Karen Hughes to be nominated for State Department post

[kskiska]

BY G. ROBERT HILLMAN

The Dallas Morning News

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Karen Hughes, one of President Bush's closest confidants who left the White House nearly three years ago to return home to Austin, Texas, has accepted a key post in the State Department, administration officials said Friday.

Hughes - who has continued to advise the president, most visibly during the final stretch of his re-election campaign - will be nominated by him to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, the officials said on the condition of anonymity.

The undersecretary, who must be confirmed by the Senate, deals with polishing the U.S. image abroad, particularly in the Muslim world since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.

The post, which Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has singled out as "extremely important," has been held during the last few years by two high-profile women - Charlotte Beers, a former advertising executive; and Margaret Tutwiler, who worked in the first Bush administration.

more…
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/politics/11114594.htm

[Carolab]

1. Hughes is liar in chief. NOTHING this woman says is true. Ugh. n/t

[saigon68]

8. The TURD floats to the surface of the Bowl

Another recycled piece of shit.

[Journeyman]

14. I was at a talk by Ken Kesey back in the early '90s. . .

he told us to recognize and remember one salient point about our society:

"In this society," he said, "always remember that the cream rises to the top . . . and some shit floats."

If we always kept that in mind, said Kesey, we'd never be surprised by what happens.

[saigon68]

17. So true, this lady with her thinly veiled racist propaganda

Helped the Bush Criminals to get some toothless rustics to vote for the Chimp, because the rustics were convinced "darkies" would come and date their daughters, after busting out of prison like Willie Horton

The head Bush Criminal used this crap against Mike Dukakis in 1988

[Kurovski]

22. I'm curious, Carolab,

what compels you to call a she-Weasel a woman? :hi:

[The Backlash Cometh]

34. This Administration has lied so often, that every question should

be followed up with the same two questions: "Are you lying?" "Are you willing to take a polygraph test?"

[Viva_La_Revolution]

59. Of course....

She'll be a perfect addition to the Propaganda Dept. "Public Diplomacy". Very Orwellian.

[intheflow]

2. I'm sure we'll be hearing about

Katherine Harris being nominated for a prestigious post one of these days, too. BushCo. is very attentive about rewarding the uber-faithful.

[kskiska]

3. Seems to have come as a surprise

The posting came as a surprise since Hughes told The Dallas Morning News three weeks ago she was looking forward to spending more time with her family in Texas.

In an exchange of e-mails, she said that she was not returning to the payroll of the Republican National Committee, where she had consulted from Austin for $15,000 a month, but she would continue on the lucrative speaking circuit in addition to consulting with the White House.

"I'm not traveling to Washington as much this spring because it's my son's senior year in high school, and since I was on the road in the fall with the campaign, I promised home-cooked meals," she said. "The next couple of months is his baseball season, so I'm attending all the tournaments and games ... I'm in charge of the team dinners."

[ebayfool]

21. $15,000 a month? This bitch got $15,000 a month? For lying from ...

home? WTF? She's a higher paid 'ho' than Armstrong! I thought she was supposed to be 'sacrificing' her career for her family? Some sacrifice. Is her new position supposed to include a wage bump & who pays it - the RNC or us?

[flordehinojos]

23. if mz. condoliar lice is without a rudder in making foreign policy with

the Muslim states, or if she is fearful of the Muslim states ... or whatever ..... then, mz. karen huge is there to rescue the condoliar lice gondola from shame or blame not to mention the bush boy from whatever trouble mz. condoliar's gondola might take him too. whip ass! karen huge has come to save the day...i mean, murricaaahhh!

[izzie]

46. who would believe this women?

I am sure this will help our image in the Middle East. We will all be loved and every one will wish to do business with us very soon.The bubble moves on and all is well with Bush.

[medeak]

4. THERE IT IS...the Friday dump news

can you see her polishing US image abroad?

[kskiska]

6. Madison Avenue couldn't polish the US image abroad

but Karen Hughes is just the ticket.

