By Josie

April 21, 2008 5:31 PM | Link to this

I love Tony Snow and always appreciated when Rush had him as a replacement on his radio show. I don’t know why Fox didn’t snatch him up. Don’t know if I can stand turning on CNN to watch him or not. But I wish him the best of luck and God Bless you Tony.

By Dorothy

April 21, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

It’s a good thing. Snow will upgrade CNN commentary. Nothing against Anderson Cooper and Glenn Beck, but it will be nice to have more voices of reason at CNN. CNN will join FOX as a place people can go to escape the far-left drivel at NBC.

By Bernard Horwich

April 21, 2008 5:43 PM | Link to this

As the Presidents voice to the public it was his job to spin what the president wanted us to know. Why are we to believe that he will do anything different and why would we want to believe anything he says. Another reason to watch msnbc. Buddy Horwich

By Al in SoCal

April 21, 2008 5:45 PM | Link to this

Yawn - yet another GOP talking head for cable news. As if they’ll never learn. Tony Snow was good at doing one thing as Press Secretary - not answering questions, simply redirecting the conversation. He did it with a smile and the press ate it up. Sickening example of what our political environment is - the press is way too cozy with the newsmakers which is why we have the Iraq War now in it’s 5th year (slam dunk!).

By Rebecca Houghton

April 21, 2008 5:47 PM | Link to this

Josie says my sentiments exactly.I am not a CNN fan. I’ll turn on CNN when Tonys on only I’m sure. I do wish him the very best and God Bless you Tony!

By john r

April 21, 2008 5:52 PM | Link to this

the only reason to watch MSNBC is to hear three to four hours of rhetorical f****** on Mr. Obama

By John

April 21, 2008 5:53 PM | Link to this

I will watch Tony on CNN. I will specifically tivo-out anything else. I think it is great to have someone of the real fox team move on and hopefully change a few minds at cnn and among cnn viewers.

By Mike Conklin

April 21, 2008 5:55 PM | Link to this

In the pendelum swing of politics CNN is staying ahead of the curve by implementing a voice that is not closed minded leftist. Because ratings (i.e. market share) are the driving force in their business, look to CNN for what will happen in the next 6 months and the next year. I may be set in my ways, but when CNN exhibits this type of open mindedness, I WILL watch. One more new customer. Congratulations CNN

By tom in tampa

April 21, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

What I really long for is liberal pundits, commentators and talk shows. Why in the world is the alleged “liberal” media so dominated with Republican talking heads?

By Wayne Sakamoto

April 21, 2008 5:58 PM | Link to this

Great, now CNN will be as “Fair and Balanced” as Fox. Tony Snow is great at misdirection. Can’t CNN find a reputable political contributor?

By Terry

April 21, 2008 6:02 PM | Link to this

Wow, it’s now news about which news station a news reporter will work for . Who cares? None of these talking heads have any credibility anyway. It doesn’t matter which one it is. You have Rush Limbaugh at one end of the spectrum and Keith Overman at the other. I don’t know of any unbiased television reporter so I take anything that any of them say with a grain of salt. Just because one of them reports things in the same slant as you believe , it does not make them a good reporter . Just another political talking head.

By Adirondax

April 21, 2008 6:03 PM | Link to this

Snow job…More of the revolving door story here. From gov’t to lobbying to TV back to gov’t…Frankly who cares? Other than I hope he has recovered from his bout with cancer.

If an energized electorate takes over the country in the next election, all Snow will tell us is more of the same “white lies” that are so popular in the White House. But they won’t matter anymore.

Too bad those misstatements got over 4,000 US kids killed in Iraq.

And more ironic that a couple of Vietnam draft dodgers in Bush and Cheney were the ones who did the deed. What a bunch of chicken hawks.

By Al in SoCal

April 21, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

John - You seem to think that CNN viewers need to change our minds - when most of us think you Fox viewers need to change your minds. In that spirit I will be using my TIVO to excise Tony Snow’s GOP dribble. =)

By Robert

April 21, 2008 6:04 PM | Link to this

This is sick and baffling. The number one job of a political spokesperson is to manage or avoid the truth. How does a political mouthpiece qualify as a journalist? There should be a law against this insanity.

Even more baffling are these comments from females that want GOP-managed truth over anything else. Are they for real?

By bittermajority

April 21, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

is he replacing lou dobbs?? one can only hope!!

By Len

April 21, 2008 6:10 PM | Link to this

CNN was much better when Ted Turner was in charge. They need some improvement, but hiring a Faux News / neocon / GOP mouthpiece isn’t an improvement!

It’s amazing that anyone can watch Fox and not realize that it’s just a conservative propaganda machine.

By BabW

April 21, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this

I promise that I’ll turn the volumn OFF while Tony Snow presents his view of the state of the nation, etc. I can’t imagine that he’ll say something I can trust to represent the facts. He is as biased as they come.

