Tony Snow: Man of the Hour (or hour-long daily press brief)
Okay, I'll admit it. I love Tony Snow. It's not his opinion, it's his presentation. He just comes across as a nice guy. And he knows it. He is hoping to bring a return to civil discourse and I applaud him for the noble desire. I only hope it holds up when confronted with the likes of Helen Thomas and David Gregory.
From his interview in Examiner.com:
Snow said he hopes his upbeat outlook helps restore some civility to the political debate.
“It’s all about tone,” he said. “A lot of the people who are caught in the middle of this fight are sick of it.”
The negative tone has resulted in low job approval ratings for politicians in both parties.
“When you have a president in the 30s and Congress in the 20s, that’s bad,” Snow said. “And I think one way you restore it is by behaving, by acting in a genial way.”
Snow decried the “vicious, personal and sometimes unfocused warfare between Democrats and Republicans, or the press corps and the political class.”
“People at home are saying to themselves: ‘This isn’t what I remember when I was looking at the civics book,’ ” he said. “People still have a more exalted view of what government ought to be.”
Snow said he will try to uphold that view.
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All of the infighting is so tedious!
Comment by Brooke— 2006/04/30 @ 07:16 AM — (Reply)