Turning Heads
TIME mag gives their assessment of Why Bush Chose Tony Snow as His New Spokesman. Here's my favorite bit:
[A senior administration official] said Josh Bolten — who has carried out a swift White House makeover since taking over as chief-of-staff on the afternoon of April 14 — and Counselor Dan Bartlett view the selection of Snow as a key part of giving a new wind to a White House that has suffered repeated seatbacks. "They need a big name to turn heads and send a message to the press that we care enough to put a big player here who cares enough about this job to give up a lot to take it," the official said.
Yes, the press is going to be blown away by the fact that a big name like Tony Snow accepted the gig as Bush's new spokesman. After all, even the hardbitten, disillusioned, old SOBs who make up the media will have to think kindly of an administration who hired the guy who played the Beav's big brother to tap dance for them, and they will undoubtedly print only good things about the President from now on.
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