By GM

April 21, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

His name is Jon Klein, not “Joe” as indicated in the post. He’s president of CNN/ U.S.

By Craig

April 21, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

We have no reason to think that a hack from Fox and press Secretary for Bush will be anything but objective. (sarcasm off)

In any case, Tony was best when he was unbiasedly criticizing Bush. Let’s hope that is the Tony CNN gets.

By ohgreat

April 21, 2008 6:13 PM | Link to this

Wow another conservative massaging the news. Having a former Rush Limbaugh chief dittohead head “contribute” to political news slides CNN further into irrelevance - at least for those who like to learn about actual news and not spin.

By lifesoliveit

April 21, 2008 6:16 PM | Link to this

Someone already said it, but for the media to have such a “liberal bias” it amazes me that almost all the known personalities are fairly conservative. I am a lifelong independent, and have votes for both Republicans and Democrats, but honestly anyone who thinks Fox isn’t as biased as the rest is kind of delusional, they just happen to be biased in the other direction. I actually have no problem with stations like Fox, but what I do have a problem is when people don’t see the station for what it is, far right punditry (just like Olbermann and company over at MSNBC is far left punditry).

That being said, I always used to like CNN for at least kind of staying where the media should, in the middle. Unfortunately, I don’t see how hiring the recent press secretary for a sitting POTUS is anything but a step in the direction of CNN being more biased to one side or another. I would like to see the day when news stations didn’t push “conservative” or “liberal” agendas, just give me the facts and let me decide for myself. Having known a few reporters, I wouldn’t trust most of them to change a flat tire let alone shape my view of political ideology in this country.

By cynical

April 21, 2008 6:17 PM | Link to this

“Can’t CNN find a reputable political contributor?”

As if such a thing exists?! Our current compliant/complacent mainstream media would be quite comfortable at Pravda or Izvestia.

By jeff

April 21, 2008 6:19 PM | Link to this

I agree with bittermajority lou dobbs is awful. between snow and dobbs i think I just threw-up and my mouth a little bit…

By Aaron

April 21, 2008 6:20 PM | Link to this

I don’t know why CNN doesn’t just start airing cartoons. I mean, kids love cartoons. It’d be great for ratings. After all, what is journalism for if not to get as much advertising money as possible? I say next, hire Spongebob.

By inthemiddle

April 21, 2008 6:22 PM | Link to this

jeff and bitter majority you are right on! “the best political team on television!” ha!

By Aaron

April 21, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this

Didn’t Tony sit in for Rush when he was too high on pain pills to talk into a microphone?

By Larry Lain

April 21, 2008 6:24 PM | Link to this

There’s no such thing as an objective political reporter in the US. I normally just watch European world news and read European newspapers. The situation here in the US is absolutely hopeless. For some unknown reason, political reporters in the US think taking a side is part of the job. It’s as if nobody ever told them that taking a side disqualifies them.

By John

April 21, 2008 6:26 PM | Link to this

So, as far as the softballs he threw at GOP members and representatives during interviews, the spin he provided and spatial wormholes he created when answering media questions from the White House… would it be fair to expect we’ll see more of the same… or is this a totally different Tony Snow with the wrong picture attached?

By Mike

April 21, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

CNN adds Snowjob??? Another good reason to not watch them. It’s bad enough that they have a total KOOK like Glenn Beck but having this REP Talking head is enough to make me vomit. I guess that CNN thinks that the only way to restore their ratings is to dispense total BS like Fixed Noise (FOX) … Just what the world needs - another propaganda channel!

By F. J. Glade

April 21, 2008 6:31 PM | Link to this

Tony - Congratulations … I guess!!! Sorry to see you leave FOX. Unfortunately their loss will be CNN’s gain. Now we’ll have someone on CNN to listen to besides Glenn Beck. As a fellow Cincinnatian, (St. X High & Xavier University), I hope you’re still a Reds and Bengals fan even though they haven’t given us much to get excited about. Glad you’re cancer continues to be in remission. God bless you, we’ll keep you in our prayers.

By Jim PDX

April 21, 2008 6:32 PM | Link to this

I hope you are doing what You want. I got sick with colon cancer,same time you did. We are both survivors ! Enjoy the new job. Keep looking ahead. God bless, Jim ~ from PDX

By ashley

April 21, 2008 6:44 PM | Link to this

sad. sad that cnn would hire tony snow. i am really disappointed and may now just tune into MSNBC for biased political commentary.

By TW

April 21, 2008 6:48 PM | Link to this

Further editorializing the news. Is there no place for one to hear the unmolested recount of the issue? CNN, FOX, are no more newsworthy than the GLOBE and INQUIRER. There is no bigger indictment of the public schools than the electorate’s inability to ‘think’ for themselves.

