…maybe that way we can finally get a straight answer out of the guy. Today on “The Situation Room” FOX News pundit Press Secretary Tony Snow tried to explain away the Senate Democrats’ call for a Special Prosecutor to investigate Alberto Gonzalez’s deliberately misleading lies accidental misstatements under oath.
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According to Snow, the administration has been more than cooperative when it comes to the Senate inquiry into the politically-motivated firing perfectly benign dismissal of the US Attorneys. Can someone remind Tony Snow that the White House refuses to let Harriet Miers and Karl Rove testify under oath? Or that they refuse to produce the 5 MILLION+ emails directly relating to the scandal that mysteriously “vanished”? Or… oh, never mind.
John Amato: Tony Snow accused the Democrats of possibly committing treason. He said they might try to play the gotcha game and expose classified secrets to the media if his peeps actually agreed to testify.
Snow: Suppose behind closed doors, where Karl Rove or anybody else would be under a legal obligation to tell the truth, they found something that gave them pause. They could public with it.
And if you listen closely—-(am I hearing things?) does he suggest that there’s another secret spying program going on. TSP or NSA? Are they one in the same? (transcript below the fold)
BLITZER: Now here’s the other problem the attorney general has. A stunning development today. The FBI director, Robert Mueller, also contradicting what Alberto Gonzales says.
SNOW: Well, a classic example of what I’m talking about, Wolf.
If you go back and you look at the transcript, you’ve got a member of Congress talking about the terrorist surveillance program.
Go back and look at the transcript.
Does Bob Mueller once use the phrase “terrorist surveillance program?”
I’ll save you the wait. The answer is no. He talks about an NSA program. It’s exactly what I’m talking about, which is that members of Congress are trying to create controversies about highly classified matters, some of which cannot, should not and must not be discussed publicly. And it forces people to give very careful answers that could very easily be twisted by folk on the other side of the aisle.
Filed Under: The Situation Room/Wolf Blitzer, Tony Snow, US Attorneys Purge, White House
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DAAAAAAMN! Snowjob is looking real bad. He needs to lay off the spin. His body can’t fight cancer AND pure evil at the same time.
Good luck with that.
Oh please yes PLEASE put Snotty Snow under….anything!
Dude, I think I peed myself when I read this!! http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/.....refer=home
Rove subpoena’d! Who cares about Snow, he’s nobody. Rove is the turdblossom special that needs his….nevermind, you get my jive.
I didn’t vote for impeachment, but niether did Barack…nanner nanner.
Why don’t they ever do a “Reality Check” lead-in video for these guys?
Most people when they have a brush with death, Like Snowjob’s cancer, they come away with wanting to live a better life. Not Snowjob. He lies more now than before his cancer diagnosis. In fact the snowjob is so thick his hair is turning white.
Strawberry @ 1:
The high price of stress!
You think it’s easy to lie on a continual basis?
These guys are assholes from the word go.
I held my breath and turned on Fox Opinion.
Hume and his panel all agreed the ganzo testimony was just a bunch of confusion.
Confusion, that all it is.
Changed the channel.
Geez.
As long as the tv host is a push over, afraid of offending any of their guests because they might not come back on. There won’t be any tough questions or accountability thrown at people like Tony.
I think we ought to have the men in white storm this entire administration with Straight Jackets. Do we have enough? was the funding cut? Crap.
Does tony believe what he spews or is a lying sack of shit? Most likely the latter.
andotech @ 13:
Stop denegrating sacks of shit.
Gotta wonder about a guy who’s fighting cancer, yet still dutifully peddles his bosses’ colossal lies and delusions every day. He doesn’t have a colon and his tumors have metasticized. He’s a poor bet to live more than a few more years.
If I were looking at death in the mirror every day like this guy, I’d want to cut the bullshit.
But that’s just me.
Sometimes I feel like comparing conversations with the white house press secretary, or indeed Alberto, with the dead parrot skit from Monty Python . .
Someone tell me again, where is the cancer in Snowjob located?
If not in his brain orignally, it is sad indeed to see that it has spread
there.
Wow
Wow
what a tough break for Tony Snow! first he serve Fox Opinion and now the whitehouse. The dark force is all he knows!
I think Tony should just blow out of here. He is a stinking liar.
Wolf is a great listener.
Snow is making Fox News proud.
Why didn’t Wolf just ask “If these administration officials have nothing to hide, then why resist answering under oath?”
