Tony Snow Finds A New Gig...On CNN
By Nicole Belle Sunday Apr 20, 2008 7:30pm
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning today, it was announced by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S.
A well-known and respected observer of politics with a longstanding news background, Snow will contribute to CNN as the network continues to broadcast winning political coverage.
Snow most recently served as press secretary to President George W. Bush from April 2006 to September 2007. For 10 years beginning in 1996, he appeared on Fox News Channel, hosting Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live with Tony Snow and other programs. From 2003 to 2006, The Tony Snow Show aired on Fox News Radio. Before joining Fox, Snow served as a substitute "From the Right" co-host for CNN's Crossfire.
"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," Klein said. "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."
Oy.
"I'm delighted to be able to join CNN during the most exciting and unpredictable political year in memory,” Snow said. “The big challenge in 2008 is to develop deep, creative and aggressive analysis of both political parties, their candidates and campaigns. I’m eager to get started, since this race is sure to shape American politics for years to come."
John Amato: I'm wondering when some fresh new liberal blood will be added to CNN's staff instead of "more of the same" Republican shills from the Corporate media. Having Paul Begala on just doesn't cut it anymore.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
"Well respected" ? According to whom ? The horseshit Chimpy administration ?
Gimme' a break ................
Snow is a known liar. So why would CNN want him? Do they want to lie to their viewers? (more?)
MCMetal @ 1:
Thank you!!!!!!!
Like I needed another reason to not watch CNN.
makes me ill, but I stopped watching cnn a while ago...I must confess to waking up early(west coast) Sundays to see what crap Mr. Kurtz is spewing, it's a guilty pleasure.
Anyone who spoke for Bush is unforgivably tainted.
I'm sure Bill O's - Sexual predator - head just exploded.
John, maybe you should be on CNN. Seriously, I always enjoy John Aravosis on CNN, so he would be a good addition. Also, how about David Shuster.
One good thing about this is it raises the possibility of placing Snow on against people willing to dispute his nonsense. He has a poor habit of speaking in complete untruthes, which are easily debunked, but keeping people like Tony Snow strictly in a conservative media realm like Fox News doesn't give anyone the chance to dispute his crap. It's the same case with Karl Rove. I'd rather Rove be on CNN where the possibilty that he can be checked is higher.
FOX is State Sponsored TV @ 2:
Again, the MSM doesn't care about "WE THE PEOPLE. " Another slap in the face of the average citizen. We should realize by now, THERE IS NO LEFT WING MEDIA. As if CNN hiring Glenn Beck wasn't enough of a clue, this should clinch it for you.
"wondering when some fresh new liberal blood will be added to CNN’s staff"
I'm just as inclined as not to say "screw'em" who the fuck wants to get their news anal-ized by shills that have passed the "my soul is long gone" corporate media test?
More proof that you shouldn't trust a goddamn thing on corp. media.
Blow up your TV, throw away your paper,
Go to the country and build you a home
Plant a little garden, eat a lotta peaches
Try and find Jesus, on your own ...
There will be no liberals on our TV. The Amerikan way.
We are so screwed!
Joshdavis @ 9:
ever watch teen Leslie 'Wolf' Blitzer?
Til Democrats get their own cable and network news this will continue. It wouldn't hurt some of those mouthy democrats with all their wives money to pool it and buy the sites. You know like Kerry for one........
when the shit spills over from fox, you can trust
craptastically
not
newsworthy
the scrape it up and put it on the ai.r
Marge @ 16:
the problem is that the rich are loyal to wealth, and nothing else, be they dem or repug
i thought he was dead
Ron @ 10:
ah Glenn Beck the man of the quote below from the other weekend on CNN HN
"Minnesota is the only state with the hammer and sickle on its flag"
Marge @ 16:
Let them eat cake
Wait, wait, wait. I thought Snow left the White House because he had Teh Cancer and Wanted To Spend More Time With Blah Blah Blargh.
Did he get cured and bored?
Happenstance @ 22:
Maybe his family didn't want to spend more time with him.
I'm with JA:
It seems like nobody ever "joins XYZ news channel as a progressive commentator". What gives? Oh wait...I already know...
Feh.
Media's all under one roof
Mass Brainwashing
One Fly @ 14:
"All propaganda for all corporate interests, all the time!"
I wish all cable news would just cut the chase and use that as their tag line.
I refuse to tune in to stations which hire cheap whores to spout their bullshit!!!
I cancelled my cable long ago. Never been happier.
Happenstance @ 22:
wingnut welfare and generous corporate golden health care for the connected few.
The thing that gets me...
Soon this site will start posting every fucking word coming from this chump, once again.
How about closing the revolving door between government and MEDIA????
Tony does bring "a human touch to the discussion of public policy" just like Goebbels. He was, after all, a human.
