You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe

Seems the Russians aren't the only ones backsliding.

Snow, Live and Uncensored

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Speaking of quotes, Snow is the featured story this month for Cincinnati Gentlemen, a year-old publication that says it's "Cincinnati's Lifestyle Magazine for Men." A caricature of Snow is on the cover, which says: "From Cincinnati to '1600.' " The headline goes on to say, "He Speaks For The White House; He Talks With Us."

Actually, Snow, a hometown boy, was still at Fox News on April 3, when he gave a 2 1/2 -hour interview to the magazine's editor, Greg Hoard . That may be why he seemed so candid in his comments. Our favorites:

On the Middle East: "You've got a lot of these sheikdoms and monarchies that simply can't stand. Saudi Arabia is going to collapse. That's going to be a big problem."

On former president Bill Clinton : "Bill Clinton settled for being popular. In that sense he was more student council president than American president and it's a real shame. What a waste of talent."

On Hillary Rodham Clinton : "Hillary? Hillary doesn't connect with people."

On National Public Radio, which Snow has worked for: "One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling , you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes."

Where Have We Seen Him Before?

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Back on Dec. 9, the Army News Service, part of the Army public affairs operation, published a story on its Web site headlined: "Coalition forces keep streets of Iraq safe." The article says soldiers search for weapons and insurgents. "The searches are thorough, yet the Soldiers still respect people's rights and property."

There's a picture of a soldier, identified as Pfc. Steven Green , about to fire his shotgun to blast a lock off the gate of an abandoned home.

The Army apparently discovered this week that this was the same Steven Green cashiered for a personality disorder and now charged with raping and killing a young Iraqi woman and killing her parents and little sister in March.

The December story is still on the Web site, but the picture has been removed and the text has been expanded to fill in the gap.

An Army spokesman said yesterday that officials removed the photograph from the story to make it easier for people to find Green's picture on the Army Web site.