Tony Snow's job

Lately Bill Moyers and every other decent fringe and sometimes non-fringe journalist is blaming the media in large part for not asking the necessary questions leading up to the Iraq war. And for the past year or so, I've found the mainstream press to be far more adequate at their jobs than they were 5 years ago. Even the Daily Texan is getting some good stories. Which is why it's hard for me to ignore the possibility that all of this scares the hell out of the administration, and in a last ditch effort to get the press corps to toss them softballs, Dick Cheney has given Tony Snow cancer so everyone feels bad for him. Come on, these are the people that got a guy with no more credentials than your average male escort (Jeff Gannon, who asked "how are you going to work with these people [dems] who are so divorced from reality?") to gently blow the president in front of everyone. And we all know how Bush warms up to the press corps with his nicknames ("slim," "stretch," "blind guy," etc.). They even made Helen Thomas sit in the back and refused to call on her for awhile. So is it so far out to suspect them of giving Tony Snow cancer?