AMERICAblog: Tony Snow, 53, is dead from his bout with colon cancer
Indigo
· 1 year ago
Tony Snow, R. I. P. 53 is awfully young to have colon cancer, let alone to pass away so soon. Be wise, all you wise young folks. Regular scanning for colon cancer is recommended.
alexa
· 1 year ago
Katie Couric's husband died of colon cancer when he was 42. I had a colonoscopy 5 years ago. After hearing this story, I'll be calling my doctor to see about having another one. FYI You don't have to be awake for this proceedure. I wasn't.
hardeknox
· 1 year ago
I didn't mind the procedure as much as the terrible dreck I had to drink to dump my bowels. A three day liquid diet wasn't good enough for them. What I really disliked was getting the bill because the hospital used my old insurance info. What the real company paid was a third of what I was billed.
TDeg
· 1 year ago
Well, even though he was a liar.... albeit a charming one, I don't wish any ill on him (not that it would matter now) or his family. Especially since my dad died of colon cancer too. More than I can say about Helms and Falwell. RIP
gwpriester
· 1 year ago
He was too young. Nice eulogy.
1970cs
· 1 year ago
Sorry to hear this, it is awfully early in a life to leave. Lost my Dad to colon cancer when he was 56, there was a lot left to accomplish.
Sage24
· 1 year ago
It is sad that a young person with little kids is yet another victim of that dreaded disease. Whatever his political affiliation were, he just did his job. He was quite a pleasant person, and my sympathies go to his wife and family.
It seems hopeless, but it is time someone came up with a cure for cancer. Almost every family I know has someone struck with this awful disease. I can't help but think that all the money we are putting into this unnecessary war, could have been used for researching cancer and other dreadful diseases.
red_dwarf
· 1 year ago
Sage, agree about the sympathies go to his wife and family statement, of course all of that is sad enough. But Snow was a political whore, hardly doing his job he aided and abetted, with lies, the most corrupt administration to ever take over the Government following the criminal theft of 2 elections. Over a million innocent Iraqis have lost their lives, including hundreds of thousands of women and children.
Snow will go to his grave with blood on his hands. In addition History will reflect back on him as just one of many political whores which enabled the fascist takeover of our gov't.
Nothing personal on your comment Sage24, but I have to pleasantly disagree that this whore was "just doing his job." Having said that, may he rest in peace.
My father died of bowel cancer--it was a long drawn-out process with surgeons taking bits and pieces of him along the way. When he died, he hadn't been conscious for two months. His diet was horrible--no vegetables, save potatoes, lots of fat and meat, he drank and smoked. And died the same way his brother did a few years earlier.
I know that I'm classified as a first-degree risk because of the history. No meat for me, period. Never smoked and don't drink. My last full colonoscopy two years ago revealed nothing at all.
dad
· 1 year ago
puts things into the proper perspective
Bludevlsadvocate
· 1 year ago
"Snow, who served as the first host of the television news program ''Fox News Sunday'' from 1996 to 2003, would later say that in the Bush administration he was enjoying ''the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have.'"
Yeah, it takes a lot of oxygen to lie like he did.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Too young, Peace be with him
Grimmlok
· 1 year ago
Huh.
A lifetime of lying DOES rot you from within.
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
I think I'm going to withdraw my savings Monday from the bank...
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
Murdoch came to this country and destroyed it and he knows it now.
Bostonian_Queer_in_Dallas
· 1 year ago
It is not right to die so young. Snow seemed like an affable kinda guy. I feel badly for his family losing him at 53...BUT...
Tony Snow was the epitome of the Barbizon model reading a teleprompter and bullshitting the people and lying in the name of fascistic government. I always saw in him the TV men in the film "Fahrenheit 451"...books are dead, people are being brainwashed from monitors and can no longer think for themselves.
