BSNBC has a little line for his passing too. However,
their news guy passed away, a person I admire, got a 7 day parade.

Can't wait to watch Olbermann blame Bush for Tony Snow's cancer.

I will describe AP using one of my late mother's favorite phrases:

No class, all A$$

The famed "news" organization suddenly decides they need "balance" in an obituary, so they include disparagement of Snow.

They can't even leave conservatives alone when they are dead.

Disgusting.

Shoot 'em all; let God sort 'em out! - Marge Simpson

If the press conferences were confrontational, it was because many Bush hating reporters would ask insulting questions or outright insult the President, to which the natural response would be to call down the reporter for their elementary school, playground "sand box" rhetoric, and ask them to ask more sensible questions of substance, not just abuse their privilege to come to a White House press conference.

When will KO "question the timing" of this?

Rest in peace...he's in good hands now, pray for his family

The write up twice accuses Snow of being unfactual, but it doesn't offer any examples of him getting the facts wrong.  It just throws the accusation out there without any facts to back it up - pathetic.

Rest in Peace Tony Snow.

When the msm writes the obituary for ted kennedy I am going to scratch out the lady killers name and replace it with the conservative names that deserve the glowing things they come up with.

When pathetic egotists like Douglass K. Daniel and Jennifer Loven Google their names for the tenth time today I hope they run across one man's opinion that someday they will, unlike Tony Snow, die a graceless death, unknown and forever having been relegated to the modern media's cesspool of insignificant and intellectual midgets attempting to stand on the shoulders of a giant.

I will miss Mr. Snow.

"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."... Karl Marx? Nope, it was Hillary Clinton.

The WH press corp hated him. 

It is understandable, they were fish in a barrel and Tony had a howitzer (facts).

"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference.
The MARINES don't have that problem."
President Ronald Reagan - 1985

It's ok. They are who and what they are. Tony was great!

The AP, like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Jeremiah Wright, is becoming hurtful to the Democrat cause. Obama should pay attention to this kind of garbage and have his minions tell them to lighten up. Of course, they won't.

But then not that many people pay attention to the AP any more, so why should anyone worry?

Well it certainly didn't take long for some grown up at AP to clean up the children's mess.

But back to the original Snow hit piece --

"Critics suggested..."

What our recently deceased loved ones critics suggested?!?

Yes, isn't this just the thing surviving friends and family members want to read in papers all over the world the very day their loved one dies - what "critics suggested". /    I suggest this is what passes for news now at AP.

Fortunately where Tony now resides for eternity no suggestions are either needed nor allowed.  RIP Tony

You don't suppose these two hacks will ever tell us what "facts" Tony Snow got wrong, do ya? Of course not.

Indeed, Snow was a class act.  A man who faced life and illness with grace and dignity.  Something I can't say about these two AP losers who have clearly fired a few more slugs into a dead man.

 God bless you and your family, Tony Snow.

I was astounded at the callousness in which the AP article eulogized Tony Snow today. There is was, on my home page, when I clicked on the Internet and the Yahoo home page came up.

I am usually critical of Yahoo news for not having real news, but celebrity news, scandals, fashion, and articles of interest for today's demoralized popular culture instead. Now I am wishing that they would return to their popular puff pieces, rather than tearing down the best presidential press secretary of all time on the day following his death. They reprinted this eulogy, turned smear piece from AP, which has become a propaganda machine for the far left, just like MSNBC and Newsweek magazine, 

The article started off as as any death announcement would. It listed his accomplishments and career. They quoted President Bush's warm remarks, remembering his past secretary, who stepped down from his post about a year ago. Oddly, the article did not mention the family Snow left behind. However, the article suddenly took a sharp turn to the left and bashed Snow as uninformed and confrontational. Snow was anything but those inaccurate charges. He was one of the most informed and friendly journalists that I had ever heard. However, he would not allow unfounded attacks and smears to go unchallenged.

Quote from the AP article: "With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses."

"Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation."

"Although a star in conservative politics, as a commentator he had not always been on the president's side. He once called Bush "something of an embarrassment" in conservative circles and criticized what he called Bush's "lackluster" domestic policy."

I first became aware of Tony Snow about 15 years ago, when he was an occasional guest-host, filling in for a vacationing Rush Limbaugh. Although I tuned in to hear Rush, I was not disappointed when I heard Snow instead, I continued listening and I began to look forward to Snow's guest host appearances. In later years, I looked forward to seeing Snow on Fox news as a guest and a host on the Fox news channel.

When President Bush appointed Snow as his press secretary, I was thrilled that the white house finally had a surrogate that would not be afraid of  holding the extremely liberally biased white house press core at bay. Tony Snow did not let me down. When the press core laid into Bush's policies with loaded and hateful questions, Snow always, politely, humorously and informatively, put them in their place. Snow exposed the liberal bias in the press and at the same time he clearly and accurately explained the president's policies.  