[saigon68]

9. See post above re: Turd

She will need a lot of bleach, gasoline and borax to polish her image in Europe.

[meganmonkey]

5. Oh no...

:puke: :puke: :puke:

:puke: :puke: :puke:

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Lexingtonian]

7. one translation:

The Iraq and Middle Eastern situation is expected to go in the crapper within the next couple of months despite James Baker's and Condi Rice's best efforts. They need Karen to keep Joe and Betty Average Republican from despair and distracted from the failures. (Never mind the job description, Karen Hughes's job is always the same.)

[msanthrope]

37. Ding, Ding, Ding!!! This one's the Winner!!!! n/t

[Orsino]

72. Yep. The * Administration values only one talent...

...the ability to get away with propping up the tissue of lies that keeps them out of prison. As Hughes had not actually been convicted of anything, it was inevitable that she would be recalled to duty.

[Gloria]

10. Is she going to trail after Condi and pick up the crap??

Holy Jeez, it just gets worse and worse, doesn't it?? Between Rice, Bolton, and Hughes, our image sure will improve...

[KT2000]

11. Does this mean she must be approved

by the Senate? If there is going to be a hearing this should be fun.

[Mika]

47. She'll sail thru the confirmation..

..with full bipartisan support. We'll watch it happen and :puke:

[JohnnyRingo]

12. "undersecretary of state for public diplomacy"?......

...Is that another way of saying "propagandist"?
Minister of Bullshit?

Who else would better know how to apply lipstick to a pig?

[Judi Lynn]

24. Absolutely. Remember the grotesque Cuban "exile" Otto Reich

who toiled away in the Office of Public Diplomacy at the State Department for Ronald Reagan, specializing in Latin American affairs, notably spreading filthy lies and molding public perception about Reagan's Contra involvement.

It was from that office that he intimidated the media, threatening, making personal appearances to papers and tv networks, making vile insinuations about sex lives of reporters covering the Contra war in Nicaragua. Here's a look at the kind of damage a real @$$#### can inflict from the Office of Public Diplomacy:

.... Beginning last March, two senior members of the Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) and Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), began publicizing their concerns about Reich's involvement in the Reagan administration's covert activities, spearheaded by Lt. Col. Oliver North, to aid anti-communist guerrillas in Nicaragua.

Some of the senators' qualms are the same as those contained in a 1987 report by the bipartisan congressional committees that investigated the Iran-contra affair. Otto Reich is featured in a section titled "White Propaganda," which referred to his work at the Office of Public Diplomacy. The report described the OPD's operations as "a new, nontraditional activity for the United States government" that involved the illegal use of taxpayers' money for public relations lobbying. For example the office produced op-ed pieces published in national newspapers without disclosing OPD involvement. The report quoted Reich's description of his modus operandi as "a very aggressive posture vis-à-vis a sometimes hostile press."

The U.S. comptroller general, after another investigation, soon concluded that Reich's operations were "prohibited covert propaganda activities designed to influence the media and the public." The OPD had violated a restriction barring the use of federal funds for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by Congress.

His background briefings, in which he often accused journalists of being communist sympathizers, are legendary in Washington. National Public Radio editors recall a meeting in which he testily referred to the network as "National People's Radio." His crusade also targeted U.S. reporters working in Central America. Miami-based author (and former Miami New Times staff writer) John Lantigua remembers having lunch with Reich during a visit he made to Nicaragua in 1985, when Lantigua was freelancing for the Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune. Reich was quarrelsome, Lantigua recalled, when the diplomat was confronted with facts that contradicted his ideology-laden conceptions about the socialist Sandinista government. "In retrospect, he was fishing. He was being provocative to see who would argue with him," Lantigua surmised. The journalist soon found himself the subject of a report by Accuracy in Media that claimed the Sandinista regime was providing sex slaves to Lantigua in exchange for favorable reporting. Reich later took credit for the report, telling a New York magazine writer that he had received the information from Sandinista defectors. "The guy's a slimeball," Lantigua scoffed.

