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It was the best decision in my 62 years of professional life as a journalist. I was the Washington Times' editor in chief and looking for a new editorial page editor. Tony Snow was the first and last recommended name I interviewed. The year was 1987. ..... Tony was 32 years old. We had breakfast, lunch, and dinner the same day in a secluded beach location, away from...

O'Reilly is doing what he does best. Calling out evil for what it is.

Now we must turn down an empty glass for Tony Snow. The expression comes from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, as translated from the Persian by the English eccentric Edward FitzGerald. The FitzGerald translation also gave us “The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on . . .” and many other quotable lines. Anyway, at one time, journalists, particularly those who worked for newspapers, liked to treat “The Rubaiyat” as a kind of drinking song without music. It was very popular in saloons frequented by journalists, who insisted on being called newspapermen or women. It wasn't really until the...

If you want evidence of CNN’s use of the 2008 primary season to chart its resurgence in the cable TV news wars, look no further than today’s announcement that the Atlanta-based network has hired former White House spokesman Tony Snow as a “political contributor.” Prior to his stint in the Bush administration, which ended last September, Snow was a dominant personality for Fox News. We could tell you about Snow’s background, but it’d be more fun for you to get it from the Fox web site. The info is not likely to be there long. The official word from CNN/U.S....

Obama’s Moderators Rush to Sanitize Campaign Site in Wake of Hate Speech Exposures We have written frequently that the first backward step in the presence of the opponent is usually the prelude to total collapse. Some time on April 9, the Obama campaign took the ominous backward step that shows that IsraPundit, Grizzly Groundswell, Atlas Shrugs, Little Green Footballs, Free Republic, The Husaria, and other patriotic blogs have inflicted massive damage on Obama’s Presidential ambitions, and that an all-out push is now in order.“Obama Campaign Blog Consistent with Jeremiah Wright’s Hate Speech” summarizes blog entries at my.barackobama.com that contain various...

Wicher repeatedly refers to Israel as an apartheid state, and in fact claims that Israel’s treatment of Palestinian Authority Arabs is “worse than apartheid.” ...He dismisses any who call his claims of Israeli “apartheid” anti-Semitic as members of the “Zionist thought police.”

<p>Although you likely didn't hear about it, former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow received a Freedom of Speech Award on October 16 from The Media Institute.</p> <p>During his acceptance, Snow made some statements about liberal bias in the press, as well as the condition of the media industry, which fully explain why this event, as well as his address, went virtually unreported.</p>

The SnowFlake Fan Club has received an alert that our very own Snowman, Tony Snow, will be a guest on the David Letterman Show, tonight, Thursday October 4th. Letterman's show is on CBS TV at 11:30pm EDT and the exact time of Tony's appearance is not yet known. This is a live thread for the show.

Sep. 25th, 2007 -- Attention all thrill seekers, extreme sports enthusiasts and coaster aficionados -- Six Flags Over Texas, The Entertainment Capital of Texas, is proud to announce plans to welcome another addition to its already amazing roster of thrills – Tony Hawk’s Big Spin! Tony Hawk’s Big Spin, making its debut on opening day of Six Flags Over Texas’ 47th season, will give riders the sensation of freestyle skateboarding as they sit facing one another in 4-person cars all decked out in skateboard motif! Riders will grab some serious airtime as they twist and turn in 360° rotations while...

I sincerely hope that Mr Snow partakes in the discourse with his old friends in FR. Come on in again and converse with us. And help us fight your challenge with you. God bless.

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow revealed to CNN that he plans to return to work next week Monday, just one month after surgery to remove cancerous growths found on his liver. Snow added that he is expected to begin a series of chemotherapy treatments starting next week Friday and will relax his workload, if necessary, during that time. The President's spokesman, 51, has battled cancer for a number of years, starting in 2005 with the removal of his colon in response to colon cancer, where he underwent several months of chemotherapy. Colon cancer is the third most common type...

