“I am so sorry,” [Karen Hughes] said, sitting at a bar drinking wine.

[Bumblebee]

During a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, Ms. Rice’s aides ran into a tired and angry group of Americans who had been evacuated from Lebanon and were trying to get home, but their plane, which stopped in Shannon, had broken down.

Some of the Americans recognized Karen Hughes, the assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy. Within minutes she was surrounded by the group, who said they had been traveling for five days and had been at the airport for 24 hours.

“I am so sorry,” she said, sitting at a bar drinking wine.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/24/world/middleeast/24cnd-mideast.html?hp&ex=1153800000&en=5372c8857a96daa9&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Drum]

1. Eww, ick! nt

[AndyA]

2. How typical. This administration never has any answers, only excuses

and fake apologies. An apology from anyone is rare.

Worse leadership would be hard to find.

[sofa king]

46. That's "compassionate conservatism" for ya.

No, really. I wish I still had the news article where one of Karen Hughes' buddies admitted as much to the press. The paraphrased version is, "we acknowledge the suffering you will experience as a result of our action/inaction, but we're not going to do anything about it."

I guess Karen practices what she preaches.

[Kolesar]

51. "Dispassionate conservatism" . .. eom .. .

[The Cleaner]

3. "assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy"

my arse.

What a joke. The woman leaves the Bush admin to spend more time with her son. Guess she got sick of him pretty quick, made a call to Bush, got hired back on in a new and ridiculously redundant position.

She probably gets paid a HEFTY SUM for doing JACK Q SQUAT.

Must be nice.

[tabasco]

25. They will be going into overdrive profiteering mode.

The corporate cabal knows we will boot them into the street soon. They will increase the rate of stealing due to the imminent end of their crime spree. Expect to see a resurgence of "missile defense" projects, the greatest scam against the US taxpayers of all time.
Hughes got on the payroll just to fly around and pad her bank account. Drinking wine in Shannon waiting to go somewhere else and do the same thing. Disgusting thievery but the really disgusting thing is that these crooks still have 30+% support! :crazy:

[tbyg52]

67. And they will climax in November...

...with stealing votes. Watch them, watch them, watch them. When they do it (and they will) SCREAM BLOODY MURDER!!!!

[rurallib]

4. Sorry she got spotted - should have been in disguise.

[Caoimhe]

5. You are right

She really should wear a berka when out and about. She would probably like it! She would look like a monstrous pin cushion.

[Tinksrival]

34. She came close once in Kabul............

still looks monstrous though

[mediaman007]

53. Looks like "Maude!"

What irony. After all, the real "Maude" was about as liberal as you can get!

[Ganja Ninja]

11. "Sorry" is pretty much an understatement at this point.

This is the sorriest administration ever.

[Stinky The Clown]

36. She couldn't wear an effective disguise ......

...... her feet would give her away.

[elehhhhna]

6. Why the hell is she boozing on our dime?

[OhioChick]

9. Why not........

The rest of the administration does.

[wordpix2]

61. Hughes---antoher disaster doing nothing good for the ME

[wordpix2]

62. self-delete

[chat_noir]

7. J'accuse Hughes of wining

[rodeodance]

8. at lest i could have been a pint!

[Bumblebee]

12. or she could have ordered a round for them...

[lpbk2713]

10. So she's an Assistant Secretary of State?

I guess that makes it official.


She's a genuine A.S.S

[Historic NY]

13. what can I do except.....................

:rofl:

[nancyr]

14. "Let them eat cake."

This entire exchange reminds me of something that Dorothy Parker might have written.

[Spazito]

15. ROFLMAO!, Great catch!

:rofl:

[Bozita]

16. That's the reward for writing GWB's AUTObiography, "A Charge to Keep"

The book reviews at Amazon are hilarious.

[lonestarnot]

29. What do you get when you cross and ass with a beaver?

A whistling mess for sure.

[leftofthedial]

17. "We would have done something, but . . .

we are all still so traumatized over Bill Clinton's blow job that we can't be expected to function

besides, no one could have foreseen that Israel and Hezbollah would start shooting at each other

and if Clinton and the Democratic Congress would have solved the Middle East problem instead of . . ."

[Norquist Nemesis]

18. BAR FIGHT!

:popcorn:

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. She probably just finished polishing off a keg with the boys.

[Catherine Vincent]

20. Did the Bush admin. officially re-hire Karen Hughes?

I thought she wanted to spend more time with her kids.

[EFerrari]

21. I'm confused. I thought they rehired her to sell Western culture

in Iraq or something. To sell American Iraq policy in the Middle East? Remember she talked to all those women's groups and they basicly told her to go home? It didn't go very well and then, you don't hear anything.

Maybe her family doesn't want to spend more time with her? :shrug:

[Bumblebee]

22. Yes, so she is their ME PR person, and it makes sense -- to them :)

that she should accompany Condi. After all, she is such a smooth diplomat, with such a soothing voice! And she obviously speaks all the languages of the Middle East to boot! :banghead:

[EFerrari]

26. I want to write a comedy, "Karen does Cairo!"

:rofl:

[AngryOldDem]

23. Did she offer to buy a round?

"I am so sorry," she said, "but at least we changed our minds about YOU picking up the bill for your trip." :sarcasm:

[Ganja Ninja]

24. I'm surprised she didn't throw up on them. n/t

[idgiehkt]

28. or pick up the tab for their flight home?

What is it, like $300 per person or something?

[uppityperson]

27. she IS so sorry

[Ilsa]

30. She was sitting at the table in Beirut two seats down from Condi.

I can't imagine what she thinks she can contribute to that meeting. She knows ZILCH about ME affairs and the people. All she has been doing is putting on a dog and pony show for the last two years.

