Over at NewsBusters K. Daniel Glover has his knickers in an uproar because, in his opinion, YouTube didn’t follow the script he thought their editors should have with the passing of Tony Snow.

– and he takes exception to this video being one of the featured YouTube videos

I gotta tell ya, my first thought on reading Glover’s piece was ‘did I really just read a Conservative writer calling for political correctness?‘

– but to address the question, I don’t think that we do always have to give our condolences when someone passes away, nor do I necessarily think that we should stay shut up if we don’t have anything “good” to say.

Whether I agree with him, or his boss, Tony Snow was very good at his job. He stood in front of the cameras in full public view, and with a straight face, and sincere voice, spun the information the Bush administration told him to spin in a very competent manner, and he did the exactly the same thing (equally well) when he was guest hosting the Rush Limbaugh show.

To quote Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (for those of you who have forgotten al-Sahhaf was the Iraqi Information Minister who when asked why he said the things he did in the face of sure and certain evidence that they were false and/or misleading said), he was “a professional, doing his job”

With the great amount of knowledge he obviously had at his disposal, Tony Snow willingly and knowingly helped to mislead the American people, helped to sell an unnecessary and misbegotten war through spin and deception, and defended the Bush administration like the trooper that Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf also was; I (to put in kindly) don’t think Snow was very long on either honour or moral fiber, and I do not believe that given what he did there is anything wrong with saying that.

– anything else, including staying shut up, is revisionism.