There will be blood: Tony Snow joins CNN.
CNN has announced that beginning today, former White House press secretary Tony Snow will be joining the network as a “conservative commentator.” CNN president Jon Klein explains the decision:
In the White House, Tony brought a remarkably human touch to the discussion of public policy, which he will continue to do as part of the Best Political Team on Television. He will contribute a unique breadth of political and journalistic expertise to what is already the most provocative and wide-ranging political analysis on the air.
In October, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly warned Snow against joining CNN: “I mean, that’s the devil over there. … You can’t go into the pagan throne over there.” He added that if CNN put Snow on the 8 pm slot as a competitor to him, “it’s going to get bloody.” Watch it:
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Beck should start updating his resume and purchase some moving boxes.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pmWelcome Tony. Now go home!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:14 pmJust what the Fox wannabe channel needs - another conservative liar.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pmClearly
Not
News
If anyone is looking for a reason to block CNN, this should but them over the top. Snow talks out of his mouth and ass at the same time.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmMaybe he could get a job as a Clown…
Great! I can’t wait to see some preacher’s skull getting bashed in at Tony’s home bowling alley!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmWhose milkshake will he be drinking, then?
April 21st, 2008 at 4:16 pmO’Reilly better watch out for bowling invitations at Tony’s house…
April 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pm“He will contribute a unique breadth of political and journalistic expertise”
I don’t remember this man ever working in mainstram politics or journalism… very strange because i am a student of both. Surely this cannot be the same Tony Snow who spun Bush lies for years?.. surely this cannot be a former FoxNews propoganda hole?
April 21st, 2008 at 4:17 pmCNN, the new FOX network, just as stupid as the first one.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pmZimzone Says:
If anyone is looking for a reason to block CNN, this should but them over the top.
Glen Beck and Nancy Grace were already reason enough for me.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:20 pmBoy, that just tarnished CNN’s reputation one more time.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pmWayne Says:
Zimzone Says:
If anyone is looking for a reason to block CNN, this should but them over the top.
Glen Beck and Nancy Grace were already reason enough for me.
Amen to that, Brother.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:25 pmIf this were basic training, the DI would be calling:
Right, FACE!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pmCNN,
April 21st, 2008 at 4:27 pm‘The great corporate whore’
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
WE NEED TO START BOYCOTTING!!!!!
GET THE MEDIA HOUNDS ON THIS…..ORGANIZE!!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pmPerhaps CNN were looking to ‘dumb down’ their programming. They are probably losing the republican audience. Tomorrow on CNN - special feature “GUNS ARE COOL!!!”
April 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pmPersonally, i think CNN should just spend an entire day’s budget on getting Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow to discuss every issue in America today. Until that day, they will never have me as a regular viewer (i still tune in to Robin Meade.. for pesonal reasons..)
April 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pmThis really drops CNN to the lowest rung of the credible-news ladder. First Glen Beck and now Tony Snow?!? Do we really need ANOTHER conservative crackpot behind a microphone taking up bandwidth?
CNN is beginning to look more like a FOX every day. I watch CNN less and less all the time, and now it will diminish even further. It will be interesting to see if MSNBC picks up more viewers who just can’t stomach yet another right-wing mouthpiece saying unbelievable things.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pmQ: What do you call a cage match to the death between Billdo and Snowjob?
April 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pmA: Addition by subtraction!
That does it for me. I won’t be watching CNN any more either.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:39 pmTony Snow is a known liar. This is CNN’s attempt to mislead it’s viewers and distort public discourse.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pmThat’s for sure Guido!
It feels like the whole country is being taken over right before our eyes.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pmGlen Beck, Lou Dobbs and Tony Snow, The New Three Stooges.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pmCNN is playing it safe here….I doubt that Snow will be caught in a park with his wiener hooked to his neck in shorts and cowboy boots……but, I could be wrong.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:47 pmCurly Beck, Moe Snow, and Larry Dobbs.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pmmary Says:
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It feels like the whole country is being taken over right before our eyes. April 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Actually, Mary, that happened nearly 8 years ago…
April 21st, 2008 at 4:51 pmYay, CNN makes sure that long after Bush is gone his official spokesman will be front and center, assaulting us all with his trademark “human” lying spin.
Thanks so much.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pmIt’s going to get bloody (and stupid and convoluted and nasty and twisted…) - Bring it on!
April 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pmAnother fine example of fascistic journalism at work.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pmFirst ABC has the debacle of wednesday nights enquirer debate, and now this.
Makes me think I should have television feed put back in, just so I could take it out again in protest.
Television is nothing but crap anymore. I don’t miss any of it. The commercials, the inane and brutish “reality” shows, the gossip and rumor mongering that passes for journalism. They can have it all. I wouldn’t get again on a bet. They are all competing for the largest share of an ever diminishing audience.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:02 pmButttttt, ABC hired a Clinton stooooooge. none of you progressives comlained about that, did cha? (Ok trolls, now you can go back to sleep.)