Sad that he died young. And equally sad such a person had this career of lying to us.
missmarple
· 1 year ago
Why can't I feel one shred of sympathy for this man? I am actually a very kind soul, but I will shed absolutely no tears when any of this bunch pass on!
vickif
· 1 year ago
I fell the same way.
bumpkis
· 1 year ago
Yes...same here...no sympathy for any of them....
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
Same here. The tears I shed, are for the corrupting of people such as he that should have known better.
Upton Sinclair is credited with saying something about how hard it is for a person to see things objectively when they are paid not to.
Recently I got blasted by some bloggers on some site for not being more charitable towards Tim Russert when he died. Like he (for throwing soft ball questions to President Bush during interviews) I picture Snow presenting his case before St. Peter.
St. Peter: "You know, we''ve been getting a lot of people through here lately, and prematurely I might add. Some have suffered greatly."
Snow: "Yeah, but they weren't Americans, so they don't count."
St. Peter: "well, we are getting a lot of Americans through here prematurely as well, and we are getting a flood of prayers through here from Americans suffering, many in squalor, or what have you, most of this suffering was needles, in fact, unnecessary.
Snow: Yeah, but they weren't real, patriotic Americans.
St. Peter: You mean, Republican, Neocon Republican
Snow: Ah, I see, yo get my drift, Precisely.
St. Peter: Your making this job easier than it should be.
Õ¿Õ
· 1 year ago
Woman on FOX radio seemed, shocked and horrified and in disbelief reading one of those, "this just in." I was like, aww man, the administration is bombing Iran but she read that death notice. Uh, ditz, you need to get your karmic house in order. Ya know, they say we're all going to die, and I believe them.
Mikki --SE Pennsylvania
· 1 year ago
Although I disagreed 100% with those he chose to take his salary from, I must admit Tony Snow was probably the best WH Press Secretary over the last 25 years. You might know you wouldn't like what he was defending but he could always be counted on to defend it with wit and intelligence which could certainly never be said about the colorless, indeed almost transparent drones, of both sexes, who proceeded and followed him. Its called style, a quality sadly lacking across many fields in today's existence. My sincere condolences to his family.
lynchie
· 1 year ago
He did not use wit. Look at his treatment of the Press Corps and especially Helen Thomas who he tried to banish from a front row chair because she asked hard questions. That is not wit and as far as intelligence how smart do you have to be to lie and continue to lie when all around you know you are lying. No, he was as evil as the Administration and he had little regard for anyone. Even his parting comment that he had to go earn more money while making $168K far more than 90% of the country. All before and all after McClellan and Perino are of the same mold, no ethics, no morals and most of all no integrity.
nicho
· 1 year ago
Well, it was young to die. I just hope that before he went to meet his maker he had a chance to atone for all the innocent people he helped slaughter. Most of them were too young to die too.
uess
· 1 year ago
if you thought the coverage of tim russert's death was over the top, just wait until the msm get through trying to prove how "balanced" they are. you're going to hear so much about tony snow in the next few days that you're going to forget there's a presidential campaign going on.
I honestly do feel for his family - but aside from that I will take pleasure if I live long enough to read a death notice for every member of this administration as well as 95% of our so-called leadership.
Mr. Snow was as smooth & professional as they get, but all spokespeople are merely paid shills and we'd all do better to pay less attention to what the powers that be are TRYING to tell us and instead try to see what's REALLY going on for ourselves - of course this would require both intelligence as well as curiosity, two things most Americans are lacking..
vkobaya
· 1 year ago
One by one, Satan is calling home his children. I hope Cheney takes good notice and is scared. I hope he can smell the brimstone where ever he goes and knows what waits for him.
Ben Dover
· 1 year ago
Another neo-con sent to hell. It only took 53 years for karma to get him, but get him it did.
S'long Tony, tell Falwell, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms hello and make room 'cause there's more of your ilk coming!
scottinsf
· 1 year ago
Condolences to his family.
