Religions > Atheism > Tony Snow: Bush is "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once"
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Tony Snow: Bush is "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once" |
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
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16 Oct 2006 04:05:15 PM |
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<snip>
"He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Evidently chess is considered athletic now; after all, there are
poker and domino tournaments on ESPN.
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16 Oct 2006 10:42:12 PM |
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"Witziges Rätsel" wrote:
<snip>
"He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Evidently chess is considered athletic now; after all, there are
poker and domino tournaments on ESPN.
It is the way Duhbya plays it.
RT
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17 Oct 2006 04:06:13 PM |
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"Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote in news:1161026017.852750.305830
@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
<snip>
On the intellectual acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one
of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
....one checker at a time.
So who plays chess at the gym?
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Doc Smartass
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of
words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the
people who must use the words. - Philip K. *****
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17 Oct 2006 06:22:24 PM |
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In article <Xns985FA3D71DA4Aaskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
On the intellectual acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one
of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
...one checker at a time.
So who plays chess at the gym?
Maybe we need to ask what sort of gym Tony Snowjob visits where 41
people play chess simultaneously...?
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Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
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| User: "John Baker" |
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17 Oct 2006 10:27:14 PM |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:06:13 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
"Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote in news:1161026017.852750.305830
@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
<snip>
On the intellectual acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one
of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
...one checker at a time.
So who plays chess at the gym?
I used to take my rollup chessboard to bars and drink free all night,
but I never took it to the gym. Of course, that could be because I've
never gone to the gym..... <G>
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17 Oct 2006 08:16:23 PM |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:06:13 GMT, Doc Smartass
<gekido@astroskivviesboymail.com> wrote:
So who plays chess at the gym?
Bush, Snow and 39 of their closest friends.
At least that's the story they tell.
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rukbat at optonline dot net
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Christ."
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16 Oct 2006 09:01:02 PM |
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In article <1161026017.852750.305830
@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Williams said...
On the intellectual acumen of his boss:
"He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
I wonder how many times he shouts, "King me!"
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16 Oct 2006 10:28:02 PM |
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:01:02 -0400, Brian E. Clark
<reply@newsgroup.only.please> wrote:
In article <1161026017.852750.305830
@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Williams said...
On the intellectual acumen of his boss:
"He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
I wonder how many times he shouts, "King me!"
Ask his wife.
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16 Oct 2006 08:59:12 PM |
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In article <1161026017.852750.305830
@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>, Williams said...
On the intellectual acumen of his boss: "He reminds
me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
No doubt Bush is attempting to bench-press the chessboards,
because he hasn't figured out how to work the Nautilus.
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16 Oct 2006 05:08:08 PM |
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In article <1161026017.852750.305830@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
"Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote:
On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Oh... like the guy who tries it and loses on all 40? To Kindergartners?
Just after explaining the game to them???
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Atheist #1331 (the Palindrome of doom!)
BAAWA Knight! - One of those warm Southern Knights, y'all!
Charter member, SMASH!!
http://home.earthlink.net/~jehdjh/Relpg.html
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Quotemeister since March 2002
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16 Oct 2006 03:08:26 PM |
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On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
And falls into the Fool's Mate on every one.
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"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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18 Oct 2006 12:23:46 AM |
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raven1 wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Ah, how appropriate that Bush's press secretary is named Snow.
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20 Oct 2006 02:26:15 PM |
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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:23:46 -0700, Rusty Sites
<SpamMeSucker@xemaps.com> wrote in alt.atheism
raven1 wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Ah, how appropriate that Bush's press secretary is named Snow.
Oh yes. Snow job.
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shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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16 Oct 2006 06:26:01 PM |
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On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
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17 Oct 2006 01:10:33 AM |
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In article <3758j2dh6k1tj6vjeecokk2ajvegfo4e06@4ax.com>,
John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
Barney was playing the 40th.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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17 Oct 2006 04:07:33 PM |
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:10:33 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
In article <3758j2dh6k1tj6vjeecokk2ajvegfo4e06@4ax.com>,
John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
Barney was playing the 40th.
