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Tony Snow Holds First Briefing, Fends Off The Usual Vultures. *UPDATES*

New White House Press Secretary Tony Snow is holding his first press briefing, and predictably the usual front row vultures are in attack mode. I'm sure Expose the Left will have video for us later.

***UPDATE***
AllahPundit at Hot Air has posted video of Tony Snow doing battle with Helen Thomas. Expose the Left has video of this as well, though I was hoping someone would have the David Gregory part that came just before the Helen Thomas part.

Also, I missed this part earlier, but Tony Snow got a little chocked up when speaking about his and his mother's battles with cancer. Bill Sammon for the Examiner:

WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Tony Snow became emotional during his first on-camera press briefing Tuesday when the topic turned to his battle with colon cancer, which also claimed his mother's life.

"I had cancer last year," Snow said when asked why he was wearing a yellow bracelet from fellow cancer survivor Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong Foundation.

"It's going to sound stupid and I'll be personal here, but having gone through this last year was the best thing that ever happened to me." The former Fox News anchor choked up and fell silent in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, which was packed with more than 100 journalists, or twice the usual audience.

At length, Snow cracked one of several self-deprecating jokes to break the tension.

"It's my Ed Muskie moment," he said, referring to former Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, whose 1972 presidential campaign fizzled after he appeared to cry in front of the press in New Hampshire.

"I lost a mother to cancer when I was 17: same type, colon cancer," Snow said. "And I feel every day's a blessing."

Expose the Left has video of this as well.

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