May 4, 2006
SNOW DRIFT:
Bolten and Snow And Two Days of Rain (MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, JONATHAN GREENBERGER, SARAH BAKER, EMILY O'DONNELL, and NITYA VENKATARAMAN with MIKE WESTLING and DAN NECHITA, May 4, 2006, ABC News: The Note)
Maybe leaks are going to be more common in the Tony Snow Era.The man has not even started officially yet as White House press secretary, and already the tightness of the Andy Card days seems to be a thing of the past.
ABC News has exclusively obtained this undated memo from Snow to his new colleagues. It is not clear when it was written, but from the content, it must have been in the last few days. It was given to ABC News by a Republican who is not pleased with Snow's hiring.
Mr. Snow's memo is tooth-achingly cute, but the advise is quite sound, especially about how easy it is for the President to play the press. Posted by Orrin Judd at May 4, 2006 1:50 PM
Diff'rent strokes.
Posted by: ghostcat at May 4, 2006 2:06 PMThat's got to be an intentional leak.
Posted by: David Cohen at May 4, 2006 2:36 PMWho says it was a "leak?" Maybe it was a "declassification."
Posted by: Mike Morley at May 4, 2006 2:36 PMUm...somebody's havin' a little fun w/ ABC here folks. And they're all too willing to play along.
Posted by: JR at May 4, 2006 2:49 PMThey're already following Snow's advice in the memo, cultivating the press by giving them stories (and promising to love them), and the first story is Snow's memo (and it's full of promises of love for the press).
Posted by: pj at May 4, 2006 2:59 PMYou sure that "memo" is real, and not something cooked up by ABC? Because the first few paragraphs in particular sound like spoof material, and there's a hyperlink smack in the middle of it.
Posted by: M. Bulger at May 4, 2006 3:09 PMM.: Please. The Media would NEVER fabricate a memo.
Posted by: JR at May 4, 2006 4:02 PM