Tony Snow Attributes High Gas Prices To People Complaining About Rumsfeld

[hadrons]

Tony Snow Attributes High Gas Prices To “People Complaining About Donald Rumsfeld”

Fox News Anchor Tony Snow is being considered as a replacement for White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan. Looks like he would fit right in. Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Snow said that “people complaining about Donald Rumsfeld” were partially to blame for high gas prices.



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O’REILLY: Prices have doubled in the USA and continue to go up. What say you sir?

SNOW: Well, this is where you get to call me a pinhead again, Bill. You’re absolutely right, supplies are high. But a couple of different things going on.

Different types of oil that are in supply. Oil refining costs have gone up a little bit. But let’s be real about this: 60 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline right now is crude oil prices. Crude oil over $70 a gallon right now. That gets written into the price. Why is that per gallon crude oil price so high? Because people are jittery.

You’ve got a guy in Iran saying we’re going to build a nuclear weapon. You’ve got people complaining about Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon. There are jitters about the stability of the Middle East. Those subside and a number of people say this, analysts in the industry, the price goes down again.

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[wryter2000]

1. WTF?

I thought your subject header was a joke. Ye gods.

[station agent]

2. Hoping He's the Next Press Secretary

I have a sneaking suspicion this is the new press secretary. I kinda hope he is. It could help the ongoing decline of Fox News.

[goclark]

7. I would love to see Helen wear him out!

[redwitch]

8. welcome to DU!

He might be FUN as the next press sec! :hi:

[0007]

10. More so. This guy won't be able to take it when the squeeze is on,

Tony will fair well for about three weeks, then the wheels will fall off, most of his hair will drop out and the remaining hair will be on fire. Watch Tony explode, big time!!

[cliss]

19. Hi, Station agent.

Welcome to the DU:smoke.

This is entertaining. Now I have to admit: I never connected Don Rumsfailed with the price of gas. Maybe he shouldn't be saying this so much....

[Homer Wells]

20. Looks like we might get our VERY OWN Baghdad Bob!!

Ol Scottie was getting sort a boring,with his pre recorded answers and all.:boring:
This new guy might make me forsake Comedy Central as my new source of jollies!!:silly: :sarcasm: :rofl: :rofl:

[redwitch]

21. Yessiree, If they're gonna lie, they may as well give us a laugh!

Picture the white house press corps rolling in the aisles! And being very, very snarky in their reports. It'll finally be obvious to all but the brain dead, that this admin needs TO GO! NOW!

[Supersedeas]

3. if you make Repubbies jittery--then you'll have to pay and be punished for

it

[exlrrp]

4. "Well, this is where you get to call me a pinhead again,"

OK!!!! Youre a fcking PINHEAD!!

[napi21]

5. Gee, with ideas like that he could replace John Snow, Sec. of

the Treasury who everyone is saying is on his way out! Hell, they could even keep the initialed towels!

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. When did Iran say "we’re going to build a nuclear weapon"?

He'll sidle right into his new post with the rest of the lying snakes.

[Sugarcoated]

9. LOL

Oh yeah, he'll shine as press clown of the Bush freakshow.

[shain from kane]

11. Another Snow job?

WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.WMD.

[NoPasaran]

12. I hope the White House hires him

I've been worried that they might turn to someone from the reality-based community to try to regain some credibility.

[Village Idiot]

13. Actually...

"You’ve got a guy in Iran saying we’re going to build a nuclear weapon. You’ve got people complaining about Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon. There are jitters about the stability of the Middle East. Those subside and a number of people say this, analysts in the industry, the price goes down again."

Actually...

You’ve got a guy in the White House with one finger on the nukular football and another on the oil taps in Iraq, helping his Saudi and OPEC buddies keep supply artificially low.

[walkon]

14. If crude oil was $70 a gallon

That would be bad! But otherwise he reveals that the BFEE will use Oil companies to punish Americans for low poll numbers.

[ShortnFiery]

15. Cool! He's spinning like a top even before they let him out of the box!

Oh, even our press corpse will figuratively eat him alive within weeks. There will just be bones for the pickings' and we'll consider Scotty M. a veritable Rhodes Scholar when compared to the wannabe "spokesman superstar" named To-NY! :puke:

The Pixies NAIL the boyhood dreams of this coven of delusional Personas with <breathless> Tony's Theme!!!

PIXIES LYRICS

"Tony's Theme"

This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme

He's got the oil on his chain, for a ride in the rain
No baloney
Ride around on my bicycle like a pony
I'm waving hi, hi, hi, hi, hi
Gu-gu-gu-Gimme a scream
Give me, give me the theme
Of Tony

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny

I am Tony, super bicycle Tony, I'm racing
Spitfire turn and pop a wheelie, burn and evil chasing
I'm waving bye, bye, bye, bye, bye
I got a card in my spokes
I'm practicing my joke, I'm learning

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny

This is a song about a superhero named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme

I can look at the sun if you give me some bad sun glasses
I'm back on the road, I cut my grass like I'm told
AFTER CLASSES!

To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny
To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny, To-ny
To-ny

[Javaman]

16. And here is a sample from a future press briefing...

Reporter: It was revealed yesterday that the president* was found eating rice crispy's out of a womans shoe while walking naked down the hallway in the west wing. Can you comment on that?

snow: well, you know, it's comments like that, that are causing the 100 plus price per barrel for oil.

Reporter: ummm, how do you equate, the presidents* escapades with oil??

snow: see, there you go again, do you know, that every time you point out the presidents* short comings, it's a win for the terrorists.

Reporter: my question didn't have anything to do with oil or terrorists...

snow: oh come on now, you just have to see that by faulting the job of secretary of state...

Reporter: wait wait, I never asked anything about the sec of state, I want to know why the president* was flouncing around in the buff while eating rice crispy's out of a womans shoe???

snow: what was the question again?

[Coastie for Truth]

17. Less readily available crude ---

more of the crude is deeper, in more remote and less friendly places, and more people (India and China) are competing for it.

[bklyncowgirl]

18. He must be auditioning.

How fast can you spin, Tony?