Tony Snow: "I apologize for being an idiot"

June 16, 2006, 1:54PM
Jackson Lee accepts apology from White House's Snow
Spokesman had ID problem with 2 black lawmakers

By JULIE MASON
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

http://chron.com/disp/story.mpl/politics/3974374.html

WASHINGTON - In the self-blame department, White House spokesman Tony Snow had a political doozy.

"I apologize for being an idiot," Snow said Thursday during his daily briefing to the news media. "I misidentified Representative Sheila Jackson Lee as Cynthia McKinney."

Last week, Snow gave reporters a routine account of a meeting President Bush conducted with members of Congress on Iraq. In the retelling, Snow confused one African-American Democratic female lawmaker for another. "Cynthia McKinney made the point yesterday in the meeting with the president that the one thing they had gotten from generals there were thorough and honest assessments of what's going on," Snow said then.

But it was Jackson Lee, a Houston Democrat, who had made the point. McKinney, a Democrat from Georgia, wasn't at the meeting. Reporters were unaware of Snow's mix-up because they had never seen the private session. Snow said his mistake "prompted a phone call from Representative Jackson Lee, who was absolutely charming, and we had a wonderful little conversation."

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Tony won't be around much longer?

White House since the Bushinistas took over. Yes, Tony Snow is an IDIOT !

for ever having been born.

Put it to memory folks...you're seeing something really rare with this administration.

you know how they all look alike........


:banghead:

2500, a number? Once an asshole, always an asshole.

At least whathisname was just an incompetent ijit - SNOW is insulting!

:shrug:

:puke:

Spose he'll ever apologize for that?

my bad.

Yeah, he needed to apologize.

Mz Pip
:dem:

:eyes:

I'd guessed that already, tony, but thanks for the confirmation.

all the time.