{"id":16174,"date":"2008-07-12T08:15:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/16174.html"},"modified":"2008-07-12T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T12:15:13","slug":"former-white-house-press-secretary-tony-snow-dies-at-age-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/former-white-house-press-secretary-tony-snow-dies-at-age-53\/","title":{"rendered":"Former White House press secretary Tony Snow dies at age 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Snow, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/25649744\/\">dead at age 53<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conservative commentator and former White House press secretary Tony Snow has died of cancer, Fox News reported Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Snow, 53, was a broadcaster for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as President Bush&#8217;s press secretary in May 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Snow served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. He resigned as Bush&#8217;s chief spokesman six months later, in September 2007, citing a need to earn more money. He then joined CNN as a commentator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t be fair of me to pretend that I valued Snow&#8217;s work; I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?s=%22Tony+Snow%22\">criticized him<\/a> enough times to prove otherwise. But even as he misled reporters and the nation, I always found Tony Snow to be an affable, likable guy, who enjoyed politics as much as I do. Even more important, I always respected his courage and tenacity when dealing with his serious illness.<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Snow, dead at age 53. Conservative commentator and former White House press secretary Tony Snow has died of cancer, Fox News reported Saturday. Snow, 53, was a broadcaster for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as President Bush&#8217;s press secretary in May 2006. Snow served just 17 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}