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[Jemian]

Thank you, thank you so much for sharing this with us. It helps alleviate the grief at losing him so soon.

[Tennessee Nana]

Thanks for the PING

[SkyPilot]

Very welcome - and I am glad it was not a “useless” thread.

[freekitty]

You nailed her to a T. ROTFLOL

I guess it runs in families and friends(I consider her to be my family). My own dad flew the Burma Hump.

[Tennessee Nana]

It’s a great thread...

About a great guy...

[Joann37]

I had no idea he was a FReeper! Thanks for posting - it’s great to see some of the wisdom he put forth in his arguments here.

Prayers for his family.

[Kevmo]

Good Bye, FRiend. I didn’t realize how long you’d been a freeper.

[svcw]

Ok with me.

[SkyPilot]

Hildy, I love your story of your friendship with him, but I think this is the most comprehensive and complete that you have ever posted - even on the threads honoring Tony as of late.

Thanks for sharing.

I also talked to him on AOL political - but it was later than 1993! My goodness, you guys were pioneers of the Internet!

I listened to him subbing for Rush, and I loved him. While I love the economic intellect of hosts like Walter Williams, I find Walter so boring compared to someone like Tony Snow. Tony would fire you up. He did a commentary on Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech one time and commented on each line of the rhetoric.

Tony would engage almost anyone at anytime - and he had a Freeper's "chutzpah" to engage in debate.

This REALLY shocked the mostly Liberal reporters in the White House Press Room!

Especially after that dead lizard Scott McClellan set a precedent so low you had to dig below the basement to raise it.

When Tony arrived, the press was shocked.

Tony didn't let them have their personal liberal soapbox in the People's House. He didn't let them have their childish tirades in front of the cameras.

They quickly learned - that Tony was beating them at their own game and by letting them act in that fashion they looked like the jerks they had become.

It was beautiful.

Tony loved his family. He loved swim meets outside of the beltway (I got roped into those when I worked at the Pentagon, and I didn't like them too much, and I did my "duty" at the stop watch, but Tony was a better sports parent than I am.) I hated getting up at 4 am in Northern VA to go to swim meets and stay there until 2 pm timing swim races. Tony, on the other hand, loved that sort of thing! He loved his children in every possible way.

have a story I'm not so proud of also...when he was in San Diego in 1996 for the Republican Convention I was upset because he didn't contact me although he said he would. I accidentally ran into him in the hallway of the convention center and he said we should go to lunch. I said no. I was just a bitch...no other excuse. I wound up writing him a scathing email that I shouldn't have. I fully expected never to hear from him again. But I was wrong. He called me the moment he got that email and apologized and explained how busy he was and how sorry he was. He was on his way up and I thought my note would give him the excuse to just let go of our friendship.

He was a better person than most of us.

But, he sure thought a lot of you.

Didn't he?

You should forget about the bad part, and remember the better part. I am sure he forgot about it way, waaaaaaay long ago - and he clearly liked you!

I also wanted to bring up another tragedy that he handled with grace...remember when his house burned down? He talked about that house on the radio all the time while it was being built. He loved it. And then the news came that there was a fire and it was all gone. All he said was that his family was ok an that's all he cared about. I don't think he ever dwelled on it again which is why we don't remember it.

I didn't know he lost his house to a fire?! Wow.

My tagline says it all. I hope one day, if and when I'm promoted, I will meet up with my friend again.

Amen.

[SkyPilot]

You nailed her to a T. ROTFLOL I guess it runs in families and friends(I consider her to be my family). My own dad flew the Burma Hump.

Yeah, but you see she hasn't had the "guts" to respond here!?

That's Red - too shy and in her shell to tell us what she really feels!

I just Double Dog Dare her!

[freekitty]

I second that.

We both DOUBLE DOG DARE YOU......LOL

[freekitty]

Oh yeah right, shy and in a shell.

Who are we talking about????????

[SkyPilot]

Well, she knows we are just kidding, especially on a tribute to Tony thread.

But Red - me and kitty had just a little fun with your wonderful personality and passion. You know, that is why I love you so much. You are a rare person.

[freekitty]

Right.

She sure is a rare one. Person??????? LOL

She will know what I mean.

[freekitty]

If I know Red; she’s cooking up something delicious.

[SkyPilot]

I had no idea he was a FReeper! Thanks for posting

Thanks. That is why I posted the thread.

I regret that I didn't respond to one of his posts in particular over the years now.

[Hildy]

One more thing I just remembered that I am not embarrassed about. About a year ago, out of nowhere, I wrote him an email. In it I told him how much I valued knowing him. How my stock certainly was increased by having him in my life. I told him the story about my neighbor's mother, the sweetest woman you could ever know. When she found out I knew Tony Snow, I instantly became this woman's best friend. She LOVED Tony..this is a deeply religious, special woman.

I try to live my life like that. I tell the people in my life how important they are to me. Life is too short, as we know. I'm glad I did that. Maybe it made up for my shameful behavior in 1996.

[Radix]

I am sure that we all here would like to own a piece of Tony Snow.

That man was freaking awesome, and we are all lessened by his passing.

I do not see how more FR.com threads on his death should in any way be considered as edifying.

[filbert]

He was a good man in a world that, I think, he understood was a hard and sometimes cruel place.

I’m grateful for this (one? last?) thread for the opportunity to say so.

[prairiebreeze]

It was my great privilege to initiate the daily Snow Show thread, at a suggestion from DFU. I was simply amazed at how quickly the ping list grew, indeed I believe the Snow Show thread was the first live thread for daily radio on FR.

Threads for Rush’s show, Levin, Laura Ingraham etc. followed afterward and I was delighted to see people step forward to post and maintain them.

I posted the daily Snow Show thread for about 4 months or so until life circumstances made it impossible for me to continue with that committment. Others stepped forward and the thread ran until Tony went to the White House.