Bush's High Prophet faces angry Muslim world on PR trip (Karen Hughes)

[sabra]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2045423,00.html

Bush's High Prophet faces angry Muslim world on PR trip

The woman whom President Bush calls his High Prophet today sets off to try and control the international consequences of this week's publication of the new Abu Ghraib images and the UN's report on Guantanamo Bay.

Karen Hughes was appointed in September to the post of Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, dubbed by Vice President Dick Cheney "the hardest job in government", with the responsibility of remaking America's image in the world, above all in the Middle East.

Today, caught in a snare of bad timing, she leaves for just her second trip to the region.

Already facing a delicate tour of the Gulf States this weekend, which was expected to be dominated by the controversy over the Muhammad cartoons, Ms Hughes, 49, now has more questions to deal with when she represents America and the Bush Administration at an "Islamic World Forum" in Qatar on Saturday.

[Skittles]

1. hasn't she already been proven a f***ing failure at this?

her last trip was an embarrassment to America

[tecelote]

2. Show me a Bush appointee that hasn't been a f***ing failure.

[TheGunslinger]

3. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

Putting makeup on a pig!

[saigon68]

4. Pigs look better

They are smarter too

[hatrack]

8. A pig might be slightly less offensive to Muslims

Just sayin . . .

[saigon68]

12. She has the look of a Vampire

Rove on the other hand has a porcine visage

[hatrack]

13. Furthermore, pigs may smell and wallow in mud . . .

But beyond aroma issues and the occasional grunt or squeal, no problems. More importantly, pigs don't insult their audience's intelligence.

Karen Hughes, on the other hand, is not only physically repellent, but consistently assumes that the people with whom she speaks are just as stupid as the pre-chewed crowds who gather to worship the Littlest President.

She's going to get her incompetent ass handed to her yet again, and I'm looking forward to the results of her "listening tour".

[TheGunslinger]

38. Vampig?

[tenshi816]

42. Yes, he does.

Look at this.

[saigon68]

43. Thats Really Neat ----it takes a while to load

LOL

[Mandate My Ass]

19. LOL

:rofl:

[Tin Man]

5. sent on a fool's mission

...yep, Bush instructed her to go put lipstick on the pig, and proclaim how beautiful it is.

[hatrack]

6. Why not just send Richard Simmons, Paris Hilton or Bozo?

Or perhaps Mr. Green Jeans, Colin Quinn and Big Bird - they could probably do just as good a job as freaking

KAREN HUGHES.

As I recall, she was just about jeered out of Turkey when she went to tell them how Americans hug their children, or whatever bullshit works on Republican voters in the US.

:puke:

[gratuitous]

7. SEE what you get, you malcontents?

Rioting in the streets over a silly cartoon published months ago -- so now you get a visit from Karen Hughes. If you don't calm down, and I mean right now, we'll send Jean Schmidt and Katherine Harris. Are we clear on this?

[flordehinojos]

9. could he call her, "High Prophetess"?

[Toucano]

10. Stop wasting my fucking money!

How long as she been a muslim?

You mean, we couldn't find a single American muslim to represent us to the muslim world? Not that it would do any good at this point.

Fucking swell.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

11. They had one,

but he turned out to be, you know, one of them homosexy'alls, so they sent Karen Hughes instead, because she's sort of a guy. In a skirt. Thing.

[acmejack]

14. She may be the only one in the entire regime, er administration

who had the balls to go face the angry Arab world. I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

21. Saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Is it possible she was sent as an expendable human sacrifice?

If so, finally these thugs have done something I can support.

I have here a list ...............

[VaYallaDawg]

25. (Hum Mikado) - As someday it may happen that a victim must be found,

I've got a little list
I've got a little list

Of society offenders who might well be under ground

and who never would be missed
they never would be missed ...

[OldLeftieLawyer]

32. Good one!!!

I never thought of that.

I was channeling Senator Joe McCarthy and his famous, but phony, list of "known Communists" who were supposedly working in the government. You're probably far too young to remember THAT one: http://www.brainyhistory.com/events/1950/february_12_1950_111128.html

I still think Karen Hughes would make a GREAT sacrifice, even if she's not quite human, and so, let me sing:

"My object all sublime, I shall achieve in time....."

