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The following is an excerpt from Tony Snow's most recent White House press briefing (held on the 24th):
MR. SNOW: [Saddam Hussein] willingly accepted the feeding tube today. It will be in, at a minimum, until Thursday. It has to be in for reasons that I don't understand for 72 hours.
Q I don't know the specifics, but how does one willingly accept a feeding tube?
MR. SNOW: I guess, you say, do you want a feeding tube? And he says, yes. And they say, okay, we're going to give you one. This apparently was a consensual feeding tubing.
Is anyone else as happy as I am that Scott McClellan has been replaced? Finally we have a White House spokesperson who has good rapport with the press corps., thinks on his feet, refuses to relinquish the dignity of his office and his boss's, keeps his official announcements skimpy on the wordage, and has an honest-to-God sense of humor. I can't believe it; reading a press briefing transcript is no longer headache-inducing. Even if the next president is a Democrat, he/she should keep this guy.