We love you Tony.
Thank you for your service to our country.
Posted on 07/12/2008 4:03:09 AM PDT by Bahbah
Fox News is announcing that Tony Snow has died.
Heartbreaking news.
My prayers go out to his family and friends.
A great American.
Thanks, SL. I had to turn to cnn and hln - no mention on either.
That's the first laugh I've had since I saw the news this morning.
It will be worth watching.
I am lifted knowing, absolutely knowing, that Tony is in heaven with Christ at his side, completely cancer-free. He was a wonderful person whom I greatly admired.
Thanks for a life well-lived, Mr. Snow.
This is a shock. His last post here was so upbeat and positive!
Prayers for his family.
WOOF!
Juan welling up.
Very sad. A good man who never lost a grain of that goodness.
Walking in sunlight, all of my journey;
over the mountains,
through the deep vale;
Jesus has said “I’ll never forsake thee,”
Promise divine that never can fail.
Shadows around me, shadows above me,
never conceal my Savior and Guide;
He is the light, in Him is no darkness;
Ever I’m walking close to His side.
In the bright sunlight, ever rejoicing,
Pressing my way to mansions above;
Singing His praises gladly I’m walking,
Walking in sunlight, sunlight of love.
Heavenly sunlight, heavenly sunlight,
Flooding my soul with glory divine:
Hallelujah, I am rejoicing,
Singing His praises,
Jesus is mine
Sweet everlasting Peace Tony.
Chris Wallace said that he’s on vacation and that Brit Hume will be hosting the show.
So sad. Prayers for his family. Tim and Tony are probably discussing politics in heaven.
Oh no. Mr. Snow was a fine conservative spokesman. It’s a rare man who can work so hard and remain friends with everyone. No matter how passionate the subject he was always civil. Prayers for his family.
They may be deferring to Fox. FNC did something similar for Tim Russert.
I remember learning about politics from reading his columns in the Conservative Chronicle back in the 1990’s.
God bless and RIP to a man of cheer, grace, and dignity.
I don’t often agree with his policy views, but I like Juan Williams.
We love you Tony.
Thank you for your service to our country.
Tony Snow, Cont’d [Byron York]
I think the thing that people remember most about Tony Snow’s arrival at the White House in 2006 is what a breath of fresh air it was.
Everyone knew that things had been going badly there, with the war in Iraq taking a downturn, the CIA leak affair, and spokesman Scott McClellan’s inability to engage reporters in real, substantive exchanges from the podium.
Before Tony started the job, I asked him to give me his sense of why things needed to change.
It was pretty much an invitation for him to complain or bad-mouth the situation there, or for him to offer some sort of rosy assessment of things that neither I nor anyone else would believe. Instead, he said, “That one, for obvious reasons, I’m just gonna dodge.”
How could you not like that?
People knew things were a mess in the communications shop at the White House, and they knew Tony couldn’t come out and say it, but that was why he took the job.
After we hung up, I wrote, “The thing Snow understands is this: You can tell a reporter you’re dodging his question and he might not like it, but he won’t be mad.
On the other hand, if you dodge the question while insisting that you are really answering it, he will be mad. And if you do that a lot, you’ve got a recipe for bad relations with the press.”
Tony just had an instinctive sense of how to handle the people side of the job.
But that was just work. Away from the office, what people will remember most about Tony is what a decent man he was.
When I heard the news this morning, I thought about something he wrote back in 1998, when Brit Hume’s son Sandy died.
Like everyone else, Tony was badly shaken; why had such an awful thing happened? A few days later, he wrote:
The day I heard of his death, I raced home and hugged my wife and kids with a ferocity that startled them. Since then, I have clung to them a little tighter, lingered with them a little longer, relished their company a bit more.
Suddenly, jarringly, I came to understand: Loved ones are fragile, precious gifts from God. Tragedy, villainy or caprice someday may snatch them away.
07/12/08
http://corner.nationalreview.com/
Good God Almighty, CNN has no shame!
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