I'll state this right up front so the reader may be aware. This diary is a RANT about Tony Snow.
Nixon died, Reagan died, Jesse Helms died and now Tony Snow has died and then these people are praised as good and honorable men. I don't get it. Is it because some people are afraid of dying themselves? Well I'm not afraid of dying. I'm living with AIDS and the fear of dying has long since left me. I'm unafraid to tell you what I really think of someone like Tony Snow.
I don't rejoice when anyone dies. Hell, I'm against capital punishment. But I'm not going to say nice things about someone after they're gone if I'm not willing to say nice things about them while they are still here.
Here's a list (feel free to add to the list) of people still alive that I won't say anything nice about now.
George Bush war criminal
Dick Cheney war criminal
Condoleeza Rice war criminal
Donald Rumsfeld war criminal
Douglas Feith war criminal
Paul Wolfowitz war criminal
These people are the worst kind of human beings. I'll say it now, and I'll say it when they're gone. They've started wars that killed tens of thousands of people to include thousands of totally innocent women and children. I'll say it again, these are the worst types of human beings.
Others on my list that have aided and abetted the above listed war criminals include:
Bill O'Reilly
Sean Hannity,
Rush Limbaugh,
Ann Coulter,
Michelle Malkin, and many many more.
It strikes me as either disingenuous or disfunctional that diaries go up on this and other websites after someone like Jesse Helms or Tony Snow dies, to show how good the person was, without saying anything about how despicable they were. Why is that? Are we trying to prove something? Like we're better than "them"? We're not.
Those diaries seem like "spin" themselves, and proof we're just as capable as "they" are at spinning the truth. I've read the comments, and thankfully we do have some honest people on this site, who like me, will tell it like it is or was. But too many users on this site are too eager to only point out the good and not the bad. And that's spinning just like Tony Snow did in his short life.
The slimy people listed above, and yes Tony Snow would have been on this list had I wrote it yesterday, deserve none of our sympathy in life or death. No one has to rejoice that anyone has died, but neither should we sugarcoat and "spin" their despicable lives.