CDS2
· 1 year ago
great post scott....glad to see some civility.
dommyluc
· 1 year ago
My father, one of my older brothers and two of my sisters all died from cancer. yet not one of them got paid for lying for an administration that sent over 4000 soldiers to their deaths in an illegal war and also shredded our Constitution to ribbons. I'm supposed to be respectful of this rotten individual? This lying piece of scum who had access to health care that none of the late members of my family could ever dream of having access to? A man who smiled while others were being blown up t satisfy the egos of his employers? Fuck Tony Snow, and fuck those who mourn for that worthless piece of propagandist shit. I shed no tears for that vile disgusting Jesse Helms, and I will shed no tears for Tony Snow. Good riddance.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
Remember when they asked him about the 2,000th troop death and he said "It's a number."
Now he's a "number" too, I guess:
"In 2008, nearly 50,000 Americans will die from colon cancer. "
Rab
· 1 year ago
I forgot that comment BB, good one. Remember him and that other ass-jack in the chopper with the helmets on touring Iraq?
bunnyjump
· 1 year ago
Shite, one less that can't testify when this regime is tried.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I pray for those battling colon cancer who don't have the means to receive the kind of care Snow did.
ChicagoKid
· 1 year ago
Is Karl Rove is molesting young boys in some foreign country right now?
GWMustGo
· 1 year ago
Hmmmm - to the best of my recollection, Rove has never molested young boys in a *foreign* country....
KarenMrsLloydRichards
· 1 year ago
Will we see the MSM and 24-7 Cable proclaim him, non-stop, for a whole week, the next saint in their pantheon, joining Little Russ? I'm sure we will... Prepare for a tsunami of bathos!
jiminportlandoregon
· 1 year ago
I am still pissed that you have that FABULOUS screen name - you sly puss! I wish I would have thought of it. But PLEASE I am not ready for the beatification of Tony Snow. I'm still reeling from the never ending Russert eulogies - although, I wouldn't mind hearing a eulogy for Dana Perino.
LawMichigander
· 1 year ago
Generally I do not make mean comments right after people die but for FoxNews and certain Bush Admin people there are no exceptions. He was one of the biggest liars and blowhards of the past ten years. Some doctors report that when you believe in angry, hatful things that stress can cause cancer.
HereinDC
· 1 year ago
Too bad he tainted his career working for the Bush Admn.
Wish he would of done a "Lee Atwater" approach to the end of his lie.
Come clean.
fl79tr
· 1 year ago
To quote David Chappelle quoting Samuel L. Jackson ( I changed the pronoun) "YES HE DESERVED TO DIE AND I HOPE HE BURNS IN HELL!!!!!!!"
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
Wow. I'm surprised by all the sympathy for this odious participant in the corruption of media and the American info pool. Being the same age and from the same hometown, I'd be silly to deny feeling sympathy for his wife and kids but I'd be lying if I pretended sympathy for Tony. He knew what the media was and he had an insider’s view of what it became...He chose the dark side. I hope God has mercy on his soul but I won't. After working for the Decider can death really be all that bad???
Webster
· 1 year ago
Right-wing handmaiden Tony Snow is dead: NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS, NEWS.
American casualties as of today--4118: *Crickets*
Estimated Iraqi deaths since the invasion--1,236,604: Silence.
Grandma_Jefferson1
· 1 year ago
Not only am I not sorry this propagandist whore is dead, I'm only sorry he ever lived. His elitist arrogance, used to silence and marginalize critics, and palmed off by other whores and shills as "wit", was disgusting in a so called "democracy". Too bad the rest of them are still breathing.
dasboot
· 1 year ago
This was the personification of the bush regime. Privileged, pious, and arrogant without empathy for anything or anyone unlike them. Not only will he not be missed but the we're better off without him. May Dana Perino be right behind him.
jiminportlandoregon
· 1 year ago
ABSOLUTELY!! Also, I think Dana Perino is even worse than Snow was.
LasloPratt
· 1 year ago
I find myself feeling sorry for Snow, and wondering why I should. Especially since I spit venom rather freely at the passing of Jesse Helms. Maybe it's because at 53, there remains a possibility that Snow might have wised up at some point in the remaining years of a normal life span.