[kineneb]

37. G&S suits the occasion

Since their charming productions had lots of sly political jokes about British officials. I discussed these in a music history grad seminar.

"...And the lady from the provences,
who dresses like a guy,
And "who doesn't think she dances,
but would rather like to try";
And that singluar anomaly, the prohibitionist (or "lady novelist")
I don't think she'd be missed
I'm sure she'd not be missed!"

Karen, are you listing to the song?

[VaYallaDawg]

39. ...to let the punishment fit the crime,

the punishment fit the crime.

And make each prisoner's sentence
Unwillingly represent
A source of innocent merriment
Of innocent merriment.

Do you see what you started now! I'll have that dadblamed thing on my mind for the rest of the day!

Have a great weekend.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

41. It's catchy, indeed.....

Not a bad thing to have running through your mind, is it?

You, too............. :)

[sugapablo]

15. Prophet?

Uhm, sending a woman into the muslim world, to help the US look better, and calling her your "High Prophet"? WTF?

Muslims consider Mohammed the LAST prophet, don't they?

More proof that people like Bush just don't get it.

[kskiska]

16. No reporters this time

(snip)

As the 16 American journalists who accompanied Ms Hughes pointed out, she relied on stock phrases and vague, heart-warming statements.

She said that America wanted Palestinians "to have the experience of having children and families." In Ankara, Ms Hughes told her audience: "I love all kids. And I understand that is something I have in common with the Turkish people."

(snip)

Ms Hughes, who has served by Mr Bush's side since becoming his press director in 1994 and then all-answering "Counselor" when he became President in 2000, has also made one clear change to improve the press coverage of her second trip abroad: this time, no journalists have been invited.

AHHHHH…That was her problem!!!

[rodeodance]

27. well, I hope a few journalists crash her party.

[Dulcinea]

35. How stupid is that?

I guess they didn't consider the overseas media. Did they think she'd just sneak in & out? WTF?

Also, who's going to control the message now?

[Norquist Nemesis]

17. High Prophet? She must be getting some really big bucks!

Karen Hughes: The Prophet of Propogand

[azurnoir]

18. Karen Hughes

High Prophet of Propaganda or Sacrificial Goat?

[PassingFair]

20. She is NO goat...She is a WOLF:

Make no mistake about it.
She is as deranged as the
rest of them.

[sabra]

22. oh my, what a horrible pic

[rodeodance]

23. I have to admit I did not know Jr call Huges "his High Prophet"--my gawd!

[booksenkatz]

40. It's an adorable Bush nickname based on her maiden name Parfitt. nt

[rodeodance]

24. What has she done during this cartoon upheaval?--Hiding?

[PassingFair]

29. She probably arranged for their publication.

I'm not kidding.

[rodeodance]

26. Rice is her "immediate superior"

....On Wednesday, Ms Hughes's immediate superior, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, announced that she would seek $85 million to support human rights activists and dissidents in Iran and radically enhance the US Government's media operations, Ms Hughes's responsibility.

Ms Hughes, who has served by Mr Bush's side since becoming his press director in 1994 and then all-answering "Counselor" when he became President in 2000, has also made one clear change to improve the press coverage of her second trip abroad: this time, no journalists have been invited.

[rodeodance]

28. te he "Hopefully she's further along the learning curve now,.."

"Hopefully she's further along the learning curve now, I hope she's got something to say beyond that she's a mother," said Mr Phillips.

[AlinPA]

30. I wonder how the name "High Prophet" will be received in the Mid-East.

Prophet? Plaster that name over the newspapers in the Mid-East and watch the reaction. How stupid. What the hell is he talking about?

[Javaman]

31. So here they go once again...

giving dynamite and ear plugs to a circus chimp to spin our good will upon the Islamic nations of the world.

Will this side show ever end?

colossal fucking moron failure racist pig*.

[ixion]

33. oh, she's HIGH alright

but she is far from a prophet by ANY stretch of the defintion. :crazy:

[0007]

44. Karen's britches are very big.

[Dulcinea]

34. She'll be lucky if she doesn't come home tarred & feathered.

Or whatever treatment people like her are given in the Muslim world.

Memo to Ms. Hughes: DO NOT use the term "High Prophet." You do so at your peril.

[dogfacedboy]

36. Just another Bush whore. n/t