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Tony Snow Undecided on White House Press Job
Fox News Radio host Tony Snow said Thursday that he had yet to make up his mind about accepting a possible offer to succeed Scott McClellan as White House press secretary, saying his family would have "veto power" over any decision. "I will tell you what I'm doing when I have a clue [myself]," Snow told his radio audience. "That does not happen to describe my state of mind right now. I don't have a clue so I'm not going to give you any news scoops." Snow didn't deny a report that he had talked with the White House about the job and noted that if he decided to accept, they would make the announcement first. The former speechwriter for Bush 41 weighed the pros and cons on the air.
"The most attractive thing about an offer from the White House at a time like this is not the glory of being treated like a piñata by Helen Thomas, but instead, you've got to put your money where your mouth is." But Snow said the most fundamental consideration was his family.
Story Continues Below "Having been through over the last four-and-a-half years a house fire and a bout with cancer, I think my wife and kids have been through enough in the way of unusually difficult times. You'd have to be nuts not to place a great deal of stress on how this affects family." In 2005, Snow was diagnosed with colon cancer and spent several months away from the microphone recovering. The year before his house, which he was renovating, burned down. "Family gets a veto, family gets a veto," the former "Fox News Sunday" anchorman repeated, before adding, "Who wants to take a pay cut to become a piñata." Other names being floated as possible successors to McClellan include former Pentagon spokeswoman Torie Clarke and Dan Senor, former spokesman for the interim coalition government in Iraq.
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