Tony Snow mocks media - Page 2

Donkey® · 12-20-2006, 04:24 PM

The reporters were out of line but him being a dick to them is kind of hypocritical since I kind of remember he was all up on FOX news prior to taking that job.

7960 · 12-20-2006, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by Donkey®

The reporters were out of line but him being a dick to them is kind of hypocritical since I kind of remember he was all up on FOX news prior to taking that job.

If you've ever watched West Wing, that's how they are. The press secretary and reporters spend a LOT of time together. They joke, they become friendly, they get silly and stupid... in a way they become co-workers. And if a co-worker of mine was asking stupid questions about my my boss's wife I'd eventually start making fun of them, too.

RMNIXON · 12-20-2006, 05:45 PM

Originally Posted by motivez

Why are you saying *I* have neither? Lets keep it focused on the subject rather than other posters.

And yeah, I wonder who it is we have to thank for a President's personal life becoming such a big deal.. hrm..

I didn't post "I" motivez. Read the post you quote! "You have neither" is about the press! I am reporting your post. My first time and I don't care if your a moderator.

RMNIXON · 12-20-2006, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

Just imagine if he was getting a blow job... my god... those questions would be REALLY hard then.

JFK did:

I envy that!

DosEquis · 12-20-2006, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by RMNIXON

JFK did:

I envy that!

I think jfk got a pass on that one just because she was hot. Lewinsky was a fat ass intern, who at best was a 5/10 on a bad night after 8 beers. The president can hit it with whoever he wants, when he chooses the ugly heffer he gets impeached.

7960 · 12-20-2006, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

I think jfk got a pass on that one just because she was hot. Lewinsky was a fat ass intern,

fat women give better head.... they're always HUNGRY

RMNIXON · 12-20-2006, 06:32 PM

Originally Posted by DosEquis

I think jfk got a pass on that one just because she was hot. Lewinsky was a fat ass intern, who at best was a 5/10 on a bad night after 8 beers. The president can hit it with whoever he wants, when he chooses the ugly heffer he gets impeached.

OK, but Clinton is not JFK either? That's like Brad Pitt vs Larry the Cable Guy!

RMNIXON · 12-20-2006, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by 7960

fat women give better head.... they're always HUNGRY

OH, now we are getting bad here!

Diamond Cross · 12-21-2006, 06:12 AM

What the hell is the big deal about her getting skin cancer anyway?

oh, I know...

President Bush didn't take care of his wife so it's his fault she got cancer, just like he didn't take care of Iraq!

Bleah!

tbone · 12-21-2006, 09:37 AM

The press were being dicks, however when you are a "celebrity" or in the public eye, where everyone in the US and most people in the world know your name, you give up certain privacy rights. The courts have upheld this is numerous hollywood celebrity cases when they thought they had privacy rights.

7960 · 12-21-2006, 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by tbone

.....however when you are a "celebrity" or in the public eye, where everyone in the US and most people in the world know your name, you give up certain privacy rights. The courts have upheld this is numerous hollywood celebrity cases when they thought they had privacy rights.

Not to medical privacy, no. There is no expectation that she tells anyone anything. The press can bitch all they want but Laura Bush didn't need to say anything and, if she doesn't feel like saying anything, shouldn't. I can understand the press asking (I would have) and I can understand them re-visiting it in a follow-up about her being willing to talk about cancer and do education with women and blah blah blah, BUT they went too far when they wouldn't let it go and started accusing her of "hiding" it. Fuck them. It's her medical shit, it's her cancer, it's her choice.

I applaud the reporter who asked if she'd be willing to do educational stuff with women. I'd like to kick the ones who used the word "hide" and "cover-up."

tbone · 12-21-2006, 12:02 PM

Originally Posted by 7960

Not to medical privacy, no. There is no expectation that she tells anyone anything. The press can bitch all they want but Laura Bush didn't need to say anything and, if she doesn't feel like saying anything, shouldn't. I can understand the press asking (I would have) and I can understand them re-visiting it in a follow-up about her being willing to talk about cancer and do education with women and blah blah blah, BUT they went too far when they wouldn't let it go and started accusing her of "hiding" it. Fuck them. It's her medical shit, it's her cancer, it's her choice.

I applaud the reporter who asked if she'd be willing to do educational stuff with women. I'd like to kick the ones who used the word "hide" and "cover-up."

