WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning Monday.
CNN president Jon Klein announced that Snow, a long-time political observer with a longstanding news background, will contribute to CNN as the network continues to broadcast winning political coverage.
Snow most recently served as press secretary to President Bush. For 10 years, beginning in 1996, he appeared on Fox News Channel as the host of Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live with Tony Snow and other programs. Before joining Fox, Snow served as a substitute "From the Right" co-host for CNN's Crossfire.
Snow has also been a newspaper writer, radio host and columnist, and a speechwriter in the administration of the first President Bush.
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Oh my God! This explains why CNN has become so conservative and pro-Hillary lately.
Good, maybe he can answer the question "what the heck did Bush do (or not do) to ruin our economy and what signs do we look for in the future to avoid morons like that becoming president?"
Now CNN will have one more right wing republican voice to their chorus / spin machine;
Good move CNN. I've always liked Snow, he also seems more moderate than you're portaying him as.
Who cares
Obama 08
Well we can see where CNN is going. This is why the news is just entertainment now. Most of the anchors are all from the white house regardless of anyone's administration. We have got to start digging deeper and finding news elsewhere because the cable news shows are just pure entertainment.
How can some one who worked and lied for Bush can get a job at CNN?????!!!! – you sold out and should join Fox News
why Oh why does CNN waste it time on such folk? Yet another reason me for me to turn away from CNN news.
Tony snow is a Bush Admin mouth piece.
Please bring in more objective and centrist folk.
Jawahar Rajan
Wow...just what CNN needs. Another "independent" journalist. Everybody watch now as Tony Snow transforms into Lou Dobbs II before your eyes.
What ever happened to real journalists? Independent, objective, hardnose reporters are needed. Not another "commentator" telling half the story.
Well, that's odd.
Wonder why Fox Noise didn't welcome him back into the fold?
I guess it was time to find a new job.
I can only imagine how "Fair and Balanced" his work for CNN will be.. how can you take a presidential press secretary and allow him to be a mouthpiece for the administration under the name of news.. ?
Who G A S! Please do a report on how the oil companies are ripping us off. What about the sentiment in America to bring our troops home and end the war??????
This is the clear sign yet CNN is moving towards right of the center...
I am all for MSNBC now. Good bye CNN
Conservative? really? nah....
(this is a snark)
Let's see if Mr. Snow can have a less arrogant style working for CNN, and it would also be nice if he was more honest.
Just what CNN needs–to be like Fox News.
Welcome Tony Snow! Nice to see I only hope you get the fair and balance respect from the staff at the Clinton News Network.
I think he should snake his way back to the old Sly Fox.
WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU GUYS ALLOW THIS IDIOT TO BE A MEMBER OF SUCH A GREAT NEWS TEAM! i have no problem with cnn having more conservitive ppl on their team but c'mon! this was a bush "yes" man his entire career!!! man i'm sorry cnn..but you might lose me as a viewer over this one....and i'm a cnn fanatic!
This is just GREAT!!!!!! Tony Snow is just one of the best journalist around.
George S. of ABC needs to take notes from Tony Snow rather than from Sean Hannity (the guy who dropped out of college multiple times because "he did not not have money").
There goes the neighborhood!
Thank God for C Span!
I used to watch "CNN", but now I think I have to quit doing that.Mr. Snow is exactly that ,....."A SNOW job"- What time is he on? This way I'll make sure NOT to watch!!!
CNN is going down the drain fast-first Nancy-Lou-Glenn and now Tony. Maybe they should change the name from CNN to Faux2.
Why would CNN hire anyone from the Bush Administration, especially someone who's job was to put out the misinformation from that discredited group working from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? He belongs over at Fox, as does Glenn Beck. Come on CNN!
I like Tony Snow–good man. Welcome to CNN
WHY???
What delightful news!
Why would any honorable news organization hire Tony Snow?
His previous job was to stand up there and lie!
I knew CNN was titling towards FOX NEWS Journalism, and this proves based on the its coverage of the primaries, online news stories and employees that CNN is no longer an independent respected NEWS Agency!
The problem is, CNN, missed the BOAT, BUSH Will be OUt, Obama will win the presidency and MSNBC will be the new cable news KING!.......
Enjoy being the mouth piece of the FAR RIGHT for the next few months.....
Hillary has done more to advance the candidacy of McCain than any republican ever could. She has declared him a better Commander in Chief than Obama (who will beat her in the primaries), and she has successfully ebbed the wave of "Obamamania," a feat which McCain does not possess the charisma nor personal magnetism, nor connection with his fellow republicans to have been able to accomplish. In her selfish, "me first and forget everyone else" campaign she will both lose the race to become the democratic front runner, and has jeopardized her party's chances to win. Way to go Hillary, way to go!!!
