Karen Hughes says New Orleans looting will tarnish American image abroad

[truthpusher]

http://www.western-star.com/business/content/shared/news/nation/stories/09/09KATRINA_HUGHES.html

Hughes says New Orleans looting will tarnish American image abroad
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By KEN HERMAN
Cox News Service
Friday, September 09, 2005
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WASHINGTON — Karen Hughes, who officially takes her job Friday as head of the nation's image-building effort abroad, said Thursday that Hurricane Katrina has complicated her already formidable task.

But while much of the international criticism has centered on the Bush administration's response to the storm, Hughes said something else is a problem for America's image around the world: the crime that followed.

"The images of crime being committed in the face of an awful natural disaster is hard for anyone to understand, people around the world and Americans. It sickens me as an American," she said. "How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children during a time of such horror?"

Like President Bush, Hughes acknowledged that the overall government response effort has been flawed, but she did not include that as a reason why the image of the United States might further suffer as a result of the storm.

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complete story: http://www.western-star.com/business/content/shared/news/nation/stories/09/09KATRINA_HUGHES.html

[slor]

1. You Have Got To Fucking Be Kidding!

I just do not believe these idiots!

[Straight Shooter]

2. It's beyond the pale, isn't it?

:banghead:

[leftofcool]

23. Everyone of these fuckers...........

must have gone to the same school. Shit For brains High!

Left of Cool

[screembloodymurder]

148. No, they went to the school for the blind in Intercourse, PA

otherwise known as F**k U.

[krkaufman]

29. She's just spinning, trying to get their sheeple to believe....

... that any negative views or commentary regarding Katrina in foreign countries is due to the looting -- rather than the utter incompetence and apathy of the Bush Administration.

Just like they tried to make their sheeple believe that Bill Clinton's lascivious behavior would be frowned upon by foreigners -- who, in reality, thought the uproar over the Clenis to be ridiculous.

[ozymandius]

36. Not kidding! Diaper and baby formula thieves were waiting for opportunity.

It really is beyond any imaginable logic that the "appropriation" of things like food, water, diapers and baby formula would be condemnable offenses, making her PR work more difficult, when any type of humanitarian relief was barred from entering the city.

Fuck Hughes.

[Janice325]

121. A big "ditto" to what you just posted.

The fucking asshole morans. :puke:

[calimary]

122. Oh yeah. Like it's a Newsweek article about flushing the Koran down the

toilet that's got the Islamic world up in arms against America. Yeah, fine, Hughes. That's the ticket. It's the looters. Blame it on somebody WAY down the food chain. Blame it on ANYBODY WAY down the food chain. But whatever you do, DON'T look in the mirror...

[donheld]

146. You nailed it

With acts like that, Gitmo and Abu Graib, looting in NOLA is about as far down the chain as you can get.

[Imagevision]

233. Karen Hughes: Author of; "and they died for a noble cause speech"

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Imagevision]

234. Karen Hughes and Condi work in concert together, can you tell?

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Deep13]

3. American incompetence and dying victims on rooftops may tarnish image ....

[katinmn]

105. So are the bodies left to rot on the sidewalks.

According to Brian Williams last night, the bodies are still there.

[Imagevision]

232. Karen Hughes failed to say that Bush will tarnish American image abroad

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Missy M]

4. You have it wrong Karen....

you and bush are what sickens people around the world. The only thing you and your administration know how to do is blame everyone else and everything else for your failures. We have had enough of you.

[cybildisobedience]

5. You can't make this stuff up.

The gall of these people is utterly astounding.
We shouldn't even be surprised, but their hypocrisy and nerve still stuns me.

[AnneD]

87. Just when you think they can't top their last...

asinine remark....they say something that:wow: :wtf: :hurts: :argh: :banghead: :spank: :rant: :cry: :rofl: It's just so :silly: anymore. Frankly, I think their action are more embarrassing and cause more of a problem than some desperate flood victim stealing ANYTHING.

[DemCam]

166. LOL

loved all the little guys shrieking. my sentiments exactly. but you said it better.

[astonamous]

6. Took the words right out of my mouth...

"The images of crime being committed in the face of an awful natural disaster is hard for anyone to understand, people around the world and Americans. It sickens me as an American," she said. "How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children during a time of such horror?"

Do you think Dubya and his cronies will be pissed that she is talking about them like that?

[silvermachine]

52. My thoughts exactly...

...I was going to post near verbatim remarks to yours but you beat me to the punch! :toast:

[astonamous]

93. You know what they say about great minds...EOM.

[Vickers]

7. Yes, it will tarnish our shining image abroad...

:sarcasm:

Nice try, Karen, you dumb cow.

[Miss Chybil]

8. Poor, poor delusional people.

I'm sure the aristocracy in France suffered much the same affliction before the people whacked off their heads. I hope we're at the point for some symbolic beheading in this country. It's the best way to kill a snake, from what I hear. Fire all of these people. Run them out of town. God help us, if they maintain a majority after 2006.

[Generator]

139. Ah ha!

The French revolution has been on my mind for days. I honestly think George Jr. missed that part of history class.

[kestrel91316]

181. I've been advocating liberal application of the guillotine for quite a

while now..............

[Robertwf]

224. I've been advocating liberal application of the guillotine for quite a

ROFLMAO

[Connie_Corleone]

9. People dying of dehydration/starvation didn't even cross

her mind?? Maybe none of the violence would've happened if Bush and FEMA had done their jobs!!!

[Bridget Burke]

10. Looting was a small problem...

And could have been minimized if our National Guard had been here to do the job.

From the article: A Korea Herald editorial this week said it was "unbelievable that in America, a country the envy of most of the world's people, residents died by the thousands in a flood, corpses floated in the streets, were left on curbs and even astride the entrances to emergency relief centers."

"While media crews from around the world dispatched the gruesome pictures, rescue workers had not yet arrived," the newspaper said in the editorial.

