Posted on 07/04/2007 9:34:24 PM PDT by farmer18th
When Ken Tomlinson calls for an investigation into the “cover-up” of U.S. Arabic broadcasting outrages, it is clear he understands where that probe would lead: to Karen Hughes, under secretary of State for public diplomacy and a long-time member of President George W. Bush’s inner circle...
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
Disturbing, if true.
Suddenly, America’s television voice to the Middle East was featuring live hate-filled speeches by terrorist leaders. Incredibly, the station interrupted regular programming to air, for more than an hour, a live speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah who asserted, “The only place where bullets should be is the chest of ... the Israeli enemy.”
The station later featured an interview with an al Qaeda operative who declared that 9/11 had rubbed “America’s nose in the dust.”
Probably most shocking of all was Alhurra’s coverage of the infamous December 2006 Holocaust denial conference in Tehran, of which the U.S. station reported straight-facedly: “Participants in the forum said evidence of the Holocaust is weak and asked Israel to provide evidence that proves its occurrence.”
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Our tax dollars at work!
Maybe they were just looking for ratings. Do they advertise on this channel?
It could be Jihadi sweeps week.
I know what these people want to hear.
It’s not Anna Nicole, Paris Hilton or American Idol.
Hughes is out of her depth. I understand that Bush prizes loyalty above all else. The problem is that loyalty isn’t just to be found among the people he worked with while governor of Texas. A lot of Washington people have been disloyal to Bush not because they are Washington people, but because they are Democrats and liberals that he chose to keep in his administration. I think he brought a lot of his troubles on himself. Instead of cleaning house from one administration to the next, he kept on people who were opposed to his policies. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.
Who CAIRS?
Except that in this case, what can only be called treasonous use of our tax dollars was committed by one of his oldest friends. Not good.
I don’t know. I really have to stop paying attention to what is going on in the world. It makes me physically ill knowing where my money is going.
I’m sure there is a liberal somewhere on DU or Daily KOs saying the same thing about his tax dollars and the Iraq war which they don’t support.
Personally, it makes me proud to see my tax money buy F-15s to blow the enemies of America to kingdom come.
I guess we can’t pick and choose where our tax money goes. That’s why “providing for the common defense” is built into the Constitution. It benefits everyone but nobody wants to voluntarily pay for it.
I don’t yet know about this particular situation, and I’m open to finding out the facts.
However, Bush cannot fire career employees who’ve gone under civil service. It is impossible to do by law, which is why these libs have entrenched themselves in the bureaucracy this way. It was purposeful.
Karen Hughes is a different matter because of her Texas origins and long time ties to the President himself. But if she’s put working with people who are as or more powerful than she is and who are pro-arab and anti-Israel (Hughes herself is neither; she’s a very religious person from a Christian perspective, and those are the best friends Israel has), she’s in a world of hurt.
She should resign and say why instead of trying to put a happy face on it...if that’s what she was doing.
There are a few possible explanations for Hughes (and the rest) defense of this insanity.
Trying to choose between them all makes my head hurt.
That has to be one of the most awkwardly-phrased headlines I’ve seen in some time. Were they trying to imply that Bush is a Holocaust denier?
Awkward is being kind; it’s deliberately misleading. But probably just to entice folks to read on, not because they’re trying to imply either the Prez or Hughes shares Islamist/nutball sentiments.
I think it’s even nuttier than that: I think it’s classic conservative “fair play” doctrine extended to animals like the ones who get to use our “pro-Western” air time. It would be something like FDR hearing about Pearl Harbor and then heading straight over to a Shinto shrine for a photo-op. It’s like taking a pop-gun to a machete fight.
How much are you willing to sell your soul for?
I know I wouldn’t hold hands with a Saudi prince, that’s for damn sure.
Don’t hurt your head.
If you didn’t include other equally possible options, you could be wasting all those headaches.
Karen is a good person who deeply loves America. She loves Texas even more. In Texas, most of us don’t cotton to the Arab/Muslim extremist types.
Karen is above all a sunny dispositioned optimist. She can be tough as nails when called for but her role in communications for the Bush campaigns and in the WH isn’t quite the same as her gig in this jungle of a State Dept with jihadists juggling for airtime alongside America’s views.
She’s just a tad naive and wide eyed and thrilled with the opportunity to do the impossible on a worldwide scale, methinks. She’s very stubborn and determined to make something work that probably can’t work in the situation she’s in.
If she can’t put her stamp on it because of others who are in the way, instead of coexisting and putting a happy face on it, she should resign the post and write a book.
He wasn’t holding hands.
He was helping the frail, unsteady man walk up a rough path, to make certain he didn’t stumble. The man was his invited guest. In ME culture it’s a welcoming tradition. He was doing something the Prince culturally related to which is good diplomacy.
Unlike yourself, he’s also a gentleman.
The holding hands lingo is the stupid Bush-hatred palaver.
Would that be the same frail old man who pays for Saudi hate literature in American mosques? Would that be the same frail old main who won’t allow Christians to openly worship in his country?
He should have let the old bastard fall face first in the hot sand.
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