Snow decried the “vicious, personal and sometimes unfocused warfare between Democrats and Republicans, or the press corps and the political class.”
“People at home are saying to themselves: ‘This isn’t what I remember when I was looking at the civics book,’ ” he said. “People still have a more exalted view of what government ought to be.”
Snow said he will try to uphold that view.
“I’ve had people blast me because I’m too squishy, I’m too nice, all that sort of stuff,” he said. “Well, yeah, OK, I’ll take that. I think it’s time” for more congeniality.
“And you’ve seen the president take a lot of blows on the chin because he doesn’t want to ball up his fist and knock people’s teeth out,” he added. “There’s an opportunity to make people — even people who disagree with us — feel really good about the whole thing.”
Snow said he is particularly excited about taking the job in today’s media environment.
“My view of the press right now is that we’re living in the Wild West, and it’s pretty exciting,” he said. “Because the old sheriff used to be ABC, NBC, CBS. Now you’ve got networks, you’ve got cable, you’ve got talk radio, you’ve got the blogosphere.
“The blogosphere has never quite gotten its due, and sooner or later it will,” he said. “But you’ve got pouring information in from everywhere. So you grab your surfboard and get on top of the wave rather than underneath it.”
Let 'er rip!
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