April 21st, 2008 at 5:03 pmCNN has announced that beginning today, former White House press secretary Tony Snow will be joining the network as a “conservative commentator.”
When was the last time any of the news networks hired someone as a “liberal commentator”?
Anyone?
Anyone?
April 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pmWhy isn’t Snow returning to Fox? He’d get more money and respect having been WH flack.
Is it possible that Snow sees a future with CNN rather than FOX?
Would that be because CNN is slightly LEFT of Fox and thus slightly more attuned to the national political trend ( which is actually towards a a pretty central position, given the radical right swing over the past decads?
Is Snow actually smart enough to see the writing on the wall?
Given his “mimbo” qualifications, I’d say yes, now that reality is finally setting the agenda. But he’s not tenasfigured, he’s just going to ‘Fox-Lite’.
Still it may be telling, another chink or defection away frome the extrmee right.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pmThey’ve never hired a “liberal commentator” because they’re constantly trying to prove they’re not liberal — of course, most of us already knew that.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pmGlad to see you are recovering from cancer Tony. Good luck on CNN.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:17 pmSpeaking of which, I wonder if CNN’s health plan will cover Tony Snow’s pre-existing cancer? Or will he have to pay for his future treatments out of his own pocket?
April 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pmKnowing how o’reilley claims victory over Olberman’s Countdown (**NOT**), should be interesting seeing Un-Really, Snow, and Olbermann going head to head.
My guess it that Snow will siphon off Un-Really, as they are in similar politics - which should make Olbermann look really, really, good.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:27 pmReading this post, I threw-up in my mouth.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:27 pmCNN is really starting to piss me off.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pmThe CNN blog cut the comments off after 34 minutes and 52 comments on this news. My comment is still “awaiting moderation” or whatever after over an hour, so I guess it won’t make the cut. The thread below it is still open and the one before that was open for two and a half hours with 285 comments.
p.s. the comments were almost all disgusted and negative.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:41 pmMed students around the country will tune in to watch Tony’s progression.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pmWhen I want to catch a minute of news there’s almost nothing to be found on any channel. They’ve practically completely shut down the flow of real news.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pmTony Snow will be joining the network as a “conservative commentator.”
Well joining CNN is a step up from Fox. Since I don’t consider Fox a news organization.
By conservative, they mean he will still support Republican propoganda. I can’t see any change there. As press secretary if he didn’t like the question, he just wouldn’t answer it.
It would have been nice if CNN had gotten a journalist that was a little more progressive. It’s going to be like watching Brit Hume, who I can’t stomach to watch anymore.
April 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pmIn the White House, Tony brought a remarkably human touch to the discussion of public policy, which he will continue to do as part of the Best Political Team on Television.
CNN, your SpelCheker needs an update. You mispelled “maladministration BS, agitprop and evasion”.
<*BLEECCCCHHHH!!!!*>
Cheers,
April 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pmBill O - Sexual Predator - will go after/eat his own now.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:34 pmPOXSpews gets beaten out in its efforts to snap up all former Bush Misadministration criminals.
Crocodile tears for POX. Crocodile tears for CNN.
REAL tears for a long-bygone American Fourth Estate.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:35 pmThat’s it. No more CNN. Everyone should flip past them just as we have learned to do with Focksnewz. Don’t watch them at all. Zip. Nada.
April 21st, 2008 at 6:44 pmWell, I’d pay to see a cage match. ;o) Tony Snow versus Billo - no holds barred? Oh yeah!!
April 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pmBetter idea,Annie. Cuff them by the ankles in a deserted room with no food or water, and give them dull hacksaws. “There will be blood,yes there will be blood”. ;)
April 21st, 2008 at 7:41 pmSo CNN, you see a need for conservative commentators. Well, where are your liberal commentators?
April 21st, 2008 at 8:26 pmAnother lying pundit to add to the pile littering the tv landscape.
April 21st, 2008 at 8:40 pmIf there weren’t already enough, here’s one more reason to stop watching tv for political coverage.
These are the same a**holes we have to thank for catapulting the propaganda and leading America into a trillion-plus dollar hole, with $4 gal gas coming and the dollar nosediving into oblivion.
The political pundit classes are lying traitors and collecting multi-million dollar salaries for it.
yeah! even more fair and more balanced!
April 21st, 2008 at 9:04 pm.
Body Snatchers anyone?
They LIVE
just had to say … either way, they’re here!
.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 am.
Awe… W T F ?
It’s all one big family…
ABCNNBCBS&FOXPRAVDA…!
.
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 amand this is why i only consume independent news!! therealnews.com, democracynow.com
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 amZimzone Says:
Clearly
Not
News
How about: Conservative
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 amNoise
Network
That’s okay… I don’t watch CNN anymore anyway. Ever since the boy Bush took office CNN has gone down the tubes. How about… Bush destroys everything, including CNN.
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:51 amLiberal Media, indeed.
April 22nd, 2008 at 8:40 am