So, Tony Snow, I'm sorry to read of your passing, of the premature end of your misspent life. But if I could, I would ask you this:
Did you learn anything from the experience?
jr
· 1 year ago
Condolences to his family
chandler_in_lasvegas
· 1 year ago
♥ Cheney. When?
High Crimes & Misdemeanors
· 1 year ago
ahhhh folks let's not forget he was an appeaser - co-conspirator - chief liar - lord of obfuscation.
He lied for the bush crime family and the Oligarchy.
We can not and should not ease up on these traitorous bastards even in death. Here was a man who would rather trump power and money over the love of this nation. One less TORY/REPUKE on this earth, the better, cause, if you didn't realize it, the oligarchy thinks the same of you and I. Some just don't have the balls to say it. Some do of course, jesse helms couldn't keep his mouth shut.
What it should have read:
"Tony Snow, a conservative-fascist writer and commentator who continually lied to reporters in the White House briefing room during a court jester style session as President Bush's press secretary, has died of colon cancer, Fox News reported Saturday. Snow was 53 years old."
I HAVE NO LOVE FOR THESE REPUKES - AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU....
MotorCityBadBoy
· 1 year ago
I agree whole-heartedly
Mark217
· 1 year ago
Tony Snow lost his mother when he was 17 to colon cancer. She died at age 38 and now he has died at age 53. I felt very sad for him when I learned that he had lost his mom so young. I lost my mom to cancer when I was young and it was awful. I disagree with many of my fellow Americans, Tony Snow included, but I have no contempt or hatred for them. And this doesn't mean that I think that anyone who breaks the law (e.g., Bush) shouldn't be held accountable (and it doesn't mean that I am not angry sometimes). Part of the difficulty in our polarized country is that we don't give people space to change or accept change in them when they do change. The inclination is just to continue to be angry at them as they were at a given time. I've changed over time --politically and personally-- and I have done and said some dumb things in the past. None of us knows how Tony's inner life and how his political vision evolved when he became seriously ill. I choose to think the best about him. Facing death changes many people. I imagine that the dying process will change me emotionally, too. Lee Atwater spent his last days on earth apologizing to the many people he had hurt by his political practices. May Tony rest in peace and may God comfort Tony's family and friends. I had a colonoscopy a year ago and had a few polyps removed. I hope more and more people have this type of screening available to them as a matter of routine (also a PSA blood test routinely for guys to check for prostate cancer). Tony Snow was a smart man and a good thinker on his feet (not a deer in the headlights like so many politicians). I also think he was a goodhearted person. I feel immense sadness for his loved ones.
CDS2
· 1 year ago
Great post. Bravo !
hardeknox
· 1 year ago
It's pretty hard to believe that there were lies left to tell when he quit, but the White House is packed so full of them, there's no reason to be afraid that they'll run out any time soon.
PeteWa
· 1 year ago
I couldn't give a shit. This man did so much willful damage in his life, I have nothing good to say about him in death.
Eclectablog
· 1 year ago
You know, I hated his politics but I met him once in an airport security line and he was a really nice guy. I feel sorry for people that are so embittered that they find it necessary to insult and throw mud at him at this moment. Seriously, people, have some decency. It's what you'd expect from YOUR enemies, is it not? You embarrass the progressive left with your ill-timed venom.
CitizenX
· 1 year ago
Ted Bundy was a nice guy. Wayne Williams was a nice guy. Hitler had his moments, I'm sure so I wouldn't use the nice guy argument to judge his legacy.
Eclectablog
· 1 year ago
Ah. I hadn't realized that Tony Snow had killed people. Nevermind. My bad.
Oh, and I was most certainly not talking about judging his legacy. I was suggesting we wait until the body cools off before tearing in to him. But you do what you have to.
whomod
· 1 year ago
And so he takes the knowledge of whatever lies he was told to repeat, and who told him to do so, to the grave with him.
