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It's Official: Tony Snow

I didn't really expect Don Rumsfeld to be named White House press secretary, so I'm not disappointed that it was the loudly rumored Tony Snow who will be press secretary. Tony is bucking the trend - usually you work for a politician, then you go to work for the press (Stephanopolis, Mathews, Russert, and Scarborough (OK, he was a politician) come quickly to mind). Of course, Tony has already worked for a politician, and I can think of no more thankless job than working as a press secretary for a President's last three years whom the press hate. It's like being put in a cage with starving ferets for three years, and you're the only food in the cage with them. Will the press go easy on him because 1. he was a colleague and 2. he's got cancer? My money is on NOT in a big way because he worked for FOX and his illness is nothing next to the fact he's working for BUSH! Nope, it will 3 years of daily "Get him, kill the heretic!" for Tony.