. Why would he want to do that to himself. Does he miss the limelight that much? It’s going to be interesting to see how the White House press corps handles his return. Hopefully they won’t throw him softballs. It’s time for them to start challenging the lies that come out of the Whitehouse day after day.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:31 am#67 Lying isn’t stressful for Fox folk. It is natural and healthy.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:34 am> Paul, you’re a sad, pathetic little man, that came
> here *hoping* people would say nasty things
> about someone that’s clearly suffering a horrific disease.
Honestly tho, he hoped right. VVGFU, while I respect your benevolence, and those of everyone else here who doesnt wish snowjob ill, I don’t share it, and I would say there are plenty other lefties who don’t either . I would say the responses here are mixed.
I personally beleive that there is no amount of ill will that could be heaped on these people that would be anything other than righteous retribution and just desserts. Snowjob, and the people he enables, are some of the most greedy, deceitful, hipocritical, vengeful, vendictive, and maliscious people on the face of the planet. I have no doubt, not a single doubt in my mind, that had clinton developed say , prostate cancer during his term, the right wing gasbag airwaves would have been filled with jokes about “monica sucking the cancer out” and “chemo will be the only thing that keeps his fly zipped”.
I have NO doubt in my mind that MANY (not all) right wingers would be piling on if this happened to a prominent left wing figure. Look at the swiftboaters, the imaginary illegitimate black children, and the purple heart band-aids. Is my lack of doubt misplaced in this regard?
Would you wish Hitler well if he had gotten cancer? While Bush and his ilk arent quite as bad, I would argue that the difference is merely one of degree. Before the decade is out I imagine near a million iraqi’s will be dead because of what we’ve started. Compare this to the several million people who died in the holocaust (no, i dont believe it was a full 6 mil, scream at me for being a “holocaust denier” if you want), and Dick, Dumbya , and everyone who aids and abets his crimes aren’t that different from the third reich (except they arent as snazzy dressers).
One will say “well Bush didnt put them in camps and kill them intentionally, so its not the same”, but honestly, dead is dead. This is totally arguable, but in my mind, commiting and continuing an unjustified act, knowing that people will be killed and continue to be killed in the process, is exactly as morally unjustified as killing them intentionally. I would make the analogy that shooting someone simply because you don’t like them is no more morally reprehensible than trying to remove someones liver to sell, knowing they will die without it.
Ha,and no, I’m not one of those “lets hug everybody” liberals. While those people mean well, I think they are a bit naive about how the world works.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:35 amI’m definitely a “fight fire with fire” type.
I lost a very young relative 4 weeks ago to a cancer that only attacks kids to age 19, he was 19 at the end. He was the superbowl make a wish kid, Travis Britt. Cancer hurts all those around it.
As most progressives would, I wish him well in his recovery so that we can slam the crap out of him afterwards….hehe, my nephew would have wanted it that way.
Hating Cancer daily too
April 30th, 2007 at 12:39 amOh and 1700 ppl showed up for his memorial by the way.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:39 amAs most progressives would, I wish him well in his recovery so that we can slam the crap out of him afterwards….hehe, my nephew would have wanted it that way.
Hating Cancer daily too
Comment by Buck Fush
Your nephew sounds like he was a great guy. My condolences for your loss.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:43 am#69 I am sorry to hear that Buck. There is nothing worse than a kid dying.
April 30th, 2007 at 12:44 amBreaks your heart for sure, the whole family has shed many tears over it, he was a football star, a school play and chores star, his girl friend since he was 15 is the youngest Seagal (Seahawks cheerleader) he had it all, then, boom, it is over, makes you just weep for the kids in that situation.
Thanks for the blessings for him
April 30th, 2007 at 12:56 amIf you Google his name, (Travis Britt) it shows up….it was a big deal. Kid, great kid gets cancer and dies in a year, Snow it alive and lieing, not freaking fair.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:00 am#73 I wish your family the best. Life sucks a lot of the time.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:01 am#74 It is always a big deal. Especially when it is someone so young.
April 30th, 2007 at 1:02 amTough, Tony, tic-tac-toe, but Hey!, hang in there, Rosie’s looking for a new ‘position’ in June, see if you can keep the creeps(david gregory gang) in their seats ’til then. Bon chance, see ya in the next weird world.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:21 am‘idespoiler’ is an anagram of Reid Pelosi, since you asked?!
April 30th, 2007 at 3:25 amToo bad it hasn’t brought him closer to the truth…Otherwise, I am saddened he has this disease, but have NO SYMPATHY for his baseless and inaccurate answers to questions that affect more people than himself…
April 30th, 2007 at 8:51 amI’m still waiting for Katic Couric to ask Snow about whether he plans on using his cancer for political purposes, just like she did John Edwards about his wife. For some odd reason, it doesn’t appear like that’s going to happen.
April 30th, 2007 at 9:43 am#69, Buck
I wish to add my condolences to those already offered.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:24 amSome of these comments are deranged.
Wishing death upon a poitical rival is twisted.
April 30th, 2007 at 3:54 pmHas is battle with cancer brought him closer to the TRUTH?!?
April 30th, 2007 at 10:14 pmAss Tight Ass Ass Worship
I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view
April 11th, 2008 at 12:59 am