The point is, it wasn’t probably the right place, in an obit, to knock someone the AP clearly disliked. It looked small and snarky and just reinforced for people like me and this writer that the media including the AP are extremely left-wing biased. I liked Tony Snow and found the AP article extremely offensive. I liked Tim Russert too even though he was a Democrat and I didn’t see him treated like Tony. It’s pretty much what conservatives are used to expecting from the press.

Can anybody explain why it’s alright to bandy about a supposed lacking command of the facts by Snow without even a hint of Russert’s inability to read any word more difficult than “IF” on his monitor? I have no insight into Tom Brokaw’s health but he stumbles as badly as Russert on multi-syllable words. How soon will he be canonized?

Tony Snow was a class guy. He was intelligent, witty, had a great sense of humor and he cared about people. He was kind when he didn’t have to be, never vindictive. He was gracious in his fate. It is remarkable to me that so many people who didn’t measure up to his stature take the opportunity to try, unsuccessfully,to knock him down to their size at the time of his death.

The Post-Dispatch is attempting to rationalize using the AP story by pointing to stories in other center-left publications, like the Washington Post and New York Times. Curiously on a Daily Oregonian blog, the same rationalization is used for using the story in their paper. Who wrote your talking points Steve? It is legitimate to criticize a public figure, but it is classless to do so in an obituary without acknowledging other contributions, especially when such a criticism is highly arguable. Over the weekend we heard about what an incessant reader Mr. Snow was, and other statements contradicting the AP obit. Of course what else would one expect from a left-wing rag like the Post?

FYI: The one example about losing facts was from the Washington Times, not the Washington Post.

Kind of funny that you excuse yourself, and the Associated Press article, by showing similar comments written in the New York Times, Washington Times and Daily Variety? I think that may prove the original letter writer’s complaint.

I stand corrected in my earlier statement. It was the Washington Times, but my point remains the same. The item quoted by Mr. Parker is in fact a very miniscule part of Jon Ward’s piece, which is lengthy and discusses Snow’s life and career as a whole. The the above quote was in reference to a combative style he sometimes employeed with the White House Press Corps. There is a huge difference between Ward’s article and the AP obituary, which uses the criticism to define the man. The PD chose to use the more sweeping generalization from the latter. That being said, Mr. Snow deserved much better from the PD. Will we see a love letter from Eric Mink or anyone else from the Post? Somehow I doubt it.

I think this is the type of thing you can expect from the VERY Liberal Post Dispatch. They dont even try to hide their disdain for conservatives. The Post’s Circulation is a joke and their Parent company is in the tanks partially because of it. This group of losers (editors & Staff) want to attribute their failure to everything else except the obvious, their liberal biased. They dont get it ,people are not going to pay good money to read their leftist propaganda. The biggest problem with these elitist is that they only asscociate with one another, so they are convinced that they are always right. They are so removed from the “other side” ( full of hillbilly idiots) that they only see what their “blinders” let them see. When confronted with “Facts” they immediately start throwing mud! When they do it to a person who hasn’t been dead even 24 hours it’s disgraceful..They are mean spirited fools!!

I think an obit is the wrong spot to be critical of anyone, be they small or large faults, unless they are truly bad people like dictators or ciriminals. I don’t my the characterization of Snows job as combative, because that isn’t a negative, nor would I have a problem with pointing out that a persona career was controversial. But trying to define negative characteristics, such as mistakes, or giving vocal room in an obit for detractors is just small.

It goes to a larger point of personality. There is an image that the far left is much harsher and much more judgemental and inhuman than the far right and the spectrum between the two. When a controversial conservative figure passes ot gets ill, how many “death wishers” or haters come out of the woodwork to mistreat the person. And it ranges from the “Rot in Hell” type comments to the simple snarky issues like this. Contrast that with the treatment of Ted Kennedys affliction of the passing of Molly Ivans. Even Sean Hannitty expressed sympathy. It goes to show that at least one side has a grasp that they are in the middle of disagreement, while the other side has passed a strong moarl judgement as if we’re in a Holy War. People should behave much better than they have.

Tony Snow deserved much more. Better treatment in the coverage and more coverage in general. He was a genuinely good man with a difference of an opinion and I think some people really need to feel shame for how they’ve behaved, like snotty little children most of them.

I agree most heartily with all of the comments here. Tony SNow was a classy man, very informed and more correct than any of those left wing loons who vilfiy him, such as the AP. Journalism used to be a very honorable profession until the left aquired control of the major newspapers and ABC, NBC and CBS, the came CNN and MSNBC, none of the aforementioned can claim to be objective and indepenedent of political bias.

Witness the “adoration” tour of the major networks with Obama in the middle east at present. Thye fall all over them selves to report only the most flattering news about the presumtive president or king or whatever crown they wish to give him. It is quite disgusting. Note that Chris Wallaces invitation to join the media circus was lost in the mail.

Do any of the readers of the Post miss reading the facts of world news? With circulation nose diving, I would say so.

Leveling unfonded lies at a man as nice as Tony Snow just reeks of the George Soros controlled loon sites like Daily Kos, Move On and even the Huffington Post.

It is a new low, even for them. Et tu Post?