Ordinarily laughter and D.C. do not go hand in hand. But they did for Tony Snow, who died last weekend.
A number of years ago, I was Tony’s senior producer when he hosted “Fox News Sunday.” Tony was a lot of things: smart, insightful and very down to earth. But it is his humor I will remember.
We worked together in live television where things could go wrong on air — and they did. Most other hosts would fume. Tony would chuckle.
I think that’s probably what made him a great White House press secretary. Rather than get angry, Tony would smile and simply laugh.
July 15, 2008 at 4:15 pm
“Obama at Brandenburg” is quickly becoming another version of “Lincoln at Gettysburg”. Time magazine implicitly compared Obama to J.S. Bach, of all people, in titling their coverage of the controversy “Obama’s Brandenburg Concerto”. Indeed, the German government, which well understands that Brandenburg is one of their sacred symbols–not really suitable for use as a billboard–dislikes Obama’s proposal to make a campaign stop there. No matter: the Democratic candidate is on his way to becoming an icon as unshakeable as Che Guevara. When Obama visits Israel and the occupied territories later this month, he could even go to Bethlehem and drive the process to its full conclusion. That would give Obama’s natural allies at The New Yorker a chance to atone for their recent sin and produce a cover of “Barry in the Manger”. All told, Obama’s campaign is doing to the Republicans what Jesse Jackson recently fantasized about doing to Obama.