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- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
- Jake Tapper
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Let it Snow, let it Snow, let it Snow
WH Press Sec. and all around cool guy Tony Snow once again took care of petulant reporters at a WH press gaggle, this time with NBC’s David Gregory.
Here’s a transcript of Snow’s exchange with Gregory:
Q Okay. There’s so much emphasis by the President on his resolve and on the consequences of failure, which seems to dovetail to the political strategy of casting the vote as not a referendum on his leadership or his conduct in the war on terror, leading the war on terror, but on a choice between two parties and their visions. And I’m curious whether, in this document, there’s any reflection on the fact that this White House, this administration failed to anticipate a violent terrorist-based insurgency in Iraq, and also failed to adapt once it learned of its presence? And shouldn’t that be put before the voters this fall?
MR. SNOW: I think you’ve admirably expressed the Democratic point of view, but I don’t think —
Q Actually, Tony, I don’t think that’s fair, if you look at the facts. If you look at the facts.
MR. SNOW: Well, I do, because — no, because, for instance —
Q No, no, no. No, I don’t think you should be able to just wipe that, kind of dismiss the question —
MR. SNOW: Well, let me —
Q It’s not a Democratic argument, Tony.
MR. SNOW: Let me answer the question, David.
Q But hold on, let’s not let you get away with saying that’s a Democratic argument.
MR. SNOW: Okay, let me — let’s not let you get away with being rude. Let me just answer the question, and you can come back at me.
Q Excuse me. Don’t point your finger at me. I’m not being rude.
MR. SNOW: Yes, you are.
Q Don’t try to dismiss me as making a Democratic argument, Tony, when I’m speaking fact.
MR. SNOW: Well, okay — well, no —
Q You can do that to the Democrats; don’t do it to me.
MR. SNOW: No, I’m doing it to you because the second part was factually tendentious, okay? Now, when you were talking about the fact that it failed to adapt, that’s just flat wrong. And you will be — there has been — there have been repeated attempts to try to adapt to military realities, to diplomatic realities, to development of new weapons and tools on the part of al Qaeda, including the very creative use of the Internet. So the idea that somehow we’re staying the course is just wrong. It is absolutely wrong.
So that’s why — I apologize for interrupting, but I think it’s important to challenge that presumption. Now, did we fully anticipate —
Q If you want to challenge that presumption — no, no, wait a second. If you want to challenge that presumption, why don’t you describe in some detail how you accurately anticipated the insurgency, and what was done to deal with it at the time.
MR. SNOW: I was just about to go back to that part.
Q Okay.
MR. SNOW: See, there were two assumptions. I was taking —
Q No, you described me as rude in making a Democratic argument and said —
MR. SNOW: Well, that’s because I kept trying to answer the question, and you kept jumping in. We need to come to an accommodation, because I’m perfectly happy to take on both sides.
Here’s more via E&P.
Keep up the excellent work, Tony. It ain’t easy trying to keep the press version of a daycare center under control, but you do a good job of it 
Gregory, you may recall, is infamous among conservatives for his child-like outburst at former WH Press Secretary Scott McClellan back in February during the height of the “Quailgate scandal.”
Hat tip: Allah
Wed AM Update: ST reader Francis W. Porretto provides a flashback to a press conference in France back in 2002 where Gregory threw a loaded, slanted question at the President.
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- WH press secretary Scott McClellan has resigned
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I don’t thing David G. realizes how badly he, and his argument got tore up. And they were arguments… Questions such as those with those kinds of premises need not be answered. If they were in a court of law they judge could say you don’t need to answer that to the witness because they were questions that painted a premise that was factually incorrect and how do you answer those kinds of questions.
You the man Tony!
David Gregory. He’s a democratic party operative, he’s not a reporter. We all know this. It’s nice to have a guy like Tony Snow that’s knows how to handle these punks.
I totally agree. I love how Tony Snow answers questions. I was afraid that he wouldn’t be as direct as he was on the radio when he took this job. I am glad to say that I was wrong. I wish President Bush could handle hostile reporters like Snow does.
The only person I see doing anywhere near as good a job as Tony Snow, would be Clint Eastwood.
“Do you feel lucky?.. …well do ya punk?”
I don’t know about anyone else, but I actually dislike David Gregory so much that I would like to personally wipe off that goofy smile of his.
David Gregory reminds me of some one I went to school with many years ago that I had just about had enough of his lip.
David Gregory is equally famous for having tried to embarrass President Bush in front of a French audience, and getting personally slapped down for it by Dubya himself, some years ago. The man is a journalist only in name.
Mr. Snow definitely holds his own…and then some.
Jule Styne said “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”
Snow is refreshing. At the least. The “Good Old Days” where the White House Press Corp could attack the Republican President and the Press Secretary sort of explained, while trying to not get attacked himself, are over.
Snow has the smarts to put the Mediots in their place when they deserve it, and to fully answer the questions. We have needed that for a long, long time!
Francis – thanks … had not heard about that one. Just updated my post to include your link.
Why does it seem the only two to cause trouble is Helen and Gregory?
Gregory I believe is trying to make trouble to make himself look like a hard hitting journalist, but he comes acorss as a whiny one.
This is not his first time pulling this kind of stunt.
I didn’t even have to read the name to know it was Gregory.
How many reporters are normally there?
I don’t see any of the others taking such “offense”.
Why is it Gregory seems to be the only one blathering about some fantasy slight Snow has made to him? Again, not the first time.
I DARE Snow to have assigned seating (if they don’t already) and place a pacifier on Gregory’s seat…..
Now THAT would be a photo-op…lol
gregory is certainly trying to get his mug on tv more than the rest, he has such a High OPINION of himself, too bad nobody else does.
Sanity, I’d like to see that pacifier in david’s seat also and a old timey hearing horn devise in helen’s seat, she should be banned from all press conferences as she has outlived her usefulness, and david is an ego-maniac dnc water-carrier.