Karen Hughes, PhotoShopping America
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"
Aldous Huxley
Karen Hughes, George Bush’s old image-polisher from Texas had hardly so much as warmed the seat at her desk as Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy, before being asked to jump into another responsibility. She’s equally unqualified for this one.
Hughes, who took her appointment so seriously that she left the office unoccupied for three months until her son graduated, was supposed to polish up the Arab world’s image of the United States. In other words, PhotoShop our nation’s little secrets and miscalculations. The Arab world thinks, mistakenly in her view, that our treatment of prisoners and general behavior in the Middle East hasn’t been all that stellar. And they keep killing us to prove it.
In any event, she wasted no time setting the world straight on the New Orleans aftermath of hurricane Katrina. “We’ve marshaled the resources of our federal government to he…