By:
Steve Benen on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 6:45 PM - PST
Following up on an item from last week, former White House press secretary Tony Snow is using his time outside of government service to make increasingly bizarre comments about Iran, academia, and religion. (via the Washington Times)
Tony Snow, former press Secretary to President Bush and Fox news anchor, spoke to the Academy of Leadership & Liberty at Oklahoma Christian University last week.
The winsome and articulate Snow charmed his audience with wit: “The average Iranian is more Pro-American than virtually any college faculty in this country.” And with serious talk about the war on terror and “the second war in this country, the war on God.”
This is so dumb, I’m almost surprised Snow would make the comments out loud, in public.
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surely their lightbulb has gone on by now……………..at least for some of them.
He’s right. We don’t want God for president.
How did this lame ever get a job in the frist place?
that picture is funny….it looks like he’s giving himself a “Vulcan mind meld”………..the pain,The Pain.
Poor, colon-less Snow still thinks of The Dummy as ‘god’.
Is his cancer advanced or in remission? If it’s advanced, that’s the ravenings of a sick and dying man.
If not, he’s just plain crazy.
It might be bad karma, but I’m still rooting for the cancer.
Tony’s still trying to prove (and doing a damned good job of it) that the only guy in the house without a colon is more full of sh*t than anyone.
“The average Iranian is more Pro-American than virtually any college faculty in this country.”
Wow he just attacked every military academy in America.
West Point should have some things to say about this.
I’m sure God is annoyed that the GOP has declared war on him by putting his name on their fuckups.
So what did the faculty of OCU think about his comments?
Does tony really think that “God” needs his help? Methinks it’s the other way around.
Another White House White Whore out to make a buck of his years of lies…………
Bud @ 11:
Oklahoma City University?
How about BYU?
Or BJU?
There’s a level of Hell reserved for liars. Where in Hell does Tony think he’s going if there’s an afterlife?
You have to understand, when they did the colonectomy on Snow, they went in his ears and extracted it through his nose.
He’s a little light up top.
God told him to stay away from Oral Roberts until things quiet down
CD @ 14:
I always preferred good ol’ FU - go Fordham! ;)
Tony’s working the crowd again I see. Cashing in on the circuit. Of course he’s not going to go to Oklahoma Christian University and say,
You know your all a bunch of brain dead jesus freak as*h*les and morons who would drink cyanide if I handed you a glass full without question and for that I’m grateful because otherwise I wouldn’t be rich.
I wonder, is the ‘god’ who told The Dummy to kill all those kids and women in Iraq based on lies, the same ‘god’ who put the tumors in Snow’s colon?
If so, maybe we need one more war, and this’ll be the big one,
Nuke ‘god’.
Bud @ 18:
Funny when I read what Tony said my first thought was FU. ;)
Obviously he has drunk too much of the Bush Kool-Aid. The guy used to have at least some credibility. Now he has none.
Christian Jihad is our goal; murder murder is our game
I mean, c’mon . . . the War on Christmas was SO 20 minutes ago. Let’s show the world that what we godless liberals are after is . . GOD HIMSELF!!! The secret is out. I am SO upset. I was so sure we could get God in a sneak attack.
Rico @ 22:
Snow, who resigned from the White House to continue his fight against colon cancer and “make some money,”
That’s all it’s ever been about to Republicans.
“make some money”
I don’t like to be mean but he is on pretty heavy medication. That might explain a few things.
With talk like this I think America does need to start defending itself again Christianity. There may not be a war against them yet but if they continue to keep attacking patriotic Americans this way a war is what they’re asking for.
Bill @ 26:
That actualy would explain why he’d say such crazy things.
But why is his family letting him be interviewed if he’s not in a normal state of mind?
If you like this Snow story, how’d you miss:
‘Abraham Slobovowitz, ex-kvetcher in the Bronx, said Lieberman is better than chicken fat on chopped liver’.
This guy is sick,and he knows he should be taking it easy.But he’s so Fucked Up on Hate and Power….he’s actualy killing himself…..with the hopes he’ll be seen as some kind of political martyr…of the right.WRONG!!!! ..he’ll be forgotten in 5 days….if that long.
My neighbor has cancer. She asked me not to visit with her for a few days after her chemo treatments, because she couldn’t think straight, that the medication affected her mental processes.
In the case of my neighbor, I’m very sad, but as for Tony Snow, if this is the problem, he needs to stop for a moment and just listen to himself. The amplification of his deep-seated pathos is disturbing.
War war war war war. I’m so sick of this metaphor! I can’t disagree with an idea anymore without being “at war” with it.
The metaphor simultaneously exaggerates and desensitizes. Rhetorically, it falsely pits political opponents as lethal enemies, and the effect of the exaggeration is so pernicious that we can barely carry on a civil public conversation. At the same time, ubiquity and overuse of the term “war” desensitizes us to bona fide WAR — the kind where real people, innocent people, really do suffer and die.
Hey, Tony! I don’t believe in your god. I’m not at war with him. Or you.
Now, fuck off.
$10,000 per appearance I think is the going rate.
