Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Tony Snow is a wookie, yet he lives on Endor
Now this is just weird and dirty
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/washington/26cnd-snow.html?hp&ex=1146110400&en=15fc71d5debbb757&ei=5094&partner=homepage
A Fox News commentator is going to be the new white house press secretary. The line between TV and reality gets blurrier and blurrier. Sheen '08 is looking like a sure thing.
My head is catching on fire right now. I feel like the Bush white house just used the Chewbacca defence. I understand that selecting someone who is comfortable presenting his point of view convincingly could be useful. but to pull someone directly out of the 4th estate (particularly the part of the media that is notoriously sympathetic to your perspective) seems very odd. Is there precedent for making TV personalities into political functionaries? The only ones I can think of are Arnold and Reagan.
Apparently conservatives are worried about Snow's "wavering conservatism" meanign he once said something other than reverent about Bush on the internet. Is this the complete idiocy that drove the Harriet Meiers nomination, or is it closer to the pragmatic brilliance that kept an incredible disparate voting coalition aligned for 6+ years?
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/26/washington/26cnd-snow.html?hp&ex=1146110400&en=15fc71d5debbb757&ei=5094&partner=homepage
A Fox News commentator is going to be the new white house press secretary. The line between TV and reality gets blurrier and blurrier. Sheen '08 is looking like a sure thing.
My head is catching on fire right now. I feel like the Bush white house just used the Chewbacca defence. I understand that selecting someone who is comfortable presenting his point of view convincingly could be useful. but to pull someone directly out of the 4th estate (particularly the part of the media that is notoriously sympathetic to your perspective) seems very odd. Is there precedent for making TV personalities into political functionaries? The only ones I can think of are Arnold and Reagan.
Apparently conservatives are worried about Snow's "wavering conservatism" meanign he once said something other than reverent about Bush on the internet. Is this the complete idiocy that drove the Harriet Meiers nomination, or is it closer to the pragmatic brilliance that kept an incredible disparate voting coalition aligned for 6+ years?
# posted by 8yearoldsdude @ 11:19 AM 
