On Saturday morning, conservative commentator and former White House press secretary Tony Snow passed away from cancer. He was 53.
Over the course of successful career in Washington, Mr. Snow toggled back and forth between journalism and politics. He began his career as an editorial page writer and columnist, eventually becoming the editorial Read More
Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary, is joining CNN as a conservative political commentator, starting today.
From the Press Release:
A well-known and respected observer of politics with a longstanding news background, Snow will contribute to CNN as the network continues to broadcast winning political coverage.
For 10 years beginning Read More
Tuesday, March 4, around 8 p.m., Bill O’Reilly bounded across a chilly studio on the first floor of the News Corp. building on Sixth Avenue toward the desk at the back of the room.
There, the members of the Fox News Super Tuesday II political team—Brit Hume, Juan Williams, Bill Kristol, Nina Easton and Fred Read More
Entering the White House press room today, Tony Snow commented that it was nice to be in a warm space. “My office is freezing.” David Frum makes the same point in The Right Man, his (sometimes-charming) memoir of working for W, where he observes that the Oval Office is “frigid.”
The temperature of the Read MoreTony Snow, the Fox News talking head and presumptive White House press secretary, already has a nickname among some members of the Washington press corps: “Max Headroom.”
Mr. Snow, in other words, is wholly a creature of television—the first TV personality to become a lead White House spokesman.
“It’s sort of the obvious elevation Read More
Tony Snow, the Fox News talking head and presumptive White House press secretary, already has a nickname among some members of the Washington press corps: “Max Headroom.”
Mr. Snow, in other words, is wholly a creature of television—the first TV personality to become a lead White House spokesman.
“It’s sort of the obvious elevation of Read More
When Saturday Night Live ‘s mimicker in chief Darrell Hammond began working on an impression of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first thing he did was grab John Ford’s 1940 movie version of The Grapes of Wrath , starring Henry Fonda as John Steinbeck’s agitated Depression-era itinerant, Tom Joad.
“Rumsfeld reminded me a little Read More
When Saturday Night Live ‘s mimicker in chief Darrell Hammond began working on an impression of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the first thing he did was grab John Ford’s 1940 movie version of The Grapes of Wrath , starring Henry Fonda as John Steinbeck’s agitated Depression-era itinerant, Tom Joad.
“Rumsfeld reminded me a little Read More
“There’s nothing like actually being in the chair,” George Stephanopoulos said. “That takes some getting used to.”
It was the morning of Monday, March 3, and Mr. Stephanopoulos, 42, was on the telephone from Washington, D.C. The last 72 hours had been a whirlwind for the still fresh-faced former Clinton aide turned journalist, now ensconced Read More