From our good news file: Ailing White House spokesman Tony Snow has told his boss that he plans to return to work on April 30. "That's what he's been telling people" inside the West Wing, says an official. Snow's been away fighting cancer and surprised Washington when he attended last Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Snow has said he feels pretty good, considering the treatment, though it's unclear how often he will handle questions in the White House briefing room.

That was fast. The Sun-Times broke the story about Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record)'s relationship with Tony Rezko on Monday, but I think we may have already reached the point where Obama's reaction to the story is drawing more attention than the particulars of the story itself. Carol Marin, a reporter for NBC 5 and a columnist for the Sun-Times, puts the boot in today: Barack Obama tells us he is the messenger of a new kind of politics. Open. Transparent. Different. But put the pedal to the metal and ask Illinois' junior senator new and serious questions about...

So I was watching a speech the other day. The speaker had an interesting biography. He grew up in the heartland. He made his mark through decades of promulgating his own, deeply thought-out political views. He researched and wrote his own position papers. He earned his living on radio, and in print, and in front of a camera. In a media world full of cynics, he was well known for his geniality, his approachability, his generosity of spirit... ...THE FACT IS THAT CONSERVATIVES have been desperately searching for a champion who knows how to communicate, how to engage and inspire...

The Guardian's Sound of Silence Posted by Marc Landers on October 3, 2006 - 13:13. Remember when the AP ran the bogus story about the Crowd booing when President Bush annonunced that Bill Clinton was ill? There was no booing and the report created a firestorm in the blogsphere. Faced with an onslaught from bloggers, the AP was forced to retract the story. The Guardian's Jonathan Freeland was caught in the reverse when he claimed there was no applause in response to this statement by PM Blair at the Labor Party conference: "So when Blair said that a withdrawal from...

Pakistan denies helping terrorists (Filed: 28/09/2006) Seeking to defuse a row, Tony Blair has reassured Pakistan's leader that the leaked document accusing Pakistan's secret service of backing Islamist extremism did not reflect the view of the British government. Mr Blair's conciliatory words followed the leak of a report prepared for the Ministry of Defence that said Pakistan's powerful secret service was aiding terrorist groups through its support for religious organisations. Pakistan has been accused of helping Taliban fighters Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said before talks with Blair today that he planned to protest over the British think-tank report alleging that...

The long goodbye By Toby Helm and Brendan Carlin (Filed: 06/09/2006) Tony Blair has caved in to pressure from his MPs, it was reported last night, by setting May 31 next year for his resignation as Labour leader. An eight-week leadership election campaign will follow allowing a new leader — the favourite being Gordon Brown — to be chosen by July 26, when Mr Blair will step down as Prime Minister. Labour sources cast doubt on Mr Blair lasting until May No 10 described the claims as "speculative" but refused to deny their accuracy. The development followed a day in...

America the Beautiful ...5:53 pm After playing Tony Bennett’s record, Rags To Riches, on his XM radio show, Bob Dylan said, “I heard a story once about Tony. They wanted him to sing the national anthem at the nineteen and sixty-one Preakness. He didn’t want to. He said, ‘I don’t know. Bombs burstin’ in air are just not my thing.’ Way to go, Tony.� That’s not exactly something that RWB would have chosen to say

Q Is the President concerned that his veto of the stem cell bill is going to hurt Republicans running in fall elections? MR. SNOW: Not a bit. Q He doesn't feel as though it will hurt? MR. SNOW: No. Q Why not? MR. SNOW: And I'll tell you what, it's worth pointing out one thing — actually several things on stem cells. Number one, the President is the first ever to have financed research using embryonic stem cell lines. Number two, there is a bit of demagoguery in the House of Representatives. Representative Castle was circulating talking points about a...

Although that’s the quotable moment of this exchange between Tony Snow and Helen Thomas, the entire thing is worth watching simply for its entertainment value alone.

