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ASHLAND, Ohio (AP) - Former White House press secretary Tony Snow, diagnosed with cancer three years ago, canceled a speaking appearance at Ohio's Ashland University because of an unspecified illness, the university announced Wednesday.

Tonys back on the air. I hope he brought his cuss jar.  Tony is now the substitute teacher on Bill O'Reilly's radio show, airing from 12:00pm - 2:00pm on a station near you. I believe that this will be a regular feature on Fridays, since I understand Mr. O likes long weekends.  Many of you want to give Tony a piece of your mind, here's your chance. All you have to do is get through the call screener. I heard a rumor that Helen Thomas subs on Fridays.

What He’s Trying to Say By BEN WALLACE-WELLS The White House, like any castle, has its own peculiar rituals, and in the five months that Tony Snow has been President George W. Bush’s press secretary, he has begun to learn them. [snip] ...a man named Lester Kinsolving, a radio host and reporter for a Baltimore station with a big grin and game-show-host wavy hair, will interrupt a back-and-forth on, say, the operational capacities of Al Qaeda to read confounding questions he has written out, word for word, before the press briefing began. “Tony,” Kinsolving began one morning in September, “The...

It was a thing of beauty. The male morning CNN host kept trying to get Tony to respond to the House Majority Leader's statement of yesterday, the one that said Rats were more concerned about protecting Al Qaida than the American people. Tony, rolling his eyes and having none of it, shifted the conversation to the awful things the Rats have been saying and said only moments after the President's 9/11 speech. The CNN guy kept trying to force Tony to "talk about Republicans" and Tony kept explaining to him why that was ridiculous and unfair. The CNN guy then...