Reich also engaged in potentially far more volatile forms of disinformation. In November 1984, purportedly citing classified intelligence documents, Reich told journalists that the Sandinista government may have received a shipment of Soviet MiGs. Network news programs and major newspapers picked up the tidbit, which proved to be false. But the OPD goal, in this instance to malign the Sandinistas, was met.
(snip/...)

http://www.newtimesbpb.com/issues/2001-11-08/news/feature_print.html

From another source:

A staff report by the House Foreign Affairs Committee (September 7, 1988) summarized various investigations of Mr. Reich’s office and concluded that “senior CIA officials with backgrounds in covert operations, as well as military intelligence and psychological operations specialists from the Department of Defense, were deeply involved in establishing and participating in a domestic political and propaganda operation run through an obscure bureau in the Department of State which reported directly to the National Security Council rather than through the normal State Department channels…. Through irregular sole-source, no-bid contracts, S/LPD established and maintained a private network of individuals and organizations whose activities were coordinated with, and sometimes directed by, Col. Oliver North as well as officials of the NSC and S/LPD. These private individuals and organizations raised and spent funds for the purpose of influencing Congressional votes and U.S. domestic news media. This network raised and funneled money to off-shore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands or to the secret Lake Resources bank account in Switzerland for disbursement at the direction of Oliver North. Almost all of these activities were hidden from public view and many of the key individuals involved were never questioned or interviewed by the Iran/Contra Committees.”
(snip/...)

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB40/



Here's looking at you, kid!
Otto Reich.

Karen Hughes would be completely at home in a position like this. What a pity.

http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,386718,00.jpg

[JohnnyRingo]

27. Great history lesson.....I wasn't aware

Could the Hughes appointment mean there's a crack in the armor that needs protected?

Is Karen being called up for damage control?
We know she has a talent with sound bites, having designed the term "Compasionate Conservative".

Gotta watch this woman...She knows what brings the rubes on board.
I was thinking she's coming to help sell Social Security "Reform".

[madrchsod]

13. good cop -bad cop

do they really think anyone will buy this shit? no matter how hard they try they just can`t change the truth.

[countmyvote4real]

15. Who's your liar?

Ladies and Gentlemen, without further adieu let me reintroduce you to the scumbag (and that part is real) that will now take her notorious dump on the State Department. “Duck and Cover” really does have some resonance these days.

NOTE TO WORLD: If you haven’t already noticed, you are dealing with liars that smile in your face. The truths espoused from the BFEE that now operates the nation FKA as the USA are best interpreted for their opposite meaning.

NOTE TO SELF: Turn off the TV immediately if she should appear. You paid big bucks for that monitor that you now only use to watch DVDs and HBO. Do not destroy your investment because the Karen Hughes Ring video suddenly appears on your TV. Just turn it off or change the channel. Remember, it is safe to change the channel because you have blocked all MSM and their Cable News spawn from your favorites list.

NOTE TO DU: She is a C word with C hairs like limbs on trees. My apologies to all that may be offended. I’m not talking about Cancer.

NOTE TO COUNTRY: Your tax dollars at work.

[housewolf]

16. I can't believe this....

these nominations just keep getting worse and worse! Why do they ALL have to be so bad???? Why couldn't there be even just ONE nomination that doesn't have me shaking my head in despair??? Can't there be even ONE break from the daily outrage????

Thanks for the rant, wish it helped some....


:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[lovuian]

18. She's BACK!!!

Bush has his special friends!!!

[Colorado Blue]

19. Maybe they'll send her to Iraq:)

[physioex]

20. What about her boy...

And all those wonderful soccer games she missed......


I agree with you guys, she is nothing more catch phrases with little or no substance.

[Gemini Cat]

25. They have GOT to be kidding!

Only in the bush's 'Murka! :grr:

[okieinpain]

26. I wonder what's wrong that they feel the need her help. I thought

rove was bush's brain.