He will deliver such biased news. He twists everything while talking to reports. I hope he isn't given a high-up position.
First CNN becomes the Hillary network. Now this. Snow has been soiled with the Karl Rove wand too long to have any credibility left.
Look out on your right, Faux News!
MSNBC, anyone?
And the CIA has officially taken over our major news media outlets. Sigh.
You must be brain dead if you think CNN is backing Hillary. Do you not have ears. Every story that comes through CNN is Pro Obama. They want him to win because they know he can not defeat McCAIN>
Great. Like CNN needed more conservative commentators. CNN is so skewed to the right anymore, they're getting dangerously close to FOX. Conservative talking points is what they take their cues from.
How is this news? Does CNN report on the new jobs of all WH staffers? Or is this self-serving free publicity?
CNN is the best but I don't know about hiring Tony Snow. I know he's smart but in whose interest is he going to working against.
Time for me to start watching MSNBC.....
Great!!! Now CNN can become a "fair and balanced" like Fox News -shame on you!!!!
Great, like CNN doesn't have enough right wing anti-Obama folks on board.
CNN offers a position to Tony Snow? Mr. Snow is a disgraceful propagandist with no credibility. CNN's credibility has been diminished greatly. I'll turn him and CNN off immediately.
Who is next for CNN..Rush Slimebaugh...We need someone who can lie better than Tony Snow..Looks like MSNBC is the only "Fair and Balanced"
News network LEFT!!!
Seriously, CNN? Tony Snow? What, FNC had already snatched up Karl Rove so you went for the next worse thing?
all the more reason to stop watching cnn...
The moderators of this story are going to take the COMMENT option away once they see how people are reacting to this.....lol!
STOP CENSORING FREE SPEECH.........
But I thought he had to quit because he needed time to recover from the cancer he got because of all the LYING he's done.
Or was that just another lie???
Who makes these decisions?? This is one more reason to turn off CNN....good bye!
Glad to see you are working with CNN, you will do an excellent job and contribute a lot. Maybe you can put in a word for Ed Gordon who deserves a break and who is multi-talented and truly a gifted newsman,
Has anyone heard this guy talk on the O'Reilly radio show? He fills in for O'Reilly and man is he dull. I will not be watching much CNN going forward – Fox for now on.
Nice work, CNN. You hadn't fully morphed into Fox News until now.
Is he taking the position of Richard Quest, the CNN contributor who was just arrested for possession of meth in Central Park?
Now we will find out what is meant by a "Snow job."
Conversative commentator that worked for Faux News? Who knew?
How dare CNN hire someone who isn't a Liberal! You just don't get it, you must be a liberal before you can become a journalist.
speechwriter in the administration of the first President Bush? Well he should write for this bush too. I know working for Bush may gave him some clues and he will support Obama. Welcome to the right place for the news.
This is just awful!! Why didn't he go back to FOX!!!!!
TONY SNOW + CNN = ? R THEY THINKING ?
if you continue to slant the news coverage in favor of the republicans and hiring bush adminstration lackeys like tony snow i will be watching you less and less.
I have turned away from CNN the past couple of months as they have been great Hillary supporters. I had always thought of CNN as "Fair and Balanced", but not anymore.
This is going to put them over the top. See Ya.
That's great! It proves that CNN is fair and balanced and has some diversity to its news staff. Way to go!
So, it now looks like FoxNews and CNN are merging. Great new for the Republican propaganda machine.
Obama 08
Jack Caffery was fired? Great News.
Gosh... what a shame. With so many bright, well educated journalists outthere, you would think that CNN could grab one of them. Oh, well...
Guess CNN needs another Lou Dobbs !!
Right wing fundamentalists who appeal to a disspearing demographic ..at longitudinally over time
Whats the Big Deal about he is liar..by the way isnt there a scandal going on with Hired Guns of this administration posing as New Commentators on various networks.....CNN SNN SIN it all the same...
Pretty soon CNN will be just like Fox. Time to start getting all my news from the BBC. Aargh.
How many liars do we need making conservative commentary, CNN?
Cnn is getting finally smarter with the addition of Snow. I'm no Bush fan but honestly, after this primary crazyness, we need a sane conservative voice at CNN instead of the liberal tilt toward Obama that is sinking this ship.
Glen Beck, Nancy Grace, and now Tony Snow. Has Rupert Murdock taken over CNN, too?
Snow is great. Good move, CNN.
