Speculation's High, and So Am I

Salon's War Room is already grinding through rumors of possible replacements to just-banished-from-the-island Scott McClellan--with FoxNews' Tony Snow at the top of the list. The War Room's Tim Grieve offers a few highlights from SnowJob:

In an appearance on Fox earlier this year, Snow claimed that Valerie Plame wasn't a covert CIA officer at the time the Bush administration blew her cover, adding "ven her husband says she wasn't covert for six years." Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, has never said any such thing.

In a posting to his blog, Snow said that the White House ought to send flowers and chocolates to the New York Times reporters who broke the warrantless spying story. Snow said the reporters had "saved the Bush presidency" by revealing that the president was doing such a good job of keeping tabs on al-Qaida, and he suggested that the story would work to Bush's political and polling advantage. Engaging in exactly the sort of false-choice argument had made repeatedly, Snow wrote: "If we try to fight the war on terror with eyes shut and ears packed with wax, innocent people will die."

In a column following the ice president's shooting of Harry Whittington, Snow said reporters who pressed for answers were "fools" who had forgotten "the importance of behaving like human beings, rather than velociraptors." He added: "Most of us have tasted the milk of human kindness, and thus incline to support victims of unforeseen hardships or tragedies, and Dick Cheney clearly fell into that category. He was a man in distress."