[magellan]

28. >>GAG

Karen Hughes is Ann KKKoulter with a shave and Southern charm. A viper. I was wondering when we'd see Her Amazoniness again. She can sell the Kool-Aid like no one can.

:puke:

[punpirate]

31. Maybe so...

... but she has as much chance of selling Bush's bullshit to Muslims as I have of standing on the moon in my lifetime.

This is all about Bush needing to gather the faithful around him, and that's a good indication that he's concerned about his "legacy," such as that will be in the history books, and how things are going of late. She's far enough way not to get into Rove's way, and close enough to be called upon in tight spots, when Bush is in need of a few new code words to rally the religious right.

Wonder if this sleazy creature has ever contemplated that her efforts to make a crooked piece of shit look good are earning her a rocket sled ride to hell? Nah. Never.

:grr:

[ElectroPrincess]

44. No, Karen Hughes is much worse than Ann KKKoulter!

Karen has perfected enough pseudo southern charm to put a diabetic into a coma. She's dangerous because you do get "that kiss" before you're figuratively "f**ked over" into political obscurity.

Therefore, the sheeple will not tolerate any ire on the target's part. Nope, like ole Dan Rather, only the operatives got their hands dirty.

Karen ain't fetching like Ann, but she's smoothed the edges of her persona to one almost appealing in a matronly sense ... that when an opponent has been devastated by one of her attacks, they won't know what hit them. Kind of like being sucker punched - you're down for the count.

Karen Hughes is IMO "political evil incarnate." Yes, she has as much potential as KKKarl Rove (Re: Dirty Tricks) years back.

We should keep a close watch on this dangerous player.

[FourStarDemocrat]

29. Sources say Hughes was needed to tutor Condi Rice on how to lie...

without shaking her head from side to side. That's why they brought her in. ;)

[kevinmc]

30. LOL

[dbt]

32. Senate confirmation required, I see

Be prepared for the macabre spectacle of our Gutless "Democrats" lining up to confirm yet another of the very Reptiles who are working tirelessly for their extinction. I can just hear Blank Lincoln (DINO-AR) speaking for the Vichy Surrender Wing!

[ausiedownunderground]

33. If the US chose Nelson Mandela/Bono it wouldn't matter!!!

I feel bad telling you people in the US this, but your reputation for anything, is so "shot", around the rest of the world, it will take 2 or 3 Democratic presidents, grovelling to the rest of us, before you are taken seriously. We're all going to "move on" and let your Empire "crumble" in its ignorance and of course its "DEBT"!

[deminks]

35. The " * Doctrine" must not be working either.

Senate confirmation required. Although this will pass like all the others, it would be good to see this minion squirm for even one second.
This creature is the essence of evil. This one has a forked tongue. This one has no soul, either. Don't be fooled my the spin on herself, I doubt she has any regard for family or cooking as mention in a post above. Although she could probably boil water by looking at it, I doubt that she could cook anything besides bad news.

What new spin will cover the wars? How can she top freedomdemocracyfreedomfreedomdemocracyfreedom? This is a really bad film noir.

[tanyev]

36. This makes me think of an editorial I recently read,

sorry, don't remember title or author, about how the ranks of loyal Bush minions are getting thinner and thinner. I think the writer was using Chertoff's nomination as an example of how we're now into the 2nd or even 3rd string. I guess Karen was given an offer she couldn't refuse.

[DemoTex]

38. Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, AKA ...

Minister of Propaganda and Public Disinformation.

[OBrien]

40. You took the words right out of my mouth!

I said the same thing to my husband this morning!

[Name removed]

39. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[rocktivity]

41. Undersecretary? Would she be reporting to Condi, then,

as her puppetmaster?

:headbang:

[BiggJawn]

42. Did she dump her "family"? that family she wanted to spend more time with?

Guess family doesn't have the same thrill as ridin' the rocket...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

43. This is entirely about...

Condi in '08.

