Hughes's Role to Be Outreach to Muslims (to counter "hateful propaganda")

[truthpusher]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34885-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration

Hughes's Role to Be Outreach to Muslims
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Associated Press
Tuesday, March 15, 2005; Page A21
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Declaring that the United States "must do a better job of engaging the Muslim world," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice introduced former presidential adviser Karen Hughes yesterday as the Bush administration's choice for a State Department post designed to change Islamic perceptions about America.



(snip)

From the White House, President Bush said "spreading the universal principle of human liberty" is key to changing the conditions that spawn terrorism and thus a crucial part of the nation's long-term security strategy.

"This will require an aggressive effort to share and communicate America's fundamental values while respecting the cultures and traditions of other nations," Bush said in a statement. "Karen Hughes has been one of my most trusted and closest advisers, and she has the experience, expertise and judgment to lead this critical effort."

(snip)

Introducing Hughes at the State Department, Rice said the United States must do much more to counter the "hateful propaganda" that is so common in the Islamic world.

complete story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34885-2005Mar14.html?nav=rss_politics/administration

[hedda_foil]

1. Mistress of Propaganda

Muslim Division.

[rodeodance]

9. this appointment really gulls me!!

[DrZeeLit]

50. Wait a minute! Hold it! What about her.... FAMILY??!!?

Didn't she quit the full time rackets to
SPEND MORE TIME WITH HER FAMILY?

Oh, yeah... email from Qatar. That'll do it.

Can you just see her with "the boys" of the Arab world?
What a laugh.

[xray s]

2. Damn those two are scary

fascist women give me the creeps

[rodeodance]

10. you said it well

[Nostradammit]

25. Such radiant beauty, all in one photograph!

David Icke might be on to something after all...

http://www.davidicke.com/

[punpirate]

3. Since Karen Hughes is the person...

... who is reputedly the best at sneaking Biblical references into Bush's speeches to thrill the fundies, I wonder if she's going to be able to restrain that habit in her new job.... :shrug:

[chlamor]

4. Karen "It's all about perception" Hughes

You just think your starving and we just need to manage your perceptions of the bombs. Don't think of it as torture.

[chicagojoe]

32. Why are all the people in these photos STILL BREATHING ?!?!

[Tweed]

5. Here's an idea: HIRE A MUSLIM!

:think:

[truthpusher]

22. No Shit!

However, it wouldn't be a bad idea for Karen to start wearing a burka...now I understand why they gave this job to her.



Before: After:

[Chelsea Patriot]

41. I recognize a Golden. What breed is the second bitch in the first photo?

[susu369]

55. Those heavy-duty springs under the bench beg for comment

nt

[truthpusher]

56. I think it's a diving board...comment?

[susu369]

57. Just found it a funny image - ok?

[leesa]

6. Oh yeah, they'd fall for that. A rich, nasty white girl will surely

impress them. This is about as good as Laura gettin' down in the hood.

[Patsy Stone]

7. That's completely frightening

The two brides of Satan -- loose on the world in order to promote "America's fundamental values"? Didn't they mean America's fundamentalist values? Oy vey.

[Cha]

12. It's so surreal...Orwell is

Spinning at his book becoming reality in the 21st Century.

When I think of the cobra as SoS and karen fascist hughes as ambassador to anything but the outhouse..I see a dark pall hovering over our Planet.

[democracyindanger]

8. Heh. They already tried this once.

Remember Charlotte Beers? Advertising bigwig, hired sometime after Afghanistan for pretty much the same thing.

Thing is, dear ol' Charlotte forgot the cardinal rule of advertising: You can polish a turd all you want, but it's still gonna be a turd.

Bush foreign policy is a turd. A big, steaming one, and it's not going to change, no matter how many times Hughes gets on TV and spews her garbage. I don't care how many times you tell me you're a nice family guy--if you keep letting your dog crap in my yard, setting my garage on fire and trying to fondle my daughter, no amount of friendly hellos is going to change what you are.

[kskiska]

23. They tried it TWICE already!

Margaret Tutweiler was the second to try. She resigned also.

[MADem]

11. What is REALLY going on with this appointment???

Come on, if this job was so damn important, they wouldn't have left it vacant since LAST JULY. Something else is going on.

Are they looking for a way to shovel taxpayer cash at Karen, does Condi need a minder, what does one suppose it is???

[daleo]

14. I agree, there must be some other reason for this.

She is just not going to change a lot of minds in the Muslim world. But it would give an excuse to travel to Muslim countries a lot.

[dogpatch]

16. I think the answer is

What's happened is a lot of good career people at State including moderate Republicans are so disgusted by the incompetence and politicization of the Bushies that they've left. The woman who left this post vacant was one such person. It's more than a shame, it's scary how seriously they're botching this.

[lumpy]

24. She is there to advise Bush

and has been put on the payroll to advise Dubya to keep his trap shut. She won't be making contact with Muslims in the Mideast. Just a cushy job at taxpayers expense.

[Rockerdem]

13. She isnt needed. Media whores like Anderson Cooper do it for them.

Anderson Cooper made me puke tonight. He was wandering around a Lebanese "freedom" rally, spewing all sorts of Bush-loving remarks. His cameraman focused (dwelt, actually) on marchers cheering America, towing the PNAC line. He even braoadcasted their fake crowd estimates of 2 million, or whatever, trying to make the Hizbollah rally last week look smaller.

Cooper has drunk the Shrubco Kool-Aid, and is on my shit-list from now on.

[JDPriestly]

15. A female

wearing a dress that shows her freckled chest. I don't think that is going to impress Muslims very much. Surely they did not hire her to communicate to the male dominated Muslim world. I wonder what her real job will be.

[grannylib]

17. makin' money and handling Monkey-boy.

[MiniMe]

20. I agree completely.

I am a woman and I hate saying this, but a woman negotiating with the Muslim world is a joke. They keep their women in burqa's (sp?), how much respect can they have for women? Bush* once again shows complete ignorance of the Muslim world.

[CJCRANE]

33. At least two muslim countries

have had women leaders (e.g. Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan) and the Palestinians also had a woman spokesperson a couple of years ago, so I don't think it particularly matters that it's a woman.

Also, the "burqa" is native to Afghanistan only, so to imply that all muslim women wear burqas is not accurate.

[KDLarsen]

37. Some muslim countries are opening up

I think it was either Algeria or Tunisia that actually banned headscarfs, so the women wouldn't be allowed to conceil their own face.

[Bridget Burke]

40. Hardly.

There are strong Muslim women, active in politics. And I'm sure there are strong Muslim-American women who would make great reps. As well as Muslim men with US roots. There are even quite a few Muslims in Texas--if Bush really wanted to keep it "local."

She is unfit because of who she is.

[anitar1]

29. All I Can Do

is shake my head in wonder. What next? Embarrassing to have these people representing our country. I am 70 yrs old and have never seen anything to equal this bunch. A living nightmare.

[Erika]

18. Ah, What are Bush accomplishments?

Pre-emptive strike and shock and awe against an innocent country and its civilians. He's burying our middle class.

Karen is a political hack who Bush hopes to set up for a big payoff for her loyalty. That's it, folks.

[Liberty Belle]

19. "Must do a better job"; hard to imagine anyone would do worse than Bush,

though this woman has absolutely no credentials, experience, or qualifications.

[lumpy]

21. How is she going to overcome the

hate rhetoric used so freely by her president against the 'evil empires'. Bush has shown little regard and respect for the cultures and traditions of those 'terrorist nations'(as he chooses to call them). Better work on the hateful propaganda that is so common in the Western world, Ms. Hughes.

[ninkasi]

26. I'm certainly no political expert...

but one way to improve relations would be to stop killing Muslims, and threatening others. Backing up Sharon every time he gets all warlike and aggressive doesn't help much, either.

It's hard to get people to believe you're trying to spread the concept of liberty when you bomb the shit out of a country who didn't attack you, then kill, maim, and torture it's citizens, and leave the place a wasteland.