That is what will tarnish American's image, you fat cow. (Apologies to any buxom bovines out there--I like milk!)

(edited to add subjunctive)

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

11. !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[nookiemonster]

12. This shit becomes more and more surreal everyday.

If anyone with half a brain buys this, I'll eat my hat.

FReepers excluded, of course.

[KittyWampus]

83. it does indeed transcend all reference points

[RaleighNCDUer]

114. The qualification of half a brain minimum already excludes the freepers.

Be careful of redundant repetitions.

[Oreo]

13. By criminals... does she mean the Bush Crime Family?

"The images of crime being committed in the face of an awful natural disaster is hard for anyone to understand, people around the world and Americans. It sickens me as an American," she said. "How could The President prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children during a time of such horror?"

[IChing]

14. "But what I will challenge in any stories I see "

More from the pimp


"But what I will challenge in any stories I see is any idea that we didn't want to help people. We certainly wanted to help everyone," Hughes said, noting that a disproportionate number of the hardest-hit victims are black.

"It's offensive to me to suggest that somehow, as I've seen some headlines and some reports do, that people, that Americans weren't helped because they are poor or because of their race," Hughes said. "That is anti-American. That is not what our country is about."

[louis-t]

96. We certainly wanted to help everyone

but it's hard work.

[RaleighNCDUer]

115. ...weren't helped because they are poor or because of their race...

Of course no. Everybody knows it's because they were mostly Democrats.

[ninkasi]

116. World to Karen Hughes

"It's offensive to me to suggest that somehow, as I've seen some headlines and some reports do, that people, that Americans weren't helped because they are poor or because of their race," Hughes said. "That is anti-American. That is not what our country is about."

No, you stupid bitch. It's your idiot brat Duyba who is tarnishing our reputation abroad. Even if the heads of Homeland Security, FEMA, and Dubya himself didn't seem to realize what was going on, the world watched as New Orleans drowned, and saw reporters, but no aid coming in. The world has read that FEMA turned away countless groups, such as the Red Cross, who were prepared to go in and offer help.

Instead of pretending that abandoned Americans who took food, water, formula, diapers, etc., from stores that were standing empty were uncivilized looters, why don't you give them the same status as the white survivors who "found" supplies? If the supplies leave the store in white hands, they were "found". If they leave in black hands, they were "looted."

Don't even try to pretend that this is not the way things were portrayed, because we saw the pictures, and read the captions. You can take your offended self, and your offensive, pampered, arrogant brat of a boss, and let people who actually give a damn about all of the citizens of this country assume control.

You are used to the gullibility of many of the American public, but I don't think the rest of the world is so narcotized by your spin as some of us are. Go away.

[Lecky]

174. I really wish they would stop with that anti-American line

it's so 2004.

[mcscajun]

207. "That is anti-American. That is not what our country is about."

It isn't what our country's about...but it IS what our current feckless bunch of fucks masquerading AS a government IS about.

Anti-American, my ass. Just Anti-BushCo.

[PunkPop]

15. It is like a freaking BAD DREAM!!

I am so embarassed. What have these asshole Republicans done to my country by putting these inept criminals in charge!!

FU! FU! FU Karen Hughes!

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[msanthrope]

Keep talking, asshole, keep talking...n/t

[tk2kewl]

17. She is right...

I am sure most of the world can't believe we left our own people to fend for themselves

[Kool Kitty]

53. Exactly.

And that is how the rest of the world sees this, that this country left the poor to fend for themselves, while the better-off took off for higher ground. She still doesn't get it, the dumb bitch. (Sorry, but that is just what she is. This cold-hearted, vacant -headed bitch is what W is sending to put a better face on his propaganda around the world-un-fucking-believable.)

[NYC]

202. I thought that was for domestic consumption.

The remark about criminals looting (and she couldn't believe it or thought it was the worst thing possible or whatever she said). Surely Bush, Hughes, & Co. know that nobody outside the U.S. will believe that looting is bad, but abandoning hurricane victims is acceptable.

That had to be for domestic consumption. Shift the focus.

[Neocondriac]

18. Remember !!!!!!!!!

....The Neocon arrogance is only surpassed by their resolve.

[PunkPop]

26. Excelllent reminder!

[indepat]

19. The reason for most of the looting was the Feds failure to get water,

food, medical supplies to the people in some semblance of a timely manner: that isn't image though, that is reality.

[bikebloke]

Meanwhile, they'll be looting the relief money

Halliburton will probably be awarded a $20 billion contract to rebuild Toup Lott's porch.

And in condemning New Orleans, they can sieze all the property to divvy amongst themselves. Have the taxpayers fund reconstruction and shoring up the levees. Then make out like bandits. So who's looting?

[Gregorian]

74. You are so accurate. Great.

I just now realized the horror of imminent domain. I would bet many houses are going to be taken and used for a "better purpose". I just see it now. And right you are about your other comments.



PS- We're both bike lovers. I ride a Giant NRS Air.

[Linette]

101. Eminent Domain

I fear that we haven't even begun to experience what the government is prepared to do to us with their "new definition" of eminent domain ... I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!

[oneighty]

20. Of course

our image is not tarnished by the deaths of innocent civilians of all shapes and sizes in Iraq. Nobody is bothered about that. Right Ms. Hughes.

Sigh.

180

[Eugene]

21. No. Blasting poor people for trying to survive hurts America's image.

Karen Huges' remarks reach new heights of arrogance.
This is a disgrace. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[xchrom]

22. people who hate government cannot run government.

the corruption in government louisiana from the feds to the locals -- that have allowed the continous raping and pillaging of the state's resources and those resources leaving the state is the real shame karen -- and you're just trying to protect the latest in a long line of people who have looted the state -- and kept it's people poor.

that, my dear, is the dreadful secret that the world knows and america turns it's nose up at.

[Wickerman]

24. How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children?

I don't know Karen, we have been asking the Bush** Administration the same thing for 5 years and still don't have an answer, jus tmore wind from Administration hacks like you.