I thought Cheney was on that one....
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18 Oct 2006 12:31:04 AM |
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In article <7ghaj2pgg622hf4qhs1irekhieshrekqgd@4ax.com>,
John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:10:33 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
In article <3758j2dh6k1tj6vjeecokk2ajvegfo4e06@4ax.com>,
John Baker <nunya@bizniz.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
Barney was playing the 40th.
I thought Cheney was on that one....
Nah. Cheney was in his undisclosed location counting up his money.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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16 Oct 2006 08:03:32 PM |
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John Baker wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
There is, however, a damn good trick, where a novice can play two
grandmasters at once and do damn well.
Guess how it works...
--
Lucifer, EAC Librarian of Dark Tomes of Excessive Evil and General
Purpose Igor
The Anti-Theist
"Don't worry, I won't bite.......hard"
< snip >
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On 16 Oct 2006 18:03:32 -0700, "Lucifer" <wyrdology@hotmail.com>
wrote:
John Baker wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
There is, however, a damn good trick, where a novice can play two
grandmasters at once and do damn well.
Guess how it works...
Play white on one board and black on the other and simply play the two
grandmasters against each other. <G>
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17 Oct 2006 10:29:09 AM |
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John Baker wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 18:03:32 -0700, "Lucifer" <wyrdology@hotmail.com>
wrote:
John Baker wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com>
wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
ST. CHARLES, Ill. - Tony Snow draped his lanky frame across a wooden
lectern, leaned forward and gazed out at 850 adoring Republicans who
had paid $175 apiece to hear him speak. There was a conspiratorial
gleam in his eye, as if he was about to reveal some deep inner secret
from his new life as the White House press secretary.
"Yesterday," Mr. Snow declared, "I was in the Oval Office with
the president --"
He cut himself off, took a perfectly calibrated three-second pause and
switched into an aw-shucks voice for dramatic effect: "I just looove
saying that! Yeaaah, I was in the Oval Office. Just meeee and the
president. Nooooobody else." The crowd lapped it up.
Live from the suburbs of Chicago - It's the Tony Snow
Outside-the-Beltway Hour! Memo to White House press corps: you can't
catch this show in the briefing room.
In the six months since Mr. Bush enlisted him to resuscitate a White
House press operation that was barely breathing, Mr. Snow, a former Fox
News television and radio host and a conservative commentator, has
reinvented the job with his snappy sound bites and knack for deflecting
tough questions with a smile. Now, he is reinventing it yet again, by
breaking away from the briefing room to raise money for Republicans, as
he did here on Saturday night for Speaker J. Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Snow, who will make 16 such appearances before Election Day,
acknowledged he had entered "terra incognita"; to his knowledge, no
other White House press secretary has raised money for political
candidates while in the job. But with his star power from television
and his conservative credentials, Mr. Snow, unlike his predecessors, is
in hot demand.
His booking agent is the White House political shop, run by Karl Rove,
the president's chief strategist. ...
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
Yeah, I know guys like that. They play 40 boards at once, but they
lose on 39 of them.
There is, however, a damn good trick, where a novice can play two
grandmasters at once and do damn well.
Guess how it works...
Play white on one board and black on the other and simply play the two
grandmasters against each other. <G>
Yup. A skilled politician could probably dio similar with public
figures, but I doubt Herr Schrubbenfuhrer would have the imagination
(Or the ability to remember what the last move was)
--
Lucifer, EAC Librarian of Dark Tomes of Excessive Evil and General
Purpose Igor
The Anti-Theist
"Don't worry, I won't bite.......hard"
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20 Oct 2006 02:25:41 PM |
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On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote
in alt.atheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
[]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
While asking; "How do you play this game?
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Tony Snow: Bush is "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once" |
21 Oct 2006 02:19:00 AM |
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In article <ak8ij2p25ar7rfu985gn66fm2qo2ukdvgr@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote
in alt.atheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
[]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
While asking; "How do you play this game?
