Tale of Two Press Secretaries

Bush's press secretary, Tony Snow, passed away over the weekend from cancer. One blogger at Daily Kos left a nice diary explaining how Snow was a friend of his liberal preacher's. For the party that claims to hold a monopoly on compassion, kind words for the dead were too much for some of its members. The diary has a slew of comments that blamed Snow for all sorts of sins.

Similar items appeared at other blogs, including Democratic Underground. The original threads dealing with his death led to the moderators warning their members to behave. One topic was a kind tribute from someone I am not overly fond of, Keith Olbermann, but he did a great job of expressing his sorrow at Snow's passing. Other posters were not so kind, blaming Snow for the deaths of US soldiers and Iraqis. One asked the following:

I grieve for 4118 soldiers and a million Iraqis. Without Snow's lies, how
many of them might still be alive?

Kind of an interesting question, how responsibly are the mouthpieces for administrations for their actions. According to many at liberal sites, the spokesperson is quite responsible. Among the more vile statements I have read, more than one condemned Tony Snow to an eternity of hell. Since the left values equal justice, I wonder if we can expect widespread condemnation of the Press Secretary under LBJ during Vietnam. A war that was started based upon a non-existent attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. A war that caused the deaths of nearly 60,000 US soldiers. On the day of Snow's death, another diary was recommended which discussed that Press Secretary, Bill Moyers. Since these are politically sophisticated people, and they claim to value honesty over everything else, I expected the diary to bring up the parallels between Snow and Moyers, Bush and LBJ, and Vietnam and Iraq.

No such luck, the piece was to praise Moyers and those who commented upon the diary heaped all kinds of praise on him, calling him a "national treasure" and "a gem". The press secretary during the most disastrous American war was being praised by the same people who condemned Tony Snow on the day of his passing.