[ananda]

25. typical GOP blame the victim..

.. not the lack of response or Bush's criminal dereliction of duty.

People were dying, sitting in horrible shelter conditions, starving, dehydrating, trapped in and on homes and roofs..

.. but it's the so-called "looting" that counts.

I don't think the desperate actions of victims is what people overseas are worried about when it comes to Bush's America. Yes, crime is a problem.. corporate and governmental.

J'accuse should be the common cry of the day. But will anybody in the fuckedup GOP be called to account? I doubt it.

One law for Dems, no law for Reeps.

Sue

[blitzburgh55]

27. Can we please

Impeach them all, NOW? Pretty please? Every single last one of them need to just STFU.

[OneGrassRoot]

28. Yes, and the looters are BushCo......worst criminals ever n/t

[SillyGoose]

30. Do any of these people have access to a television set??

Karen, what HAS tarnished our image abroad is the massive failure of our government in responding to this catastrophe. I think the televised images of dying babies and floating corpes of Americans while our leadership vacationed may have something to do with our tarnished image, Karen. Aren't you supposed to be spreading propoganda in the Middle East instead of here, Karen?


:banghead:

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[ret5hd]

32. So, call Halliburton and tell them to STOP IT!

[wallwriter]

51. Exactly...

[Theres-a]

77. Right ON!

[bunny planet]

33. I'm beginning to think that the * crime family actually wants to foment a

rebellion and some riots, then they can declare Marshall Law in the entire country. They seem to be going out of their way to make us angrier and angrier. It will be interesting to see how they direct law enforcement to deal with the September 24th demonstrations in DC.
:scared:

[ariesgem]

134. I feel exactly the same way.

[Carolab]

195. It's "martial" law. Better get used to the term.

Coming to a city near you soon.

[bunny planet]

210. gawd, such an embarrassing spelling mistake. I really knew how to

spell martial law, just too many posts and didn't doublecheck. Thanks for the correction. It still sucks though no matter how you spell it.

[OneBlueSky]

34. fucking clueless . . . we should all chip in and buy BushCo . . .

a tractor trailer load of clues . . . because right now, they don't have any . . . none . . . nada . . .

[cmd]

35. She is clueless

I'm just going to go into a corner and cry.

[Rose Siding]

184. I suspect she knows just what she's doing

What an ugly choice she's made.

[mcscajun]

208. Suspect, nothing! She knows...she always has.

She's such an integral part of the Bush Spin Cycle Machine, it's not even Funny.

She directs a lot of this stuff...she's not clueless.

[Spazito]

37. Get this little gem: "ambassadors are free to talk -- if ....

they use the talking points she sends them. "If they make statements based on something I sent them," she said, "they're not going to be called on the carpet."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801788.html

[54anickel]

38. I thought her job was to "fix" the image. Seems she's determined to

drag it down by playing up the hype and some rumors in an effort to deflect from the real image issue that the US is being run by a bunch of sleazy crooks and incompetent boobs. Geez, I hate these people.

[Francine Frensky]

112. I guarantee, she will ruin America's image

which is hard to do, if you think about it.

I'm sure she'll plant lots of fake news stories in other countries, secretly pay the press to write flattering pieces...but it's a big world out there and I'm sure she will never succeed, coming at things with her messed up viewpoint.

Yeah, the looters were the whole problem, yeah right.

[donsu]

39. well Karen IS the bushgang's Kool Aide Queen

just doing her nasty job and getting paid quite well

[DemExpat]

40. Now I know - 100% know - that these people are not sane.

They have no clue whatsoever, and will continue in this vein until they are stopped.

:nuke:

All news reports of this disaster here are very understanding of the looting (most to survive, other......so friggin' what!!!!!!)

DemEx

[corky44]

43. fiendish - macabre

[Benhurst]

41. Just what I'd expect from the ugly manwitch. NT

[corky44]

42. She can go FUCK HERSELF!

these are the same fucks who wouldn't allow blue helmets
commanding US military- BUT NOW we have Mexican army units ( I'll take the help) operating on US soil for the first time since 1846. The Canadian
flag is flying in the heart of NOLA.

Which looks worse- desperate people doing whatever they need to do to survive or a government incapable of protecting it's own people!

Opposite world.

[antonialee839]

44. Bush tarnished America's image abroad you dumb

Bush Ho.

[warrens]

45. The Onion: White foragers complain about black looters. NT

[corky44]

46. define looting

Neil Bush could help us understand looting

[Robertwf]

223. Define looting

the definition is very simple... if your poor, black or old in a nursing home and you are looking for food your looting

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[leftchick]

48. leftchick says Karen Hughes will tarnish America's image abroad

she is a fucking lunatic like the rest of the neo-shits

[ellie]

49. I thought these fuckers could

care less what the rest of the world thought of them! No? What? Hello?

[specimenfred1984]

50. When Are These Propagandists Going to Start Wearing Nazi Armbands?

I think Hughes will create a much larger feeling of hatred for the U.S..

[samsingh]

54. these repugs are so clueless and meanspirited

it defies all reasonable expectations.

[cdnwannabe]

55. Is this the message she's going to take abroad???

because believe me, the rest of the world isn't buying it! You think they were scratching their heads at us before? I wouldn't blame them if they didn't lift a finger to help, but being the good world citizens that they are, and understanding that we're all in this together, they help. The ONLY comfort I can take is that the vast majority of the rest of the world is with us, the progressives of the U.S. of Arms. The rest of humanity gets it.

[nookiemonster]

92. I think that most like Americans, they just fucking hate our "leaders".

BTW, Welcome to DU cdnwannabe!

:)

[callous taoboy]

56. Was wondering when the MEpublican den mother would show:

Icky little toot always appears when bush has scraped his knees.

[Witchy_Dem]

57. Earth to the BushCo - Come in BushCo.

That's the most ridiculous thing I've read today. I can see why he hired her.

