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April 27, 2006
Tony Snow - An Excellent Choice
Yesterday President Bush selected Fox News and radio talk show host Tony Snow to be his new press secretary.
I think that it is an excellent choice.
The selection of Tony Snow was no doubt meant to shore up the conservative base, which the President has lost by promoting a series of ill-considered domestic policies. Tony Snow is an unabashed conservative and has criticized the administration repeatedly.
He is also temperamentally suited for the job of press secretary. Over the past few months I listened to his radio show, and he is always good-humored, even with the most rabid of left-wing callers. He will be able to deal with the likes of Helen Thomas or David Gregory.
Let's get one thing out of the way; no reasonable selection would have satisfied the Bush-hating left. No selection would make them vote Republican or approve of his policies.
Sure, Bush could have selected someone like David Gergen, a man of no principles who has and will be in any administration, Republican or Democrat, as long as it get's his face in the news. While this would have won accolades from the left, they still wouldn't vote Republican anyway or approve of his policies, so in the end it doesn't matter.
More to the point, Bush's biggest problem now isn't the middle. It's that he's lost his base.
Nevertheless, the left will villify Snow. It's already started. But I wouldn't really worry about it very much. They'll attack anyone Bush picks.
FYI, here's Tony's bio
Tony Snow is the host of Weekend Live with Tony Snow, which airs each Saturday from 11am-1pm on FOX News Channel (FNC). Snow also serves as an FNC political analyst and contributes to the network's political and election news coverage. Snow joined the network in 1996.Snow previously served as host of FOX News Sunday (FNS), the FOX Broadcasting network's Sunday morning public affairs program. As host of FNS from 1996 to 2003, Snow interviewed numerous world leaders, including National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; Secretary of State Colin Powell; Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn.; Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf; and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Before joining FOX News, Snow was a nationally syndicated columnist with The Detroit News from 1993 to 2001. He was also a columnist for USA Today from 1994 to 2000. Earlier, he served as an editorial writer at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, VA; editorial page editor of The Daily Press in Newport News, VA; deputy editorial page editor of The Detroit News; and editorial page editor of The Washington Times. Snow's career in journalism began in 1979 when he was an editorial writer for The Greensboro Record in North Carolina.
In 1991, Snow took a sabbatical from journalism to work in the White House for President George H. Bush. He first served as the deputy assistant to the president for communications and director of speechwriting, and later as deputy assistant to the president for media affairs.
Snow earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. He grew up in Cincinnati and currently resides in Virginia with his wife, son, and two daughters.
Posted by Tom at April 27, 2006 8:07 AM
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