Not that it matters at this point. Any new revelation just buttresses the fact that most people in this country think of this Administration as a pack of liars and murderers anyways.
Still, he could have shed some insight if he had loved his country more than he did his party.
dancaleb
· 1 year ago
Tony Snow was a righteous man, full of love, truth and faith. I find it terribly sad and inhuman that some of the comments here are so vile and wicked. Shame on those of you who have nothing good to say. May those who don't know you when you die treat you better than you've spoken of Tony.
paulbe
· 1 year ago
Bush spokesman Tony Snow was a righteous man? Yeah right dancaleb. Really righteous when he was getting all that Whitehouse cash for pimping lies for Bush and the Ziocons. Yep, real righteous.
UKkeef
· 1 year ago
Some of you, even those who disagreed with the man's politics, handled this news like humans. The rest of you libtards acted as I expected you would. So I abandon the high road, and say: Only the good die young, so Teddy K. and Robert C. Bird will live forever.
Also, I hope all you hateful bastards don't have to suffer what this man did, but if you do, oh well. You're a bunch of sick, hateful lemmings who follow your lying idols over at MoveOn and Kos. I'll pray for you assholes...
fl79tr
· 1 year ago
You can take that phony righteous anger bull shit and shove it right up your ass. Maybe if you actually cared about human life you'd think about the 4,118 troops; young men and women with families who loved them dearly that had their whole lives ahead of them, who as of today are now resting in their graves as a direct result of this man's lies.
You know, I'm against the death penalty, but when an unrepentant murder or a disgusting sex offender dies, I sure as hell don't what to hear about how I should honor him. "Disagree with his politics?" How the fuck do you agree with an accomplice to mass murder?!
Grandma_Jefferson1
· 1 year ago
Save your prayers UK troll, or direct them to the families of the slain victims of the genocidal policies of Snow's bosses. There are millions suffering what "this man did", without access to the gold plated medical care he had, because of the policies of Snow's bosses. "how the fuck do you agree with an accomplice to mass murder?" pretty much sums it up. Too bad he's beyond the reach of international justice. As I recall, at Nuremburg, they jailed propagandists too.
PullMyFinger
· 1 year ago
After so many years with FoxNews and Bush, I am surprised that Snow wasn't diagnosed with brain cancer.... Or did it spread to the colon due to close proximity? ;)
All Comments
53 is awfully young to have colon cancer, let alone to pass away so soon. Be wise, all you wise young folks. Regular scanning for colon cancer is recommended.
It seems hopeless, but it is time someone came up with a cure for cancer.
Almost every family I know has someone struck with this awful disease.
I can't help but think that all the money we are putting into this unnecessary war, could have been used for researching cancer and other dreadful diseases.
Snow will go to his grave with blood on his hands. In addition History will reflect back on him as just one of many political whores which enabled the fascist takeover of our gov't.
Nothing personal on your comment Sage24, but I have to pleasantly disagree that this whore was "just doing his job." Having said that, may he rest in peace.
My father died of bowel cancer--it was a long drawn-out process with surgeons taking bits and pieces of him along the way. When he died, he hadn't been conscious for two months. His diet was horrible--no vegetables, save potatoes, lots of fat and meat, he drank and smoked. And died the same way his brother did a few years earlier.
I know that I'm classified as a first-degree risk because of the history. No meat for me, period. Never smoked and don't drink. My last full colonoscopy two years ago revealed nothing at all.
Yeah, it takes a lot of oxygen to lie like he did.
A lifetime of lying DOES rot you from within.
Tony Snow was the epitome of the Barbizon model reading a teleprompter and bullshitting the people and lying in the name of fascistic government. I always saw in him the TV men in the film "Fahrenheit 451"...books are dead, people are being brainwashed from monitors and can no longer think for themselves.
Sad that he died young. And equally sad such a person had this career of lying to us.
Upton Sinclair is credited with saying something about how hard it is for a person to see things objectively when they are paid not to.