[deminks]

58. Dubya's looting of America and the World will tarnish

America's image abroad. I am sure Ms. Hughes mispoke. :evilgrin:

[mitchum]

59. Why should anyone believe that lying wench?

[Enraged_Ape]

60. Actually, Karen, I think the incompetence and (dare I say it)...

actual genocide are probably doing more to harm our reputation around the world than people trying to find things to help them survive.

[truthisfreedom]

61. America says there ain't enough Tarn-X to remove the stain of Karen Hughes

from our country. or anyone associated with bushco. let's just switch metaphors, shall we? they've joy-ridden our country into a ditch and left its smoldering, dripping chassis for someone else to clean up and tow away. the frame's bent and it's never gonna have that new-car smell again.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

62. Uh, Karen, the rest of the world knows who the REAL criminal thugs are

[Turbineguy]

63. Well, here's an idea Karen:

go into the KKK archives and find some pictures of lynchings.

That'll provide some balance!

[gauguin57]

64. You evil witch! STFU, you Amazonian piece of trash.

Go back under the rock from which you crawled!

[LostinVA]

65. A friend's parents live in Denmark

(They are American) And the Danish press is certainly not talking about looters, except on a very minute level. They are talking about a Superpower killing its own people, not wanting/being able to mobilize aid, of people trying to survive and having to break into stores to do it, of the death and destruction and neglect.

The * people are in their own fricking planet, man.

[laylah]

66. As if our image

is so bright and shiney as it is...dumbass
:spank:

jenn

[AspenRose]

67. People abroad know better....some of them who had the misfortune to

be stuck in New Orleans were "looting like everyone else" (remember the Aussies?)

This is just pure evil, no doubt about it.

[Gregorian]

68. Fox wasn't good enough?!

This feels like Nazi Germany. And everyone but Americans knows it. This is the rise and fall of Nazi America. So the crime family has a mask. Europeans are smart enough to see past that. This is truely offensive. I can't wait until this nightmare is over. And neither can the rest of the world. PR or not.

Let the lies begin. I mean, continue.

[Infomaniac]

69. The Looting in Bagdhad

Wasn't a big problem for Karen & Co when it happened. Funny thing that.

[Pithy Cherub]

70. These are the dumbest people in the highest positions that do

the MOST damage because their brains are parked with the engines off. THE BUSH (mis)ADMINISTRATION is the reason that America is villified around the world.

So are we back to the white people "find", black people "loot" equation in another stupid bush format? :shrug:

[katinmn]

106. Our new Undersecretary of State. Aren't we proud?

:nuke:

[anotherdrew]

71. BUSH HAS ALREADY DONE ALL THE TAINTING NEEDED

[anotherdrew]

227. bush's TAINT is big enough, and I'd love to kick him in it

[tlcandie]

72. OH?! And just why is it that this had to even take place to begin with..

KAREN?!?!

It's not happened at any other time in our history during or after a hurricane because the government was prepared with NG, rations, help, etc.

BLAME GAME!!! NOT OUR FAULT! Just doing her job... :puke:

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[silvermachine]

75. They are getting really desperate now...

...when they try to foist stuff like this on the people of this nation. What is truly appalling is the image of citizens being reduced to having to do anything they can to survive, since the most basic aid and assistance was nowhere to be found in this land of "compassionate conservatism".



"Yes and every bloody emperor's got his hands up history's skirt
as he poses for posterity over the fresh-dug dirt.
Yes and every bloody emperor with his sickly rictus grin
talks his way out of nearly anything but the lie within
because every bloody emperor thinks his right to rule divine
so he'll go spinning and spinning and spinning into his own decline."

Peter Hammill

[4_Legs_Good]

76. Where's Pat Robertson when you need him???

[rocktivity]

78. Rocknation says Karen Hughes' Very Existence

Has Already Tarnished American Image Abroad!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Tracer]

79. These parasites just suck the life out of me.

n/t

[demo dutch]

80. They just don't get it!!!

[TheCowsCameHome]

81. Great remarks, Karen. You're 100% accurate.

I love this line - She must be talking about the Bush administration, right?

"How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children during a time of such horror?"

Oh, I thought she was talking about her party's treatment of us......................

[NNN0LHI]

82. But FBI agents looting the WTC after 9/11 won't tarnish America at all?

Black people loot. White people find stuff. The FBI takes "souvenirs"
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4373627 /

FBI agents took Ground Zero souvenirs

By Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin and the NBC Investigative Unit
NBC News
Updated: 7:33 p.m. ET Feb. 25, 2004

After 9/11, 400 FBI agents from around the country were dispatched to New York to look for evidence in the ruins of the World Trade Center. But now a federal investigation reveals that, while they sifted through piles of rubble, many of those same FBI agents removed items to use as souvenirs or gifts for bosses, friends and colleagues.

NBC News Senior Investigative Correspondent Lisa Myers has learned that at least 13 FBI agents took items including American flags that once flew over the World Trade Center, marble chunks of buildings from the towers, patches from World Trade Center security-guard uniforms, signs and keys marked “World Trade Center,” a glass Tiffany globe that originally cost $350 and somehow survived the collapse.

The items, and the agents’ behavior, are outlined in a scathing report issued in December by the Justice Department's Inspector General. Sources familiar with the Inspector General’s investigation provided details of the still-confidential report to the NBC News Investigative Unit. The report recommends disciplinary action for two agents who allegedly took items from the World Trade Center ruins, and chastises the FBI for having “no written policy governing what could be taken from recovery sites or mass crime scenes.”

“A memento from a mass grave of 3,000 people,” says Monica Gabriel, whose husband, Richard, died on 9/11. "To think of taking something from that site is not only ghoulish, it’s despicable. Nothing should be taken.”

[NorthernSpy]

84. her sobbing over stolen TVs while dogs eat the bodies in the streets...

... has damaged our image beyond anything the television-thieves could have done. With Karen Hughes defending our image, America needs no detractors.