I agree, she has every right to her medical privacy. However, it's not quite the same as you and I, as Tony Snow presented. She is famous and with that comes increased scrutiny and a loss of some privacies. Does this mean it is her responsibility to tell people, no. But it does mean you can't dismiss it as "no big deal." No big deal for RMNIXON and others who no one knows can be a big deal for famous people is my point. I do agree they were being dicks and the mention of a "cover-up" was just stupid!

Thorgrim · 12-22-2006, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95

The media really hates this president, his family and anything having to do with him, that is blatantly obvious with this bullshit.

One could say the same thing about Clinton

While Israel was having problems with the peace talks, and world wide terrorism was growing, and Clinton pointed it out, what did the media focus on...

A guy getting a BJ

the media is becoming more tabloid centered ever since Fox News showed that that style = ratings

It's info-tainment, and the WH PC is just giving the public what it wants

RMNIXON · 12-22-2006, 06:24 PM

Fox News drives Tabloid Media?

Diamond Cross · 12-22-2006, 09:18 PM

And the media was on Clinton's side. They were constantly cr4iticising the Republicans for it by saying "character doesn't matter". If Clinton hadn't said "I did not have sex with that girl" and would've been honest there would've been no reason for a scandal. At all. So instead he lied and all it did wa increase his popularity. Despite the impeachment.

Personally I think he lied on purpose just for raising hi popularity.

Thorgrim · 12-22-2006, 10:06 PM

actually that was the american people, who against all odds elected more democrats to congress on his 6th year

for coverage though, the air waves were full of impeachment and sex talk for years...

you cited an opinion as a news story...which doesn't happen, if we are talking about strict news coverage, it was overwhelmingly anti-clinton

op eds...well it depends what news paper you picked up...pickup NYTimes ofcourse Dowd is going to write some very nice prose about the matter, pick up Wash Times and you'll see fire and brimstone speeches against Clinton

and don't even get me started on fox news

Tyr-Ziu Saxnot · 12-23-2006, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by motivez

Reporters should be assholes though. Not being assholes and refusing to ask tough questions greatly helped get us into certain situations we're in now. They're not there to be friends.

There not there to be friends????
Why not???
They were there for 8 years to be friends to Bill Clinton.
To cover for him ,to glorify that poor excuse for a human being.
They are there to do the same for Hillary .
So why not Bush?
Answer is-- Bush is not a democrat, he dared to actually fight our enemies.
To the leftist, PC, mainstream media that is akin to heresy.

Heresy against the Almighty God of Appeasement..

Yes we all see how the press asks the really tough questions to Hillary.
This onesided bias by the press is all too real and all too obvious.
There not there to be friends????
Who woulda thunk it??--TZS

AntiCentrist · 12-23-2006, 01:26 AM

Originally Posted by 6SpeedTA95

The media really hates this president, his family and anything having to do with him, that is blatantly obvious with this bullshit.

His supporters always seem to imply, or openly claim, its somehow illegitimate or irrational to hate this President, yet he comes off as an ignorant, arrogant, narrow-minded, neurotic little prick who's done a breathtakingly incompetent and murderously irresponsible job as one of this nation's all-time worst Presidents...and we're supposed to what? Love that treasonous lump of filth?

Hatred of Bush is love for America.

I hated Clinton too, by the way.

JaJae · 12-23-2006, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by AntiCentrist

His supporters always seem to imply, or openly claim, its somehow illegitimate or irrational to hate this President, yet he comes off as an ignorant, arrogant, narrow-minded, neurotic little prick who's done a breathtakingly incompetent and murderously irresponsible job as one of this nation's all-time worst Presidents...and we're supposed to what? Love that treasonous lump of filth?

Hatred of Bush is love for America.

I hated Clinton too, by the way.

Ignorant, arrogant, narrow-minded, neurotic little prick, incompetent, murderously irresponsible, one of this nation's all-time worst Presidents... Yes, many Americans think this way as well as the NY Times, however, it's the media's job to report the news. If he is all of the things, the facts and news will show it. We don't need a huge media bias spoon feeding us these "opinions" on a constant basis.

Diamond Cross · 12-27-2006, 02:15 AM

Partisan politics is entirely irrational.

Why? Because all partisan politics revolves around one concept:

"It's okay for my candidate to do this action but it's not okay for you candidate to do that very same action, whatever that action may be."

It's like a game of baseball, you throw the pitch, there's the swing and it may be a home run!