Over at The Left Coaster, Steve Soto has a commentary about the hiring transfer of Tony Snow from Fox News to the White House:

Tony Snow was announced as the new White House press secretary this morning, in a move that gives me less heartburn than probably other people. I'll have more on this later in the morning, but to have a conservative spinmeister and apologist be your new mouthpiece, for an administration that treats the press as nothing more than extensions of their propaganda operation, doesn't seem out of line to me.

Sure, he has little credibility, but when did that matter?

Snow is the perfect choice, as he is better looking, more glib, and likely able to charm a few more dupes in the press corps than Scott McClellan was. The major difference I see is that by some accounts, McClellan was bothered by the lying and spinning that was a part of his daily job, and he actually cared about his integrity.

Snow has no such qualms about the job, as he is a political hack, through and through, and will enjoy bringing the Fox News approach to the this White House, where the line between objective fact and political disinformation has never existed in the first place.

I do agree with Steve about Snow and the WH Press Corpse. Snow has little credibility outside the rather small and diseased world of the mouth-breathing followers of Fascist News. Except for the two Davids from MSNBC, they are brain dead robots so used to taking down stenography as publishing it as “news” that I’m surprised their corporate masters don’t shitcan them and just type their corporate bylines and logos on top of the WH press handout. They could thereby save some bucks, and pay the upper management assholes some larger bonuses. D. Shuster and D. Gregory, however, are well worth the sums they are paid, as well as Helen Thomas, who should be enshrined, like Mother Theresa. The three of them actually spend some time thinking about the questions they pose, and the answers returned are carefully dissected and examined to weed out the fertilizer, which of course, provides the followup question.

Thinking, examination, and followup are unknown techniques in the American news business these days. It’s much more important to have a telegenic face and manageable hair than a brain.

The interesting dynamic here surrounds Snow’s former and future employer, and Snow’s relationship with competitors in the press corps. In essence, Roger Ailes was able to convince Rove and Bush that their problems weren’t with policy, but with packaging and selling those policies.

The White House has formally turned its media operation over to Fox News now, as the state-sponsored media operation, as if this were a banana republic. But if you are CNN or MSNBC, and you have spent the last five years aping Fox News in a stupid attempt to go after the same audience, how much access will you be getting now from the White House? And didn’t your strategy for these last five years just hit the toilet?

Watch for a surge of desperation from Certainly Not News and MSGOP before the rot caused by further loss of ratings gets a few $1 Million suits fired due to the loss of advertising revenue. It’s entirely possible Ted Turner may end up as a “consultant” to CNN, and that will create a barn-burner.

All it takes is someone with the brains and testes to realize how outraged Americans are by this pack of lying, thieving criminals. They’re waiting for a 21st century Howard Beale to lead them out of the desert.