memeorandum @ 11:35 AM ET, April 26, 2006

11:35 AM ET, April 26, 2006

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Text: President Bush and Tony Snow — news://newsclip.ap.org/WHGH10104261333@ news.ap.org — Text of President Bush's announcement Wednesday naming Tony Snow as — new White House press secretary, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions. — BUSH: Good morning.

CNN:

Snow takes White House job — Fox News analyst replaces McClellan as press secretary — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush announced his new White House press secretary on Wednesday: former Fox News host Tony Snow. — "As a professional journalist, Tony Snow understands the importance …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Wonkette and protein wisdom

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Tony Snow to Be White House Press Secretary — Fox News commentator Tony Snow was named White House press secretary today after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates, people familiar with the discussions said.

Discussion: Hugh Hewitt, The Washington Note, Middle Earth Journal and The Left Coaster

Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:

Fox News's Snow on Verge of Being White House Press Secretary — Fox News commentator Tony Snow has decided to accept the White House press secretary's job after top officials assured him that he would be not just a spokesman but an active participant in administration policy debates …

Discussion: Hotline On Call, The Moderate Voice, Dean's World, Outside The Beltway, Firedoglake, The RCP Blog, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Bark Bark Woof Woof, NewsBusters.org, The Reaction, Done With Mirrors and BitsBlog

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Fox News Commentator Joins White House — WASHINGTON, April 25 — Tony Snow, the Fox News radio and television commentator, has agreed to become the White House press secretary and could be officially named to the post as early as Wednesday, administration officials said on Tuesday.

Discussion: Norwegianity and Air America Radio

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Picks Fox Commentator as Spokesman

Discussion: Think Progress and The Rude Pundit

Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Taps Snow As New Press Secretary

Discussion: The Green Knight

Michelle Malkin:
MEET THE NEW WH PRESS SEC'Y

Discussion: Associated Press, The Wide Awake Cafe, Stop The ACLU, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, The Corner on National … and Outside The Beltway

Washington Post:
Bush Begins Push for Immigration Deal With Congress

Discussion: ParaPundit, Riehl World View and TAPPED

Media Matters for America:
Suggested questions for the White House press corps to ask on Tony Snow's first day

Discussion: Hit and Run, The Carpetbagger Report and State of the Day

David E. Sanger / New York Times:

Bush Takes Steps to Ease Increase in Energy Prices — WASHINGTON, April 25 — President Bush announced a series of short-term steps on Tuesday intended to ease the rise in energy prices, including a suspension of government purchases to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve …

Discussion: JustOneMinute and Economist's View

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Brad Foss / Associated Press:
Oil, Gas Prices Drop on Bush Supply Move

Discussion: The Strata-Sphere, The Moderate Voice, MSNBC, Blue Crab Boulevard and Outside The Beltway

Pat Cleary / ShopFloor.org:
Gas Prices Outpaced Only by the Rhetoric

Discussion: Washington Post, tcsdaily.com, Power Line, Instapundit.com and Knowledge Problem

Washington Post:

Bad Targeting — CIA Director Porter Goss has been busy chasing press leaks. It's easier than improving U.S. intelligence. — IF CIA OFFICIALS leaked information about the agency's secret prisons to The Post's Dana Priest, then the American public owes them a debt of gratitude.

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, The Carpetbagger Report, TAPPED and The Corner on National …

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Confederate Yankee:
Chamber Pot Pulitzer

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Associated Press:

CIA Leak Prosecutor Goes to Grand Jury — WASHINGTON - Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald early Wednesday went before a federal grand jury looking into the leak of the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie Plame. — It is believed to be only the second session the prosecutor …

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Opinion Journal:

Our Rotten IntelligenCIA — To media partisans, some leaks are more equal than others. — Fired CIA officer Mary O. McCarthy went on offense Monday, denying through her lawyer that she has done anything wrong. But the agency is standing by its claim that she was dismissed last week because she …

Discussion: Riehl World View, Blue Crab Boulevard, Cold Fury, protein wisdom and PrairiePundit

Washington Post:

Rumsfeld and Rice Make Unannounced Visit to Iraq — BAGHDAD, April 26-Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced joint visit to Iraq Wednesday to bolster the new emerging government and to ensure that the sometimes disjointed U.S. political …

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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Senate Panel Considers Hearing on Rumsfeld

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report, Riehl World View and Bloomberg

Digby / Hullabaloo:

101st Fighting Keyboarder Uniforms — Whenever you visit a rightwing site, you are sure to see "those" tshirts. I saw an ad for them on the Washington Times the other day. Now, I know that wingnuts have great sense of humor as you can tell by the huge number of successful comedians and humorists on the right.

Discussion: The Mahablog, James Wolcott, Middle Earth Journal, Dependable Renegade and The All Spin Zone

Bruce Kesler / Editor and Publisher:

Is the Press Covering the Iraq War On the Cheap? — The media needs to send more "troops" to cover the war and provide much-needed coverage. What's stopping them? Fear of violence, certainly, but also limits on training and insurance. Joe Galloway also notes the military's "growing resistance" to embeds.

Discussion: QandO and Blue Crab Boulevard

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Bush, senators agree on alien citizenship, shut out critics — President Bush and a group of senators yesterday reached general agreement on an immigration bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for many illegal aliens. — But left out of the closed-door White House meeting were senators who oppose a path to citizenship.

Discussion: Right Wing News, Captain's Quarters and Church and State