To Bad CNN you could have done better, a right wing neo-con!
Tony Snow will be truthful no matter what channel he reports for. He has a fine understanding of liberal and conservative thought. Perhaps I will be able to stand CNN with Snow aboard.
why does our cnn let in a neocon like snow
shame on you
hopefully snow wont be there long
go obama
Wonderful, I love Tony Snow and he is objective, just what CNN needs.
Billary must be jumping off her chair she is officially joining the Conservative Republican club of Rush L and Ann Coulter..
evenr McCain is not as republican as billary
TONY !!!! Have you no shame ??
CNN is somewhere to the LEFT of Al Jazeera
Just what we need another Conservative newscaster, labeled as "Independent." No wonder viewers are flocking away from listening to the Mainstream Media.
Mr. Snow will hopefully add some konservative balance to CNN.
first glenn beck, now Tony Snow–did Rupert Murdock buy CNN while I slept? Enough is enough-no more watching CNN for me.
Its bad enough I have to listen to Lou Dobbs....now this blow hard>
Its time to start watching MSNBC
I commend CNN for adding Snow – they need more conservative commentators to balance the legion of liberal ones they have.
Was he tired of being fair and balanced?
in order to help CNN's ratings they are trying to integrate some moderates instead of all their leftist loons.
YUCK!!!
How about a real Liberal commentator and not just middle-right who call themselves libs.
WHAT? WHY?Aren't there enough right wing hacks on Fox and talk radio? Snow lost all credibility as a journalist when he became an enable if not downright liar for the Bush administration!!!!
Hmm. What would a paid liar be doing working at an established news organization?
Oh, never mind. It was a purely rhetorical question. Most journalists in the mainstream media are paid liars these days.
FANTASTIC, CNN finally gets it, in spite of being a Bamamaniac platform.
This is crazy! Why add him, they don't need him. He wuill NOT attract new viewers so what is the point? We live in crazy times.
CNN could definitly use the pointers on the difference between reportive journalism and media corrosion.
Because CNN becoming just like Fox News is just what everyone's been hoping to see. Hooray for more news organizations that are nothing more than right wing mouthpieces!
Great addition to the team. Should bring reason and added professionalism. Look forward to him and Carville going at it.
Huh? Why?
Where will I go for news? BBC?
CNN needs the balance in their coverage. Now we will get the news not the opinions of your commentators.
The leftist are already starting to cry.
Thanks Tony,
For your part in the lie U.S. soldiers continue to commit suicides bidding farewell to their patriotism.
4000 + dead, 35,000 injuried, 120,000 civilian dead.
Thanks Tony
He may be able to be a political commentator although is wworking with the Bush admiatstration will cause smome douths about his truefullnes. This adminastration is noted for not always being truthful
Obama = MSNBC
Clinton = CNN
McCain=FoxNews
NoBody Cares what they think = ABC
Good to see CNN sinking even further into the abyss.
Oh, great – just what CNN needs; another right-wing tool to help march us into another war. Bombs away!
CNN:
PLEASE HIRE SOME JOURNALISTS.
Stop hiring commentators.
Lets see if he, Lou Dobbs, and Glenn Back combined can spit more venom and hate than O'Reilly. I seriously doubt. CNN needs to hire more hate mongers to compete with the O'Reilly factor.
GREAT MOVE ON THE PART OF CNN. MORE GLENN BECK TYPES AND LESS JOHN KING AND WOLF BLITZER CLONES. GOOD WORK
Glad to see Tony on board.
Great guy, nice to have a well spoken view from the right.
Tony is a good guy...for a Bush supporter.
Bush-Cheney 2008!!
First, Glenn Beck, then Lou Dobbs, now Tony Snow. It's the same as watching Fox. What happened to CNN's objectivity?
Why??? Why doesn't he stick with Fox News where he belongs?
Wow, Fox must be disgruntled
By the way, I totally disagree that CNN has been pro-Hillary this year. I think it has been an Obama bias that has hurt Hillary. Every day there is a new nasty headline about her. It should be even-handed coverage.
There goes the neighborhood!
Add Snow to the Pentagon/lobbyists they employ and you have the whole catastrophe called "news."
For all you whiners out there, do you not want both sides of a story. Like get a little educated about all the issues. Stoopits!
Good job CNN.
KB...you mean like George Steffinapolis getting hired by ABC. Wow there's fair and balanced. Just in time to submarine Obama for Billary. You liberals crack me up.
This is great news... it's about time the DNCs personal news service took hired someone to even the keel a bit...
Maybe this will help you move from left (at least a little closer) to center.