[Bumblebee]

31. and here is more:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Karen_Hughes_surrounded_by_evacuees_from_0724.html

The Washington Wire, the blog of the Wall Street Journal is reporting today the Karen Hughes, public diplomacy chief of the State Department, was surrounded in an airport bar by Lebanese Americans who had been evacuated from Lebanon.

Despite traveling 5 days, members of the group could not stay in a hotel because of a disagreement with the State Department over who would bear the lodging costs.

[wordpix2]

63. self delete

[wordpix2]

64. who will bear the lodging costs? How about f**$$ing Halliburton, Exxon &

the rest wof the profiteers who've made off with our money and natural resources?

[tanyev]

32. This definitely calls for a bar joke.

A slight little guy is having a drink in a bar. A lot of drinks. A very dark bar.

He leans over to the big woman next to him and says, "Do you wanna hear a funny blonde joke?"

The big woman replies, "Well, before you tell that joke, you should know something. I'm blonde, and six feet tall, 210 lb. and I'm a professional triathlete and bodybuilder. The blonde woman sitting next to me is 6'2" and 220; she's an ex-professional wrestler. Next to her is a blonde who's 6'5", weighs 250 lb., and she's a professional kickboxer. We're three big, bad blondes! Now, do you still want to tell that blonde joke?"

The guy blinks and swallows, thinks about it a second and says, "Heck no! Not if I'm going to have to explain it three times.

[wordpix2]

65. Karen Hughes is sitting at a bar in Ireland and along come some

Lebanese-American refugees looking for a place to stay....

[Canuckistanian]

69. So Karen Hughes, a rabbi and a penguin walk into a bar...

And the bartender says, "What is this, a joke?"

[Czolgosz]

33. I agree that Karen Hughes is a sorry bitch (or did I miss her point?) k&r

[Kire]

35. Is this a joke?

What's the punchline?

The quoted text is not in the article the link points to.

[POAS]

38. Link is pointing to wrong article now...update???

[Lerkfish]

40. I"m thinking it was scrubbed, because the story is still about the trip

:shrug:

[POAS]

41. You may be right, convenient creative editing

[Spazito]

60. It was scrubbed, here is a post of mine from this morning that

was specifically about this:

Spazito (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-24-06 08:55 AM
Response to Original message
12. Note this little tidbit....
"During a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, Ms. Rice’s aides ran into a tired and angry group of Americans who had been evacuated from Lebanon and were trying to get home, but their plane, which stopped in Shannon, had broken down.

Some of the Americans recognized Karen Hughes, the assistant secretary of state for public diplomacy. Within minutes she was surrounded by the group, who said they had been traveling for five days and had been at the airport for 24 hours.

“I am so sorry,” she said, sitting at a bar drinking wine."

This behaviour, imo, is the epitome of the whole bush cabal.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1716153&mesg_id=1716306

Here is the thread link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1716153

[Canuckistanian]

50. Hughes isn't even mentioned now

Down the memory hole!

[w4rma]

37. What article are you getting that from? (nt)

[Lerkfish]

39. that link appears to take me to a different story, or they cleaned it up.

no mention NOW of that interchange.

[progressoid]

42. Umm...wrong link or did the article disappear?

[Bumblebee]

47. They must have scrubbed it. It was the third or so paragraph

of the article about Rice going to Beirut. Hopefully they are writing a separate item on that.

[Jazzgirl]

43. Why does Karen Huge remind me of Maude???

n/t

[robbedvoter]

45. Dunno, because Maude was a progressive, honest character

if somewhat overbearing.

[robbedvoter]

44. wasn't "wine, brie & cheese" sign of the rotten elitist NE? (per W)

Some deprecatory comment he made on Clinton's chosing Martha's Wineyard for vacations ("people drink wine there) as opposed to rugged, folksy fake native texas.

[Olney Blue]

48. She then bought a round for the room.

[SpiralHawk]

49. kompassionate konzervative krap

as usual.

I hope their agonies will not disturb George AWOL Bush's THREE WEEK VACATION at the Imperial Pig Farm Upon Crawford this year. How inconveeeeeeeenient.

[Bumblebee]

52. NEW LINKS!

How it used to be:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=26650

(The same as above)

and how it was re-written, after a WH call, obviously, in a later incarnation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/world/middleeast/25rice.html

The complaints began even before she arrived in Beirut. During a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, an under secretary of state, Karen Hughes, along with other administration officials and a few reporters were sitting at a bar when a group of Lebanese-Americans recognized Ms. Hughes and approached her.

They said the plane American officials had put them on to return home had broken down on the runway in Shannon. They said they had been at the airport for more than 24 hours and had been traveling for five days without showers, and eating airport food. They said they were exhausted.

“I’m so sorry,” Ms. Hughes said, and promised to try to help. Within a few minutes a United States Embassy official, who was at the airport to look after Ms. Rice’s plane, was dispatched to find the Lebanese-Americans hotel rooms.

[Tinksrival]

54. She gulped down the last of her wine and replied,

"Condi is busy so you can share my room"

[grannylib]

55. *lol* Is that before or after she tried to convince people that the

Constitution contains the words "one nation under God"?

[Tinksrival]

58. She and Condi have decided

to replace "god" with "bush"

[wordpix2]

66. that is GREAT!!! LOL bwahahahaha!

[madeline_con]

56. “500,000 refugees: America’s tax dollars at work.” n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

57. Good thing they weren't pro-choice marchers. Then she might have

called them "terrorists".

[Swamp Rat]

59. 6 foot toad

[Javaman]

68. Yeah, karen, I'm a former linebacker, hughes was "refueling" alright...

at the bar.