L.A. Confidential @ 25:
easier for the gun toting DoD MSM 'inhouse' monitors to keep an eye on them.
People do what I do: get your information from real sources; that is Stephanie Miller, Randy Rhodes, C&L, DK, The Daily Show and the Colbert Report. One of the above mentioned sources gives me more info than an entire day of CNN or FOX.
There goes the neighborhood!!
Ok wait a frickin' second here...
Snowjob say: The big challenge in 2008 is to develop deep, creative and aggressive analysis of both political parties
Creative? Why creative? Don't be creative with the bloody news, man. Don't be creative with the facts or the truth or...
Cripes, look who I am addressing?
Gahhh....he says it right there! They get "creative" with how they prop up losers like McCain and tear down anything that doesn't have an R after it. We see it all the time, every day.
T'hell with these people for even hiring such a clown.
Ruthless People @ 28:
Especially since they can listen in on you with cable.
John @ 30:
Snowjob will be too busy using up CNNs exec golden health care to do much news reporting or anything else.
no pre-existing condition or caps for Snowjob under wingnut welfare's caring wings.
Where did the Billionaire club find these people.
Were on to them.
The elite and the White House...
In full Propaganda mode
War Inc.
John @ 30:
naw, this site is more broadly attuned.
they find bullshit from many different crooks and liars to post.
that's why I like it here.
hood @ 34:
Indeed. And I am sure most posters here do just that. The problem is the disinformation being funneled into every other American's house; even our friends and families. For instance, it took me years to get my dad to turn off FoxNews Channel; he had that crap playing all day, like he was manning an airport bar or something. At the same time he found AAR and added a little more balance to his life (because he still had CNN and MSNBC alternating).
L.A. Confidential @ 37:
you think cable boxes have mics in them, maybe disguised as electrolytic capacitors !
could well be, would be the sensible NSA thing to do.
ferrofluid @ 43:
Trust no new TV sets.
Snowjob said what? Oh, here it is: " I am eager to get started since this race is sure to
shape American politics for years to come." Well, wake up ASShole, we have been through the most awful and devasting lying administration for the last 7 plus years, and
cleaning up this mess will take more than a few years to clean up...and YOU were a part
of it.
The transformation of CNN into a total hack network is now complete. As i type, Hillary is on Larry King tonight. Wonder if Larry will ask her about her Bosnian memory hole ? Of course he wont. As a Canuck, id like to revoke John Roberts Canadian citizenship if he still maintains it. He has become a total hack too now. Sold his soul to his American coin masters.
Col Kilgore @ 46:
We're going backwards.
FAST
Not only have I deleted CNN from my channel lineup on both my TV's, but I have also redirected www.cnn.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file on all my computers. It's like he's motherfucking invisible.
Perfect.
1984.
L.A. Confidential @ 44:
And, what about the new converter boxes that change analog signal to digital? I don't want to get out the tin foil hat.....but, cable companies can tell what and when you watch, so.......why not spy? OK,.....I'm gonna go look in the mirror, and there had better not be a fuckin' tinfoil hat on my head, but then, would they, could they? Jeez, Amerikka is getting creepier by the second. Btw, I have never subscribed to cable and never will.
And CNN falls down another notch - hurtling down toward the level of FuxNews.
The fact that CNN hired this guy, one of the worst of bush's shills, shows just how directly owned they are by the repuke machine.
Can't wait for the beginning of snow's rabid cheer-leading for mccain's presidential bid and for mccain's yearning to kill millions of Muslims in Iran...
Dammit, we need emoticons so I can just reply to this crap with angry faces. This is ridiculous.
“In the White House, Tony brought a remarkably human touch to the discussion of public policy..."
He brought a lot of lies and bullshit too.
Let's start a petition drive for a new Constitutional Amendment - "Separation of Media and State"!
Pol Pot-O-Cheesesuace @ 50:
I've never had cable either. Except internet. But I agree. Very creepy. Bugged cable, Tv's, cell phones, flying drones, black Kevlar helmets.
Great. Another right wing cocksucker with an agenda. Just in time for the fall.
US news outlets are the worst. You only need to travel outside the states to see it. Sky news, BBC, and even Al-Jazeera-english are better sources of news. During the "bitter" flap I never heard it overseas. Not important enough for viewing. We are truly being dumbed down by the media. It is shameful.
Pretty soon the entire group of Bush criminals will assimilate into the corporate media. Resistance is futile.
Does this mean they're getting rid of Glen Beck, or do we have to put up with both of their crap during the election run up?
This announcement is truly puke-worthy.
Left&Left @ 56:
When, on rare occassion, I used to watch the Press Conferences on CSPAN, and
learning that Snowjob had cancer, I was to some extent sympathic. I wonder, however,
if he knew how sick and ill he made me each time I listened to his lies, would he have
the same thoughful feelings/sympathy for me????
