AP memorializes Tony Snow thus:

With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster’s good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook — if not always a command of the facts — he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.

Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but part of why Tony was such a force was because he really shook up the press office in terms of getting facts to the American people. Americans didn’t know about successes on the ground in Iraq and they ought to, was Snow’s attitude. At the time, it seemed new thinking.

So the AP gets points this morning in the nasty, unnecessary, and off categories.

UPDATE: And the New York Times …