Tony Snow Dies at 53

A class act, our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.

AP Takes Cheap-Shots at Tony Snow?

Posted by: Matt Lewis at 1:01 PM

NewsBusters is crying foul over this depiction of Snow: With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses. ..... During daily briefings, he challenged reporters, scolded them and questioned their motives as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing. Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.

Tony Snow Was a Gem

By Susan Estrich

Tony Snow was a gem.

We usually disagreed - hell, we were paid to disagree for years, starting out nearly 20 years ago, when he was "Monday" at USA Today and I was "Thursday" and every week or so we did what was then considered a "novel" on-line back-and-forth for AOL called "The Great Debate."

Tony and I would disagree about the issues of the day in front of an "audience" (in those days, people signed in to enter the "hall") and then we would have a side conversation at the bottom of the screen, that no one else could see, about our lives, our careers and our families. Especially family. Robert Novak was the other conservative, and when he was debating me he was actually dictating so my side conversation was with his editor. With Tony, it was between us. Personal. That's the way Tony was. He always knew what mattered most. He loved his family, his country, and his life.

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