White House On Page Scandal: "Simply Naughty Emails"...

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TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Good to see you Soledad, thanks.

O'BRIEN: I would assume everybody would want to know, including the president. I mean we're not talking about any old person, we're talking about the leadership of the Republicans in Congress. Why would he not hear something that's disturbing or his office? Over- friendly, when I see that word as a parent and I think any parent would say whoa, over-friendly? Any communication between a 16-year-old and a congressman why doesn't that raise red flags, major, massive red flags?

SNOW: Look, I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply "NAUGHTY" e-mails.
This White House is out of touch, very serious denial problems...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

[achtung_circus]

1. To be fair,

Snow buried that comment in a fairly steady stream of denunciation, no holds barred. He apologized for a poor choice of words somewhat later. I'd be inclined to cut him a little slack on this one.

[Spazito]

2. No slack should be given, imo

He chose the words, let him defend them or apologize for them and, in the meantime they stand, he said them, publicly, at a press conference.

[achtung_circus]

4. He did apologize.

[Spazito]

7. That was far from an apology, imo, it was merely a belated....

recognition at how politically bad using that expression was. He said it, he owns it, imo.

[katinmn]

3. I heard that exchange live and he minimized the seriousness of

Foley's actions.

I don't cut him any slack. He was trying to snow people watching CNN.

[achtung_circus]

5. I listened to the whole thing.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/02/tony-snow-on-predatorgate-naughty-emails/

The apology I saw recapped on CNN.

[Bluebear]

6. "Measure your penis, 16 year old! Ejaculate in a towel face down!"

Yeah, "simply naughty" by GOP standards.