Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Snow Job at the White House: Said Bush 'Impotent'


"George Bush has become something of an embarrassment."
--Tony Snow, Incoming
White House Press Secretary


It's official, Fox News has confirmed that the man who called pResident Bush "impotent" and "an embarrassment" is to be the new White House Press Secretary. Heh. When did the Bushies decide to start writing scripts for Jon Stewart at the Daily Show, you ask?

Bushie's soon-to-be new press secretary has a long and well-documented record of denigrating and insulting his new boss, the pResident .

The Fox News commentator has called his new boss, "an embarrassment" and "passive" and has even charged that Republicans "wish [Bush] would stop cowering under the bed."

Think that's pretty snide? Snow has gone lower:

"[Bush] stunned a friendly audience by barking out absurd and inappropriate words, like a soul tortured with Tourette’s."

"The English Language has become a minefield for the man, whose malaprops make him the political heir not of Ronald Reagan, but Norm Crosby."

"No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives."

Impotent? Heh. We think Snow is pretty good at striking the swaggering Commander-in-Chief where it really really hurts. And we know how much it hurts the son to be accused of the father's wimpy factor crime.

Already, conservatives are cheering Snow on with SNL-ish remarks like, "It will be good to have a fair and balanced press secretary."

Can we expect to see a Fair and Balanced banner in Mission Accomplished colors behind the White House Press Secretary podium? Or a Fox News logo?

Obviously, people have been fired and had their CIA identities revealed for speaking less critically than Tony Snow. Good luck to the Fox News representative in his new job of defending what he once denigrated.

Where better than Fox News to find such a man?

But the really interesting questions are:

Was Harriet Miers in charge of picking the new White House Press Secretary?

And when exactly are the Bushies are going to learn to google?

Thanks to the wonderful folks at Think Progress, who have lots more from the mouth of Tony Snow because they know how to google!

UPDATE: Raw Story reports that Tony Snow thinks racism is no big deal: "Here's the unmentionable secret," Snow said on an October 2003 edition of Fox News Sunday, "racism isn't that big a deal anymore." Snow argued that "no sensible person supports" racism, arguing that the problem is "quickly becoming an ugly memory."

Guess the Bushies are not aiming to raise their single digit poll numbers among blacks.

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