"What I say is it's not about us. It's about all of us as civilized people," she said.

Civilized people don't leave the vulnerable stranded in the path of Destruction.

[xxqqqzme]

85. words fail me.....

is there ANYONE in this mis-administration who has ever shopped and paid for their groceries; prepared the meals for their family; scrimped 2 put first and last on an apartment and deposits on multiple utilities. These people live somewhere 98% of us do not!

[Solly Mack]

86. damn but does she have chutzpah

whoa....what a hypocrite


got news for you Karen...I live abroad...and it's not the American people folks across the pond are ashamed of...it's YOU and your boss Bush.

[AusTexDem]

88. some nerve

"How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children during a time of such horror?"

Ask your fellow reptilicans. You all are nothing but a bunch of cold blooded criminals.

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[Plaid Adder]

90. OH...MY...FUCKING...GOD.

Yeah. That's what we really need to worry about. Our image abroad was JUST FINE until those nasty poor desperate black people started tarnishing it.

Karen, you're new at this job, so let me give you just a partial list of some of the things that have damaged our image abroad:

* lying about weapons of mass destruction in the UN
* invading Iraq without UN approval (or a good reason)
* Shock & Awe
* Shock & Awe
* did I mention Shock & Awe?
* Rampant unchecked looting following the Shock & Awe
* Uday & Qusay Hussein Decompose-O-Cam
* Fallujah
* Fallujah, again
* Fallujah, one more time
* Abu Ghraib
* Abu Ghraib, with dog leash
* Abu Ghraib, with electrodes
* Car bombs
* Abu Ghraib, now with new shit-smearing action
* More car bombs
* Incompetent reconstruction of Iraq
* Halliburton
* Even bigger car bombs
* Ambassador Bolton
* "Brownie, You're Doing a Heck of a Job"

I coudl go on, but I'd be here all day,

The Plaid Adder

[bushisanidiot]

91. This just emphasizes the repukes focus on looting rather than saving

lives.

they are VERY quick to point the finger and blame others, but the facts are that AWOL Bush was true to his nickname and was AWOL for 5 days after the hurricane hit. if he'd have gotten off his ass and got troops in there on time a lot more people would be alive today.

[Tight_rope]

94. Oh no she didn't!....

:banghead: :argh:

Someone needs to create a smilies that do the 2 snaps in the air!

[leesa]

95. These people are pure evil. This creature is a mother. Can you imagine??

[Joe Chi Minh]

98. Morticia lives.

[ElectroPrincess]

173. No, she's more vile than that ... she's a modern day Goebbels

Every time I see her on the television, a cold shiver runs up my neck tingling the hairs on the back of my head.

IMO she's pure propaganda and distortions ... she's evil. :puke:

[Lecky]

180. Is she really evil or just really stupid?

I can't figure it out.

[Garbo 2004]

97. America's "image" tarnished by corporate looting of Iraq, for starters.

Tnen of course thousands waiting days for rescue in a major US city, dying for lack of aid, clean water, food, medicine while Bushco ate cake made a distinctly poor impression.

So much for the world's only "superpower." Kids in a Hundai drive from N. Carolina and rescue folks from NOLA while the feds claim they can't make it into the city.

The jaw dropper for the world was a 21st Century American city dying while Bushco enjoy their vacations and then lie when it sees the "horror"---a PR disaster. They don't see a human catastrophe, requiring immediate relief, just a PR problem to be addressed.

Ya can't spin that Karen. But Lord knows, y'all are trying.

[Vinca]

99. What did she think our image was before? Pristine??

[Gregorian]

100. Welcome to THE OFFICIAL BLAME GAME.

Who gets the blame today?
Well, players, it looks like the poor people who didn't have suv's and pantries full of food supplies had no choice but to find their survival needs by a mondern day form of hunting and gathering. Spin the wheel and find out if it was SURVIVAL or LOOTING!

Tune in tomorrow to see if the new eminent domain laws will be used to keep these same people from ever seeing their own properties again. We'll spin the wheel and see if they deserve to keep their own properties or not! Will it be SLUMS or CONDOS.

[katinmn]

102. They're trying to push us over the edge!

You want an info war, you FAT, UGLY PIG? You got one.

[antonialee839]

103. The fact that people HAD TO LOOT should tarnish Bush

for the rest of his life.

[young_at_heart]

104. I'm sickened too....... but, at her boss, not the "criminals"!

I'm sickened" as an American too that people like you do their dandiest to blame, excuse, obfuscate, shift, etc. etc. Have you no shame Karen?

[tinrobot]

107. I think she means Bush's looting of New Orleans

Let the levees fail, wash it clean of poor people, steal the land.

[0007]

108. Calling Karen Hughes a douche bag will get a post deleted?

[Politicub]

109. Karen puts Goebbels to shame

I hope it is acceptable to say that since my other rant was deleted.

[Name removed]

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[0007]

135. I feel exactly the same way about Karen Hughes.

She can excite me to no end faster than Karl Rove can spin.

[Skittles]

110. IT IS THE LOOTING OF BUSH INC THAT HAS TARNISHED US

SPECIFICALLY THE LOOTING OF THE PAST TWO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS

[0007]

205. Some mod isn't getting the picture and keeps deleting my post

thank you Skittles for speaking out.

[Zorra]

111. The very selection of Karen Hughes as "image builder abroad"

has already made the US the laughingstock of the world.

As another Bu$h "loyalist appointee", she is probably more qualified to run FEMA than she is to be a diplomat.
:evilgrin:

[John Q. Citizen]

113. Karen Hughes is right

and the reason the chaos happened was because of a failure of the most basic measure of leadership in the executive branch.

They had the 82nd air born ready to roll a day before the hurricane made land fall, and if NOLA had 5 thousand relief soldiers in there setting up shelters in areas outside the effected areas, moving people, feeding people, everyone could have gotten out of the dome in a timely manner and had access to water, food, shelter, and medicine. They could have set up shuttles from would have come quicker if they were eating, dry, had chemical toileets and were moving through to

bush can waste troops in Iraq but he can't send in troops with relief for Americans on our own soil.

