Tony Snow (the one with the red tie), the former White House Press Secretary, the guy who met daily with various media correspondents and gave them the official statements on everything, is dead. He died at the age of 53, after a two-year struggle with colon cancer. He'd left his position at Fox News [sic] to become Press Secretary in May 2006 and resigned that post last September as his health continued to decline.
Because of his death, he won't be able to write a tell-all book about the slimy, corrupt inner-workings of the administration of Bush the Lesser, like the one that Snow's predecessor in the position, Scott McClellan (the one with the ovoid head), published last May. McClellan's book, What Happened, tells some horrible things that the administration didn't want revealed, and since it's publication the Bush supporters have complained loudly that McClelland is all kinds of a traitor and turncoat.
But I've haven't heard many say that McClellan didn't tell the truth. It's a common tactic: attack the messenger to distract from the actual message.
I don't trust McClellan's motives. Maybe he did find himself forced to choose between supporting his president and supporting his nation, but I don't buy it. I think he's too ambitious and attention-hungry to reveal dirty little secrets just because of the public's need to know. But since he's the son of Carole Keeton Strayhorn, one of the spoilers in our last governor's election that gave us another term of Governor Goodhair, I'm prejudiced.
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