Red faces after Putin jibe over peerages By Graeme Wilson and Alec Russell in St Petersburg (Filed: 17/07/2006) Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin tried to present a united front yesterday after the Russian president publicly mocked the Prime Minister's difficulties over the "cash for peerages" scandal. The men exchanged diplomatic pleasantries following talks yesterday afternoon, but struggled to disguise the strained relations after Mr Putin's barbed intervention. The Russian president used a televised press conference yesterday morning to take a swipe at Britain's increasingly beleaguered premier. Asked by Alec Russell, The Daily Telegraph's Washington correspondent, about British criticism of Russia's...

An early joke about New Jersey is attributed to Ben Franklin: "New Jersey is like a beer barrel, tapped at both ends, with all the live beer running into Philadelphia and New York." Maybe you had to be there. A contemporary joke is on display in Trenton where the majority Democratic legislature and Governor John "I promise not to raise your taxes" Corzine are in a fierce battle over the state budget, which last weekend led to a government shutdown reminiscent of the 1995-96 closings of the Federal government. A decade ago, it was a battle between a Republican Congress...

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has visited the home of his musical hero, Elvis Presley, as a guest of US President George W Bush. The Japanese PM showed off his Elvis impression Mr Koizumi burst into song with a few bars of "Love Me Tender" in the Jungle Room of Graceland on a private tour led by the singer's ex-wife. The tour is being widely seen as Mr Bush's thank-you to a loyal ally who is due to step down in September. The visit follows talks that focused on N Korea and beef imports on Thursday. Serenade To the strains...

SOURCES: WHITE HOUSE PLANS TO NAME FOXNEWS TONY SNOW WHITE HOUSE PRESS SEC ON WEDS... DEVELOPING

WASHINGTON — With a few personnel shifts going on in the White House, there's speculation that presidential spokesman Scott McClellan may be looking to step down. One of the people the White House has approached as a possible replacement for McClellan is FOX News Radio host Tony Snow. The White House discussed the possibility with Snow as recently as this week.

LONDON -- Verra Budimlija was once classic fan of Prime Minister Tony Blair -- she's 40, well-educated advertising executive, the kind of voter who propelled Blair and the Labor Party to power in 1997. Not only does she live in Islington, a Labor stronghold where people took to streets to celebrate Blair's generation-shifting election, she lives in very brick house that was Blair's at the time. Nine years and two reelections later, Budimlija is suffering from "Tired of Tony," a malady afflicting even once-fanatical supporters as it spreads across Britain like blanket of fog. "He has been around too long,"...

LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- For the second time this season, sophomore Nextel Cup Series driver Kyle Busch plans to get together with Tony Stewart, after Sunday's UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400, to smooth over differences created on the racetrack. The season is only three races old, but in the aftermath of his third-place finish versus Stewart's 21st, Busch vowed to meet with -- or at least speak to -- the defending Nextel Cup champion this week before the series heads to Atlanta. "I'm sure he's already left the racetrack," Busch said. "If I can't catch him at the airport, I'll try to find...

WINSTED -- It was like walking into a war zone when police arrived to investigate the report of a fight late Thursday night at the Batcheller Elementary School. Police found dozens of young men poised to do battle and a cache of weapons left behind when they fled, police Sgt. Brian Fox said. As many as 50 young people thought to be members of opposing gangs scattered into a nearby wooded area, Fox said. A few were later found and questioned by police but haven't been charged, he said. The cause of the confrontation remains under investigation. Drugs are thought...

Tony Blair 'relished' sending British soldiers off to war By Melissa Kite, Deputy Political Editor (Filed: 18/09/2005) Tony Blair "relished" sending troops to war, according to claims by a former Downing Street aide which the Government tried to suppress. The Prime Minister also railed at "the f***ing Welsh" and made policies minutes before going on television, Lance Price says in his book The Spin Doctor's Diary. Mr Blair prior to sending troops to Iraq in 1998 Mr Price, a former deputy head of Downing Street communications, claims that Mr Blair promised Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul, that the Government would...