In stark contrast, Several weeks ago when journalist Tim Russert passed away, the entire media, press and TV, held a week long eulogy and praise fest, as if Russert life was the second coming of Christ. Russert was also a dedicated journalist who was also a stickler for the facts and also extremely well informed. Like Snow. Russert had a passion for his work and devoted himself to it. The only difference was that Russet leaned toward the left and Snow leaned toward the right.

I am outraged that the AP has taken this solemn occasion of a great newsman's death to perpetuate their dishonest criticism of anything or anyone conservative.

Not much different than their classless coverage of the passing of Ronald Wilson Reagan. That is why I have not paid any attention to the MSM press for years and why their readership is in the tank and will continue to decline as long as they continue to display their “unbiased” journalism?....

Compare that coverage to their coverage of Tim Russert's passing, yet the similarities between the two (aside from their political persuasions) are great. Both nice guys, beloved by many, cut down too young in their prime.  Treating one differently than the other is a very clear case of media bias, I think.

Furthermore, the story is unfortunate in that Tony Snow's command of the facts was exceptional, and as such the implication otherwise was needlessly unfair. "Exceptional" is too weak a word, really, as Tony Snow had a very deep knowledge of policy issues. Much of the press corps does not care about policy, though, only about playing "gotcha," so to be fair to the press corps, many of its members may not even have noticed how deep and varied his knowledge truly was.

RIP, Tony Snow. The USA is a better place for his having been here.  He'll be missed.

The filthy leftist press cannot help themselves...they just can't.

Snow was class all the way, something the leftist creatures will never have to worry about having...nor do the strive for anyway...and they wonder why they are detested, oh wait a minute. they could care less...after-all they are the enemy within with an agenda, even after the person has died that they looked upon as their enemy.

Despicable is too kind of a word for these creatures.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Just heard on FoxNews that Vice President Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh, among others, will be commenting on the life of Tony Snow on FoxNews Sunday with Chris Wallace.

At this point, my outrage is spent from overuse and all I can do is shake my head in scorn, disgust, and exasperation. These people are hopeless. I can only hope they are late in the process of making themselves obsolete and irrelevant.

McNotObama '08

"if not always a command of the facts"? What the hell? Can they support that in any way?

How dare they say that about a man on the day he died even if it were true, which it was not.

I am just amazed that this is the same AP that celebrated the moron press secretary Scotty McClellan, who truely was clueless, but says this about Tony Snow. What bastards.

 May a terrible pox befall the house of every member of Al-Qaeda's Press, Amen.

"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "

                   - Ben Kenobi on  Liberals, and the MSM.

                               " The Cake is a lie."   

Rush Limbaugh just tore into these two despicable critters from the AP on the phone live with Greta on Fox...

I am sure there will be a link later...

Of course Rush did it in only the way Rush can.

Priceless...

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

"With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses." the AP's Douglass K. Daniel wrote.

Rush Limbaugh and others have properly swiped at Douglass K. Daniel' claim of what Tony Snow brought to the briefing room and Daniel's assertion that Mr. Snow did "not always [have] a command of the facts." 

Writing for The Corner on National Review Online, Yuval Levin tells of how Tony Snow called him to discover information on some matter in Mr. Levin's policy area, while Mr. Levin served on the White House staff. Levin had sent a half-page of "talking points" to Snow, who later called, to get more information in about a 20-minute conversation. The subject came up in a press conference; Levin wrote that Snow expressed the White House policy better than he could have, himself. That quiz to get the details was typical of Snow. 

"[I]t became clear that he wanted to learn everything he could not only so that he could speak with some depth and authority to the press (the AP couldn’t be more wrong about that), but also because he himself was moved by a love of the little details and the big stories." Levin wrote. 

One ought not let another stinker in the Daniel story pass, the end of the quoted paragraph, "to the delight of his White House bosses." Am I alone in taking offense with that? First, the use of "bosses" to describe whoever now reported to. I haven't been able to find the organization chart & whether Snow reported to Ed Gillespie or Joshua Bolten, the Chief of Staff, or someone else. Whatever, "bosses" seems curiously dismissive, hostile, and offensive. Further, Snow's performance was to the delight of lots more than whoever hired him to serve in the White House; thousands of Republicans, unhappy with Scott McClellan serving in a post for which he was unsuited, were cheered by Snow's service.

Daniel easily could have discovered and included something on Snow's musical talents. He played six instruments, according to Fox News, the flute, trombone, piccolo, saxophone, guitar, and accordion. How's that for a range of instruments? I heard him play some flute on Fox News Channel tonight. He was good.

This former newspaper reporter considers much of the current press, and especially the AP, to be extremely corrupt, grossly inept, and recklessly partisan. Daniel's report reaches a new depth, of execrable offensiveness. 

Sometimes it's helpful to look at a picture of the face of the mutt:

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"A-hole Propagandists"