Tony Snow apologizes for stem cell comment

[wicket]

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/24/snow_apologizes_for_stem_cell_comment/

White House press secretary Tony Snow apologized on Monday for suggesting that President Bush believed stem-cell research amounted to "murder," saying he was "overstating the president's position." "He would not use that term," Snow told reporters.

At issue was Snow's comment last Wednesday defending Bush's veto of legislation to expand federally financed research on stem cells obtained from unwanted embryos. "The president believes strongly that for the purpose of research it's inappropriate for the federal government to finance something that many people consider murder. He's one of them," Snow said at the time.

Snow said Monday that the president remains opposed to using federal funds for such research because it involves "a destruction of human life."

Snow's characterization became an issue on Sunday for White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, who struggled on NBC's "Meet the Press" to answer whether Bush agreed with his spokesman that destruction of unwanted fertilized embryos was tantamount to murder?

[Kahuna]

1. SURPRISE! SURPRISE!!! ---NOT!!!

:puke:

[tsuki]

2. Used a "Fox-ism," and found that it does not work. nt

[Marblehead]

3. what an ass..

[tuvor]

4. Wow, that's a first.

I don't remember Ari or Socky ever apologizing for anything.

[liberal N proud]

5. What he was doing was repeating exactly what KKKarl Rove told him

Then and now.

[Johonny]

6. I see

It's murder if that's what you believe. But ah... the president doesn't think it's murder if you are more likely to vote for us if you think we are moderates. But let me make it clear to my base "It's murder and don't listen to the spin".

[bryant69]

7. That didn't take long

Once you characterize it as murder, you have ahard time explaining why you would allow private citizens to murder and only object when government funds are used for that purpose.

Bryant
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[WePurrsevere]

8. But using "federal funds" to destroy thousands of living breathing

human lives is okay is if it makes money for big OIL companies, etc right? :sarcasm: :grr: :puke:

HYPOCRIT.... those cells used in stem cell research that you and your HYPOCRITICAL neo-fundie-CON twits are so eager to save are zygotes not embryos. They're nowhere near viable yet and certainly not a "life" HOWEVER thousands of living, breathing and loving soldiers and ME lives are killed in the name of money and power and YOU authorized their deaths. :grr: nuke: :grr:

[babylonsister]

9. Snowjob seems to be doing an awful lot of apologizing. nt

[Roland99]

10. Aww, widdle Tony got taken to the woodshed by big bad Joshua Bolten

after Bolten got humiliated by Timmah on Meet The Press.

[cboy4]

11. And we thought Scotty Mc"NO-COMMENT" was an ass-hat . . .

Hey, Tony, for crissakes....you can stop the hyperbole ... you don't work for FOX anymore.

Well, I guess sorta you still do. :eyes:

[wicket]

13. He still works for Fox, they've just officially merged with the Whithouse

:P

[cboy4]

15. Exactly!! :-)

[wicket]

12. kick

:kick:

[ComerPerro]

14. That is a brilliant strategy

come out, saying the president considers it murder, to rally up fundies. Then retract it later, to try to convince moderates that Bush isn't completely batshit.