More On Tony Snow
A couple of posts ago I mentioned an interview show with Tony Snow as the guest. They have posted the transcripts. I wanted to post one thing that I found interesting in the interview and its in regards to Tony Snow talking about George Bush.
AMB: What surprised you up close?
SNOW: Again, it’s something I had suspected, but I’ll you, he’s got one of the most interesting analytical minds I’ve ever seen. I described it like watching these chess masters who will go and play 40 boards at once. He can keep a lot of moves in his head, and especially when he talks about geopolitics.
He will lay out a scenario that deals with a whole series of countries, he thinks and recount their national interests. Then he’ll start talking about their leaders and how the leaders might react and interact, and how they may be affected by different conditions.
And as he talks about framing up issues and framing up policies, it makes a whole lot of sense, because he really has thought it through. It’s not simply sort of - he does not think in a linear method - I go from here to here, I’ve achieved my objective. There’s no way, because this move is going to have ramifications on both sides. And, you know, he’s just great at thinking it through and explaining it to people.
I point it out because Bush is regarded, particularly among liberals, as not very intelligent. I think this helps highlight that Bush is not nearly as dumb as his detractors would have you believe.
August 15th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Worth noting some of the things he said about GW BEFORE he was on the white house payroll
http://patterico.com/2006/04/27/tony-snow-a-bush-sycophant-whose-past-criticism-of-bush-is-certain-to-haunt-him/
August 16th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Because tony snow is an impartial observer, right? come on. It’s Snow’s job to make Bush look good for the media, and you just lap up whatever he says. Plus, if he’s so “great at thinking things through and explaining it to people,” then why haven’t we ever heard these great explanations?
August 16th, 2007 at 11:50 am
Jamie,
That was in regards to his policies on government expansion, the remarks im talking about were in regards to politic and foreign policy. I’m willing to bet Tony Snow would still agree withe the idea that bush has not been very conservative in terms of reducing government.
Michael,
Tony Snow is most certainly not an impartial observer. But neither is the media that purports to cover Bush.
I should also like to note that Snow seemed self actualized, if true, then he would be the close one can come to be impartial when it comes to assessment.