Besides, Tony Snow effectively gave the middle class the finger when he crawled up ‘w’s butt.

By ani

April 21, 2008 7:14 PM | Link to this

Gee..if CNN ends up with both Glenn Beck and Tony Snow..there is the possiblity that I might add CNN back to my channel selection guide, from which it was dropped several years ago.

By Bill

April 21, 2008 7:22 PM | Link to this

Read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky to understand just was a scam Snow-job Tony is perpetrating upon the American pulbic. This revolving door from Gvt to Media has to stop!

By Churchill

April 21, 2008 7:29 PM | Link to this

‘bout time. Good news.

By Charles

April 21, 2008 7:52 PM | Link to this

CNN has finally done their homework! In any business where a competitor (FoxNews) is kicking your butt every day a good idea is to emulate what the winning rival is doing. In this case, FoxNews has always had correspondents from both sides of the political spectrum.

I’ve been amused for several years with those on the Left who whine that FoxNews is ‘unbalanced’. They probably have never listened to FoxNews more than 10 minutes at a time - and just repeat what their Liberal friends say. Like my grandpa always said - it’s hard to argue with facts.

Hopefully this is a trend that was started when Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos decided to FINALLY ask Senator Obama a tough question (and NOT just Republicans). It’s time BOTH parties are held accountable for a change.

By Dan Rather aka "Capt. Dan the Newsman

April 21, 2008 7:54 PM | Link to this

There is no room for a conservative voice in the media.

By Casey

April 21, 2008 8:09 PM | Link to this

Amazing that so few people understand class when it’s introduced to them. Tony Snow is class, speaks his mind calmly, and he does not compromise his values for anyone. We should all take a lesson. His grace fighting cancer is inspirational.

God Bless you Tony. Good Luck!

By Malcolm

April 21, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this

I wish Tony would have returned to FOX and they would give BIG MOUTH Hannity the boot!, now I am a conservative, both social and economic, but Hannity is a case in point of intolerance, and right wing extremism, run wild, he beats the same ole drum, same words, every night about Obama and his association with the ‘Underground’ et al, and that opening of “Hannitys’s America”, el sicko, puko!, I know Colmes is a bonifed liberal, disagree, more than agree, but he seems more kind and gracious than Hoot and Toot Hannity, and I really have evolved into feeling this way recently, I feel Fox news is great, no comment on CNN, but I wish Tony the best and God’s Speed wherever he chooses to go…….

By 17ghostcommander

April 21, 2008 8:18 PM | Link to this

Will CNN become a subsidiary of Fox/Fascist propaganda news with the addition of the rubber-stamping brown-shirt Tony Snow? He has been in the bow of the swift-boaters who have been doing everything possible to destroy the image of the USA and has aided and abetted the torturers, and the Fascist Criminal Enterprise of Bush/Cheney/GOP/RNC and the brown-shirt MSM with their poodle journalist’s. Over 4,000 of our brave soldiers are dead, over 30,000 have horrible disabling injuries, over 4,000,000 Iraqi have been displaced, over 100,000 of Iraqi civilians are dead, and the Fascist’s want to stay in Iraq for 100 years. Over 70% of the Iraqi do not want us there, and over 70% of the American people want our brave soldiers brought home. The cost of the Iraq war is $343,000,000 daily and the no-bid and inflated contractors get 40% of that amount. The Iraq war could end up costing the American taxpayer over $3,000,000,000,000. The war on terror and the invasion/occupation of Iraq has been a smoke screen for the largest robbery in history of present and future taxpayers. Google the National Debt on 01-20-2001 and see what it is today. Our National Debt is approaching $10,000,000,000,000=over $30,000 for every man, woman, and child in this country. Who pays? Your children and grandchildren will be paying for this for the next 25-40 years. Gas will probably be $4.00 per gallon by July 4th. Celebrate!

By Matilda Sletchenhorse

April 21, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this

The only two realms more incestuous then a mormon compound would be the media and the political parties, inertia at its finest.

By GodHatesTrash

April 21, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this

Snow is trash. A moron.

CNN punches itself in the face again.

By Churchill

April 21, 2008 8:46 PM | Link to this

Swift-boating= telling the truth about democrat politicians. A good thing!

By Bum Phillips

April 21, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this

I would love for sean hannity and glenn beck to go to hedonism fall i love and join the green party. Snow is a p.r. man for sale to the highest bidder.

By terdblossom

April 21, 2008 9:14 PM | Link to this

swift-boater= a scared, ignorant republican who is motivated by hate and ideology. Voting against the best interests of his country, wears a tiny flag pin but refuses to enlist due to other priorities, typical chick-s** hawk.

By Craig

April 21, 2008 9:19 PM | Link to this

Tony Snow was a typical obfuscator during his tenure at the white house. Another Bush hack.

