Beltway sources tell Big Head DC that former Bush administration Press Secretary Tony Snow will make his debut on CNN tomorrow night during coverage of the Pennsylvania primary.

There’s some inside media speculation that this move may be CNN’s response to try to blunt praise Karl Rove has received as a pundit this primary season on FOX News.

But the bigger question is whether a short term former Bushie like Snow will even make an impact…look no further than former Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace on CBS — has anyone heard a thing about her?

For those of you who remember Snow before his White House days, he was a host of FOX News Sunday until 2003 at which point the network relegated him to radio to make room for Chris Wallace.

UPDATE: CNN confirms the move in a press release issued after Big Head DC broke the news:

Former White House press secretary Tony Snow will join CNN as a conservative commentator beginning today, it was announced by Jon Klein, president of CNN/U.S. A well-known and respected observer of politics with a longstanding news background, Snow will contribute to CNN as the network continues to broadcast winning political coverage.

Snow most recently served as press secretary to President George W. Bush from April 2006 to September 2007. For 10 years beginning in 1996, he appeared on Fox News Channel, hosting Fox News Sunday, Weekend Live with Tony Snow and other programs. From 2003 to 2006, The Tony Snow Show aired on Fox News Radio.

Before joining Fox, Snow served as a substitute “From the Right” co-host for CNN’s Crossfire.

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Kendall Coffey provided some interesting commentary on CNN today regarding Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s role in a prostitution sex ring,

But why, the Miami Herald asks, did the network bill Coffey simply as “a former U.S. attorney,” leaving out the fact that was forced to resign that job in 1996 after biting a dancer during her naughty strip club performance?

“Neither Coffey nor CNN anchor Tony Harris mentioned the incident at the strip club as they talked about Spitzer’s encounter with a prostitute in a Washington D.C. hotel last month,” the paper notes. “But Coffey’s observations on the case certainly had some ironic overtones for anybody who remembers his own brush with a lithe young blond stripper known as Tiffany in a private ‘champagne room'’ at the old Lipstik club on South Dixie Highway.”

Despite the omission, Coffey’s advice to Spitzer seems especially spot on: “This is not survivable.”

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The event will take place in Austin, TX, and is to be co-sponsored with Univision.

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Former Sen. Trent Lott says he’s being wooed by CNN and FOX News to do political punditry.

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We didn’t see this scenario play out on CNN for ourselves, but this blogger provides a pretty scathing blow-by-blow of the anchor’s apparently lackluster analysis.

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“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell found himself in some unlikely company last week when a CNN promo for legal pundit Nancy Grace spliced an image of the Kentucky Republican between what appears to be convicted dog abuser Michael Vick and tabloid-frenzy missing woman Stacy Peterson,” Roll Call reports.

McConnell’s office reportedly had to alert the network of the error before the ad was pulled.

Big Head DC has the screen grab, at right.

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We’re hearing lots of talk today regarding how badly the New York Observer’s Felix Gillette missed the mark with his positive story on Jon Klein’s new signature of a four-year contract extension to remain as president of CNN.

As one wag explained to Big Head DC regarding Gillette, “He’s not really plugged in on the beat to begin with but he mailed this one in. It’s one thing to do a lay down for a network president who’s actually successful, but is there a bigger failure in news right now than Jon (de)-Klein? Most people were baffled over how CNN even renewed his contract this week with the ratings having fallen even further since he took over and the fact that he’s now fighting a two front war with FOX and MSNBC.”

The network with the most to benefit from Klein’s extended tenure would appear to be MSNBC. In fact, Big Head DC hears that staffers there were literally chanting “4 More Years!” when word got out that Klein had re-signed!

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President George W. Bush recalled today during a White House press conference that CNN’s Candy Crowley once gave a virus to most of the people on Air Force 1, including himself. In other unhealthy Crowley news, Rolling Stone reporter Matt Taibbi recently recalled Crowley during the 2004 campaign sitting on a bus with cookie crumbs “spilling out of her mouth, talking about how ugly Dennis Kucinich was.”

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