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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: BlueStateSaint on July 12, 2008, 06:04:12 AM
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Breaking on Fox & Friends now. Complications of his cancer. :(
Expect the pissing on his grave to commence at DU in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
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It won't take long before the LIBER-TARDS start cheering.
Isn't always that way, the good die young while the scum of the earth live long lives and make us miserable in the process
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This is so sad. Tony was such a great guy. I pray for comfort to the family at this terrible time.
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How sad, what a great guy! Tony was much loved by all his friends, family and associates, and the haters don't matter.
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I think he was truly one of the good guys and he will be missed. My prayers go out to his family.
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:( Damn that's a shame! Rest in peace Tony, God bless you. My prayers go out to his family.
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Oh my God! I thought he was doing better in his fight with cancer. This is sad, indeed. I always loved watching him spot for O'Reilly on the Factor and his other apperances. He will be missed and may God rest his soul.
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RIP. Prayers for his family. :(
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Breaking on Fox & Friends now. Complications of his cancer. :(
Expect the pissing on his grave to commence at DU in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3604935
Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-12-08 08:37 AM
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I gave the moderators instructions to delete inappropriate posts about Tony Snow.
Advertisements [?]So, instead of creating extra work for them, it would be nice if people would voluntarily refrain from posting inflammatory crap that makes us all look like jerks.
Thank you for your understanding.
Skinner
DU Admin
Prayers for Tony's family and friends. May God grant all peace and understanding in this difficult time.
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Breaking on Fox & Friends now. Complications of his cancer. :(
Expect the pissing on his grave to commence at DU in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3604935
Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-12-08 08:37 AM
Original message
I gave the moderators instructions to delete inappropriate posts about Tony Snow.
Advertisements [?]So, instead of creating extra work for them, it would be nice if people would voluntarily refrain from posting inflammatory crap that makes us all look like jerks.
Thank you for your understanding.
Skinner
DU Admin
Prayers for Tony's family and friends. May God grant all peace and understanding in this difficult time.
Pretty damn sad that Skinner had to even post that. I swear some of the people at DU aren't even human.
This really makes me sad, Tony Snow was such a good guy. :(
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The Associated Press gets a little jab in right away:
Former Bush press secretary Tony Snow dies
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer
5 minutes ago
[excerpt]
WASHINGTON - Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.
"America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character," President Bush said in a statement from Camp David, where he was spending the weekend. "It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day. He brought wit, grace, and a great love of country to his work."
Snow, who served as the first host of the television news program "Fox News Sunday" from 1996 to 2003, would later say that in the Bush administration he was enjoying "the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have."
Snow was working for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as press secretary in May 2006 during a White House shake-up. Unlike McClellan, who came to define caution and bland delivery from the White House podium, Snow was never shy about playing to the cameras.
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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_re_us/obit_snow (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080712/ap_on_re_us/obit_snow)
To be fair, I'm sure someone in the MSM will make mention of the fact that Elders wanted to teach sex ed to 6 year olds in her obituary, whenever it happens, but still. ::) :whatever: If not always a command of the facts. Oh, please!
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RIP Tony. I always enjoyed his appearances on Fox News.
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:( A sad day. RIP Tony...prayers for the family. Great man...will truly be missed.
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He always had a smile on his face and was unflappable -- even about his own illness.
R I P Tony -- you were one of the good ones.
Prayers for the family and friends.
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Good article by Cal Thomas
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/opinion/columns/stories/DRC_Thomas_Column_0409.5053770.html (http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/opinion/columns/stories/DRC_Thomas_Column_0409.5053770.html)
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RIP Tony, one of the good guys, we'll miss you. Prayers for his family.....
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Too bad, hope he left in peace.
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I will miss him. And the vile shit started posting on DUchebag Central 15 minutes after they announced that he had died.
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RIP Tony.
As much as I wanted to say something about that fat bastard Ted Kennedy when he had been taken to the hospital, I at least observed the respect asked of here by not doing so. It was the right thing to do at the time and already DelUsional underground has had their members starting in on Tony Snow who at the last time anyone checked ,didn't leave someone to drown to death in his car nor took after somewoman he was never married too.
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RIP Tony. :(
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Tony Snow is a true talent. I like hearing his voice on radio and television. I enjoyed his show, very relaxing. He can do his show on a whim and did it with great energy and enthuiasm. Tony Snow was like a blue supergiant star that can make everyone excited like a supernova. He was the supernova.
I am very sorry and saddened that he passed away so suddenly at the age of 53. My condolences to Tony Snow's family, relatives, and friends. You will be missed. :( :bawl: RIP Robert Anthony Snow. You are in a much better and peaceful world free of pain and suffering.
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Tony Snow's mother died of colon cancer at the age of 38, when he was 17. I am not surprised it runs in families. Still, does not minimize the sadness. On the plus side, he will be with his mother.
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I just heard on Fox News, really not even the news just a commercials that they are going to be remembering him tonight and. So sad to hear.
Condolences to the family and God Speed to Tony.
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Rest in Peace Tony, I always enjoyed your radio show. :(
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I was just browsing the "usual suspects" for derogatory comments about Tony.
DU, Moveon.org, Media Matters, and Huffington Post.
-- DU is carrying the deal about the administrator telling the mods to prevent negative comments from appearing.
-- Moveon.org hasn't even posted the story.
