! DemocRAT Ghouls Cheer Death of Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor

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Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor,
Dies at 53
Saturday, July 12, 2008

Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative
pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a FOX
News television and radio host, has died after a long bout with
cancer. He was 53.

A syndicated columnist, editor, TV anchor, radio show host and
musician, Snow worked in nearly every medium in a career that spanned
more than 30 years.

"The White House has lost a great friend and a great colleague," said
President Bush's press secretary Dana Perino. "We all loved watching
him at the podium, but most of all we learned how to love our families
and treat each other."

Snow joined FOX in 1996 as the original anchor of "FOX News Sunday"
and hosted "Weekend Live" and a radio program, "The Tony Snow Show,"
before departing in 2006. A sometime fill-in host for Rush Limbaugh,
Snow said he loved the intimacy of his radio audience.

"It's a tremendous loss for us who knew him, but it's also a loss for
the country," Roger Ailes, chairman of FOX News, said Saturday morning
about Snow, calling him a "renaissance man."

As a TV pundit and commentator for FOX News, Snow was often critical
of President Bush before he became Bush's third press secretary in
2006, following Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan. He was an instant
study in the job, mastering the position ? and the White House press
corps ? with apparent ease.

During a tenure marked by friendly jousting with journalists, Snow
often danced around the press corps, occasionally correcting their
grammar and speech even as he responded to their questions.

"Tony did his job with more flair than almost any press secretary
before him," said William McGurn, Bush's former chief speechwriter.
"He loved the give-and-take. But that was possible only because Tony
was a man of substance who had real beliefs and principles that he was
more than able to defend."

As he announced Snow as his new press secretary in 2006, President
Bush praised him as "a man of courage [and] a man of integrity." Snow
presided over some of the toughest fights of Bush's presidency,
defending the administration during the Iraq war and the CIA leak
investigation.

Robert Anthony Snow was born June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., the son of a
teacher and nurse. He graduated from Davidson College in 1977 with a
bachelor's degree in philosophy, and he taught briefly in Kenya before
embarking on his career as a journalist.

Because of his love for writing, Snow took a job as an editorial
writer for the Greensboro Record in North Carolina and went on to run
the editorial pages at the Newport News (Virginia) Daily Press,
Detroit News and Washington Times. He became a nationally syndicated
columnist, and in 1991 he became director of speechwriting for
President George H.W. Bush.

Snow had his colon removed and underwent six months of chemotherapy
after he was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005. In 2007, he
announced that his cancer had recurred and spread to his liver. He
resigned from the White House weeks later and was replaced by his
deputy, Dana Perino.

After taking time off to recuperate, Snow joined CNN as a conservative
political correspondent early this year.

Snow is survived by his wife, Jill Ellen Walker, whom he married in
1987, and their son, Robbie, and daughters, Kendell and Christie.

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