New White House Press Secretary
Tony Snow? Of course. Anyone at Fox really. Hell, O’Reilly would be good. These guys are already Bush administration spokesmen. I’m really hoping they do pick Tony. It would make what alot of us have been saying for years so very obvious: Fox News is just a shill for this White House and the Republicans.
Why wouldn’t they pick Snow? It would be the ultimate act of arrogant “we don’t give a damn how it looks”, and they do enough of that already. Plus, as Media Matters reports, he’d already fit in quite well filling in for Simple Scotty:
Media Matters for America has documented numerous false and misleading claims advanced by Snow as a Fox News commentator:
* Snow falsely asserted that former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV said his wife, Valerie Plame, “wasn’t covert for six years” before she was exposed as a CIA operative by syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
* Snow put forward numerous falsehoods to argue that “[e]volutionary theory, like ID [intelligent design], isn’t verifiable or testable. It’s pure hypothesis.”
* Snow claimed that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the “most liberal justice in American history,” despite evidence to the contrary.
* Snow peddled the baseless Republican National Committee talking point that 2004 presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) had blamed U.S. troops for the explosives looted from the Al Qaqaa military installation following the invasion of Iraq. Snow said, “[T]he Kerry campaign is not criticizing the president here. They’re criticizing our troops.”
* Following President Bush’s lead, Snow distorted Kerry’s stated desire to reduce terrorism to a “horrible nuisance.” Snow claimed Kerry had “called terrorists a nuisance.”
* Snow backed Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s attacks on Kerry, falsely claiming, “[T]here has been no documentary contradiction of the Swift Boat stuff.”
* Snow falsely defended Bush from probing questions regarding his National Guard service.
So I say bring it! He’ll be an easy mark as well. Do you have any other ideas on who should be the next idiot talking point robot?