Having said that, however, I remember his comments once about Elian Gonzalez. Limbaugh and Hannity were so viscious about it that you could almost see the spit at the edges of their mouths. Tony Snow, though, on Limbaugh’s show, commented that since Elian’s mother had died, he needed to be home with his father. NOT the party line from the wingnuts at the time, and I think it was the last time he was on Limbaugh. But that comment proved to me that he has a heart, unlike Hannity and Limbaugh and O’Reilly and Boortz who are nothing more than thugs.

By Hume Buckley

April 21, 2008 9:28 PM | Link to this

Maddow. Shultz. Rhodes. Tweety (Hardboiled). Olberman… nothing but thugs.

By GaLiberal

April 21, 2008 9:33 PM | Link to this

Tony Snowjob on CNN? How low will they sink just to get a few Faux News Rethuglicon bobble heads? Tony Snowjob is a lying sack of you-know-what. He went along with the rest of the Rethuglicon con men and thugs at Faux News and I have no respect for him. So now that he’s working for CNN, he’ll just say whatever is on the teleprompter. CNN best unload this turd and I mean quick. What a totally stupid move by CNN.

By Tina

April 21, 2008 9:49 PM | Link to this

does it bother anybody else that Msnbc seems to be endorsing Obama?

By William

April 21, 2008 10:21 PM | Link to this

Maybe CNN is finally figuring out they can keep parading one socialist stiff after another to the audience and expect to compete with the more fair and balanced Fox News. Tony Snow is among the best. I won’t see him, since I don’t watch the Clinton News Network, but maybe he’ll wake up some of the sheeple who think they’ve been getting honest news from CNN.

By Voice of Reason

April 21, 2008 10:40 PM | Link to this

LEN I Agree with you totally [your 6:10 PM post]! My thoughts exactly.

By gttim

April 21, 2008 11:32 PM | Link to this

Remember two things:

The highest rated cable news show is O’Reilly Factor and he gets maybe 1/3 the ratings of WWE’s Raw. Cable news shows are the toilet of ratings. Fighting about who has the highest cable news ratings is like arguing about which wrestler stinks the least.

All major news media- Fox, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, radio stations and press- are owned by large conservative corporations who do not want you to hear about what is good for the citizens of the US, but what is good for large conservative corporations. They lie to the left, who know they lie, and to the right, who are just a bunch of rubes.

By tYPICAL lIB

April 22, 2008 1:54 AM | Link to this

lIKE TOTALLY.

By Al Bin Churchill

April 22, 2008 2:22 AM | Link to this

So what should we do? Should we all tune into Al jezzera ?

By Gulf War Vet

April 22, 2008 6:00 AM | Link to this

How about bend over and kiss your A$$ goodbye.

The rising cost of crude oil is already causing worldwide food shortages as ships, planes, rail and trucks are the means by which food supplies are shipped.

Riots are breaking out in Africa, Asia and Russia over the severe lack of basic food supplies.

Japan has actually run out of of butter due to the severe drought that has struck Australia and it’s inability to keep up with demand for Milk.

Believe me when I say this. When entire nations start to go hungry, it will only lead to one thing, Famine. Which will be followed by WAR on a global scale over the struggle for oil and food.

World War is coming, it is going to happen.

By Copyleft

April 22, 2008 8:46 AM | Link to this

I finally agree that CNN is now offering biased reporting and opinion, rather than journalism.

I mean, why else would they hire Snow Job?

By PMartey

April 22, 2008 4:18 PM | Link to this

Speaking of CNN & a great presidential pair; LOU DOBBS & TAVIS SMILEY

By Madonna's Meatballs

April 22, 2008 5:44 PM | Link to this

CNN or Fox doesn’t matter, they are controlling the message and your minds, using your irrational fears against you, playing both parties against each other for amusement and selfish grandeur. Media has become the MAN controlling, watching, collecting, in co-hoots with GW, no doubt. It is pure propaganda, cameras on street corners, running red lights is a American tradition that to be saved. Mind control thru the boob-tube makes you a boob, a rube, and a s** tube.

By Ruprickt Murdercock

April 22, 2008 6:29 PM | Link to this

“Liberal media bias” is a complete fraud propagated on morons by the industrial-military complex. CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, etc., are all paid for by your major corporations (the most major being your oil companies) to present whatever message they want to put out, e.g., we must stay in Iraq, torture is okay, the surge is working (while 4 million have been made refugees and hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered). GE, the owner of NBC, is one of the largest military contractors going. These corps. pay for what is put out major media -they own it, and if you don’t realize significance of this, you are missing out on reality. Tony Snow is another fine example of fascist control of major media today.

By Bitter EX democrackkk

April 23, 2008 6:31 AM | Link to this

Im sorry that Tony Snow comprised his ethics by going to CNN…

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