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Date Posted: 18:26:48 12/20/06 Wed
Author: Cris Ranston
Subject: Snow Job

White House press secretary Tony Snow has been injecting himself quite a bit into the information he dispenses, reportedly (no pun intended), on behalf of the White House.
Recently he stated, �There's an assumption that people have been given marching orders, and at this point, the president is asking folks to take a look at a number of things."
What exactly did Snow say?
He used to be a newscaster at Fox News. That is � he read the news stories and tried to make them sound interesting. A newscaster is paid to do that. So one night they report about a lost puppy, the next day about 9/11 and the day after that about Donald Trump�s Miss USA out all night partying. That�s the way it goes.
Back to the phrase above � Snow mentions an assumption about �marching orders�.
Who had the assumption? I didn�t, did you?
What people is he talking about?
What orders were they given?
Then he moves on to the President. I assume he means President Bush (well, there�s that assumption). Snow then mentions some �folks� being asked to look at a number of �things�.
First, I�d like to confirm that is President Bush he is talking about, but, all kidding aside, which �folks� is he indicating and what things are they being asked to look at?
This one sentence of Snow�s is the perfect snow job, don�t you think? Lot�s of words and nothing conveyed.
It gets worse.
Snow went on to say (at the same Press Conference) : �I think people are trying to create a fight between the president and the Joint Chiefs when one does not exist.�
I don�t really care what Tony Snow thinks � do you?
In any case � again, which �people� is he talking about? Is he talking about you and I?
He comes off sounding like a bad sports reporter who showed up at a game late. He doesn�t really know who is playing or what they are doing but he is paid to talk so he talks.
I think that Tony Snow must be one of the bright parts of President Bush�s day. I can see him as he pushes Snow out on stage to give �em all one more Snow job.
I just want the facts. What we have now is a bad reporter reading bad copy to other reporters.
What do you think?

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