RightWinged.com: PHOTOSHOP: Tony Snow Set To Handle Vultures As New Press Secretary

Posted by Randy on April 26, 2006 01:54 AM

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(Helen Thomas and David Gregory's heads obtained from screen captures at Expose the Left)
(vulture photo)

I threw that together last night after we'd all heard Fox News confirm that Tony Snow would in fact be taking the job, and just as was reported, the President welcomed Tony to the team this morning. HotAir has a highlight video clip from the President's brief statements. See Flopping Aces, The Political Pit Bull, or Expose the Left for a full clip of the 4 and a half minute event.

Naturally, this is the subject of much buzz around the blogosphere. I'll try to stay away from rabid lefty blogs in this round-up because... who cares, right? I mean, all they are saying is "Ah-ha! We told you Fox News was just a Bush propaganda machine". Take your pick, this is really about all they have to say. What's really annoyingis they are ignoring the fact that Tony Snow isn't FNC's "evening news" guy. He's a pundit, a commentator, and a known former President George H.W. Bush speech writer!!! Idiot lefties treat this like it's been kept secret or something.

So like I said, it would be a waste to link you to all the cliche posts at the lefty blogs, but you do have to check out today's vicious DNC press release (h/t California Conservative).

"The American people should get ready for another Snow job from the Bush White House. Tony Snow represents more of the same, not the fresh start the Administration needed," said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. "This is an interdepartmental move from one part of the conservative infrastructure to another that allows a darling of the right-wing to deliver the same misleading message, cherry-picked information and spin to the American people. Josh Bolten's plan for re-energizing the White House called for more happy talk and a better PR campaign for the same failed policies. Snow's track record of delivering misleading rhetoric is a perfect fit for this Administration that refuses to change and has a problem telling the truth."

Hey Dems, is this the DNC that you want representing you? I suppose next they'll be urging raising taxes on snow blowers?! (rimshot please) [insert equally lame jokes that use "snow balls", "snow showers", "snow man", "snow plow", etc. here]

***UPDATE***
As I mentioned earlier, the main dig that liberals across the blogosphere have been trying to take at Snow is the played out and predictable "Fox News is already the mouth piece for the Bush administration" line. As I said, Snow isn't the "evening news man", he's a commentator/pundit, and he's already been a speech writer for the former President George H.W. Bush.

I thought about all of that for a minute earlier and realized that we didn't hear an outcry from these people when CNN's Paul Begala and James Carville were hired on to the Kerry campaign as "unpaid advisors". Where were all the cries of media partisanship from these liberals then? Even the right didn't cry partisanship, but rightly complained about a conflict of interests, when CNN kept them on the air. Bill O'Reilly nailed it at the time:

So now we find out that CNN commentators James Carville and Paul Begala have signed on with the Kerry campaign as unpaid advisors. Traditionally, that would mean they would have to take a leave of absence from CNN or any news organization which employed them because journalistic ethics (oxymoron?) dictate that news organizations remain totally separate from political campaigns. But since we live in strange times, CNN says it will keep the guys on the air.
In the wake of the vicious attacks on Fox News for allegedly being "GOP TV," I expected the media to brutally dismember CNN and the new boys on John Kerry's bus. But instead it's been the silence of the lambs from the press. Can you say media bias?

Read more, as Bill further blasts the media for their hyporisy, and CNN's lack of "equal time".

Anyway, see what others are saying:
Beltway Blitz, All Things Beautiful, Atlas Shrugs, Sisu, Riehl World View, Ed Driscoll, Wizbang, Stop the ACLU, Gateway Pundit, Patterico, Protein Wisdom, Sister Toldjah, Outside the Beltway, The Moderate Voice, Jeremy Gilby, Don't Go Into The Light, Michelle Malkin, Overtaken by Events, My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Suitably Flip, Blogs for Bush