The 82nd air born could have done search and rescue, and recovery and they could have freed the cops up to control a much less tense and dis-orderly situation. Over the next few days the National Guard from other states and civilian crews could have re-enforced law enforcement efforts and emergency services.

bush makes us look bad again!

Karen is right. The looting made us look bad. i don't think many can disagree.

It's like what's wrong with America that they can't feed and shelter their own people in a disater.

[RaleighNCDUer]

118. That doesn't fit their ideology.

They wanted the entire rescue effort to be run by 'faith based organizations'. Christian charities like the Red Cross, Salvation Army and...Operation Blessing? If they could prove that these organizations could do the job, they could dispense with another onerous government duty.

They deliberatly made N.O. a guinea pig for their ideology - a half-baked, cockeyed theory formulated at the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute.

Just like thousands died for the PNAC neocon theories of world empire, thousands in LA, MS and AL died for Norquist's wrong-headed theories.

COME INTO THE 21ST CENTURY!!! If you want to test your fucking theories use a fucking comuputer model! Peoples lives are not fucking toys!

[Bossy Monkey]

119. And if there's ANYBODY who wrote the f'ng book on making America look bad

abroad, it's gotta be Karen Hughes. (Insert flamethrowing, barfing smilies here; I don't think DU server resources need to be wasted on the idiot.)

[AlCzervik]

120. OOHH NNOO SHEEEEE DIDN"TTTTTT!

omg i feel like my heads gonna to explode!!!

[WhiteTara]

123. may she rot in hell!

IMPEACH BUSH AND SEND THEM ALL TO THE HAGUE!

[peacetalksforall]

124. What do you expect from a professional hate and lie generating

machine?

[peacetalksforall]

125. Just keep repeating... federal contractors arrested for looting.

[Massachusetts]

126. Karen Hughes

KAREN HUGHES = BUSH WHORE

[Racenut20]

127. Thats funny. hehehehe

[Ksec]

128. Blame the victims ....like they always do.

typical bushite tactic. Lowlifes R Us/

[yurbud]

129. Nowhere else in the world does anyone believe a word the Bushies say

[yurbud]

130. How did these guys get a tin ear so fast? Karl's pre-emptive revenge?

In the past, I could at least see how their propaganda would work, at least domestically, but their latest effort seem to get lamer and lamer.

Maybe Karl can smell his betrayal coming up and is trying to take them down with him--or make it necessary for them to save him so he can save them.

[TexasLawyer]

131. From the looks of Karen Hughes...

I doubt she has ever missed a meal in her adult life.

She should try going without food or water for a day or two. Maybe she would feel a tinge of compassion in that hard, tiny heart of hers.

[ElectroPrincess]

176. She has had massive plastic surgery to make her more fetching ...

But like that other lackey, Linda Tripp, none of it erases the evil aura around her. Perhaps instead of "pinning up her face" the plastic surgeon should have done more liposuction? ;)

[October]

132. Totally expected at this point. It's their m.o. n/t

[imperialismispasse]

136. We could stop invading other countries and murdering there people

That might help our image abroad. Just a thought.

[ecoalex]

137. Go F Yourself

[Generator]

138. This woman is the worst of the worst of the Bush women

She seems more fanatical than Condi, and YES even more vile than Ann Coulter. She is a paid propagandist on the payroll of this wretched administration. Worst of the worst. Her heartless, pointed, sterile frothing never fails to make me want to call her the worst name there is. Which I think is being the worst of the worst of the Bush women.

Now, that's bad.

[confludemocrat]

140. Now this is where we should be hitting back at her...I'm waiting big Demos

once you recover your breaths and equilibrium (absofuckinglutely unbelievable). Thus is truly a perverse semi-human being.

BUT, shows in what kind of trouble they are in--and know it. What next?

[progressivebydesign]

141. No, dipshit. Your boyfriend's incompetence and cronyism is much worse NT

[Eurobabe]

142. New Orleans SEZ Karen Hughes tarnishes our image abroad

Just look at her, she makes you want to LOOT!

[onecent]

143. I say Karen Hughes officially taking her job as the nations' image

builder will tarnish American image abroad.

[Lilli]

144. Awesome!!!!!

I was afraid that it was the criminal war and crooked elections that had tarnished us...Looting we can just explain away. </sarcasm>

[digno dave]

152. Just think, we wouldn't need her position if not for Bush's fuck-ups

[really annoyed]

145. Little late Karen...

I think the Bush administration already took care of that.

[Opusnone]

147. Go F*** Yourself, Ms. Hughes

The world is smart enough to know that the majority of Americans are not looters and killers. You must think so ill of all but those in your own death cult.

They do, however, see through the bullshit and lies.

Want to improve our image? Stop invading other peoples countries and find OBL!

[Maggie_May]

149. Somebody better let Karen know

are rep was damaged when we went into Iraq. Will somebody stamp Dump Ass on her forehead please.

[texanwitch]

150. Lets call Karen what she is, Bush's whore. Karen this isn't going away

you really think the world will forget the pictures of the dead, the pictures from the Super Dome. If you think so you are as stupid has your boss.


Go to hell Karen, may you burn there forever.

[digno dave]

151. I wonder what her opinion is on the effect of Abu Ghraib on world view?

[0007]

213. .....or Colin Powell lying his ass for junior and the boys at

UN Security council. The whole world was watching that day, eh?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

153. But all that stuff about delaying assistance to the poor in New Orleans...

...will just be forgotten??

Piss off, Hughes.

[complain jane]

154. "Karen Hughes will tarnish image abroad" is more appropriate.

[Donailin]

155. Looting: trickle down economics.

How do these people look in the fucking mirror, sleep at night, go to church, pray??

