Welcome to a community supported and guest-produced edition of the Best of the Left Podcast with clips

today from Countdown with Keith Alderman, Ring of Fire, The Sam Seater Show, The Young Turks,

and a speech by John F. Kennedy.

When Tony Snow from Fox News became the official spokesman for the Bush White House emphasis

on the word official, he drew a distinction between himself and his predecessors assuring

Americans that he would be in the loop, and that he was taking the job because he would

have the super double-secret access needed to do the job properly.

And our fourth-storing countdown did Snow really get that access?

When he first started, he won praise for his candor about not knowing stuff, but he's

now been there eight months, and singer-later, I don't know, loses the charm of awe-shocks

ma'am and moves closer to, well, what do you know?

In fact, Dana Milbank in the Washington Post today counts more than 400 times Mr. Snow

has said, I don't know, from that famous podium.

That's this week we've scored more than a dozen.

I don't know, I just don't know, so I don't know, I honestly don't know, oh, I don't

know.

When it comes to Snow's eye to nose, Iraq looms large.

Neither he nor I know exactly when hostilities will cease in Iraq.

Well, they discuss in particular the Baker Hamilton report.

I don't know.

Did you want involved in these meetings read the full report?

I don't know.

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