Karen Hughes starts her job: Says looters making the US look bad

[cynatnite]

"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."

It is the images of post-storm crime that could do the most damage to the U.S. image abroad, according to Hughes.

http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/shared/news/nation/stories/09/09KATRINA_HUGHES.html

[Inland]

1. Yeah. That's what it is. Great job, Karen, really put your finger on it.

All you need to do to clean up the universally poor view of America is to shoot looters and INSIST that there isn't racism in America.

[Carla in Ca]

31. Gee, I bet she doesn't mean THESE looters

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports today that three Federal Emergency Mismanagement Agency contractors were arrested for looting in Plaquemines Parish.

The contractors were allowed to take food and drink from a Family Dollar Store, but they decided to take toys and clothing and loaded the cab of their truck.

[dogday]

2. Karen tell the feds and fema that if they

know there is going to be a catastrophe, it would be a good job to be as close as possible to the scene....

[CottonBear]

3. Karen: STFU. You're only concerned about image not people's lives.

DO us a favor and SHUT UP. :grr:

[forintegrity]

4. Yup. Reality hurts the ole' image.

Like anything can hurt our image anymore than it already is!!!

[Imagevision]

20. Ms. Hughes, the Author of: "they died for a noble cause speech"

You can't blame it on 200 looters, false reports of helicopters being fired on - truth be, they were firing in the air to get the attention of the pilots...grant it, not the smartest thing to do, but a far cry from actually being a target Ms. Hughes...!


http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Contrary1]

5. So do starving people...

but don't bother wasting your beautiful mind on something like that.

[Fleshdancer]

6. She obviously hasn't read the global responses, has she?

The entire world is disgusted at our government's lack of ability to take care of its people. The fact that we are the richest, most powerful nation in the world and we can't save our own...THAT is what makes the US look bad.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. She should look around her and in the mirror to see what has

really made the USA look bad!!

[elehhhhna]

8. kim george il strikes again.

[demo dutch]

9. the PR queen at work!

[Der Blaue Engel]

10. The rest of the world isn't going to fall for this shit either

(Oh, and good thing there's no Blame Game going on.)

[BringEmOn]

11. I agree

Halliburton, Exxon-Mobil, and other corporate looters.

[Verve]

12. This Administration makes the U.S. look bad.

Get it straight Hughes!

[ComerPerro]

13. Look bad? To who? I thought the administration didn't care about image

[disconnected]

14. i thought everyone already hated us

why should we be caring what the rest of the world thinks now?

[Catrina]

15. She must have missed the police

chief on CNN just a few minutes ago, who says the lies about the 'crime wave' must be debunked.

He says they are being grossly exaggerated and that his department remained on the job, and received only TWO reports of ATTEMPTED rape, which they responded to at the Convention Center. No other 'rapes' have been verified.

As for crime, he says the people were calm, frustrated but the vast majority of them did absolutely nothing wrong, and the few incidents of crime are being completely taken out of proportion.

Poor Karen, her job is going to be tough, and she may decided to take some more time with her family before long, and before she is accused of being an accessory after the fact. Stop the lying, Karen. We witnessed what happened,

The biggest crime was that your hero and his top government officials went on vacation while their citizens died. Anything that happened, including any break-down in law an order after several days of no water, no food etc., is the fault of those who could have, but refused to put into action all the life saving agencies that were standing by, waiting for, as Lte. Commander Webb said, 'the green light from the POTUS'. Spin away, this time there are way too many witnesses.

[opihimoimoi]

16. Goody Two Shoes Doris Day on the Outside but Leona Hemsly on the

inside...Karen is part of the effort to get this DISASTEROUS BUSH POTUS in the first place. Had we had Kerry or Gore, this woulda not happen(appointing incompetents) .....

[madrchsod]

17. it`s not the looters

it`s the bloated bodies of human beings that have been floating in the stagnate waters for days in the greatest nation on earth...sorry no one will forget those pictures no matter what the nanny says

[stray cat]

18. Abandonment of the poor during disasters, incompetence.

Our leadership during disasters is what makes America look bad.

[jimshoes]

19. So what is her new title...

Official Turd Polisher?

[stevietheman]

21. Maybe she should read what the foreign press *really* says about...

what's causing the damage to the U.S. image. She spews this crap as if the American people don't already know THE JIG IS UP.

[TNDemo]

22. Did she get tired of spending time with her son?

Isn't that why she left in the first place? Guess she didn't like the kid.

[melody]

23. LOOTERS ARE MAKING THE US LOOK BAD??????????????????

What are they, fucking insane?????

Okay, never mind. I withdraw the question, Your Honor.

[Imagevision]

24. Karen Hughes is a white Condi...end of story!

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

[Cleita]

25. Ever the sensitive and compassionate elitist our Karen.

That remark is right up there with Pickles saying that the Abu Ghraib torture pictures make us look bad.

((((God, get these people away from us, please!!))))

[lindisfarne]

26. The "official" looters, especially Halliburton, make the US look very bad.

[libertypirate]

27. We don't need looters for that we have her man /nt the queer cowboy

[Field Of Dreams]

28. Does this twit Hughes have an email address? n/t

[Tari]

29. Cue Jon Lovitz: "Yeah, that's the ticket."

Reality be damned!

[Sydnie]

30. You're right Karen. The post-storm crime perpetrated on those people

by the federal government IS what is damaging the image abroad.

Ask Chertoff to share his papers with you. I'm sure there's a headline or two about that in them.