[ElectroPrincess]

45. I assure you Tandalayo_Scheisskopf , Condi 2008 is merely a RUSE. eom

[Rose Siding]

48. This will be a depressing confirmation hearing

Will any Democrats dare to cross his majesty by actually aggressively questioning the qualifications of Girlfriend #2?

[aintitfunny]

49. Puleaze, that is like appointing

Atilla the Hun to be under-secretary for promoting peace.

[Stephanie]

50. the hubris!

Cheney must be under the weather - sounds like Chimpy is making his own appointments, and the idiots are running the asylum. Karen is a dim bulb. This is going to be hilarious.

[soup]

51. Hilarious. Freakin hilarious.

July 30, 2002 Complete Iraq timeline

The White House formally announces plans to create a public diplomacy agency, to be called the Office of Global Communications, that will be charged with projecting a more positive image of the US abroad. It will help the world understand “what America is all about and why America does what it does,” says White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer. The task formerly belonged to the State Department, but Bush?s advisors didn?t think it was “doing a good enough job, so they're going to take it on,” a former Coalition Information Center (CIC) official tells the Guardian. “Nobody that impressed with Charlotte Beers and what she's done. She listens to people. She's done a lot of listening, but you need to go further than that.” This new public diplomacy office, said to the brainchild of Bush's senior advisor, Karen Hughes, has actually “existed for months, quietly working with foreign news media outlets to get the American message out about the war on terrorism,” according to CBS News.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=george_herbert_walker_bush

---

Banging The Drum For The U.S.

WASHINGTON, July 30, 2002
(CBS) The White House confirms that it will be establishing an Office of Global Communications, to promote and explain to the world U.S. policies and actions.

Some functions will be redundant with existing similar functions performed by the State Department, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Knoller, but spokesman Ari Fleischer said Global Communications will help convey the White House view more compellingly.

Asked if Americans can be assured the new office will not engage in disinformation, he said "absolutely."

In February, the Pentagon shut down a new "strategic information" office meant to get the United States' side of the story out and to counter the views of opponents such as the Taliban and al Qaeda. The office proposed internally to use the Internet and other media to spread false information.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/30/politics/main516881.shtml

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Laughing hysterically here.
So afraid I'll stop and start crying forever.
Could this get any more fucked-up?

[leesa]

52. More slime oozes back into the WH...wonder what her kids will think

of her treason in the future?

[loudsue]

53. Shrub sending WOMEN into the mideast to talk with Muslim leaders?

Don't get me wrong! I think there should be more women in every type of high level governmental job. But Muslim men in the mideast, and especially a mideast that is becoming more fanatically conservative every day, are not going to necessarily enjoy the culture shock of dealing with powerful women. Even if the leaders think it's ok (which I doubt) , their constituents are probably going to think less of it. Europe and Russia should be fine with it, and even South America, China and Japan, for all practical purposes. But NOT the Mideast!

Under the cultural values that currently prevail in the Muslim world, if their leaders concede ground in ANY compromise with women, much less take veiled threats from them (a good possibility w/ this administration), they would lose a great deal of credibility with their conservative Muslim citizenry.

America has already made such a mess over there by NOT understanding their thousands of years of tribal customs and laws, but now they're sending WOMEN over to lie to the leaders and the people, without their heads covered, even. Not only that, but Condisleeza has been dressing like a Nazi dominatrix, of late. Man, that aught to go over really well with the Taliban-types.

Hell, even a great many conservative white "Christian" men (and Ann the Man Coulter) in the republican party don't think a woman should be president HERE. And we're sending Condisleeza and Karen Hughes to deal with fundamentalist MUSLIM MEN?

What do you have to do to make republicans understand that NOT EVERYONE IN THE WORLD has the same frame of reference we do, culturally?

Condisleeza and Karen are just another forumla for compounding the disaster bush has already perpetrated in the Mideast.

:shrug: ....I'm just sayin'.....

