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From Arianna.
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Tony Snow: You Can Take the Man Out of Fox News, But You Can't Take the Fox News Out of the Man
Quick, somebody get Tony Snow a compassion cocktail -- with an empathy chaser!For years now I've been praying for public officials to start speaking their minds and not hide behind a smokescreen of mindless, focus group-tested, politically correct pabulum. But an interesting thing is happening with Tony Snow. Since becoming press secretary he has, indeed, been speaking his mind. But the kind of mind that's being revealed is very troubling. His reaction to the U.S. death toll in Iraq hitting 2,500 was "It's a number."His response to the kidnapping of Pfc. Kristian Manchaca and Pfc. Thomas Tucker was to grumble about the media "focusing on them" instead of the fact "that since Zarqawi was killed, hundreds of bad guys have been rounded up." [Update: Snow’s problem with the media focus on the story is even more disturbing now that the kidnapped soldiers have been found barbarically slain.]Snow seems to be missing the humanity chromosome. The jury is still out on whether his regret gene is just as recessive. He did call himself "an idiot" for his they-all-look-alike confusion of black House members Sheila Jackson Lee and Cynthia McKinney. Will he publicly flagellate himself in the same way for his appearance on Imus last week in which he slammed former President Carter, saying that during the Carter years "you had the humiliation of hostages being taken in Iran"? Oops. Should President Carter be expecting a "my bad" card in the mail, Tony?Then there were Snow's head-scratching comparison of the gay marriage ban to the civil rights struggle (compounded by his inability to define civil rights) and his unfortunate use of "tar baby" imagery to deflect questions on NSA surveillance programs.It's becoming clearer by the day: you can take the man out of Fox News, but you can't take the Fox News out of the man.
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