I never met Tony Snow, though I had some interaction with him via email and on the phone. He was always as cordial and charming as his public persona. What a loss to his family, of course first of all, and to our media culture. And what a reminder how lucky we are to be alive. What did that man say? “As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.”
UPDATE: Some pathetic projection from the Associated Press.
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1. Lightnin' Hopkins:The genuine article. He was a good man. President Bush couldn’t have asked for a better spokesman — always calm and on point in the face of the hysterical Washington press corps. Rest in peace, Tony.
Jul 12, 2008 - 8:15 am 2. Lem:In Washington were mastering the moment is a fixation, Tony Snow was a master of the context.
Jul 12, 2008 - 9:17 am 3. Charlie (Colorado):I wonder if he’ll get 10 percent of the adoration Tim Russert got?
Jul 12, 2008 - 10:47 am 4. Captain Hate:Fox News Sunday suffered a major decline when Tony left and Chris Wallace took over. Snow was always the face of optimism even when dealing with cancer. Bush hired nobody that performed his job better than Snow.
Regarding the AP, why should anybody care what those vermin write about anything?
Jul 12, 2008 - 10:50 am 5. Terrye:My own father died at the age of 54 of the same kind of cancer. It was awful for our family. My died suffered a lot. I hope that Tony Snow did not. He always seemed like such a gentleman. God Bless him and his family.
Jul 12, 2008 - 11:23 am 6. Barry Dauphin:AP: classless and clueless.
Jul 12, 2008 - 11:26 am 7. TW:I always wonder how much better the current Bush Administration would have been if Mr. Snow had been on board at the start.
Heaven is a better place, today.
Jul 12, 2008 - 12:49 pm 8. buddy larsen:In the clips of interviews playing today on Fox, two things he said which i’ll paraphrase: “There’s no sense in thinking about dying — dying will take care of itself. Better to think about living.” And “Humor is important — anyone who can look in the mirror and not see someone at least faintly foolish, needs to take a closer look.”
Both little bon mots said with a big friendly smile. What a loss today.
Jul 12, 2008 - 1:20 pm 9. buddy larsen:http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzZjYWVlZmFlOGIwYTA4Mjg4NGM4MjVkY2YxNDE4NGE=
Yuval Levin @ NRO amplifies Lem’s “master of context” observation.
Jul 12, 2008 - 1:40 pm 10. vnjagvet:AP:
No one will ever care what the jackals who wrote that think. They can’t lick Tony’s boots. That kind of classlessness is its own reward.
Jul 12, 2008 - 5:24 pm 11. Lem:When it came to “selflesness” Tony Snow really believed it. He came to really appreciate the idea of service and what it meant thru writing for GHW Bush 41.
I Listened more than once to Tony on the radio talk about his days in the Bush 41 White House as though they were his own personal glory days.
For a clan - the Bush clan - that prides and values loyalty, there were so few so close to both father and son as Cheney and Tony Snow.
Jul 12, 2008 - 8:17 pm 12. Lem:Tony Snow - while in the WH - was the silent (mind you) personification of the many Americans that serve in a non-military capacity every day.
I dont think I’m exagerating.
Jul 12, 2008 - 8:44 pm 13. Todd:I was lucky enough to have spoken twice to him as a call-in to his radio show before his White House stint.
An ode to Tony.
Jul 13, 2008 - 7:05 pm