[BlueJac]

156. Karen Hughes tarnishes America anywhere she goes!!

[AntiFascist]

157. What bullshit!

As if the President hasn't done more than enough to tarnish the American image abroad for years to come!

[murray hill farm]

158. Hughs = the ultimate "ugly american" now...

so SHE is going to promote a "positive" image of the USA? Will the insanity never end?

[buzzsaw_23]

159. She is doing her job

and she, as the head of the Ministry of Propaganda deserves a fair and speedy trial in The Hague with the rest of the criminals.

There is something sinister going down—it's not simply incompetence or negligence.

[kikiek]

160. How deluded can one person be? The world is appalled at our Govts

lack of response to our own people dying of thirst and starvation. People were trying to get food and water that isn't looting. The world knows that. Any other looting was condoned earlier by Rumsfeld. Free people are free to loot. Oh wait..it's Iraq that is free not us.

[struggle4progress]

161. Start thinking about how to say your goodbyes, Karen. eom

[Piperay]

162. Guess the 30 dead people in the nursing home

don't make us look bad. :wtf:

[phillysuse]

163. Looting

Karen,

Remember,

Freedom's messy.

Besides, it's the same bottle of water and box of
diapers being looted all over again.

[LibertyorDeath]

164. Yeah Hughes the Citizens of Iraq are appalled.

You insipid vile loathsome disgusting unthinking excuse for a human being

[ktowntennesseedem]

165. She ought to know.

The bunch she works for are leading experts in tarnishing American image abroad.

[Nostradamus]

167. How can you make a 100% bad image worse

[Baconfoot]

168. This lady has cracked her gourd. What a bolognaburgler! NT

[dalaigh lllama]

169. hmmm

"It sickens me as an American. How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens and children..."

That's what I've been wondering, too. Oh, wait... I thought she was talking about Bu$hco...

[John_R_Kelly]

170. Guffaw. har har. shell game. don't look at the people we starved, look at

the looters.

if this spin works, Americans are so stupid that it's not worth saving the country.

[Lecky]

182. LOL that was funny

"if this spin works, Americans are so stupid that it's not worth saving the country"

[Lecky]

171. No Mrs. Hughes, that is NOT what tarnishes America's image abroad

What a stupid $%^&*

UGH!

Is it that they think we are all idiots? Or are they the idiots?

OR is it that they are idiots who think we are all idiots.

[tsuki]

172. What has tarnished the US image is the new UN report about

poverty in the US.

[nolabels]

175. She would probably proclaim Native American Indians to be racist......

because they mostly only let white men steal their land.

Like how much credibility does any bushco spokesperson have across the globe after Katrina anyway :shrug:

[applegrove]

177. Come on Republicans. Just how stupid do they think you are!

[KamaAina]

178. KamaAina says New Orleans inaction by FEMA will tarnish US image

and he also says to Karen, doing his very best Bill O'Reilly impresiion, 'Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP!!"

[all.of.me]

179. i don't think you can polish our image abroad at this point.......

there's a waste of a good salary.

[suncoastmike]

183. Karen Hughes

Just another attempt by the Bushies to put a spin on it. They and the Bush surrogates (all the right wing talking heads)are trying very hard to blame the victims. Ultimately people died because the Bushies were asleep at the wheel. Incompetence at the highest levels. These are the people we are depending on to protect us. That scares the hell out of me.

[bushcrab]

185. Hughes attempts to sculpt dog shit

hoping the world will see beauty. Gawd I can only hope she washes her hands before she prepares her family's dinner!


"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job!"

[fishwax]

186. yeah, the looting. that's' what the world is shocked by

stupid fucking incompetents! :grr:

[fishwax]

187. it's comments like that that tarnish our image, dipshit!

Damn!

[drm604]

188. They just keep hitting new lows.

Un-friggin-believable. These people just continue to surpass themselves. Do they have any idea how transparent they are to a lot of us? Do they have any idea how angry this kind of deceitful patronizing crap makes us? Do they feel any shame at all about demonizing the victims of this tragedy? Do they ever feel any shame about anything? Are they even capable of feeling shame? :grr: :banghead:

[are_we_united_yet]

189. Yeah sure Karen whatever

[expatriot]

190. If NO had been inundated with relief and security within 12 hours

there would have been no anarchy and desperation!

[Catchawave]

191. This Karen Hughes....?

[burrowowl]

192. Say WHAT?

It is Bu$hCo that is tarnishing the U$ image abroad and she is adding to the tarnish!
WHAT UNMITIGATED GALL!

[sakabatou]

193. WTH are you talking about

It's already been tarnished since Nov. 2, 2000!

[are_we_united_yet]

194. Looting by Halliburton, Neo-Con artists, Enron, Pat Robertson?

[Carolab]

196. Exactly. Who are the criminals preying upon children & elderly?

BUSHCO, that's who. Ignorant slut.

[are_we_united_yet]

199. And she gets paid a lot of money

to say stupid shit like this. Jeezus Christ on a mini scooter!

:crazy:

[dchill]

200. Yes. Very accurately and succinctly put.

Also quite rhythmically poetic. I don't know how ignorant Karen "Eva Braun" Hughes is, but obviously she's ignorant enough. Most, if not all of these Bushidos are willfully ignorant, which means to me that they don't even see what they see.

They are not only preying on children and the elderly, they are also the most successful gang of looters since the Mongol hordes.

[Michydem]

197. the only REAL crimes I saw commited were killing innocent people

that survived a hurricane and a flood..and he let them starve to death...WTF can they do with a tv? and how far can that go...there were 100's of thousands of people there waiting for help...a few were looting and stealing...HELLO..when you have that many people in a dark city...you will encounter criminals..that is not what I will remember..its what THEY (adminsitration) hope we remember

[ignatius 2]

198. Well,maybe it's just me but I think pictures of prisoners being held

by Americans with electric cables attached to their genitals,dead Iraqi children blown away by American bombs and poor black people lying dead in water for days might have tarnished that all American image just a little bit already.

