So a partisan, an ideologue and a comic walked into a NASA space lab...

[Rose Siding]

After the recent, humiliating resignation of George Deutsch, you might think Bush's next NASA appointee would be exceptional, qualified even. You'd be wrong.


Bush Adds Appointee to NASA Press Office
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The new employee, Joseph R. Pally, 30, previously worked as a spokesman for the Office of Surface Mining in the Interior Department and for the Small Business Administration.

The hiring comes after several weeks of complaints from NASA scientists and civil servants that Bush administration employees had been restricting news releases and interviews on scientific findings that clashed with President Bush's policies on climate and other issues.
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Dean Acosta, the agency's deputy assistant administrator for public affairs....said Mr. Pally was "well qualified," adding, "We look forward to having him on the team."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/politics/18nasa.html?ex=1297918800&en=c3d694a82d4e1565&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

He's gone from politics to Iraq to comedy
Former Dongan Hills resident Joseph Pally has taken a circuitous route to find his true calling
Sunday, August 07, 2005
WASHINGTON -- After spending the first decade of his adult life in government and politics here, former Dongan Hills resident Joseph Pally has decided to pursue his other passion in life: Comedy writing.
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His assignment in Iraq: Serving as a news media liaison at U.S. military headquarters in Baghdad. "Our job was to get out the news beyond the daily car bombing or explosion and talk about the positives, the reconstruction program and the widespread optimism of the Iraqi people," he explained.
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After coming back from Iraq in November 2003, Pally continued working as public affairs official at the Department of the Interior until June of this year, when he moved to Manhattan to launch his comedy career.

While looking for a corporate public relations job to pay the bills, Pally is currently busy with a number of writing projects, including a script he intends to offer to CBS Television for its sitcom, "King of Queens."

Whatever the outcome of his new endeavor, however, he refuses to rule out an eventual return to his old line of work. "Knowing me, I cannot close the door to politics," he said.

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:Uw8P4xNajGEJ:silive.stage.advance.net/news/advance/index.ssf%3F/base/news/1123420575276690.xml+%22Joseph+Pally%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

On his Iraq blog ("...at some point it will become more and more difficult for the media to paint this operation with such broad -and defeatist- brush strokes. ...ultimately the progress being made will be impossible to conceal"), he links Drudge. Just Drudge.

[ComerPerro]

1. Bush appoints a terribly unqualified partisan stooge to a high position

that he probably doesn't deserve.


Yawn...


Should we be suprised at all?

Hell, might I remind you that the President himself was a unqualified, partisan stooge himself, who never deserved to be president?

Does anyone here honestly expect such a fuckup to appoint qualified people?

[shrdlu]

2. Rumsfeld was on Charlie Rose last night selling hard...

...the silly idea that bad press is the root of the problems in Iraq . Not enough news about the good things that are happening, he whined. Do these bozos really think it appropriate to use a $500 billion a year military to paint schoolrooms. It's a matter of public attitude, he said. I was so hoping that Rose would suggest that perhaps the PR problem was that the war was a monumentally stupid freakin' idea from the get-go.