Tony Snow follows Tim Russert as the second leg in a grand media death trinity. The third leg of this morbid triangle... who can say? I'm on the job.

Both Snow and Russert are being canonized. The media loves its own. Nobody is "better people" than a dead media guy. Who was the smarmy CBS Sunday morning guy who died, and then he ended up having two wives show up at the funeral or something. Hmm. Hold on a sac... ah, Charles Kuralt. Yeah, he had a second, secret family in Montana or something: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kuralt Excellent. Salt of the Earth.

That said, Snow did seem to handle his illness with grace, and he's the source of our first QOTD.
Eloquent QOTD1
"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. Some cancer patients recover; some don't. But the ordeal of facing your mortality and feeling your frailty sharpens your perspective about life. You appreciate little things more ferociously. You grasp the mystical power of love. You feel the gravitational pull of faith. And you realize you have received a unique gift — a field of vision others don't have about the power of hope and the limits of fear; a firm set of convictions about what really matters and what does not. You also feel obliged to share these insights — the most important of which is this: There are things far worse than illness — for instance, soullessness."
- Tony Snow, May 2005
Speaking of soullessness... I humbly present the AP, who took a shot at Snow, W's former press secretary, in his obit.
Classless (or soulless) QOTD2 (emphasis mine)
"With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses."
- AP obit on Snow, July 2008
When will the dinosaur that is the AP go away. Soon? Eventually? No wait, I've got it... not soon enough.

Snow worked at FoxNews. So, en memorium, here's an anonymous hot FoxNews babe:



huzzah... yow, bill

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