THE TYGRRRR EXPRESS

Tony Snow, like Tim Russert before him, died way too young. Another kind human being beloved by many has been taken from us. It will never make sense to me.

Before going any further, I want to offer condolences to the Snow family, and also to radio host Mike Gallagher. In one of the most heart wrenching columns I have ever read, Mr. Gallagher mourns the passing of his wife of 20 years to cancer a couple weeks ago.

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/MikeGallagher/2008/07/14/good-bye_to_tony_snow_and_denise_gallagher

My own family has felt the pain that cancer inflicts. My cousin died at age 42. Her husband of 17 years will never be the same. Their two children no longer have a mother. It is totally unfair, and I will never make sense of it.

Maybe the Billy Joel song is true, that only the good die young.

As much as levity may seem totally inappropriate at times like this, that is how I heal. I will never forget a comedy routine by acid tongued comedian Dennis Leary on this subject.

“Useless people live forever. Good people die every day. The truly great people, we kill. JFK…bang! RFK…bang! Teddy Kennedy, the gunman is about to pull the trigger and he stops and goes, ‘Oh, leave him alone, he’ll f*ck up himself!”

As much as I love Ronald Reagan, Leary’s skewering of the Gipper was funny.

“Ronald Reagan will live forever. Reagan is mocking us all. The man is indestructible.”

(Leary doing Reagan) “I’ve had @ss cancer, I’ve had face cancer, I’ve been thrown from a horse, I’ve been shot at. I’m going nowhere. Give Nancy some cancer, she’ll survive it. Come on God, give my dog some dog cancer, he’ll beat it. Nobody’s dying in this family!”

Yet there is nothing funny about slow painful deaths from deadly diseases. I have a million negative things to say about Ted Kennedy, but on the day his illness was announced, I kept quiet. On the day he dies, I will keep silent.

On the day Bill Clinton had heart surgery I prayed for him, since my father has had it twice.

I do not want John Edwards anywhere near the Presidency, but I want he and his wife Elizabeth to have many happy years together. They have already lost a child, and should not have any more suffering ever again.

So what is it about the Axis of Antisemitism that forms Moveon.org, the Daily Kos, and the Huffington Post, that makes them such terrible human beings?

Both sides have good and bad we are told. Yet the bad apples on the right are the aberrations. The hatred on the left is mainstream.

Below are some horrible quotes from those that make up a good chunk of liberals today. This is not cherry picking on my part. The decent sentiments would be the anomolies.

I hate even printing this bile, but mainstream America needs to see what lives inside the hearts of liberalism. From celebrating a culture of death in a way that would make Palestinian terrorists proud, to using the day to condemn conservatives in general, all I can say is that “These are liberals. This is how they behave.”

Congratulations liberalism. Below is what you are, with the language sanitized.

Daily Kossacks:

 

+ Jackyldo

To Tony’s wife and family, condolences for your loss of someone who died far to young.

I did not agree with Tony much, especially when at the podium he lied for Bush every day.
That said, I hope St. Peter will ask Tony, just what were you thinking? before he opens the gates.

 

hjo4

As noted when one cannot say anything nice, it best to remain silent.

 

Idiocracy

You had a tough job, Tony. You had to lie for your government.
No judgement now that youre with the universe.

RIP my fellow human.

omahajim

i wonder if photos of this professional liars casket will be allowed in the media. anybody want to bet on it? no, no photos of the caskets of our dead soldiers but plenty of photos of the dead republican liars. more typical republican values..
and as the story said “with a broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook _ if not always a command of the facts _ he became a popular figure around the country”.
WHAT?.
it appears to me that as long as you look OK and can lie with a straight face, it does not matter if you get caught lying. and as long as you are a republican, you are OK..
exactly WHO was he a popular figure with? nobody i know..
the riddance, it is good.

Scarllatti

Carl Rove must be palpitating and peeing in his pants now. Who’s next?

GPRogueCowboy

I guess he could not live on $1.5 Million per year either.

wagonjak

You’re not talking about the Tony Snow I knew…he sold out his honesty and integrity to lie for Faux News and the most criminal administration the US has ever known…

 

truth101

He upstaged Bush to such a degree that people were temporarily blinded to the blatent
fact of how very very badly the IRAQ WAR was going. Fortunately everyone saw through
the fog he was promulagating but it took a while.

patriotic008

I did not admire you as a person, I did not like you or what you stood for, and to be honest I think you were a straight up liar who played mind judo with the press to avoid answering credible questions that your Administration was uncomfortable with.

