From today’s White House press briefing with Tony Snow:

MR. SNOW: I’ll call on you next, Helen. Go ahead.
Q Does the White House and the President share that same gut feeling?
MR. SNOW: I don’t want to try to get into gastrointestinal descriptions.

Snippets of questions from today’s White House news briefing with Tony Snow:

Q: I need to correct the record, Tony, because you quoted me and you quoted me incorrectly.
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Q: I sent you an email — if you want to talk about our email exchanges — I sent you an email talking about the mounting criticism on the Hill.
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Q Sorry, I didn’t email you on this. There’s an interesting story in The Washington Post about tunnels in Iran near their nuclear sites. Does the administration have any confirmation on this…

From the AP: 

The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush’s decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

“I don’t know what Arkansan is for chutzpah, but this is a gigantic case of it,” presidential spokesman Tony Snow said.

From today’s White House news briefing with Tony Snow:

Dick Lugar had some pretty strong words — he also criticized those who we have criticized in the past. What’s interesting is, I don’t recall getting this kind of questioning when Joe Lieberman wrote, the surge is working.

A great, none-too-subtle jab by Tony Snow today against Bill Clinton’s war on terrorism:

Q On the Mideast peace process in general, does the President have any regrets that early in his administration he didn’t engage more fully in the process and maybe that has backfired?

MR. SNOW: I think what the President did early on was make it clear that we’re not going to deal with terrorists. Yasser Arafat, as you know, was in power. He had been the most frequent visitor to this White House in the previous administration. And President Clinton I think had expressed considerable exasperation about the lack of returns for it. What the President had done was maintain a sense of moral clarity about who you’re going to deal with.

From today’s White House news briefing with Tony Snow:

MR. SNOW: We are a little bit concerned about some reports on the Internet that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, in a conversation with liberal bloggers, had referred to General Pete Pace, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, as incompetent, and apparently, again according to the reports, had said disparaging things also about General David Petraeus. We certainly hope it’s not true, because in a time of war, for a leader of a party that says it supports the military, it seems outrageous to be issuing slanders toward the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and also the man who is responsible for the bulk of military operations in Iraq. Indeed, Senator Reid has, at some point, declared the war lost, and also has declared the surge a failure, even though it has not yet been fully enacted. I don’t know if it’s true or not. If it is true, I certainly hope he does apologize.
Q How come you didn’t wait to find out? Why the preemptive strike?
MR. SNOW: Well, I just think it’s appropriate to comment on it.
Q Whether or not it’s true?
Q That things are outrageous, but you don’t know whether they are or not they are true.
MR. SNOW: Well, do you trust the Politico? I don’t know.

From today’s White House news briefing with Tony Snow:

Q Tony, is the watch the President displayed today the same watch from Albania?
MR. SNOW: Yes, it is — actually, it is. (Laughter.) It is — yes, he — thank you for saying that. He pointed it out to us in the Oval today. That is, in fact, the watch that he was wearing in Albania.

From today’s White House news briefing with press secretary Tony Snow:

Q On Cuba, Fidel Castro released a statement today which said, “I’m not the first, nor will it be the last, that Bush has ordered to be killed, nor one of those people who he intends to go on killing individually or en masse.”
MR. SNOW: Oh, my goodness.
Q Any concern about these incendiary remarks?
MR. SNOW: It’s Fidel Castro.

Best response to Al Gore’s book?  Tony Snow:

Unfortunately, the former Vice President probably has been listening to people who have deliberately misled him. The President has made it clear over and over and over that there was no relationship between Saddam Hussein and September 11th. And again, from my own personal experience, when we would go on the day of the State of the Union address — the State of the Union address in 2002 I guess, or 2003, the question arose, “Do you think that Saddam is linked to September 11th?” The President said, no, we have no intelligence to link Saddam directly to September 11th. So he has never tried to make that tie.

And what the Vice President is doing — it’s been tried by a lot of other people — which is to take something the President hasn’t said, expose it as a “lie” and then beat him up for it. The President told the truth. So I don’t know — I don’t know if they’re going to do a reprinting of the book to try to get the facts straight; fact checkers may have to take a look at it. These are highly complex publishing issues, and I can’t be an expert on them.

From today’s White House press briefing with Tony Snow:

Q Did the President watch the television thing with the Republicans last night?
MR. SNOW: I’m almost certain he did not, but I don’t know.
Q This is the second time — isn’t he interested in Republican gatherings?
MR. SNOW: Yes.
Q He is. But why — this is the second time in a row. A lot of other people watched it. Why didn’t the President?
MR. SNOW: Do you watch every episode of “American Idol”? (Laughter.)