An Open Letter to Karen Hughes
Sidney Blumenthal, Salon contributer and executive producer of "Taxi to the Dark Side" wants the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs to do her job:
One Defense Department official, believing the administration policy on detainees and torture to be illegal and counterproductive, told me that in his and others' efforts to reverse it they approached you as a last hope. After all, you have virtually unrestricted access to the president. But he recounted that you rebuffed them, and described your attitude as dismissive.
Your complicity in the torture policy is one reason that I am writing you. Despite the futility of those inside the administration in bringing the problem to you, you still remain in place to redress it. As the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy, responsible for defending America's reputation in the world, you must engage the issue that has most seriously damaged our image. Your obligation will continue so long as you hold your post. Those who care about the good name of the United States will not cease viewing you as a last resort, even if you disdain or ignore them, because they cling to the desperate hope that a nagging conscience or its sudden awakening will compel you actually to do your job.
I have a short letter for her:
Dear Mrs. Hughes:
FUCK YOU!
Sincerely, Me.
Don't hold your breath, Sidney.
Does anyone think Karen Hughes gives a shit?
That is, except until she's left the Bush administration and writes a book.
Shel Silverstein musta been a Texan when he sang Don't Roller-Skate in the Buffalo Ring.
Don't hold your breath on this one. First of all what the hell has she done so far that is worth a shit? I've seen her speak at hearings and she just isn't all that smart. She's a terrible speaker too.
I think she is in the same adoring bush boat as condi. She is kept around to buff bush's ego, in my opinion.
Dr. Who @ 1:
When Ms. Hughes first hit the stage as 'White House Counselor' - a position as W's hand-holder/cheerleader in chief, Hughes nontheless evinced the Bush Administration sneer.
I commented to my wife, "Two words come to mind when I see Karen Hughes: strident bitch."
Sending a stern letter to these criminals? Look how well its worked out for Leahy and Waxman.
Could happen. She might feel of twinge of patriotic responsibility. I also believe in the Great Pumpkin and Santa Claus.
Karen Hughes is an empty shell. She had her head popped open and everything inside first scooped out and then they scrapped down the walls to be sure they got everything. There is no humanity there at all. Sorry - nice letter though.
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If she had a real functioning heart, she wouldn't still be associated with this god-awful administration.
Is it just me or does she look like she is actually related to Bush? The similarity in facial syntax between the two of them is uncanny...as is their conjoined flair for idiocy.
theWalrus @ 3:
Suggestions for title? "My Life as a War Criminal Enabler"?
Doesn't matter - no one will buy it.
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Bush and company, which values money and power is no longer concerned with governance.
Well last time I checked we have women's prisons too.
oh yea .... her.
She probably really does think there is a terrorist behind every tree and torturing people is all that's keeping them jumping out and grabbing her.
Yes, Karen Hughes has been a Bush shill. But I don't agree with the attacks on her person. Do we talk about Rove and Cheney's baldness?
Empty Suit.
If Karen Hughes's chest cavity where the human conscience is located has anything but foul-tasting chemical crystals I'd be shocked.
Ew, and check out the off-the-chart evil smarm from the Cheneys, who are slitherin' Lynn's new book I'm an Occluded Lesbian and So Can You!. They're even creepier together than the sum of their parts.
Can we really be surprised by her conduct in this? A few years ago she was involved in an attempt to bolster the image of the US abroad by making suggestions regarding the conduct of American tourists. The advice varied from not wearing loud clothing or talking too loud to not discussing American sports abroad. I watched the news after that and thought "How stupid of me for thinking our image has been tarnished by a fraudulent war, rapacious corporations, and questionable activities by various parties connected to the government. Clearly, tourists from Iowa wearing Aloha shirts and trying to talk about the Cubs are to blame." Someone who can float a notion like that has no business dealing with anything more critical than managing a Dairy Queen.
Nagging conscience? Bwahahahahaha! Not even close.
Boorishly adding to my OT Cheney link in comment at 19:
Cheneys' vid is on the RH side labeled "outtakes", and there's a brief ad first. So sorry.
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Why does Karen Hughes hate America?
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gus smith @ 17:
Yes.
It's a good thing they don't have a single freckle on the center of their heads, or they'd look like walking penises.
Maybe a little shrivelled.
Forgetaboutit. She's just a Bush boot-licking political hack.
If that doesn't work, threaten to call his mother.
