15 July 2008

Scott McClellan did not kill Tony Snow

Here's a new crazy theory out of the right: Scott McClellan caused Tony Snow's death.

Tony Snow, of course, is the former White House press secretary who had replaced Scott McClellan at the press room podium.

McClellan went on to write his recently released book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception, which is quite critical of the Bush administration.

Meanwhile, Snow's colon cancer got the best of him, and he died on July 12.

Coincidence? Surely.

But some people apparently disagree.

In the checkout line yesterday at my local supermarket, I overheard a middle-aged couple discussing Snow's death. I heard the man tell his wife, "That crazy book of lies from that whining traitor Scott McClellan probably aggravated Tony Snow's condition."

As if that's not enough, he went on to speculate that the Dems would reward McClellan accordingly. "Hussein Obama will prolly make him the vice president for that," he guessed.

I briefly and discreetly glanced his way to get a sense of whether or not he might actually be joking. He wasn't.

I bit my tongue and kept quiet. You cannot reason with some people.

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous7:58 PM

    There are over 300 million people in this country and you say you heard one of them make this comment. Somehow this represents a "theory out of the right".
    At first I thought you might be joking with this blog. You aren't. That is scary.

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