Steven P. BarrettH.A.C.K. WRITERS ATTACK SNOW IMMEDIATELY UPON HIS PASSING
July 14th 2008 21:51
Steven Barrett
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Steven Irwin, the "Croccodile Hunter" was HACKED by Germaine Greer.
Tim Russert, NBC's Host of "Meet the Press" was HACKED by The Nation’s Linda Hirshman and Alexander Cockburn
Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary to President Bush, and Fox News Anchor/News Analyst and radio talk show host, was GANG-HACKED.
ALL THREE ABOVE "HACKED" AS IN
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Germaine Greer: She can dish it out but can’t take it.
Excellent post from Austrailia on Orble.com
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Ben Johnson: “Goebbels With Better Hair"
(Johnson's excellent article has many linked cross-references.)
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Matt Purple: Liberals Posthumously Bash Tim Russert
This was a real eye-opener to the even lower depths some writers will stoop to for headlines and self-promotion.
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For a couple of good examples of this bashing, take Alexander Cockburn's "Canonization of St. Tim" and Linda Kirshman's "How the "Russert Test" Failed America"http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/cockburn
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In fairness to liberals, not every liberal publication did a hatchet job on Snow, or even Russert. And in the case of the LA Times obituary, it wasn’t a complete butchery of the man’s reputation. Consider this ending, which tells us far more about the real Tony Snow than most people will ever know. While I didn’t always agree with his views while listening to him on his favorite medium, (radio) he was always a gentleman and a pleasure to listen to.
Again I ask of all the instant grave kickers above, "Where is your decency"?
Peter Wallsten: (LA Times) -- Tony Snow, 53; Fox News host aggressively defended Bush White House as press secretaryhttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-me-snow13-2008jul13,0,2290515.story
Referring to Snow's working relationship with long time White House Correspondents Ann Compton and Helen Thomas, Wallsten reported:
Tony Snow, 1955-2008
Photo courtesy of HuffingtonReport.com, posted on Google/Images
Steven Irwin, the "Croccodile Hunter" was HACKED by Germaine Greer.
Tim Russert, NBC's Host of "Meet the Press" was HACKED by The Nation’s Linda Hirshman and Alexander Cockburn
Tony Snow, former White House Press Secretary to President Bush, and Fox News Anchor/News Analyst and radio talk show host, was GANG-HACKED.
ALL THREE ABOVE "HACKED" AS IN
Horses'
Asses
Crunching
Keys
Germaine Greer: She can dish it out but can’t take it.
Excellent post from Austrailia on Orble.com
Really Long Link
Ben Johnson: “Goebbels With Better Hair"
(Johnson's excellent article has many linked cross-references.)
Really Long Link
Matt Purple: Liberals Posthumously Bash Tim Russert
Really Long Link
For a couple of good examples of this bashing, take Alexander Cockburn's "Canonization of St. Tim" and Linda Kirshman's "How the "Russert Test" Failed America"http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080707/cockburn
Really Long Link
In fairness to liberals, not every liberal publication did a hatchet job on Snow, or even Russert. And in the case of the LA Times obituary, it wasn’t a complete butchery of the man’s reputation. Consider this ending, which tells us far more about the real Tony Snow than most people will ever know. While I didn’t always agree with his views while listening to him on his favorite medium, (radio) he was always a gentleman and a pleasure to listen to.
Again I ask of all the instant grave kickers above, "Where is your decency"?
Peter Wallsten: (LA Times) -- Tony Snow, 53; Fox News host aggressively defended Bush White House as press secretaryhttp://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-me-snow13-2008jul13,0,2290515.story
Referring to Snow's working relationship with long time White House Correspondents Ann Compton and Helen Thomas, Wallsten reported:
Snow left the $168,000-a-year White House job last September, saying he had run out of money. He hit the lecture circuit and had signed on as an election-year commentator for CNN.
Compton remained in e-mail contact, and she said Snow was upbeat about his chances for recovery, writing last month that his latest health problems were a "bump in the road."
On June 13, when Compton was traveling with Bush in Paris, she received an e-mail from Snow inquiring about legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who had been ill.
"If you are in touch with her, would you please pass on my love?" Snow wrote of Thomas, one of the press corps' most outspoken war critics. "I think she knows how much she means to me, and to millions of others."
Snow is survived by his wife, Jill; and their three children, Kendall, Kristi and Robbie.
peter.wallsten@latimes.com
Compton remained in e-mail contact, and she said Snow was upbeat about his chances for recovery, writing last month that his latest health problems were a "bump in the road."
On June 13, when Compton was traveling with Bush in Paris, she received an e-mail from Snow inquiring about legendary White House correspondent Helen Thomas, who had been ill.
"If you are in touch with her, would you please pass on my love?" Snow wrote of Thomas, one of the press corps' most outspoken war critics. "I think she knows how much she means to me, and to millions of others."
Snow is survived by his wife, Jill; and their three children, Kendall, Kristi and Robbie.
peter.wallsten@latimes.com
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Comment by S.L.
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Comment by Steven P. Barrett
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Even so, every person deserves the dignity of some decent period of mourning, unless of course we're talking about monsters like the Ayatollahs and their little mouthpiece wearing the London Fog golf jacket. (Damn I still have one but don't want to be caught ...), Osama, the goons in Darfur, Burma and the fruitcake running North Korea. (Watch, somebody will see my politically insensitive and incorrect, not to mention "inconsistent" description of N. Korea's dictator. I've never been so out of it that I couldn't recognize a monster when I saw or read about him.
The monsters are one thing, people I have a strong dislike for their views and misguided actions are another thing, so it might shock some folks to know that I wouldn't even dare to think about trashing Gene Robinson, Abp. Williams and Katherine Jefferts-Schori upon their final moments, God forbid that they should be denied a full long life. Regardless of what I think of them, they're human beings. And regardless what some libs, well, sour-mouth'd rads, felt towards Russert and Snow, they deserved a moment of grace.
It's one thing to be tough when a person's alive, but enough's enough when a person's memory and his family's peace of mind can't be left undisturbed!
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The others you mentioned, however, would create international holidays by kicking the proverbial bucket!