Well, it's not as if the conservative/neocon/war-monger side was being represented after all.
snark/off
I don't hate Tony, I think he's alright. But I gotta say, I never heard so much hate towards the conservatives. You see, we could all get along...well, it depends how you look at it, LOL!!!
Tony Snow is the LAST person I will ever watch/listen to on any subject!
CAN CNN GET ANY MORE RIGHT WING?
WE SAW IT COMING. I TURN TO FOX EACH TIME I WANT THE REAL THING.
I SUBSCRIBED TO CNN TO HAVE FAIR AND BALANCED. WHAT I GOT WAS FOX II
We were afraid of this
To much CHEMO and RADIATION can destroy the brain !!!!!
I thought they already had Lou Dobbs for misinformed comments and biaised views.
As a Republican who supports Obama, I welcome the insight Snow
will bring to this election campaign just as I enjoy the words of Amy
and Bill.
Despite Tony Snow's political views which I dont agree with –I have the utmost respect and admiration for him as an individual and his tremendous skills in the the news media arena–Excellent choice CNN !!!
I think it's a great move on the part of CNN. Snow is a breath of fresh air. As for all the raging liberals, your true colors are showing; once again protesting anyone who doesn't walk in lockstep with you.
Great, a professional spin-miester, like CNN needs another one.
I am getting of all your conservastive commentators. You are suppose to provide news, not try to change America's views.
WOW... CNN is now offcially DONE.
No better than Fox News.
Just one more sign that government is merging with media. I wonder if we'll be a full-fledged fascist country when I'm old.
It just brought the network down even further. Lou Dobbs came back and is off his meds as if he really represents us. Alot of viewers think he is speaking for them but this guy whines but what does he "ACTIVELY" do to make change that he is constantly complaining about??? NOTHING
First they bring back Campbell Brown, big mistake, she is no better than Paula Zahn who left.
Bernard Shaw: "... CNN continues to ape many of the on-air mannerisms of the Fox News Network, and I don't like that."
Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning Monday.
Foxification complete.
Thanks, CNN, for making me never watch your station again.
What a joke. I am done with CNN! This man stood up and lied to the American people about important issues for months on end. That must look really good on a resume. Good luck to the Conservative News Network.
Good.........Maybe this will be one person on CNN that's NOT in the TANK For Obama!
CNN won't post this, they never do!
Great news...not only that he's on board at CNN, but more importantly,that he's hale and healthy again. Looking forward to seeing you, Tony!
I think it'll help get CNN more viewers, so it's a good move on their part. Been a fan of Tony Snow's for awhile, even though I kinda felt bad with how much reaching he had to do in order to explain the President's policies.
He's a good guy, he'll be successful no matter where he goes. I suspect part of why he didn't go back to Fox News was to offset some of the image of Fox being in the tank for President Bush.
Tony Snow is a very good man! I wish he ran for president. He will do a good job for CNN but, why choose CNN? They are far left press.
Vote against Barack Obama in 08!
You just lost a viewer...and I'm deleting this site from my favorite list. Anyone who will hire the devil deserves to be in hell.
What time is he on? This way I'll make sure NOT to watch!!!
First it was Glenn Beck, now its Tony Snow.....who is next? Donald Rumsfeld? Lord have Mercy
I just love to watch the left nut up about such things!!
Good luck Tony.
I hope his health is good.
Otherwise, see Chris from San Antonio.
Congratulation CNN great decision.
It will be refreshing to see some balance reporting from CNN.
Question: Is CNN going to keep Glen Beck now that that have the Snowman?
I mean how many more Conservative broadcasters is CNN willing to hire? Whose next? Ann Koulter?
Whey does every news team need Left & Right wing propaganda machines?
Call me crazy, but isn't the point to get OBJECTIVE reporting?
No matter who you vote for, I think Obama is right about ending the game played with U.S politics. It's amazing we have to wade through the BS to get the non-spun story.
I know Mr. Snow has been sick and I am happy that he is recoverying. I don't want to "bruise" his spirit but he has been a puppet for the Bush Administration and looked foolish trying to white-wash Bush's highly questionable activities. I have been getting the impression that your organization is getting more and more biased and I am disappointed. You use to be my favorite news station but you have changed. Hopefully things are changing. Don't be left behind.
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I wonder how long that he will be there.
You can tell by his appearance that his cancer is starting to take affect.
Welcome to Mr. Snow; wishing him a great recovery as well. At least here, he's not gonna have to tirelessly defend failed policies of an idiotic president nor will he have to defend elitist positions of a news network in quest opf credibility (Faux News).