Tony Snow is brilliant

[joeprogressive]

After watching him address Russert's fairly tough questions, I realized the genius of this man. If I didn't actually know he was lying every time he opened his mouth I might actually believe him. He is a cool, calculating liar. Unlike his predecessors Scotty and Ari, this guy is much more comfortable telling bald face lies to the American public.

He realizes that all facts will disprove everything he says but as long as he can survive the press conference of the day or a Sunday morning show, he has succeeded at his job; which is to deceive as many sheep as possible.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. He is revolting, to me. He reminds me of Jon Lovitz's skit on SNL of the pathological

liar, who loves to hear himself fabricate stories. Tony Snow apparently only thinks the phrase, "yeah, that's the ticket", rather than saying it.

Here's my all time favorite photo of him, the Snowjob is Iraq :-)



MKJ

[joeprogressive]

2. exactly, it looks like he enjoys lying.

Which also makes him diabolical.

[FormerDittoHead]

3. You should check out "Thank You For Not Smoking"

I think you should understand that, to these guys, facts are subjective.

Of course, they co-mingle 'facts' with 'bits of data'. "Data" being unsourced, unverified, etc.

The movie brings out some interesting points.

First, you don't have to *prove* your point to win an argument. You only have to prove the other guy is wrong. Although you haven't really proven anything, any 3rd party will perceive you've won.

See the movie.

[joeprogressive]

4. Thanks, I'll check it out.

n/t

[TroglodyteScholar]

23. So you don't miss it, it's called "Thank You For Smoking" -- strike the "not" n/t

[ripple]

17. It's 'Thank You For Smoking', without the 'Not'

You're right, though. That movie depicts "truthiness" superbly.

[FormerDittoHead]

18. OUCH! YES! Thank you for the correction! - for others - here's a link

http://imdb.com/title/tt0427944/

[GreenEyedLefty]

5. All those guys are sociopaths

Anyone who lies through their teeth without regard to our men and women in uniform is soulless, indeed.

[Larry Ogg]

6. Actually out of all of Bushes appointments Tony Snowjob is probably the most efficient

at what he was hired to do. Lie Lie Lie Lie… They probably don’t even have to tell him anything, just let him make it up as he goes…

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. LOL, that's true. No flop sweat from this guy. I can't wait until he steps in it, and can't get out.

Watch for it. :evilgrin: MKJ

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Hahaha, I hadn't thought of that...

By telling him stuff, he then has to cross facts with fiction which can be a lot to juggle when he is with the reporters. If, on the other hand, he is told nothing, then there will never be a mistake of bringing a fact to the reporters. Snow probably DOES only read the newspapers to get the so called facts, then he redistiributes it back to the reporters with a some of his own fiction thrown in for good measure.

[DemoTex]

9. Snow is an actor with scripted responses to scripted questions.

The press makes Snow's acting job so easy. To me, Snow is in the same class as John Fund: Spewer of canned, boilerplate lines (scripted lines which are, in this case, scripted lies). I cannot watch either one of those bit-players (and a few more, too) any more.

[rodeodance]

12. and Tony said this is the best job he ever had---he loves it. (yes, he said

that)

[gordon1]

10. I agree.

I saw him too this morning. You hit the nail on the head.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi gordon1!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[rodeodance]

11. I watched it. It was Surreal. He IS comfortable lying.

[rurallib]

13. I don't agree. I had a real respect for Ari's form of lying.

He was cool too. Kind of a salesman, pushed it a little. And often Ari would come up with totally different lies when asked the same question so you couldn't hone in and pick his answer apart.
Maybe it was his showmanship that I liked.

[frankenforpres]

16. i too thought ari was great at his job n/t

[against all enemies]

14. Too bad Fitzgerald didn't get a whack at him. "Under oath" does

wonders in bringing down lying assholes like Snow.

[City Lights]

15. He learned the art of lying from Fox Noise.

Lying and working for Fox Noise go hand in hand.

[Doctor_J]

20. Oh, bullshit

if he were on camera with a real interviewer instead of a white house plant, he'd get shredded like Cheney's OSP minutes.

[otohara]

21. Even Then....

Snow is slick and feels comfortable in front of a camera, but you're right-on about the plant

[Bobbie Jo]

22. Brilliant...in an evil, maniacal sort of way

Insert evil laugh here....:evilfrown:

[Buzz Clik]

24. We came to realize that McClellan was not a liar at all.

He obfuscated all the time, but the lies that came from his mouth were words he believed to be true. He quit shortly after realizing that Rove and Cheney had destroyed his credibility.

Snow, however, truly is a lying bastard.

[Outback Bob]

25. Can you please point out one of his lies? With credibly sourced

evidence, of course.

[Doctor_J]

26. "The president has never been stay the course"

followed a couple days later by "he may have said it once or twice". A search of whitehouse.gov found 162 uses of "stay the course" by *, Cheney, and Snow himself. That was one enormous whopper that no one in the WH press corpse called him on.

Enjoy your day here, freeper.