Snow Job didn't say he won any of them.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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22 Oct 2006 07:30:37 PM |
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On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:19:00 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <ak8ij2p25ar7rfu985gn66fm2qo2ukdvgr@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote
in alt.atheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
[]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
While asking; "How do you play this game?
Snow Job didn't say he won any of them.
Yellow Snow Job, and yes.
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Tony Snow: Bush is "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once" |
23 Oct 2006 12:49:16 AM |
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In article <k83oj253n0f6940adjs0a5kgkrd1hcahe4@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:19:00 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <ak8ij2p25ar7rfu985gn66fm2qo2ukdvgr@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote
in alt.atheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
[]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
While asking; "How do you play this game?
Snow Job didn't say he won any of them.
Yellow Snow Job, and yes.
Speaking of Tony Yellow Snow Job did you see where a reporter's question
caused him to bang his head on the podium and babble like an idiot?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/20/were-all-banging-our-heads-tony/
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| Title: Re: Tony Snow: Bush is "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once" |
24 Oct 2006 10:32:17 PM |
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:49:16 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <k83oj253n0f6940adjs0a5kgkrd1hcahe4@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:19:00 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <ak8ij2p25ar7rfu985gn66fm2qo2ukdvgr@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote
in alt.atheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
[]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
While asking; "How do you play this game?
Snow Job didn't say he won any of them.
Yellow Snow Job, and yes.
Speaking of Tony Yellow Snow Job did you see where a reporter's question
caused him to bang his head on the podium and babble like an idiot?
No. I don't pay attention to anything from these assholes.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/20/were-all-banging-our-heads-tony/
--
Fundies and trolls are cordially invited to
shove a wooden cross up their arses and rotate
at a high rate of speed. I trust you'll
be 'blessed' with a plethora of splinters.
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| Title: Re: Tony Snow: Bush is "one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once" |
25 Oct 2006 01:08:05 AM |
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In article <4lmtj2541duo0b0q74jgie4lbavcbqkdh3@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:49:16 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <k83oj253n0f6940adjs0a5kgkrd1hcahe4@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 00:19:00 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote in alt.atheism
In article <ak8ij2p25ar7rfu985gn66fm2qo2ukdvgr@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:
On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, "Williams" <c-williams3@lycos.com> wrote
in alt.atheism
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html
Bush's Press Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
[]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
While asking; "How do you play this game?
Snow Job didn't say he won any of them.
Yellow Snow Job, and yes.
Speaking of Tony Yellow Snow Job did you see where a reporter's question
caused him to bang his head on the podium and babble like an idiot?
No. I don't pay attention to anything from these assholes.
I wouldn't have seen it either except someone Emailed it to me.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/20/were-all-banging-our-heads-tony/
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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16 Oct 2006 03:15:47 PM |
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On 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, in alt.atheism , "Williams"
<c-williams3@lycos.com> in
<1161026017.852750.305830@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> wrote:
[snip]
Here was Mr. Snow on working in the White House: "The most exciting,
intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have." On the nature
of the American soul after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11: "There
is an ember of greatness burning in every heart." On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
< snip >
How many guys at the gym are playing chess?
--
Matt Silberstein
Do something today about the Darfur Genocide
http://www.beawitness.org
http://www.darfurgenocide.org
http://www.savedarfur.org
"Darfur: A Genocide We can Stop"
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17 Oct 2006 09:00:28 PM |
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On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:13:37 -0700, Williams wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/us/politics/16snow.html Bush's Press
Secretary Is Raising Money, and Some Eyebrows By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
October 16, 2006
On the intellectual acumen of his
boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40
chessboards at once."
< snip >
If GW is so intelligent, all I can say is: he hides it well.
--
MarkA
(this space accidentally filled in)
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16 Oct 2006 02:18:13 PM |
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Williams wrote:
On the intellectual
acumen of his boss: "He reminds me of one of those guys at the gym
who plays about 40 chessboards at once."
And gets checkmated on all 40 boards...
---
No Gods. No Masters.
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