Tuker Carlson on the dishonest and thoroughly average Karen Hughes

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8063563/#051115a

Hughes, a former local TV reporter from Texas who oversaw media relations in the governor's office and later on the Bush campaign, was one of Bush's closest confidants. I once saw her snap at her boss, right to his face in the most embarrassing possible way. He didn't flinch. Obviously Bush thought so highly of her, he gave her a pass. I have no idea why. Hughes always struck me as not only dishonest, but thoroughly average. Her main contribution to Bush's speeches appeared to be her insistence that the public -- formerly known as "Americans" or "voters" or "men and woman" -- be always and everywhere referred to as "moms and dads." Every time I heard Bush repeat a talking point that was patronizingly simplistic and dumb, I assumed it was Karen Hughes speaking.

The rest of the story is well known: Despite her limitations, Karen Hughes not only survived the campaign, she moved up to the White House, and remains in the inner ring of Bush's private circle. Not long ago, Bush appointed her Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, our ambassador to the Islamic world. Today, she was in Pakistan handing out aid to earthquake victims.

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It goes on. You get the flavor. By the end of the trip, Hughes had so annoyed a group of Saudi women, they barked at her. So much for winning hearts and minds. God knows what she's saying to the Pakistanis right now.

And it matters. In today's wire service account of Hughes's trip, she is quoted as calling Pakistan "one of America's most loyal partners in the war on terror." For once Hughes is right. Pakistan really matters. Pervez Musharraf, for all his many faults, is a vital bulwark against Islamist parties that would love to control the country and its nuclear weapons. Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI, may be riddled with al-Qaida sympathizers, but it still provides us with invaluable information about terrorist threats. We have an interest in courting public opinion in Pakistan. Maybe the Pakistanis do care that Karen Hughes is a mom. Maybe they are yearning to be lectured at by a humorless kindergarten teacher posing as a high-level diplomat. On the other hand, maybe they're not. It's not a chance we ought to take.

To use his time on the air to excoriate Karen Hughes and her incompetence. No? He wouldn't get invited to all the swell parties then.

Hillary should have force fed him a shoe. Right after she'd stepped in a big steaming pile of dogshit.

catch that on video?

Pervez is a cheap thug, a dictator, a nuclear arms peddler, and a huge mistake. In a few years our support of him will blowback big time.

Addressing his guest/victim yesterday, the good Dr. Jones. How is this for convoluted?

"Ponder that for a second: The U.S. government killed more than 3,000 of its own citizens. For no obvious reason. Then lied about it. Then invaded two other countries, killing thousands of their citizens as punishment for a crime they didn't commit.

If you really thought this - or even considered it a possibility - how could you continue to live here? You couldn't. You'd leave the United States on the next available flight and not come back. You'd have no choice. Continuing to pay taxes to a government capable of something so evil would make you complicit in the crime.

So of course most of the people who wrote to say they think the government might have been behind 9-11 don't really think the government might have been behind 9-11. For whatever reason, they just like to say so. Which as far as I'm concerned makes them phony and irresponsible."

I sent him another letter, telling him I also believed John Stewart was otally correct!

I notice that even the government is using the FReeper term "Islamofascist" now. You wanna see Islamofascists, Pakistan is the poster boy. That is one sick, sick society, and when Mushareff gets bumped off, hoo boy. They'll be selling nukes to Al Qaeda five minutes later. If you're known by the friends you keep...

Boy", but in ways that escape me at the moment.

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