:kick::kick::kick:

[Catchawave]

54. Bushies are so low-class which is clearly evident

in their sucky attempts at humor:

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041102.asp#1

on edit:Bush Aides in Kerry-Mocking Halloween
Costumes Not Amusing to CNN

more....

[OETKB]

55. That Sucking Sound!

"It's a bird, it's a plane, no its Super-Deceiver!"

"Gee Jimmy, do you think Super-Deceiver can save the president from himself. We know his leadership stinks and doesn't know his * from his elbow, but golly this is going to be a tough assignment! If she tries to cover this up she might be sucked right up into the that vacuum created by the neocon cult machine."

"I don't know Lois, but I dig her outfit."

Tune in tomorrow to see if the craped crusader can fulfill her mission improbable and save harmonious hegemony. Until then remember Super-Deceiver will fight for the chosen few Americans in the most ungodly way....Now a word from our sponsors....

[confludemocrat]

81. These people are the worst and the world knows it

This is what is so amazing. Only here in the u.s. is this reported with a straight face.

She is world-reviled as a liar. People in other countries know and have concluded long ago that Bush and his crime family are thoroughgoing liars and now she is in charge of worldwide bullshit. That's some balls they have.

[Catchawave]

56. Another Hughes Faux Pas:

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/pp2/portal/files/portal/webzine/eyeonextremism/eoe-040427-hughes-apologize.xml

Planned Parenthood Demands Karen Hughes Apologize For 9/11 Comparison

Feldt to Hughes: "An insensitive and divisive overreach"
Hughes Invokes 9/11 to Defend Bush Anti-Choice Policies

April 27, 2004

Washington, DC — Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Gloria Feldt today demanded that Karen Hughes apologize for invoking 9/11 in her attempt to defend President George W. Bush's anti-choice policies.

" was an insensitive and divisive overreach," Feldt wrote in a letter to Hughes today. "It is outrageous to suggest that those of us who challenge this administration's attacks on reproductive rights and access do not value life and human dignity. Indeed, it is because we value life and human dignity that we support a woman's right to choice," Feldt said today.

more.....

[Rainscents]

57. I can't stand this lying sons of bitch!

Karl Rove is God Father and Karen is God Mother. Perfect pair

[area51]

58. family

Ah, the so-called "pro-family" party. This psycho (Hughes) previously said her family was so important that she had to leave politics for them to be w/them.

[napi21]

60. Boy, she must really feel indispensible!

Notice how he always calls her when he gets in trouble!

Karen is a very smooth talker, but I'm not sure she's going to be able to do much this time.

Her convincing speeches were semi effective before all the people really knew Shrub, now what she says will just be viewed as additional lies and PR.

[MissB]

61. BWAHAHAHA

*wiping tears from her eyes*

HAHAHAHAHA

[Cocoa]

62. Hughes to correct a negative image of the U.S.?

I couldn't think of a more unpleasant representative of our country if I tried.

[rodeodance]

63. Karen Hughes To Work on The World's View of U.S.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25347-2005Mar10.html

oh my god!!


Karen Hughes To Work on The World's View of U.S.
By Peter Baker
The Washington Post

Saturday 12 March 2005

Former White House counselor Karen P. Hughes will take over the Bush administration's troubled public diplomacy effort intended to burnish the U.S. image abroad, particularly in the Muslim world, where anti-Americanism has fueled extremist groups and terrorism, a senior administration official said yesterday......

Hughes will take over an operation that has been criticized as lackluster by many analysts and, privately, even by some administration officials, despite its mission of waging a war of ideas against Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda and other Islamic extremist organizations. The last undersecretary for public diplomacy, Margaret Tutwiler, left last summer after less than a year on the job. The post has remained vacant since.

[TygrBright]

64. Get out the popcorn...

...this ought to be good.

anticipatorially,
Bright

[hlthe2b]

65. I have to wonder if she's not there to try to make Condi "look good" --

re: 2008 Presidential run.


My kneejerk response....

