WASHINGTON , May 17 (UPI) -- White House spokesman Tony Snow's first televised White House news briefing left reporters with a little personal insight and few answers. The former Fox News commentator who replaced Scott McClellan as press secretary mixed quick jokes , punches and passes over some questions in Tuesday's briefing , the Washington Post reported. Snow , a colon cancer survivor , choked up when asked about the yellow Lance Armstrong bracelet he was wearing and called a number of questions critical of Bush administration policy "interesting." He treaded on seemingly racist language too , the Post said. In response to a question on a controversial spy program Snow said: "I don't want to hug the tar baby." And on the increase of immigration in the country he said: "Human beings are cussedly unpredictable." With little more than a week on the job , Snow had to take a rain check on answering detailed questions and simply passed on those he didn't want to respond to.

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