She means she love the America where the rich,white people have huge houses,bigger bank accounts and their own guarded communities away from the poor black trash. Her America where the white kids go to the best schools,meet the best people,run the biggest corporations,hire their cronies no matter how corrupt or inexperienced, her America where the rich get richer, the shrinking middle class pays the tax bill and the poor simply get screwed time after time.

Ignorant,soulless woman, doesn't she know that it is HER America that appalls the rest of the world?

[ngGale]

201. Nice to see....

her beautiful mind lives with Babs.

[texpatriot2004]

203. Karen just got started and already she's out of touch with reality

she must have gotten the memo with the talking points. I, personally, think that's the least of our worries regarding our "image abroad."

[texpatriot2004]

204. Karen Hughes out of touch with reality...already.

Karen Hughes says "New Orleans looting will tarnish American image abroad." Gee, Karen just started and already she's out of touch with reality. Head's up Karen, our "image abroad" is already tarnished. Forgive me Ms. Hughes I believe this is the least of our worries about our "image abroad." The whole world saw the man-made disaster of a response on the part of the President and the Federal Government. It was a national disgrace. I really don't think the "looting" and "crime" talking points will overshadow the colossal failure of the Federal Government in the United States of America to immediately respond to American citizens in dire need. The world headlines I read were more about "Super Power Humbled" and poverty in the US, and racism, and stuff like that; actually didn't see "looting" at all.

[0007]

206. 'Tis easy to see why the U.S. is the most hated country in the world.

[against all enemies]

209. Karen's on the job. Oh Thank God!! Everything OK now.

Do they know in Iraq? Is the war over? Now are they throwing flowers at us? Has Karen straightened out those little misunderstandings? Next week - Medal of Freedom. She deserves it. And all the others too. BushWorld where reality is in the mind of the powerful.

[Andromeda]

211. This has got to be a joke!

Our country's image will suffer because of the criminal Bush administration and its indifference to the suffering of the most vulnerable citizens.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Name removed]

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[AKing]

214. She must have missed Rumsfeld's memo.......

"Freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things," Rumsfeld said. Looting, he added, was not uncommon for countries that experience significant social upheaval. "Stuff happens," Rumsfeld said.

Rumsfeld: There's nothing wrong with a bit of looting 11 Apr 2003 The United States Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has tonight dismissed reports of mass chaos and lawlessness in Iraq as "exaggerated". "The so-called looting is not as bad as some reports have suggested," he said at a Pentagon briefing. "Yes, people are ransacking hospitals, burning down buildings and fighting each other in the streets, but it's not that bad. Stuff happens."

[ignatius 2]

218. He forgot to say that they were looting unprotected ammo dumps

the very ammo most likely being used to kill our troops in Iraq now. Has there ever been a more evil or incompetent bunch of dickheads running this country?

[liberaliraqvet26]

215. KAREN HUGHES TARNISHES OUR IMAGE...

just by being alive. witch.

[goforit]

216. Well well well little Karen. You alone are a walking disaster!!

[slay]

217. Typical Republican - It's all about the image

cause they have no substance.

[Zenlitened]

219. "Karen Hughes Flung Head-First Into Pool of Oily Sump...

... Worldwide Respect for America Soars!"

[stlsaxman]

220. THAT. FUCKING. BITCH!!!

She deserves to rot in hell for that statement.

The only thing that makes Rove worse than her is that he acts covertly.

[WindyInPA]

221. What the fuck is an image-builder?

Did the US ever have one of these before? I don't think we should have to pay an 'image-builder' too! If Dubya can't fix the shit he broke, he needs to find him another job! What makes him think anybody can fix the mess he has this country and other countries in? All around the globe, NOBODY trusts Dubya. Why would he think Hughes can make people trust him now?

As long has he only has his 'longtime good friends' in the Whitehouse corral, this country will need more than a damn 'image-builder'!




Dubya

[truthpusher]

237. WTF Ditto

[Robertwf]

222. Karen Hughes

Ms Hughes is intelligent as a single cell amoeba. How can our international reputation be any worse than it already is

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

225. she means looting by Halliburton, right?

the 50 billion being looted to go to Halliburton and Blackwater, right

[Guaranteed]

226. This actually makes me laugh. nt

[Blue_In_AK]

228. "How could criminals prey on vulnerable elderly citizens....

and children during a time of such horror" ???? Ask your boss that question, Karen. Geez, get a clue.

[Julius Civitatus]

229. It's all about PRIVATE PROPERTY with these Republicans

Cluephone for KKKaren Hughes:

The "looting" did not tarnish the image of the US after Katrina. In situations of extreme emergency and desperation, people don't think too much about that. Saving lives is the first priority... but I guess that wasn't that important for the "culture of life" people. They are too busy preserving the sanctity of private property in the midst of apocalyptic catastrophes! Ah, the "culture of life"!

The starving black men, women and children herded like cattle in sub-human conditions, and the countless dead bodies floating in NOLA while Bush played guitar and ate cake with McCain... that made us look bad, you stupid bitch!

The fact that FEMA, the agency in charge of severe emergencies in the riches country in the world took almost FIVE days to even notice thousands of evacuees starving to death in a stadium, while not allowed to leave the area by armed police (see Gretna police department), made us look like a fucking banana republic, you stupid cow!

Get a clue!

[milkyway]

230. Karen, that mission had been accomplished long ago.

[NuttyFluffers]

231. instead of the Hague, at the end, can't we just abandon her in fallujah?

pretty please. :evilgrin:

[mbee]

235. How does she feel about looting of

VOTES?

[Hekate]

236. With Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette in the White House, it's hard to see...

... how our "image" abroad could get much worse.

Oh wait, I know. Guillotine the poor for stealing bread and diapers.

That should do it.

Hekate
:argh:

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#
#Why isn't the Chickenhawk waitin' on the levee?#