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November 28, 2006

It's Only A Brotherly Spat!

Before Tony Snow became the mouthpiece for the President, he was free to say what he wanted, political correctness be damned. In fact, he even once criticized the President, saying he had "a habit of singing from the political correctness hymnal." Once Tony was hired on, however, his frank speech began to be a problem. There was the sorry statement, "I don't want to hug the tarbaby," for instance. I think Tony must have been sent for some intensive political correctness training that he didn't really grasp, because it wasn't long before he started coming up with euphemisms for all sorts of things. For example, he brushed the Mark Foley scandal off, saying it was "simply naughty e-mails." And now, in an effort to avoid using the unacceptable words "civil war" to describe what is occurring in Iraq, he has said the two factions are "expressing differences."

I guess instead of being sensitivity-challenged, the new and improved politically correct Tony Snow has become factually unencumbered.

Posted by Becky at November 28, 2006 10:40 AM