I just don't understand peoples loyalty to the Creep in Chief.
Mike Mid City @ 27:
Nor I. Maybe somebody will write a book about it someday.
Don't waste your time, she's where she is BECAUSE she can help damage the good (well, maybe acceptable?) name of this nation in the eyes of the world.
They are actively trying to destroy the nation as we knew it, don't expect them to do anything that does not accomplish those ends.
Maybe they are loyal to him because they are afraid of what he would do if they aren't.
That link, that Ellie (19) provided, is about Cheney. To this day he's saying that Rumsfeld did a great job running the war. Jesus, he and Rumsfeld must be the last two living humans on earth who think so.
The unifying character trait of buschco is apathy. Hughes would be my favorite for the role of Nurse Ratchet for a future remake of Cuckoos Nest.
Remember Karen resigned a long time ago to go back to Texas and spend more time with her son and husband. Then I guess she felt she had spent enough time with them and she came back to the white house. What did they need her for?
It is flawed thinking to assume Ms Hughes has a conscience to which an appeal can be made.
Guess the wizard is not 'a wizard who will serve.' No brain, no heart, only nerve.
Jezzzz, we have had to look at Ann's face today and now Karen Hughes' face.
Are we being punished? :(
An open letter to Karen Hughes is a big fat waste of time. She is utterly incompetent, possibly even stupid. Google her, and you will be amazed at how someone with her track record for failure and lack of stature outside her chosen field of TV "news" reporting. She used to write Bush's speeches, and then coached him on their delivery. Molly Ivins watched her one evening backstage at some event in Texas silently mouth every single word Bush was saying, at exactly the moment he was saying it. Molly was completely stunned by that scene, and how Karen never took her eyess off of Bush during his entire delivery.
I've read about her public exchanges with educated ME women at organized events to promote her agenda. These ME women are astonished at her lack of understanding of some very basic cultural differences, and her insistence on the Bush way as the right way.
She is just another hack Bush appointee that only the loyal Bushies feel is doing a heckuva job.
Why is it that every time there is a story about Karen Hughes it is accompanied by a picture of Patrick Swayze in drag?
Well the extremist right does get points for creativity; after all when faced with people who hate us for our freedoms and way of life the right-wing decided to abolish our freedoms and way of life.
Sidney, Sidney, Sidney - I love you baby, but you're wasting your breath.
"And thus our State which is also yours will be a reality, and not a dream only, and will be administered in a spirit unlike that of other States, in which men fight with one another about shadows only and are distracted in the struggle for power, which in their eyes is a great good. Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst."
Plato's The Allegory of the Cave
Her refusal to do the right thing makes her culpable as a war criminal and as a criminal against humanity.
I have a shorter letter too:
Dear Mrs. Huges
Your complicity in the torture policy makes you equally punishiable for war crimes.
xxoo
Syd
I hate to be cynical, but yeah, that'll work.
Shadowgm @ 2:
Yes,but now that he's in line for a quick water boarding,holding his breath will be essential.
If you want to read about President Bush ordering cheeseburgers, Karen using bacon on her skin, and other inane topics, read her book.
Just another Bush crony, and yes, we do talk about Cheney and Rove's baldness and piggish physiques.
Blumenthal understands to whom he's appealing. This a on-the-record jab that his friend Clinton will sooner or later cite during her campaign.
Yes I said to myself, but what does the Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy do?
The State Department says - http://www.state.gov/r/
I laughed.
Good one State department!
It's all one big rhetorical question, of course;Hughes was put there to do precisely what she does best - stonewall.
This is like sending an open letter to a black hole or an automatic shredder...
Personally I had no clue she was still on the crooks payroll....does she really get paid 6 figures by the tax payers ?
Holy sheet...what a racket.
Seriously...what does she do to earn her money ? Can someone explain to me what she has done ?
Where the foulke is she ?
Well Karen Hughes is surrounded by conservative men, many whom are psychopaths, and Bush undoubtedly suffers from his years of drug and alcohol abuse. What's her excuse?
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Speaking of people not doing their jobs... What is War Czar General Lute up to lately? Anyone?
I am glad that extra bureaucracy padding was added. Lute can do nothing and then take the fall if things go downhill.
Trittydi @ 52:
Probably should mention - SPECT images of drug and alcohol abused brain literally shows the functioning brain. The parts that look like they're missing - aren't - they just aren't functioning.