Recently I got blasted by some bloggers on some site for not being more charitable towards Tim Russert when he died. Like he (for throwing soft ball questions to President Bush during interviews) I picture Snow presenting his case before St. Peter.
St. Peter: "You know, we''ve been getting a lot of people through here lately, and prematurely I might add. Some have suffered greatly."
Snow: "Yeah, but they weren't Americans, so they don't count."
St. Peter: "well, we are getting a lot of Americans through here prematurely as well, and we are getting a flood of prayers through here from Americans suffering, many in squalor, or what have you, most of this suffering was needles, in fact, unnecessary.
Snow: Yeah, but they weren't real, patriotic Americans.
St. Peter: You mean, Republican, Neocon Republican
Snow: Ah, I see, yo get my drift, Precisely.
St. Peter: Your making this job easier than it should be.
My sincere condolences to his family.
Who says only the good die young?
as well as 95% of our so-called leadership.
Mr. Snow was as smooth & professional as they get, but all spokespeople
are merely paid shills and we'd all do better to pay less attention to what the
powers that be are TRYING to tell us and instead try to see what's REALLY going on for ourselves - of course this would require both intelligence as well
as curiosity, two things most Americans are lacking..
S'long Tony, tell Falwell, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms hello and make room 'cause there's more of your ilk coming!
Now he's a "number" too, I guess:
"In 2008, nearly 50,000 Americans will die from colon cancer. "
Wish he would of done a "Lee Atwater" approach to the end of his lie.
Come clean.
Being the same age and from the same hometown, I'd be silly to deny feeling sympathy for his wife and kids but I'd be lying if I pretended sympathy for Tony.
He knew what the media was and he had an insider’s view of what it became...He chose the dark side.
I hope God has mercy on his soul but I won't. After working for the Decider can death really be all that bad???
American casualties as of today--4118: *Crickets*
Estimated Iraqi deaths since the invasion--1,236,604: Silence.
Too bad the rest of them are still breathing.
So, Tony Snow, I'm sorry to read of your passing, of the premature end of your misspent life. But if I could, I would ask you this:
Did you learn anything from the experience?
Cheney. When?
He lied for the bush crime family and the Oligarchy.
We can not and should not ease up on these traitorous bastards even in death. Here was a man who would rather trump power and money over the love of this nation. One less TORY/REPUKE on this earth, the better, cause, if you didn't realize it, the oligarchy thinks the same of you and I. Some just don't have the balls to say it. Some do of course, jesse helms couldn't keep his mouth shut.
What it should have read:
"Tony Snow, a conservative-fascist writer and commentator who continually lied to reporters in the White House briefing room during a court jester style session as President Bush's press secretary, has died of colon cancer, Fox News reported Saturday. Snow was 53 years old."
I HAVE NO LOVE FOR THESE REPUKES - AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU....
This man did so much willful damage in his life, I have nothing good to say about him in death.
Oh, and I was most certainly not talking about judging his legacy. I was suggesting we wait until the body cools off before tearing in to him. But you do what you have to.
Not that it matters at this point. Any new revelation just buttresses the fact that most people in this country think of this Administration as a pack of liars and murderers anyways.
Still, he could have shed some insight if he had loved his country more than he did his party.
Also, I hope all you hateful bastards don't have to suffer what this man did, but if you do, oh well. You're a bunch of sick, hateful lemmings who follow your lying idols over at MoveOn and Kos. I'll pray for you assholes...
You know, I'm against the death penalty, but when an unrepentant murder or a disgusting sex offender dies, I sure as hell don't what to hear about how I should honor him. "Disagree with his politics?" How the fuck do you agree with an accomplice to mass murder?!
"how the fuck do you agree with an accomplice to mass murder?" pretty much sums it up. Too bad he's beyond the reach of international justice. As I recall, at Nuremburg, they jailed propagandists too.
Or did it spread to the colon due to close proximity?
;)