In a confidential report, Young Muslims and Extremism, prepared jointly by the Home and Foreign offices in mid-2004 and presented to Prime Minister Tony Blair, we learn something about the inner thinking of the British government. Leaked to the Sunday Times of London, the report is now available in four parts in .pdf format at the newspaper's site.Its goal is "to encourage moderate Muslim opinion to the detriment of extremism" and to that end proposes an "Operation Contest." Along the way, it contains much of interest in it, including these points: "A number of extremist groups are actively recruiting young...

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'Spamalot' Receives 14 Tony Nominations NEW YORK - "Monty Python's Spamalot," a madcap medieval musical loosely based on the zany British troupe's film "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," led the field with 14 Tony nominations Tuesday, including best musical and bids for its King Arthur, Tim Curry, and Lancelot, Hank Azaria. "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "The Light in The Piazza" got 11 each. The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Doubt," John Patrick Shanley's drama of uncertainty set against the backdrop of a Catholic school in the Bronx, received eight nominations. Kathleen Turner picked up a best actress nomination for her role as...

It took a second look to ensure that, yes, it was Tony Blair. Eight years of government are now well etched on his features and the strain of the election is showing. Blair, remember, is not used to having to fight elections in the fullest sense of the word. In 1997 he was a fresh face, a welcome relief after eighteen years of the Conservatives, elected almost by acclamation to replace a tired old government weakened by sleaze allegations. In 2001 he was a prime minister in total command facing an unfocussed and still divided opposition.

....Tony Snow's illness "Popular Fox News TV and radio host Tony Snow is about to undergo surgery to remove his cancerous colon," Washington Whispers columnist Paul Bedard reported yesterday, Thursday, at www.usnews.com. "'I've been living in fear of cancer for 27 years,' he tells Whispers. 'I've got too much to live for.' He was meeting with a surgeon [yesterday], and might go under the knife this weekend. Snow said he's had colitis for years and knew he was a high-risk candidate. His mother died of cancer when she was 38. He got the diagnosis last week during a routine check....

I just heard Tony Snow say he has colon cancer.

It seems that recent analysis of Tony Blair is actually a case of missing person: A page of doodles found on Tony Blair's desk at last week's economic summit in Davos sparked a wave of excitement in the media. Psychologists and handwriting experts were drafted in by the press in the hope of getting a glimpse into the inner workings of the prime ministerial mind. Newspaper stories contained phrases such as "struggling to concentrate" and "not a natural leader". Now - and with not a little glee - Downing Street has revealed that the scribblings were not the work of...

Listen Live Online! Due to overwhelming demand, we're making "The Tony Snow Show" available online. Click the link below between 9am and noon ET to hear the show. (goto his site for the link)

WHERE IN THE WORLD I will appear on The O'Reilly Factor this evening at about 8:05 pm eastern time.

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Miami melodramaTony Blankley (archive)  September 29, 2004 | Print | Send  As the first debate looms, people are getting edgy. Bush supporters hope this will be the last hoop he has to leap through before victory. Kerry loyalists see it as his last chance before defeat.  Although presidential debates are a recent phenomenon, emerging at the beginning of politic's modern television age, there is something medieval about their presentation.  Two princes meet in a clearing surrounded by their courtly entourage -- to engage in single combat to the death. The winner's clan will gain the castle and all the...

AS British civil engineer Kenneth Bigley sat blindfolded and begging for his life at a terrorist compound somewhere in Iraq on Monday, his Prime Minister, Tony Blair, was celebrating the launch of a high-speed tilting train service in central London. Standing on a platform at Euston station, smiling for the cameras beside Virgin boss Richard Branson, Mr Blair showed no outward sign of the dilemma that surely simmered inside him. Faced with perhaps the most difficult moral decision imaginable for a politician, Mr Blair is aware he is the only man on Earth who can save Mr Bigley's life. Painfully,...

