Tony 'deer-in-the-headlights' Snow on Civil Rights

Crooks and Liars has a great video of Tony Snow talking about the proposed federal marriage amendment. It seems that Snow forgot to read the Rove handbook about not using the words "same-sex marriage" and "civil rights" in the same sentence.

Tony Snow signaled that Bush considers an amendment barring same-sex marriage a "civil rights" matter, then stumbled when asked to define civil rights...

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.

Read the transcript