Translating Tony Snow

John Caruso says:

It's sometimes difficult to understand Fox White House News Spokesman Tony Snow, since he's taken lying to such heights that the lie density frequently exceeds one lie per word. He's actually lying even when he coughs to clear his throat. So I thought I'd help by translating one of his recent statements.

The rest.

I strongly suspect that Tony Snow doesn't just lie every second of his waking life, but actually lies in his dreams.

AND: Thanks also to Herr Caruso for bringing this Condoleezza Rice quote to my attention:

I am quite certain that it would be difficult for any commission to debate more fully, to investigate more fully, to criticize more fully the policies of the United States Government than is done every night on CNN, on ABC, on CBS, on NBC and on any number of smaller channels in the United States.

The interesting thing is that, when speaking privately, government officials are well aware of the lapdog nature of the US media. In one of the leaked British government documents, David Manning (Blair's chief foreign policy advisor) wrote this to Blair after a meeting with Rice:

It is clear that Bush is grateful for your [Blair's] support and has registered that you are getting flak. I said that you would not budge in your support for regime change but you had to manage a press, a Parliament and a public opinion that was very different from anything in the States.