And I loved how whiney Tony got, kinda funny!
Hey! When did Max Headroom get appointed as Press Secretary!?!
The Bush administration is a cancer on America. Snow-job is at the center of the tumor, how can he not be affected? The chemotherapy required to eradicate both Tony’s cancer and America’s cancer is going to be equally painful, but hopefully done in time to save both.
‘the situation room’ what a comical vertigo layout
needs more scrolling banners - perhaps down the sides across the top -
what is with the big ouija table Wolfe stands aside
why ask the talking points prop for issue illumination?
Tony looks horrible these days… he would be well-advised to pull an Ari Fleischer and Scotty McClellan and bail on Dumbya. Lying all day every day can’t be good for one’s physical constitution - not to mention the karma.
senoritchy @ 27:
For CNN ratings only…
tz @ 24:
Because they were using the RNC server for emailing. Against the Presidential Records Act - oh yeah, they “lost” those emails.
oppps! Doesn’t look good for Gonzo! a href=http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Mueller_contradicts_Gonzales_0726.html> FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress today the confrontation in then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital room in 2004 was over the controversial surveillance program.
Put Snowjob under oath? For what? He lies, he get sentenced to serve jail time for his lies, Bush commutes his sentence. There is going to be a pattern here.
I believe he’s a pathological liar. Lying causes him no stress…(trying) to tell the truth WOULD cause him stress. He lacks sufficient skills for self-examination and introspection to even determine what the truth IS, much less to care whether he disregards it. He reminds me of my brother…a tool in every sense of the word.
God I love Kieth Olberman. Must see TV.
hey!! how the heck do you do links in this new format anyway?
Ruthless People @ 32:
Then Fred Thompson raises the money to pay Snowies legal fees.
I admire Snow’s resolve, he’s a good soldier.
He’s gravely ill, yet will spend what time he has left defending the indefensible for the undeserving who will, ultimately, prove to be ungrateful.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress today the confrontation in then-Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital room in 2004 was over the controversial surveillance program.
ahhhhhhh-hah!
Udon Nomee @ 25:
My first thought was the two bolts protruding from the sides of his neck with a staircase behind him that rises revealing a fire breathing dragon underneath.
I saw Tony spin this live. All democrats fault eh? Too many people say otherwise, that Alberto is not telling the truth.
Repubs impeached Clinton on perjury. Yet when it comes to perjury for one their own? It’s nothing…
It’s like these people are operating a banana republic. It’s time to throw them in jail!!! We are a nation of laws, damn it!
RickinSF @ 37:
Screw the Constitution. Right?
I can’t figure out how someone so close to meeting his Maker is so willing to flat out lie his ass off each and every day. What happened to “Thou Shall Not Lie Your Fucking Ass Off?”
Harley @ 43:
Maybe he’s laying up a little nest egg for his family. Guess he figures a bundle of cash is better than leaving them memories of a moral husband and father.
Man can this liar wiggle around the subject. I see a frog march parade acomin.
Dems should stop using the tired excuse that they can’t go forward because repugs will be out of office by the time indictments are handed out. Do they really think repugs are going to stop their bs just because they aren’t in office? Grow some ta-tas dems.
Stop being complice in repugs’ wrongdoings.
repugs are liars from birth
Terrible @ 35:
click on the link button and put your link in the box and then type a word that refers to the link and press the link button again. I think? :lol:
I’m trying to watch Keith and typw at the same time.
ron johnson, stereo consultant @ 44:
You failed to see the footnote in small print…”unless the King/Decider says it is o.k.”
Holy Shit. MSNBC is saying that AP is reporting that the army blocked doctors from investigating whether Pat tillman was MURDERED!!!! Not accidentally shot but FRAGGED!!! DAMN, I guess all the rumours GIs were talking about was true!!C&L this is big. Olberman is talking to Wesley Clark now!
ron johnson, stereo consultant @ 44:
Uh, doesn’t he work next door to Dick Cheney?
Strawberry @ 50:
Has Rumsfeld’s fingerprints all over it, I bet.
I’m waiting for Snow to have his “Atwater moment.”
He looks like crap, and he’s more malignant than ever in his mendacity.
Terrible @ 38:
You have to press the link button after you type a word of two discribing your link.
This link will take you to where yoiu want to go.
Harley @ 52:
That’s what Clark is saying.