[peacetalksforall]

66. I've had people come back from trips outside the U.S. and tell

what I think is the truth...the world is amazed, amused, horrified...but believe there are still good people here. The target of their amazement, amusement, and horror is the Bush admin and cabal.

So she has quite a job.

Paul Newman popcorn for me.

[tridim]

67. Here's an idea..

How about pushing good policies and initiatives that help us regain respect with the rest of the world. The BFEE always goes with the BS propaganda option.. It's just pathetic.

[tanyev]

68. Karen Hughes, the delusional LIAR?

Tucker Carlson on Bush’s Use of Curse Words: “The day before I filed the piece my wife asked, ‘Aren't people going to think you're sucking up?’ And that was my concern, that people would think it's a suck-up piece. And the response from team Bush? It was very, very hostile. The reaction was: You betrayed us. Well, I was never there as a partisan to begin with. Then I heard that on the campaign bus, Bush communications director Karen Hughes accused me of lying. And so I called Karen and asked her why she was saying this, and she had this almost Orwellian rap that she laid on me about how things she'd heard -- that I watched her hear -- she in fact had never heard, and she'd never heard Bush use profanity ever. It was insane. I've obviously been lied to a lot by campaign operatives, but the striking thing about the way she lied was she knew I knew she was lying, and she did it anyway. There is no word in English that captures that. It almost crosses over from bravado into mental illness.”

http://blog.johnkerry.com/blog/archives/000840.html

[Pithy Cherub]

69. She's in "charge" of the "US Image EXtreme Makeover " edition?

The latest reality disaster coming to the state department headed up by a known liar that works for a potus that is despised the world over.

:freak: Not feelin' it at all!

[Bo]

70. karen hughes..lololololololololol

Bush slowly sinking into alternate reality again. We are hated the world over by all I have yet to find one person in another country that supports the fool *.

[lyonn]

71. Well, ain't that special

She is going to repair the U.S.'s image abroad. Sure wish she had foreign policy experience, other than traveling with the Bush. I feel confident she can explain to the angry ME why we invaded Iraq (sarcasm). Why do I think she has never read a history book on the ME let alone understand the people. Besides, she/they haven't explained to me why we invaded along with at least 1/2 the population of the U.S. This admin. must truly want a world war. Nothing they do makes sense. Washington is full of people that can fill that job if all they wanted was competance! Of course they don't want someone that is knowledgeable in ME affairs. Unbelievable.

[iwantmycountryback]

73. Can you say spoils system?

[Moderator]

74. kick to combine

[liberal N proud]

75. Bush to name Hughes to key post

Bush to name Hughes to key post
Monday, March 14, 2005 Posted: 11:33 AM EST (1633 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Longtime presidential adviser Karen Hughes will be named to a top post at the State Department on Monday, government officials said, and improving the U.S. image in the Arab world will be a top priority for her.

An Egyptian-born White House aide will be nominated as Hughes' second-in-command.

Hughes, who for years has had a major voice in crafting President Bush's domestic message, is a former counselor to the president who left the White House in 2002 to move her family back to Texas.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/03/14/bush.hughes.ap/index.html

[ewagner]

76. Huh??????

Karen Hughes? The PR flack and former reporter from Texas?

What the hell makes her qualified?

on second thought....nevermind....this is, after all, the Bush* administration.

[BrklynLiberal]

77. Puke.

[confludemocrat]

78. Wants to spend less time with her family

As someone said on the radio this weekend.

[liberalhistorian]

79. So, I guess

"being with her family more" isn't important anymore, as she insisted it was when she quit to move back to Texas. Why is it that high-position women with high-profile careers always bash other women for choosing careers as well as families, when they've done the same thing and are never called on their hypocritical bullshit?

[confludemocrat]

80. From the colonialistic methods playbook

This same sickening tactic:

"An Egyptian-born White House aide will be nominated as Hughes' second-in-command."

i.e., find a shill who will go along with the program to support something that goes against his ethnic pride, his own peoples aspirations and in support of the hegemony of a powerful country.