Snow embarrasses himself on ban

Watch as Think Progress documents White House mouthpiece Tony Snow comparing the federal ban on gay marriage to "civil rights" legislation (transcript available at The Raw Story):

SNOW: Whether it passes or not, as you know, Terry, there have been a number of cases where civil rights matters have risen on a number of occasions, and they've been brought up for repeated consideration by the United States Senate and other legislative bodies ...

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Q: You mentioned civil rights. Are you comparing this to various civil rights measures which have come to the Congress over the years?

MR. SNOW: Not - well, these - it -

Q: Is this a civil right?

MR. SNOW: Marriage? It actually - what we're really talking about here is an attempt to try to maintain the traditional meaning of an institution that has maintained one meeting for - meaning for a period of centuries. And furthermore -

Q: And you would equate that with civil rights?

MR. SNOW: No, I'm just saying that I think - well, I don't know. How do you define civil rights?

Q: It's not up to me. Up to you.

MR. SNOW: Okay. Well, no, it's your question. So I - if I -

Q: (Chuckles.)

MR. SNOW: I need to get a more precise definition.

Comments

[Richard J. Palmer]

Snow stuck his foot in his mouth obviously. Civil rights are just that..rights. However, this arriage amendment is an attempt to prohibit rights from a large section of our population. They can hardly be considered the same type of thing. Tony was too long with those cretins at Fox News.