*Breaking: Tony Snow dead at age 53

[npincus]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/07/breaking-news-t.html

After a long, candid and public battle with colon cancer, former White House press secretary and radio talk-show host Tony Snow died early this morning.

Immediate details were sketchy. But the news bulletin moved shortly after 7 a.m. Eastern time. Snow was 53.

He previously served as chief speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush and as a frequent host on the Fox News Channel on Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live and The O'Reilly Factor.

He also guest-hosted for Rush Limbaugh and had his own radio talk-show.

Last September after 17 months in the White House job Snow retired as President George W. Bush's third press secretary, saying with his cancer he needed to earn more for his family than the job's $168,000 salary. He was succeeded by Dana Perino.

Popular and inevitably cheerful, even during his draining chemotherapy treatments, Snow was well-liked among the White House press corps and with the smooth practice of a broadcaster seemed to genuinely enjoy the public sparring with media and explaining his boss's positions.

[Maddy McCall]

1. Wow. Condolences to his family.

Having had a cancer battle in my own family, I wish his family peace.

[ChazII]

17. Cancer IS horrible

and my family has experienced it as well. I agree, condolences to his family and friends.

[Jawja]

2. So another GOP mouthpiece is gone.

Will he be eulogized for days and days and days while the real news gets ignored? :shrug:

I am sorry for his family, who loved him and who will miss him greatly.

[LBJDemocrat]

3. I agree.

I know what kind of horror it is to see someone die of cancer, and I feel great sympathy for his family.

But I will say that I am tired of the media's excessive eulogizing.

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[LBJDemocrat]

6. Is that necessary?

Tony Snow wasn't a racist, as far as I know. Just an ordinary conservative doing his job as press secretary. If we're to spit on his grave, we might as well spit on the graves of anyone who works for other harmful organizations, like Goldman Sachs.

[WinkyDink]

18. We can grieve for the human, for his family. But let's not lie about his job performance.

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[zulchzulu]

7. Bless he and his family and loved ones

RIP Tony. I hope you had come to some reckoning before you passed. Condolences to he and his family.

[zanne]

8. That's too young for anybody to die.

RIP, Tony Snow.

[KittyWampus]

9. Sympathy to his family. To him I say, let death help you gain some perspective.

[DesertRat]

10. I'm sorry for his wife and three children

53 is too young to die.

[jefferson_dem]

11. RIP Tony.

O8)

Politics aside, you were a good man.

My Sympathies to the Snow Family.

[Medusa]

12. He had young kids

My sympathies to his family. We here at DU may not have agreed with his politics but hopefully most of us are gracious enough to wish his family the best during what must be a very difficult time for them. RIP.

[mtnsnake]

13. Condolences to Tony Snow's family, & condolences to all the idiots on DU today who showed no class

about someone who died way too young to a horrible disease.

[Arugula Latte]

37. And condolences to the families of the tens of thousands of Iraqis

and that's all I'll say, on edit.

[berni_mccoy]

14. Condolences to his family and to all Freepers

Tony was a Freeper before becoming WH PS.

[blondeatlast]

15. Condolences and may he rest in peace. nt

[highplainsdem]

16. Condolences to his family and loved ones.

[Fleshdancer]

19. My condolences to his family and friends

May he rest in peace.

[SoonerPride]

20. If you can't say anything nice...........

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[npincus]

22. I'm with you there.

[Clark2008]

29. Just call me Thumper

[HughMoran]

21. Uggh, my aunt died from this and I had a polyp at a relatively young age

People, get your colonoscopy done @ 50 or sooner if you think your risk may be higher!!!

[JimGinPA]

23. I See A Couple Of Responses Have Already Been Deleted...

So I guess I'd better be careful posting my lack of sympthy for the loss of a shill for this criminal administration, both as a Fox cheerleader and a lying press secretary.

[DesertRat]

31. Maybe you should read this from Skinner

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3604935&mesg_id=3604935

[Hepburn]

24. How is it that we can put a man on the moon...

...but treatment for cancer is basically in the dark ages?

Condolences to Mr. Snow's family.

[ronnykmarshall]

36. Isn't that the truth.

[TheDonkey]

42. unfortunately Mr. Snow and the administration he supported helped keep us in the "dark ages"

by being against stem cell research and greater funding for cancer research. Tragic.

[KansasVoter]

25. I feel really sorry for his kids. But Tony Snow was the worse kind of GOP Idiot.

[Orsino]

43. Not an idiot.

Just willing to play one on TV, and did his best to treat us like idiots and to turn us into idiots. Dead idiots, lest we forget.

The saddest part, I think, is that he (presumably) didn't repent before his passing. The evils he helped to sell us are not going to be revealed in his tell-all.

[DevonRex]

26. Condolences to his family and friends. RIP. nt

[kevinmc]

27. "George Bush has become something of an embarrassment." [11/11/05] Tony Snow .. n/t

[Colobo]

28. Rest in peace, Tony. One of the few Reps I liked.

He seemed to be a nice person, regardless of his politics.

[JohnnyLib2]

30. Condolences from our cancer-affected family.

Making his health struggles public has been admirable IMO.

[Barack_America]

32. My thoughts and prayers are with his family.

This must be so hard for them.

[PresidentObama]

33. Wow, may he RIP.

[Phx_Dem]

34. Sad

Sympathies to his family.

[ronnykmarshall]

35. Poor Tony.

He fought hard against cancer. My deepest sympathy for his family. RIP Tony.

[rasputin1952]

38. We should have conquered cancer years ago...we did it w/polio,

we did it w/many other diseases.

My condolences to his family.

Politics aside, he seemed to be a nice guy; and regardless, the loss of one diminishes us all to an extent.

[madura]

39. I feel bad for his family, he's got small children...

no matter what we thought of his politics and his relationship to bush, he was a daddie, a friend, a husband and so many other things besides being a mouthpiece for the republicans.

may he rest in peace and may his family find strength to deal with this horrible time for them.

[Occam Bandage]

40. Poor Tony. What a way to go. Thoughts with his family.

[newmajority]

41. Have to admit I'm a little shocked.

Obviously I knew he was ultimately terminal, but I saw him on TMZ just yesterday, he was signing autographs or something. He appeared healthier than he did when he was at the White House, so I thought maybe he was going to stick around a while.

Can't say I liked the guy, but I wouldn't wish cancer on anybody. It's a horrible way to go :evilfrown: