WP:Hughes Hopes to Burnish US Image(will run 3 bureaus,860 employees...)

[DeepModem Mom]

Hughes Hopes to Burnish Image of U.S.
Nominee Says Ideas Will Prevail

By Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 23, 2005; Page A04


Karen Hughes, returning to Washington to take charge of State Department efforts to improve the nation's tarnished image abroad, said at her confirmation hearing yesterday that she wants to enlist the private sector -- including the music, film and travel industries -- in a reinvigorated effort to help the Muslim world understand America.

Hughes, who will hold the rank of ambassador and the title of undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the long-term "way to prevail in this struggle is through the power of our ideas."

"We need to engage more vigorously," she said. "We cannot expect people to give a fair hearing to our ideas if we don't forcefully advocate them. . . . America must also improve our rapid response and do much more to confront hateful propaganda, dispel myths and get out the truth."

Hughes, a longtime senior adviser to President Bush, plans to travel abroad extensively, starting with a trip to the Middle East, administration officials said.

Bush nominated Hughes in March to be undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. But with the additional portfolio of public affairs, she will run a bureaucratic empire that includes three State Department bureaus with 860 employees and 140 contractors....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/22/AR2005072202035.html

[pfitz59]

1. Propaganda R' Us...............

"Ambassador Hughes"? God, forgive us our sins.....

[54anickel]

2. Narcissism returns. "Help the Muslim world understand America." Hey

what about the other way around as well?

[pfitz59]

3. There is no "other way"....

BUSHCO: "My way...or rot in GITMO hell you rag-head camel-jockeys!"

[54anickel]

8. My goof, I forgot how deeply the idiocy runs in the new Murika.

Wonder what great multi-media presentations she is planning to use to introduce Muslims to America?

The possibilities are frightening.

[xxqqqzme]

32. America understand the Muslim world?

That would be a entire new undersecretary position w/ a HUGE staff to undo all the RW crapola being spread by the whack-os.

[mojavekid]

4. Uhg.....

I think this administration "forced" their ideas pretty hard in Iraq to no good effect for them...what's next?

[Oreegone]

5. The Clueless, leading the clueless

This is a sad fuckin' mess. Now we are going to try to MTV the world into liking us? What?!!! We must think they are as big of idiots as Americans. I think this is going to make the rest of the world even detest us more.

How about quit fighting illegal wars and killing innocent people? How about shut your yapper about "taking the fight for democracy to the world" and quit threatening everybody else. How about quit being the playground bully?

What fuckin idiocy...This jeopardizes us much more than before...IDIOTS the lot of them....:puke: :hurts: :nuke: :spank:

[napi21]

6. I don't think Karen is going to succeed!

She's a very strong willed person, and is very good with the Press in the US. I don't agree with her, but she is very quick on her feet, and better than most of the Pubs when speaking publicly.

The people in Europe and the ME are not as responsive to her attitude than many Americans are. Unless she changes that "I know better than you" attitude, she's gonna fail!

[oscar111]

11. 100,000 homeless die/yr: 25 nations outlive us: medical bill collectors:

12 million hungry.

WORLD HEALTH REPORT 2OOO: fm UN
"US is 37th in quality of its healthcare delivery system, 72nd in the overall health of its population' ... not typos. 37 and 72. Memorize them.
=============================
tell that to foreigners, see what they think of us.

better, spend money correcting these flaws first. Propaganda later.

i forgot.. add 14 million Job Shortage. Forces poverty on people. Poverty causes huge crime rate. see sig below.

[54anickel]

22. She'll spin that into the sacrifices Americans are willing to make in

the effort of spreading democracy to the world in their unending compassion. :puke:

[Zorra]

7. Is that "burnish" or "burn"? Must be a misprint.

Karen Hughes as global diplomat...
:wow:
:scared:
:nuke:
Gotta go...I need to start work on my fallout shelter immediately!

[leftchick]

9. well as one of The WHIG members she should know

how to bamboozle a crowd. Too bad she won't have complacent hypnotized ameriKans as an audience.

[foo_bar]

10. Leni Riefenstahl enjoys mountain climbing, news at 10!

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."
- Herman Goering (as seen on Snopes!)

"To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies, and pause to America's friends."
- John Ashcroft (source)

(edit: with apologies to Godwin's Law)

[pfitz59]

21. Nice!

Leni was a lot better looking than Karen "butch" Hughes!

[mbee]

12. OMG, if she is in on the leak case will she now be entitled

to Diplomatic Immunity???

[bunny planet]

26. I would hope that it's not retroactive. If she committed the crime before

she was a diplomat then I would hope she can not rely on hiding behind diplomatic immunity. Of course with this lot, anything is possible.

[madrchsod]

13. how would you like to work for the her?

i doubt that the hip hop world is going to buy any of this shit. i bet karen thinks the hip hop world wants to an extention of the delusional world of bush. karen- hip hop world hates you and your boss.

[oscar111]

16. "hip hop world"? is this a widely used term?

pls define for me.

is it widely used?

[Nay]

14. This is like a Mafia don hiring a clothing consultant to revamp

his wardrobe, in the hopes that his "image" as a bloodthirsty stone-cold killer can somehow be toned down. Good effing luck, Karen. But I'm sure the money is good -- just don't piss off the don, or you'll be sleeping with the fishes.

[Oreegone]

15. Joe Biden has dementia

I am convinced that after many of his statements of late, he is freakin' losing it. No seriously,,,and this man wants to run for President??

Forgot the quote:
The committee's top Democrat, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.) met with Hughes privately Thursday and said in a statement -- read by Lugar at the hearing -- that he could not attend because of previous commitments but is "particularly interested in and supportive of the nomination," and that Hughes will bring "new energy and creativity to our public diplomacy efforts."

[Zorra]

24. Maybe he is a mole planted to promote the unification of

the Democratic Party with the republican party under the new banner of Corpzi-Fascism.

[Nevernose]

17. Step 1: Stop raping people in prison camps

It's not that hard, people, and I didn't even need three bureaus and 1,000 employees to figure step one out.

[rodeodance]

19. crapo--who authorized all this money --alll these employees! crapo

she will run a bureaucratic empire that includes three State Department bureaus with 860 employees and 140 contractors....

[fooj]

18. "...confront hateful propoganda"?

Practice what you preach, bitch!

Peace.

[UTUSN]

20. So Mommy Had Enough of Her Family? Feels More Needed with Shrub? n/t

[UTUSN]

23. Or -- OR --- She'll Fill the Void When ROVE's Gone? n/t

[Scurrilous]

25. Good luck ...

...explaining this to the Muslim world Karen:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4173752

[bunny planet]

27. Here's hoping she eventually gets a gig burnishing license plates in the

shop at the Federal Penitentiary for her probable role in the Plame leak.

[Lefty48197]

28. Considering how much she's done to tarnish America's image domestically

I find it ironic that she's been chosen to polish our image abroad.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

29. Way too much verdigris to easily buff out of our tarnished image.

:bounce:

[robertarctor]

30. Paging Toby Keith... please pick up the white-power courtesy phone

Karen Hughes, returning to Washington to take charge of State Department efforts to improve the nation's tarnished image abroad, said at her confirmation hearing yesterday that she wants to enlist the private sector -- including the music, film and travel industries -- in a reinvigorated effort to help the Muslim world understand America.

I'm sure Nashville can help the Muslim world understand Murka with a new "nuke the towelheads" anthem from Toby Keith or another red-state favorite.

[Frederik]

31. How about, for starters,

STOP BOMBING MUSLIM COUNTRIES. Maybe that will clear up some of the "misunderstandings".

[Skittles]

33. like sending a fox to convince chickens they are safe

what a f***ing joke

[Carni]

34. Gee, wasn't anyone more unpleasant, abrasive or unattractive available

For this assignment?

Answer: NO

[antonialee839]

35. By all means send the expert!

Nothing like having Nurse Ratchet forcing "ideas" on the
unsuspecting Muslim world. Will she be wearing her perpetual sour lemon expression on the trip? This is going to go over about as big as Charlotte Beers.

[kskiska]

36. And to think…she was just a lowly news presenter in Texas

when she met the Chimp. The rest is history. Now she's risen to the lofty rank of ambassador of the world, bending it to her patron's will.

[NEOBuckeye]

37. Will someone please tell this b*tch to catch a clue?

You fuck*ng bomb these people, humiliate their men, rape their women and abuse their children, and yet you want them to understand you???

[against all enemies]

38. If only the world was as stupid as America. She would succeed.