L.A. Confidential @ 55:
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I've never had cable either. Except internet. But I agree. Very creepy. Bugged cable, Tv's, cell phones, flying drones, black Kevlar helmets.
These things eventually will be able to hover in front of you, ask for your id, then terminate you if you don't comply.
http://tinyurl.com/4u5pxx
L.A. Confidential @ 61:
These things eventually will be able to hover in front of you, ask for your id, then terminate you if you don't comply.
http://tinyurl.com/4u5pxx
Present your identification Citizen
Need any more proof that CNN is a neocon/fascist propaganda outlet?
CNN becomes more like Fox every day. Ailes must be proud - it was his intention all along to make all media republican.
Christ , what next ? CNN is now an equal opportunity employer like the NY times hiring the lunatic Kristol , have to let the lying assholes get equal time with the moral , sane and honest . Integrity and credibility absolutely does not matter anymore , this country is going to the sewer rats . Corny as it sounds , evil is taking over .
God. He's looking more and more like Max Headroom.
If CNN had hired former BushCo mouthpiece Scotty McClellan instead of Tony Snowjob I might watch CNN every so often, maybe for 5 minutes a month while I'm channel surfing. At least Scotty was so clueless he was actually funny and entertaining at times. On the other hand, Snowjob thinks of himself as a really bright guy. He's wrong, of course.
BTW - one of the reasons Snowjob quit as White House Propaganda Minister was because he didn't make enough $$$. So, I guess CNN is paying more than the $160k or so that he made at the WH. I'm just glad no more taxpayer money is being wasted on this arrogant ideologue.
CNN, the most trusted name in news??? Never was and never will be.
sharkcellar @ 66:
LOL indeed
Baltimore Colt @ 67:
Well you can tell what the Right Wing has in store for us when the only guys being hired in the msm are Cons or former Bush Co Shills.
This appropriately follows a blog about the mistaken hiring of Bill Kristol, by the N.Y. Times. They are hiring purely on name recognition.
You all remember what Bill O'Reilly had to say about this?
Score one for Satan.
ferrofluid @ 33:
Corporate Media = Mind Control
It is the New Ministry of Truth, not quite the way Orwell envisioned but we are 24 years past his then distant future date. He nailed the main ideas.
We saw a snippet of this when the AP wiped 'Nepal' from the lips of a government hack after the on air interview and replaced it with 'Tibet' in a subsequent transcript, failing to mention the details of the doctoring.
They can fool some of the people all of the time. How many?
Glen Beck AND Tony Snow? That's it- I won't even watch CNN in airport lounges, I will ask them to change to CNBC or MSNBC.
Snow's a rightwing hack. I've been watching CNN less and less. Blitzer's voice and cadence disturb the hell out of me, Cafferty is just mad, Dobbs is a blatant racist, and Gen. Granger is one of those Military Industrial Complex types, because according to him, all is well in Iraq.
Maybe it shows HOW DESPARATELY LOW the Conservative side in America has sunk, AS IN: No one else would talk publically to represent such a corrupt and discredited system of political thought. Tony Snow is not the brightest bulb in the room. Is THAT all they can come up with? They're in trouble.
Tony Snow was TERRIBLE as Billo's stand-in. He's SLOPPY, exaggerated, inaccurate, weak on logic, and doesn't know how to offer accurate credit when quoting other people's statements. I wonder if he will be as bad... OR WORSE... when smiling at the camera, trying to hold the viewer's attention. CNN should have it's butt spanked for scraping so LOW in the bucket of conservative talkers.
StirFry @ 58:
A Borg reference was never so appropriate.
Well to be fair CNN has been battling ABC News to become the new Fox.
The only thing Tony Snow brought to the White House was new and creative ways to lie to the good people of the United States. Isn't it bad enough they have Carl Bernstein?
Old Mattress-Back Tony. A whore by any other name...
FOX is State Sponsored TV @ 2:
They want ratings and advertising dollars, and they think that by pulling snowjob out of the recycle bin they can get them.
How sad, CNN is now officially FOX News 2. More and more whenever I more infrequently checked that channel for news I saw nothing but neocon spin by all the talking heads (Cafferty is of course excluded from this). CNN used to be respected back when it first came out. Now it's a FAUX News wannabe. I am now officially blocking CNN off of my tv.
In real news, when is Rachel Maddow going to get her OWN show on MSNBC already?!?! She made Scarbourough almost cry with her intelligence, but I guess the corporatacracy wants to keep the sheeple dumbed down as much as possible. God forbid Americans THINK about anything...
CNN: the new Faux
CNN-- A Fox in Wolf's (Blitzer's) clothing.
Wow!