LONDON: Former US President Bill Clinton has accused Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair of betraying him during the Iraq War. According to The Mirror, a senior Labour member, after visiting Democrats in America, revealed that Clinton feels that Blair gave Bush more respectable cover for the war than he did for him (Clinton's), and added that he should have challenged Bush on the issue more. But, he made it clear that he was not going to hold a grudge against Blair because of this. The report says that the senior Democrats are petrified of the closeness between Blair, who was...

I will resign if found lying: Tony Blair Reuters London, January 11: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Sunday that he would resign if an imminent report into the suicide of a government expert on Iraq finds that he lied about the incident. Senior Judge Lord Hutton is due to publish his report into the death of weapons expert David Kelly in coming weeks and is likely to apportion some blame to the government for Kelly's death, which rocked Blair's premiership last year. Kelly killed himself in July after the government outed him as the source of a BBC...

I was worried when I heard that Chris Wallace, a long time member of the liberal media elite, was taking over as host of Fox News Sunday, but I decided to give him a chance. After viewing his pathetic debut performance, I can see that my fears were justified. In his interview of Andrew Card, Wallace acted like an aggressive prosecutor grilling a witness. He was cynical, rude and repeatedly interrupted Mr. Card, barely letting the poor man complete an entire sentence. But when Wallace interviewed Howard Dean, the tone was more like two friends chatting. Yes, he did press...

The U.S. ambassador says the rising death toll among Mexicans trying to cross the border illegally gives the issue 'a sense of urgency.' U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza on Tuesday said the U.S. Congress will likely approve limited migration reform in the next few months. Garza said the rising death toll among migrants trying to cross the border illegally has given the issue "a sense of urgency," and ventured that migration reform could come in "a couple of months, [perhaps] three months." "You'll see a lot of movement here pretty quickly," he told participants at an American Chamber of Commerce conference....

Check out who is guest hosting for Rush on Wednesday and Thursday. October 22nd and October 23rd!! I guess they got our letters and phone calls! Review this week's shows: MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY Monday, October 13th - Tuesday, October 14th Learn more about Tom Sullivanof KFBK Radio in Sacramento Monday's Show > Tuesday's Show > Wednesday, October 15th - Thursday, October 16th Learn more about Roger Hedgecockfrom KOGO Radio in San Diego Wednesday's Show > Thursday's Show > Friday, October 17th Learn more about Dr. Walter E. Williams,Professor of Economics at George Mason University...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh announced during his radio show Friday that he is addicted to painkillers and is checking into a rehab center to "break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me." "Immediately following this broadcast, I am checking myself into a treatment center for the next 30 days to once and for all break the hold this highly addictive medication has on me," he added. The show will continue during this time, of course, with an array of guest hosts you have come to know and respect. I am not making any...

The other online Tony news this week is that I'm closing down the TONY POLLS for the foreseeable future. Following several days of electronic and phone harassment, a Bush supporter...or maybe a small group of Bush supporters...tried to stuff the ballot box on our political questions. When a great number of votes come in all in a matter of an hour or so, you know someone is trying to fix the fight. I had little choice but to take all but the comics question off the ballot. I'll have more to say about this harassment in next weekend's TIPS. For...

In the next presidential election, are you more likely to vote for George W. Bush or the Democratic Party candidate? In a primary, for which of these Democratic Party candidates would you vote? Where would you like to see George W. Bush in 2005? Let's be very creative and nasty with the write-in votes.

No doubt most people who are of a particular political ideology didn’t consciously decide which side of the aisle they would sit on. It is a safe bet that other than the most unscrupulous among us, where we stand politically is not simply a whim, but rather a culmination of inheritance, experiences, education and willingness to reason objectively about a subject. However, in any attempt to describe opposing viewpoints there is always the danger of slanting descriptions and understandings in a manner that is conducive to ones own position. With that understanding, it is nevertheless apparent that Liberals, like everyone...