Reply #15: "Hughes, a longtime confidant of President Bush

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tasked with burnishing the U.S. image overseas, has generally met with polite audiences -- many of whom received U.S. funding or consisted of former exchange students -- during a tour of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey this week."

"In this case the U.S. Embassy asked Kader, an umbrella group that supports woman candidates, to assemble the guest list. None of the activists currently receive U.S. funds and the guests apparently had little desire to mince words."

Gee, useful (and important) context.

Oh, and somebody screwed up by not carefully choosing (or at least screening) the audience -- this is the expected GOP-S(L)OP* these days -- and it is required behavior from flunkies.

S(L)OP*: Standard (Lying) Operating Procedure. "Lying" is used here in the broad sense of anything that can be (and is) used to mislead, misinform, misdirect, create false impressions (a favorite), etc.