Editor at Conservative Magazine To Be Top Policy Adviser to Bush

[kpete]

Editor at Conservative Magazine To Be Top Policy Adviser to Bush

By Michael A. Fletcher
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 25, 2006; A04

President Bush appointed a longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute yesterday to be his top domestic policy adviser, a post that has been vacant since February, when Claude A. Allen stepped down after being charged with stealing more than $5,000 in a phony refund scheme.

Karl Zinsmeister, who has worked the past 12 years as editor in chief of the American Enterprise magazine, is slated to assume his White House post June 12. At the institute, he focused on examining cultural issues, as well as social and economic trends. His columns for the magazine included pieces praising Wal-Mart's efficiency and extolling the role of religion in forming the glue that bonds communities.

Zinsmeister, 47, also has written three books defending the war in Iraq, a nation he has visited four times as an embedded journalist. His books focus on the everyday work of U.S. troops, whose progress in fulfilling a noble mission, he argues, is often overlooked by much of the media.

"What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over," Zinsmeister wrote in his column last June. "Egregious acts of terror will continue -- in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerrilla war."

more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402349_pf.html

[Toots]

1. Let's "Catapult the Propaganda"

No surprizes here. More Propaganda on the way...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. "Iraq, a nation he has visited four times as an embedded journalist"

Something tells me he was one of the guys who got all his perspective from inside the green zone...

[goddess40]

3. Karl from Wisconsin?

Does any one know if Zinsmeister comes from Wisconsin? I went to school with a Karl Zinsmeister and this one is about the right age. I hope it's not the same guy. Karl was a nice kid and I'd hate to think he turned out to be so evil.