-- Media Matters hasn't posted the story.
-- Huffington Post has posted the story and there are 9 "pending" comments. I wonder if they are going to allow negative comments to be posted or are going to follow DUs example.
Maybe the hate mongers on the left learned their lesson from when Reagan and Ford passed away and they spewed their krap.
I'm not going to hold my breath though. Eventually, they will fill the airwaves with their vile hatred.
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To me, Tony Snow seemed bright, thoughtful, of an amazing even temperment and good humor. An all around nice guy, very good at his job and the kind of guy you and your wife would like to make a family night of it at the local upscale restaurant. Go to the Rotory Club benefit dinner with.
Anyway, Tony, it was sad to see you die so young. My sympathies to your family , and may God speed you to your reward.
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Prayers for Tony's family and those close to him.
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RIP Tony. You were one of the great ones.
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I always liked Tony Snow. His radio show, before he was press secretary, would replay in the evenings right when I was getting off work and I listened every day.
My condolences to his family during this hard time.
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:(
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I heard this on the radio this morning driving my son to his Scouting day camp. First feeling: I was saddened. He was a very genuine, very nice guy who you knew would make a treasured friend. Second feeling: I knew the DUmp monkeys would be dancing in the streets.
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Rest in peace Tony. May your family find peace at the end of your suffering.
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Vaya con Dios Mr Snow.
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very sad... RIP.
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God speed, Tony. May you be surrounded by loved ones in a place where suffering is unknown.
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Breaking the board rules a bit here, but figured this would be best in it's entirety. This was written by Susan Estrich.
Tony Snow was a gem.
We usually disagreed – hell, we were paid to disagree for years, starting out nearly 20 years ago, when he was “Monday†at USA Today and I was “Thursday†and every week or so we did what was then considered a “novel†on-line back-and-forth for AOL called “The Great Debate.â€
Tony and I would disagree about the issues of the day in front of an “audience†(in those days, people signed in to enter the “hallâ€) and then we would have a side conversation at the bottom of the screen, that no one else could see, about our lives, our careers and our families. Especially family. Robert Novak was the other conservative, and when he was debating me he was actually dictating so my side conversation was with his editor. With Tony, it was between us. Personal. That’s the way Tony was. He always knew what mattered most. He loved his family, his country, and his life.
He drove some of my liberal friends somewhat crazy, to say the least, as President Bush’s press secretary, not because he was in any way more dishonest than his predecessors (hello, Scott McLellan) but because he was so much better at it, more appealing, so much more likable, that he could almost make die-hards sympathize with positions they didn’t take. He was great at the job, and he loved it. It was a gift, and he knew it.
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Tony learned early about loss. His mother died when he was a kid, and she was only 37. He took good care of himself, but he understood that cancer could be lurking, as it was, and when it hit him, hard, he was as aggressive as you could be in fighting back. He wanted to live.
And live he did.
He loved being on television and radio, but he loved his job as press secretary even more. It was, he always said, the greatest job in the world. Unlike so many people who hold such jobs, and spend more time whining about the pay and the hours and the beatings they take from the media and the other side, Tony saw himself as lucky, blessed and grateful to be where he was. He had stared death down, and lived to travel the world with the President of the United States. How could he complain? He wore his yellow bracelet. He apologized when he was wrong. He tried to live as an example to other cancer patients, to show them that life doesn’t end with a bad diagnosis, that illness can be a source of growth as much as font of pain.
If there were any justice, any fairness, any sense, I wouldn’t be writing this right now.
The opening line of the news story this morning was that Tony “lost his fight with cancer.†But that’s all wrong. If cancer were a fair fight, Tony would have won. Losing implies that you could have won, might have won, had you done something more or different, had you been stronger or better. That’s not how it works. Cancer is. Jerks sometimes survive it. Decent and honorable people sometimes are felled by it. It’s not a fight; it’s a plague.
Tony had a sweetness about him, a sweetness that, in the mean world that Washington and the media can be, sometimes led him to believe that everyone operated from the same place he did. We hung out together in New Hampshire four years ago, during the primary; I had rented a car, and he hadn’t, and it was a measure of his courage, or foolhardiness that he would drive back and forth with me every day between the hotel in downtown Manchester and the FOX Box that was 20 minutes of winding roads away. I would regale him with gossip about who was doing what to whom, who was after whom, who was up and who was down, and he would gobble it up, wide-eyed. He was so earnest, so dear, he liked everyone and assumed the same about everyone else; he was honorable and honest, and assumed it about others. You are so naive, I used to say to him. He would shake his head.
But he wasn’t really naive. He just knew what mattered and what didn’t, what was worth caring about and what wasn’t. He loved his Sunday show, but when he lost it, he didn’t complain, he just turned his energy to radio. He loved being handsome and strong, but when cancer struck, and took that away, at least for a time, he didn’t complain, he just fought it. He thought he had beaten cancer, but when he learned that he hadn’t, that he wouldn’t, he vowed to live with it, to be an example.
Our friend, our boss, Roger Ailes called him a “renaissance man.†He was. Articulate, educated, informed, he was all those things. But for me, what defined him was not what was in his head but what was in his heart. He was a mensch. A good man died today.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381304,00.html
Whats sad is that the DUmmies will never be able to see this about him. Their hate filled lives will not let them see anything other then supposed evil where good is, an good where evil is.