That being said, cancer is an absolutely horrible disease and I am so sorry you lost your battle. May God bless your family and may you RIP Mr Snow

 

Huffington Compost:

“He did his job well. I don’t blame him for what he did.”

If what you do is evil, doing it well doesn’t make you a good man, just a talented one.

The government works for us. The job of the White House Press Secretary isn’t to lie to us, or to pitch us White House propaganda, it’s to inform us.

 

Tony knew that his boss was full of sh*t and that he was lying to the American people everyday. He gets no kudos for being a lying sack of sh*t. Yes its terrible for his young children, but it is also terrible for the young children of soldiers who keep getting killed because of the bullsh*t this lying sack of cr@p spewed everyday from his podeium. rest in hell.

 

 

 

Websters Dictionary defines a tragedy as:

1 a: a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man b: a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror c: the literary genre of tragic dramas2 a: a disastrous event : calamity b: misfortune3: tragic quality or element.

Sad, perhaps. The tragedy here is for his family and friends. But eliciting pity or terror? No. If anything, the terror he provided on behalf of this administration was tragic.

 

 

if they’ll let him into heaven after working for bush, it surely beats the hell out of this place.

 

 

(So long Snowjob) Sad news, to be sure. It’s too bad he’ll mostly be remembered as the guy Bush got to lie for him. And he did it so well, too!

 

 

(may you be in heaven) before the Devil realizes you’ve talked your way out of Hell…

 

 

(To hell goes snow, he lied, our soldiers died) sorry, but when you become the mouthpiece for
a war criminal involved in furthering a worthless
and useless war god will not let you enter heaven.
He sacrificed his moral principles to continue
the useless slaughter of both americans and
iraqis and for that mr. snow god has punished
you.
You are a co conspirator and a liar. And
god will take care of you on your judgement
day. You lived to 52. Many of the our
brave soldiers who died for your lies were not
so lucky!

 

 

(Wow, I am not going to be mean) but…..Really – the guy lied to us on a daily basis.

 

 

(Good riddance to a P.O.S. Another piece of sh*t who’s made a lot of money flakking for executive level criminals.

We should be rejoicing every time one dies. What is up with all this “sad” cr@p?

He’s just another scumb@g who made money ($168,000 to be precise, or tax payer money) by standing in front of the American public and lie to us. HE made millions doing it on FOX prior to it. In fact, if he was alive and on TV today, he’d be helping slander Obama.

He helped perpetrate horrible action by this presidency, there is no forgiveness for that.

Some of you seem genuinely more sad about this scumb@g’s death then the NEARLY DAILY DEATHS of our own soldiers and the innocent Iraqis!!!!!

WHY???? JUST because he was on TV he deserves “respect”? WHAT THE F*CK FOR?)

 

(If O’Reilly/Hannity/Limbauh died) I would be having a celebration at my house. i would be writing a diary p*ss*ng on them even though it could never make up for all the p*ss*ng they have done on our country. Yet Snow was different, he was in an official government capacity when he was spreading their lies. He’s dead- WTFever.

Moveon.org did not even bother to mention the man’s death on their site, making them less disgusting than the other members of the Axis of Anti-semitism by default.

I would ask if these people have any decency, but the answer is that they do not. I truly worry that one of these crazed, rabid animals will try to assassinate the President. Actually, they are more likely to try for easier targets, and run Katherine Harris off of the road with their car, or engage in mob violence against a College Republican trying to get to class and become a productive member of society.

Conservatives take their hatemongers and shame them. Liberals take their hatemmongers and give them ticker tape parades.

One man engaged in decency amidst a sea of bile. He is an aberration, but if more liberals listen to this particular liberal, they may become human. I thank this one man for his respect.

Before he was an administration mouthpiece, he was HUMAN.

You don’t have to like him. You don’t even have to RESPECT him. But if you can’t mourn for him at the most basic, abstract level (as a father and husband who left behind young kids and a wife) then there’s SERIOUSLY something wrong with your wiring.

Regards,
Corporate Dog

May Markos Moulitsas, Arianna Huffington, and the Moveon Deaniacs be given the judgment they deserve when the time comes. Unlike them, I do not mistake myself for the God issuing that judgment. They will be dealt with, and they will deserve it.

Tony Snow can rest in peace knowing that the savages that criticize him will never get to where he is now. He is in Heaven with God. May God and Tony spit on these animals. They won’t. The truly good are simply better than that.

Farewell Tony. You left us too soon.

eric

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