Rob said:

emjem24 said: Snow was more than a media celebrity or star.

Don’t worry, he will be replaced soon and you can have a new bestest friend.

Rob,

Again, what exactly is your problem? Do you know how to distinguish between simple admiration/respect and familial love? And to use a Robert Frost poem like that.

It’s pretty apparent that you neither liked nor respected Tony. So why even bother posting?

To compare Tony Snow to the likes of gutter snipes such as Paris Hilton or Britney Spears is missing the point. I guess, in your estimation, that Conservatives should admire no one, just as liberals should admire no one.

Just continue pondering your one-way looking glass. I’m sure it will provide you much comfort.

Too soon gone, too late appreciated.

This is terrible.  First we lost Tim Russert, and now Tony Snow.  Both brilliant political commentators, and both far too young.

Two great political minds and voices in a year where the presidential race promises to take on historic prop…

RogersUmp said:
I saw him with his family and he looked great! He was enjoying time with them. I wanted to tell him I appreciated his work and enjoyed his press conferences at the white house but didn’t feel right about interrupting him wiht his family

Barry F. said:
because I just always got the feeling that he was the guy next door and you could sit down and just talk to him, if you ever met him, without pretense, etc.

That remind’s me of my wife and I went to dinner on the Country Club Plaza here in KC and George Brett was eating at a table next to ours. I wanted to say hey George how are you but I did’nt he looked at me and I him but we never said a word to each other, 3 years later I went to a fund raiser where George was tha main attraction I took a baseball and held it in my hand but could’nt bring myself to ask him to autograph it. I did’nt have to George came up to me and said I remember you how are you doing, I said fine with a confused look and he said you don’t remember? I said remember what? he said a couple of years ago I saw you at a restaraunt on the Plaza and you let me eat my meal uninterupted that’s the only time anyone has let me do that before or since they always want an autograph. I put the ball behing my back and he said give me that ball I’ll be more than happy to sign it for you, I said thanks George he said no problem why don’t you come have dinner at my table tonight and I did. Derrick Thomas was the same way I had a buddy that bowled on his league and he was teaching Derrick how to bowl, he alway’s gave me a hard time if I did’nt bring him something to sign for my kid’s.

I think Tony appreciated people like you RogerUmp you showed him a great amount of respect by not bothering him like so many others had probably done.

BarryF, this is why I go off on those telling me that the well to do are different than us because in my experience most of them are just like us because they have been where we have been at one time in their life and appreciate the little guy and I think that is the way Tony was.

It must be time for me to log off and go to bed. *sigh*

In regard to Tony’s balanced approach and journalistic integrity, Newt Gingrich was talking about how Tony had made him mad early on in 1996, when he was hosting Fox News Sunday and Newt was on there. Apparently, Tony was taking Newt to task on one of his positions in the interview and Newt remarked about it during a break that they were supposed to be on the same team. He said Tony replied that he was out to give a full report, not a lop-sided one and, if he did anything because they were on the same team, he would be even tougher, because he doesn’t want anyone claiming that he was throwing Newt softball questions, because of the “R” after his name.

I wish more journalist were like that, regardless of their political affiliations or leanings.

It was a terrible loss yesterday, with Tony’s passing. But, he remained upbeat all the way through his battle and was planning to beat it this time around, while he was in the hospital.

My wife and I were talking last night, while I was watching On The Record and I told her that his passing has bothered me more than any other high-profile person in a long time, because I just always got the feeling that he was the guy next door and you could sit down and just talk to him, if you ever met him, without pretense, etc. She intimated much the same sentiments about him.

Unfortunately, once Great went off, I had to change it, because Geraldo came on. He had the first bit I watched dedicated to Tony Snow and even talked positively about him. But, his show went off into other issues and, as I have stated in other posts on Michelle’s site, I can’t help but change the channel, when Geraldo is on and opens his mouth much.

BSR

I refuse to be courteous to any of them when they are discourteous to us.

I am a firm believer that when you are at war, and the enemy hits you, you hit them back harder. That’s the only way to win.

The leftards play dirty. They will stoop at any level to win. The only way we can win this and to win back our country is to hit them back harder. They do not deserve courtesy or tolerance because it is only seen as a weakness, and they take advantage of it.

Again, my apologies, but I can’t let this lie.

And I hope Mr. Snow is praying for our country, because we need it.

Wow, 53 years old, he was only a little older than my parents.

Who wants to bet that since Tony Snow never showed an inkling to support worldwide socialism, the Lettter Networks will not turn his death into a media self-love fest like they did with Russert.

Russert and Snow are gone, both before 60. If objective journalism wasn’t dead before, it dcertainly is now.

Couldn’t believe the AP. This from the same people who wrote a picture caption that got the situation completelely backwards solely because of their hard-left agenda. Forget the bad skipper analogy, this is like Stalin criticizing people for altering photos.

A bad skipper can make a mistake, the AP are liars by design.

In response to MJ (#166), I see your point. It’s easy to hate. Apparently it’s not as easy to be kind. Rejoicing in someone’s death or wishing anyone dead is not funny, witty, or an effective argument. (Well, I would consider Hitler, bin Laden, and Saddam exceptions. By the way, Mad Libs, Bush is not Hitler.) The point applies to both sides. I wish I could prevent some on my side from saying stupid things, but I can’t. I understand, however, that emotion gets the best of people when they comment here or at other blogs. When someone says something ignorant and without substance, it emotes a knee-jerk response in others. Simple to do under the guise of anonymity.

That’s why we Righties check up on Kos, to reaffirm that such hateful, cruel, deranged people exist. And the examples there are aplenty. It’s like keeping one eye on the enemy at all times, like yin and yang. Never turn your back on ‘em. This site is a rebuttal to Kos and HuffPo. Of course we’ll be watching them. They’re watching us.