Bye, Snowy

I think the week began with the news of Karl Rove’s exit, and it’s now ending with the news of the departure of White House Propaganda Flak Tony Snow Job (here).

I hope this isn’t due to health reasons, but it seems as if White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten has his own “magical September” plan in mind (whereby, anyone still on board by then has to endure working for this nightmare of an administration until the end, as opposed to the September report due to be issued by Gen. Petraeus Dick Cheney…and by the way, is anyone else out there as baffled as I am by the lack of vocal protest over the MoveOn Cheney video from 1994? Or do we just have “outrage fatigue” at the moment?).

Well, in case anyone missed it, here it is again.



And let's not forget to Impeach Cheney First, by the way.

So, with Snow’s departure (and I neglected to note the dropping out of Tommy Thompson from the Repug presidential field earlier, by the way - guess he expected problems due to his less-than-stellar performance at HHS), let’s take a stroll down memory sewer, as it were, and revisit some moments with the former (and once-more someday?) Fox commentator as noted by Media Matters.

Snow equates the pardon of Scooter Libby with the pardons of Bill Clinton (here).

Snow informs us that there was no attempt by the White House to link Saddam Hussein with 9/11 (here).

Snow is granted a forum for selling a whole bunch of GOP talking points unchallenged on CNN and Fox (here).

Snow (and I forgot this from yesterday) tells a White House reporter, in response to an AP story, that troops getting ready to be shipped out due to the "surge" will get their advanced battlefield training for Iraq not at the Army's premier training range in California...but in Iraq.

And who will replace him?

Well, I have an idea. Since this guy is still officially out of work and has just settled a lawsuit ensuring a hefty income for the foreseeable future, let’s give him a shot. I mean, his attitude towards minorities is pretty typical for Bushco (but more than that, anyone who isn’t part of “the base”), so I think he’d present an honest image to the media for a change.