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11:20 AM ET, April 26, 2006

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Melissa Drosjack / Fox News:
Sources: Tony Snow to Be Named White House Press Secretary  —  WASHINGTON — Tony Snow will be named new White House press secretary on Wednesday morning, FOX News has learned.  Snow is expected to be at the White House for the announcement.  He has been mulling the offer for the last several days.
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Associated Press:
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 …
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.
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 …
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
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Taps Snow As New Press Secretary  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush on Wednesday named conservative commentator Tony Snow as White House press secretary, putting a new face on a troubled administration.  —  Snow, a Fox news pundit and former speechwriter in the White House under Bush's father …
Discussion: The Green Knight
Washington Post:
Bush Calls For Probe Of Rising Gas Prices  —  President to Also Divert Oil Reserves, Ease Pollution Rules  —  With gas prices expected to hover at record highs through summer, President Bush yesterday called for price-fixing investigations and several measures aimed at holding down the fast-rising costs of driving.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Takes Steps to Ease Increase in Energy Prices
Discussion: Economist's View
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
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.
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.
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
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 …
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.
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Rush's million-dollar conflict?  —  WASHINGTON — An Englewood community center founded by Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), a key player on telecommunications legislation, received a $1 million grant from the charitable arm of SBC/AT&T, one of the nation's largest phone companies.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
GOP Blocks Measures Boosting Taxes on Oil Companies' Profits  —  Provisions Passed by Senate Would Raise About $5 Billion  —  While Republican leaders sharply criticize soaring gasoline prices and energy industry profits, GOP negotiators have decided to knock out provisions in a major tax bill …
Discussion: Air America Radio and Bring it On!
 
 
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