Tony Snow Gets Busted
AlterNet caught White House press secretary Tony Snow spinning his icy heart out, only to get nailed the next day by CBS' Bob Schieffer: "I think the reason the president [has] put [announcing his new Iraq strategy] off is he just hasn't decided at this point what he wants to do, and I don't think it's any more complicated than that."AlterNet caught White House press secretary Tony Snow spinning his icy heart out, only to get nailed the next day by CBS’ Bob Schieffer: “I think the reason the president [has] put [announcing his new Iraq strategy] off is he just hasn’t decided at this point what he wants to do, and I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.”
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