{"id":7230,"date":"2006-04-25T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2006-04-25T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T14:11:59","slug":"snowing-in-the-white-house-briefing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/snowing-in-the-white-house-briefing-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Snowing in the White House briefing room?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those following the story, it looks like Fox News anchor [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/04\/24\/snow\/index.html\">poised to accept<\/a> the White House&#8217;s offer to replace [tag]Scott McClellan[\/tag] as [tag]Bush[\/tag]&#8217;s [tag]press secretary[\/tag].<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days. A source familiar with the discussions said Monday that newly appointed Chief of Staff [tag]Josh Bolten[\/tag] asked Snow to make a decision by early this week. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Sources familiar with Snow&#8217;s deliberations said he has been focusing on family, finances and his health. The sources said Snow, who has been battling colon cancer, got a good prognosis from his doctor last week and that Snow resolved his concerns about taking the job over the weekend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/04\/25\/washington\/25snow.html\">NYT added<\/a> that it has learned Snow is &#8220;leaning toward accepting&#8221; the offer.<\/p>\n<p>As one astute observer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/2006\/04\/24.html#a8035\">put it<\/a>, &#8220;It would be a change in job title, but not description.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those following the story, it looks like Fox News anchor [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] is poised to accept the White House&#8217;s offer to replace [tag]Scott McClellan[\/tag] as [tag]Bush[\/tag]&#8217;s [tag]press secretary[\/tag]. The sources said they expect him to announce his decision within the next few days. A source familiar with the discussions said Monday that newly appointed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230","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=7230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}