Tony Snow to Undergo New Surgery

We pray his cancer has not returned.

White House Press Spokesman Tony Snow will undergo surgery on Monday to "remove a growth in his lower abdomen, a procedure he said was being done "out of an aggressive sense of caution" because he had colon cancer two years ago. "

Like Elizabeth Edwards, we wish Tony well.

In yesterday's post on Edwards, I mentioned that a liberal commenter at Marie's Two Cents insisted that both left and right wings of the political spectrum have "fringe" elements. Nothing like a little moral equivalency to absolve liberals of any responsibility for the actions of their nutroots.

As mentioned yesterday, you'd be hard pressed to find mainstream conservative web sites with commenters showing any animosity towards the tragedy which has befallen the Edwards' family.

Does the left show the same compassion for Tony Snow?

You decide.

Starting with the very first comment....

The Huffington Post
Tony Snow To Undergo Surgery For Abdomen Growth
March 23, 2007

• "Unfortunately, as we've seen the last couple of days, cancer knows no political party."
• "Tony may be a BushCo whore"
• "Tony Snow to Undergo Burn Treatments For Repeated Pantaloon Incineration"
• "Hopefully he can use this surgery to leave his WH post and successfully rescue any career he has left in legitimate journalism. "
• "Funny, I was thinking Snow didn't look that well - I assumed it was just the pressure of working for a bunch of assholes."
• "Everyone keep your comments nice and polite. We wouldn't want Ann Coulter or Rush Limbaugh to express outrage for us huffposters saying something mean about Tony. Just kidding....Tony Snow is giving birth to Dick Cheney's alien-baby as we speak!"
• "Tony Snow is a piece of shit, for sure. His punishment should be the shame that is justifiably heaped on a spokesman for the most venal and vicious administration in memory. Cancer is not part of the equation. Let us proceed with grace and with charity. [Mike's America: WTF????]If we root for him to suffer with cancer, then we ourselves will have a gnawing cancer in our guts and it will prevent us from doing the difficult work of exposing the lies, and dishonesty of the Party of Bush."

Sorry, but that's just a sampling from the opening comments. I just can't read anymore of that filth.There are a few begging their fellow libsters to "try and be human beings here" But it's clear that too many of them have what the last comment cited as "gnawing cancer in our guts" directed at the Bush Administration.

Since when did HATE become a point of view? When did bile substitute for judgement? Chalk this up to yet another documented case of the differences in outlook, attitudes and MATURITY of adherents to two competing philosophies.