February 14, 2007
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Why I like having the White House Press Briefings on
Some Tony Snow quotes from the Feb. 12, 2007 White House Press Briefing:
On answering a White House Correspondent’s (WHC) question regarding war-related intelligence:
TS: The DOD is doing this one and I’m telling you… You wanna get those questions answered, you gotta go to the Pentagon. They’re the ones who’ve done the work on this.
WHC: But you’ve been reviewed, and you should be able to answer this…
TS: Well, I say no. I didn’t get briefed on it.
WHC: Well, then there should be some kind of coordination, don’t you think?
TS: Well, actually, when you’ve got combatant commanders out doing their work, you can pick up the phone and call up the Pentagon! We’ll be happy to supply numbers for you.Tony frustrated:
WHC: Do we know where the Iranians are getting their weapons and bringing them into…
TS: Why do you guys ask me intel questions that, even if I knew them, it would utterly inappropriate for me to answer?
WHC: But as a warning to Iran, as a…
TS: No, no, no… [sigh] it’s… [groan]… you know, I’m almost ready to hit my head on the microphone again…
LOL~ What a character. He takes a montage of loaded questions every day but makes it look like he’s out chillin’ on a lawn chair batting away annoying flies in the summer. They’re driven to ask questions they know he can’t answer, like personal Q’s to the president/non-affiliated parties, and he comments flatly, but then there are days when, like they say, “It’s just Tony being Tony”:
WHC #1: As a former leader of baseball, what was the president’s reaction to the death, on Feb. 9 of the greatest pitcher who ever lived? [awkward hush over the room]
TS: [pause]… And that would be…?
WHC #1: Eddie Feigner
TS: Ah~
WHC #1: The king and his court!
TS: He actually may have been, Eddie Feigner, having thrown, what, 280 perfect games?
WHC #1: Yup
TS: Having struck out more than 12,000 people… having had a fast ball in excess of 104 mph…
WHCs: woo~ [chatter]
TS:, …threw behind his back and through his legs from time to time… Did you ever watch the king and his court?
WHC #2(laughing): No…
TS: I don’t know, but I think he’s underrated. I will speak completely independently on this!
WHCs: [inaudible chatter and laughing]
TS: No, I’ll just… I’m a sports nut… Feigner… is…
WHC #3: Is this softball we’re talking about?
TS: Yeah, we’re talking about softball. Eddie Feigner. Softball pitcher.
WHC #1: He struck out 5 in a row… of the top baseball players…
TS: Yeah, out of 6… yeah, he faced 6…
WHCs[more laughing]: This is something like for the Jon Stewart Show…
WHC #1: And I know it was for an All-Star exhibition… and there was some report that it was 113 mph.
TS: I think it’s time for World Net Daily to do one of its famous investigations.
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