And I thought Tucker Carlson's show was crap.
snow had the all time best name for his job at the white house.
let the minimizing of mc cain's flaws begin.
let the fluffing of his supreme temperament to be president begin.
XuYu @ 84:
Tucker's show WAS crap.
This show will be out-and-out, unbridled SHIT.
Everyone knocks FauxNews, and it deserves to be roundly knocked, but CNN is even worse. They are worse for having clowns like Glenn Beck, Larry King, Nancy DisGrace, Anderson Cooper, Lou Dobbs, Wolf Blitzer and his dubious analysts...half of whom are Zionist shills, and now Tony Snow? Jack Cafferty is the only guy who seems to be really conscious about what's going on around him.
MSNBC's line-up is almost as laughable. Keith Olbermann is the only ones who pushes his brain's "on button" before they open their mouths. Tim Russet used to be good, but seems to have gone downhill big time. Joe Scarborough is basically a joke. Chris Matthews needs to be institutionalized.
Are ABC, CBS, and NBC still in the news business? I'm not sure. The few people I can think of are dumb and dumber...Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, Katie Coric, ad nausaum.
I get my news from Crooks and Liars.
If you had any doubts about McCain getting elected this fall, this should remove them.
tony snow... Feh. A morally bankrupt, greed-driven spokesliar deserving of nothing but contempt.
You Americans need to look at the big picture regarding this hiring.
Snow on Cnn. Kristol on New York Times. Rove on FoxNews.
I'm sure smart reporter could track down more 'strange' hirings in the USA media this year. This is part of a setup for the next presidental selection. When it begins, there will be a spiderwep of 'agents' all over the usa media to help Mr. Right to be the winner of that election.
How many times was this guy caught lying? CNN just blew any credibility they might have had. They are announcing to the world that the truth is not required.
I am not going to hold my breath waiting for CNN to balance Tony Snow's hiring by seeing CNN sign on Noam Chomsky to debate Snow anytime soon.
sharkcellar @ 66:
Oh yeah, it's ol' Max. With "vacancy" sign displayed prominently on his headroom. Ba-ba-ba-back a-ggggg-ain.
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Awe… W T F ?
It’s all one big family…
ABCNNBCBS&FOXPRAVDA…!
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Next, it will be Rove with today`s up to the minute weather. What a beautiful day.
republicanSScareme @ 87:
I would be willing to bet the farm this fucker never had cancer. Ted Olsen looked right at the camara and told us his wife called him from a plane that some middle eastern men had taken control of with box cutters, looked right smack dab in the lens and lied his ass off, he looked so sad,sniff,sob so sad. Snow put a little blue hair rinse left off his daily face power and poof, hes ...dying of....cough,gasp,,the big,cough,sniff Cancer! Why would anyone believe anything,anywhere,anytime,anyhow any word this fucking worm said? Oh its not a lie its spin, oh its not misinformation, its, thinking out of the box. Let me make this very clear those are all words that mean lie! bagadad snow. this guy is a war criminal , he can't die soon enough for me.
And I was so very disappointed when I read this. I had hopes Tony would be Rush, Rove, or O Rielly's sidekick and fill in puppet. CNN must think it needs to be more like FOX as some other networks act.
You think Tony is making more than the White House Press Secretary gig. And Tony did call it a "Gig".
More like a lying gig. He could tell America the truth and he continued to pick up his pay check and sap that American tax payers health care.
But Tony wants to talk about himself and HIS experience with cancer. Why doesn't Tony tell it to someone that has cancer and cannot afford treatment.......!
LETS just say that I will not be watching much of CNN any more EXCEPT for the CAFFERTY files, for I cannot stand the mouth peace of BUSH and his best bud TURD BLOSSOM, that is just too much,so CNN is not on my watch list.
"A well-known and RESPECTED observer of politics "
i have zero respect for this man and the way he treated the press, the information about the leader of our country, and the truth. or to put it another way, i think he is a lieing sack of shit.
How does CNN get away with its claim 'Best Political Team on Television' ?
What proof,validation or any process of having been in any contest that was about establishing 'Best Political Team on Television' does CNN offer or present?
What is 'Best' about what CNN spills and slops about day in and day out?
Why stop with Tony CNN? Get Paul W.,Karl R.,Doug F. and Don R. on this CNN "Best Team".
For a long time (longer than I care to think about for sure) CNN as been a dubious and far too self preening place to visit/view for the "news" or much else.
Putting an ex-Bush WH press flack(hack?) on the payroll doing little but to reinforce ever more a set and solid decision to avoid CNN as source for all things political.
Whatever CNN was when started it has devolved and discredited itself far too often and deeply to be seen as legitimate outlet anymore.
CNN hiring ex-FOX NEWS/Bush WH flack-hack Tony Snow to do 'political commentary' just one more example as to why.