True North

Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions as a FOX News television and radio host, has died after a long bout with cancer. He was 53.

This weekend will bring many personal tributes, but allow me just a minor example.  At the 2004 Republican convention, when I had been blogging for less than a year, I was introduced to Tony almost accidentally.   I was shocked when he knew my blog, and maybe even more shocked at how he treated me — as a colleague, an equal in an arena where most of us bloggers felt like Cindarella among ten thousand stepsisters.