Hasn’t anyone thought about why this nutjob, Lieberman, was the vice-presidential candidate with Gore in 2000? Was he the back-up plan, should Bush-Cheney not have been able to steal the election?
Al & Joe win, “something” happens to Al, Joe brings on Cheney to shows he’s “fair & balanced” and we still get the ‘01 Energy meeting, 9/11, and war in Iraq. Lieberman was a very odd, last-minute choice for VP; Not Al’s choice.
Maybe Gore was lucky enough to have “lost” the 2000 election afterall? Hey, let’s all go shopping, no worries.
Did Tony have cancer of the brain?
So let’s bomb ‘em!
dollars to donuts…………we don’t see Tony Snow for awhile after this.
How can you be “…almost surprised…” that Snow would spew this crap in public?
Now that’s surprising.
Certain cancers spread to the brain, or so I’ve been told.
Straight Shooter @ 31:
Seriously the man just insulted every institute of higher learning in Utah.
“The filthy liberals hate air, too!”, squealed Snow. “They want to remove all air from the planet so you can’t breathe anymore! And they really really hate kittens! They’ll kill your kittens!”, said the bleary-eyed propagandist.
What kind of an idiot would believe this crap?
Maybe he means the “War on Dog.”
You know.
The one Mike Huckabee’s son is fighting.
Snow’s right. Like Christopher Hitchens, I’m not just an atheist but an anti-theist.
The god described in the Hebrew bible, the Abrahamic God of the Torah, Old Testament and Koran, is a vile, despicable character whom I would never worship.
I don’t want the world the Christians say exists. I don’t want to live under celestial surveillance. I don’t want to live in a universe where the final moral authority is eternal, unchanging and unquestionable. I don’t want to be condemned for my thoughts. I don’t want to be saved vicariously by an act of brutal sadism.
The doctrine of Christianity is wicked and should be resisted.
The culture of Christianity is a mixed bag, good and bad, but I’m with those who say that the doctrine supports the bad and the good exists despite it.
So, yes, Tony, I would be at war with your god, if only he existed. Failing that, i shall content myself with calling his followers fools to their face.
You’re a fool.
CatAtomic @ 41:
lol
LongTooth @ 39:
With out making jokes I have a hard time believing his cancer could travel from the butt to the brain that fast.
“It’s really cool when leaders gossip about other leaders”…………………………………………………………..where did he think he was…………………………in the high school gym?
CD @ 45:
BUTT you know theres a really good joke there…..ok,ok…I won’t do it…………bu,bu,but….
Tickling their ears as it were….
Just so he can make that money!
Tony came within a hairs breadth of choosing a career in sales for used cars or medicinal remedies for baldness, prior to broadcasting.
You have to understand, Snow only had a colonectomy, so he could have plausible deniability if he was ever accused of being full of shit.
mudshark @ 47:
Come Come we must restrain from making these kinds of…..cracks.
War on Christmas. War on Christians. War on God..
You know what.. Shut the fuck up. You Christians don’t know what it’s like to be persecuted. You fucking run this country lock stock and barrel to the point where other religions are paying taxes so YOU can get money from the Faith Based Initiatives. Effectively other religions are being taxed to pay for Christianity’s continued prosetylization. You control the majority in both parties, every state and local legislature, the supreme court, the Presidency and every police and fire station in the country and you’re trying desperately to shove your God into science class and erect monuments to YOUR god on public lands and you to talk about being persecuted? You wanna see persecution? Go to Iraq. Go to Botswana. Go to Ghana. Go to Saudi Arabia. Until you get to see your family dragged away to be tortured because you wear a cross around your neck, SHUT.THE.FUCK.UP. You still get to speak. You still get to raise families. You still get to own property and I don’t see Wiccans banging on my door at 7:30 am to ask me whether or not I’m going to the Drum Circle to celebrate the Sabbath or demanding that my store wish people a Blessed Samhain.
I am sick to death of hearing this bullshit. Grow the fuck up.
CD @ 50:
ooohhhhh…that’s bad…LOL
tony, take your “holy $#!+” and shove it up your @$$.
I wonder what the Republicans Professors I know will think of such an insult?
If god (I’m presuming that Snow is referring to a monotheistic construct here) attacked the United States, with every intention of wiping us out, it would be unpatriotic to not fight back, yes? No? If there is a war against God, would like-minded people not support our troops in the biggest challenge to their country’s survival ever?
Additionally, how can there be a war on god (once again, I’ll presume a garden-variety transcendent deity) if such a god is not manifest? Where do we aim the missiles: at the bible? The bible isn’t god, so perhaps Snow means a metaphorical war, but isn’t the bible metaphorical? It claims Jesus bodily rose into heaven, but the Milky Way is 3,000 light years thick in these parts, meaning the messiah, circa 2007, hasn’t even escaped our galaxy yet (being a god he has somehow survived the temperature, air pressure, oxygen problems, etc.). Perhaps Jesus is a metaphorical cannon ball, hurtling towards the Father, and this is the war that Snow has in mind. There sure are a lot more wars since the chickenhawks came to power.
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