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Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a FOX News television and radio host, has died after a long bout with cancer. He was 53. This may not mean much to people, but to any civic minded blue blooded American it should matter. Today we lost one of the sharpest minds and kindest hearts the USA has known in my lifetime. I remember when he got his start in radio near my hometown in Greensboro N.C. and then he worked where I was born in VA so I grew up with him. Later he started working as a fill in for el rushbo and becoming the lead anchor for Fox News Sunday. Tony had patience and way with words that made listening to him worth the time. This was a very long time ago but not so long that this guy should be dead already, and for him to pass makes me personally very sad.
When I worked for Cox Broadcasting (CIM) there would be times when you would get pretty close to people of this caliber and you get to spend some time with them. I have spent time with Sean Hanity and Niel Boortz while I lived in Atlanta, my old chow Angus almost ate Coco (Boortz's dog) at a stoplight after work one day (road/dog rage). All of these guys are brilliant thinkers and losing one of them fucking blows. I don't make it a habbit of posting emo shit on my gaming guilds front page, count this as one of those exceptions.
Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 - July 12, 2008)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Snow