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This lady like Rice and Harriet Miers is a freak. Just look into her eyes in the photo. Nobody home!
Seriously, could this woman be one of those rare females with Asperger's Syndrome? I find her attachment to Bush inexplicable otherwise.
I remember reading Ivin's article, and it occurred to me then that something was not quite right upstairs.
Cool. Digging letter.
incunabulum @ 53:
I always have so many questions, like this one (above), that I forget them. It's a three-ring (maybe six-ring) circus, and they make sure all the rings are going perpetually--- distractions galore!!! What was the point of a War Czar, if we've never heard from him, or seen him?
What's happening with all these unfinshed hearings too. What about Rove? Has anyone found those 5-million e-mails? The list is endless. Where is Cheney? What's Rummy up to?
Karen Hughes... Yet, another tool who needs her punk ass fired... then rendered to the Hague.... Far as I'm concerned now? The entire Bush administration from Chimpy himself, right on down to the friggin housecleaner who cleans up Chimpies bergers from under the tabletop needs to go... either to the unemployment line or straight to prison.... Oh, yea, a few need to visit the gallows for a short drop to well deserved oblivion... JD
Do her job?? Mr. Blumenthal is to be commended for his effort, but one needs to look at the reality of the situation. Karen Hughes is a WarPig crony. Being such she serves at the pleasure of a Vice President and his President which live in a bubble and are completely shut off from reality. A Vice President and President which values loyalty over competence. In an analogy by Jon Stewart, as long as she is loyal she could wipe shit all over the walls of the cabinet room and probably get a state named after her.
Trittydi @ 52:
Battered? Enabler?
Demand your candidates renounce barbarism and promise accountability of the guilty on this issue before the lights go out on everyone.
if karen hughs has a wide stance does it mean her manhole covers stretched pretty wide?
The bitch just doesn't give a shit. She cares less for Muslims than she does for her bowel movements. Her position was a political "thank you" from bush, just like all the other bush patronage clusterf*cks (brownie, gonzo, betrayus, etc.).
Can anyone tell me why this Conid-Heavy D Y K E - is not outed just like L. Craig (R) ID
And - she covered / lied about W's D U I - What else ? ? ? You listening AT&T ? ?
I love when Stephanie Miller plays the dinosaur stomp sound efx when they talk about Karen
Empty, bereft, unhappy, ignorant, unsympathetic, sociopath. You can look deeply into her eyes and see the back of her head.
pissed off patricia @ 16:
They would have to be pretty hard up.
Are we sure Karen Hughes is not a man? Look at that face!
I have been doing quite a bit of reading on the Bosnian genocide. I have been taken aback by the tragedy of the genocide of the Muslim people. It has happened in Bosnia. It has happened in Palestine. In Lebanon. In Iraq. In Guantanamo. In the secret prisons. In Afghanistan. Why is the outcry so muted now? When the Serbs were the accused we demanded war tribunals. Why not now? Why are the Muslim's less deserving of justice?
It is uncanny how many powerful policitians exhibit characteristics of psychopathology.
Karen Hughes, like her peeps in the bush administration is incapable of empathy, sincerity, or integrity. They lack warmth and there is a deadness in their eyes.
Karen Hughes is just an alias for Harriet Myers.
Remember Harriet Myers? The one who says the chimp is the "most brilliant man I've ever met!"
gus smith @ 17:
take your republican talking point and go find an audience that is dumb as dirt....none of us here ar that stupid.....
you repubilicans can dish it out but when she give it back to you...you talk about civiility....
what a joke......
and please go to a robot site...ie..repubilican .....
I'm remembering that all who sign-on to the neocon ship of death waive their right to have or exemplify the concept of conscience. Condi was buying 700dollar shoes when NOLa was under water. Karen hughes response to stoned and beaten arab muslim womwn was to recommend they do more to put on a happy face. she is a piece of shit. No offense intended to fecal matter.
Karen Hughes - no "there" there - just the way Bush likes them.
Does anyone here know how to forward a formal complaint against Ms. Hughes in her criminal complicity straight up to the hague? Anyone wanna?
Hughes is not brilliant, but she is just smart enough to know that to become lapdogs to conservative men in power, women must take leave of their senses and consciences and kowtow to the party line. Other examples: Condoleezza Rice, Harriet Miers, Laura Bush, Lynne Cheney, and all the women of Faux News.
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