Somehow, I just don't think Mommy Karen is going to change any perceptions at all. It might also be a good thing if someone could convince Chimp that just because he's stupid, doesn't mean that Muslims are. They know only too well what he's doing, he's robbing their countries blind.

[Zorra]

27. "Karen Hughes has been one of my most trusted and closest advisers,

and she has the experience, expertise and judgment to lead this critical effort."

Lily White goes to Harlem. Yuh, she knows all about what it's like to live in the ghetto. I'm sure she will quickly gain the respect of all Muslims everywhere.
:eyes:

[LynnTheDem]

28. A woman.

ROTFLMAO!!!

They really just don't have a fucking clue.

[piece sine]

42. I know!

First a FEMALE Secretary of State and now THIS!!!

[leftynyc]

43. Condi ain't the first woman secy of state

I think the point is that while some Muslim countries have women in leadership roles, on the whole, women are treated like shit and are not well respected so perhaps using one to improve relations is not the wisest idea.

[cosmicdot]

30. sure it is

will they cancel the PR contracts to the Hill & Knowltons of the world or will the White House Noise Machine continue to operate per normal M.O.?




Karen Huge keeping an eye on Condi.

She'll probably spend a lot of 'State Dept. time' at the White House.

[rocktivity]

54. DING DING DING! Cosmicdot, you're our grand prize winner!

Karen Huge keeping an eye on Condi.
...

Condi hired her, my :kick: Her mission is to be Condi's Dick Cheney!

:headbang:
rocknation

[chicagojoe]

31. Another Fucking Nerd !!!!

Did all the dorks and nerds in America band together and decide to take over?!?!

[TalkingDog]

53. As a Nerd I resent that remark.

Nerds are socially awkward but very intelligent. Calling them nerds suggest they might have coherent thoughts. After 4.5 years of bushco., I doubt that very seriously.

Dorks they might be. Dork: ass, birdbrain, blockhead, bonehead, boob, buffoon, dimwit, dodo, dolt, donkey, dope, dork, drip, duffer, dullard, dumb bunny, dumb cluck, dumb head, dumb ox, dumbbell, dunderhead, fool, goof, goof ball, goon, half-baked, half-wit, idiot, ignoramus, imbecile, jackass, jerk, knucklehead, lame-brain, lightweight, loon, lout, lunkhead, moron,nincompoop, ninny, nitwit, numskull, oaf, pinhead, scatterbrain, schmuck, schnook, simpleton, spaz, stoop, twit.

Yeah, I could live with calling them dorks.

[llmart]

34. What happened to......

spending more time with her family? Was that a Bush lie too? Egads! How many lies can these people tell?

[annabanana]

35. EVERYTHING can be 'fixed in Marketing"

This Spinwitch is like all the rest of the "perception is everything" crowd.

[DoYouEverWonder]

36. So Bush is going to send the Queen of Hateful Propaganda

to counter hateful propaganda. What a genius.

[Disturbed]

39. Oh shit, I gotta laugh...

to keep from cryin'.

[ck4829]

38. How about countering the hateful propaganda that is coming from the...

RW'ers here in America first?

[leftofthedial]

44. now that's gonna work out good

I can just tell

"share and communicate Murka's fundamentalist values"

[Roland99]

45. Of course the Muslim world is wrong about America

No WAY they could be right that we have become a massive consumer society with an imperialistic government hell-bent on colonialism via the spread of capitalism in order to bolster the coffers of American corporations.


Naaah...the Muslims are all wrong. What do they know? They're not white Christians.

[woosh]

46. Why change the bahavior?

When you can change the perception.

[Bouncy Ball]

47. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

ha ha ha ha ----- WE'RE SO SCREWED.

[leftchick]

48. They can try all they want but the world knows ...

when they see it!

[truthpusher]

51. Exactly. eom

[rocktivity]

49. THEIR hateful propaganda--or hers?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Catfight]

52. Waste of tax money to have her on any payroll. What corruption. nt