It's simply ko-ko-kosherific!

NewsHour (PBS)

SENATOR RICHARD LUGAR (R-Indiana): The polls in most countries indicate that the United States is not well regarded by most countries. This is shocking, and it's especially unfortunate in the Middle-Eastern context, but not confined to there -- in Latin America, likewise, and in many European countries.


Gee, and we even promoted ourselves abroad with commercials like this one. "AD SPOKESMAN: Religious freedom here is something very important and no one ever bothered us." Inexplicably, the ad campaign merging religious freedom with tilt-a-whirl and flying saucer rides fizzled. After much brainstorming, the Bush team came up with this idea: Karen Hughes as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.


Lest we forget, here's the kind of public diplomacy we can expect from Hughes, who characterized Bush's drunk-driving arrest as stemming from the fact that he was driving too slowly, if not too safely: "I believe they [the police] -- I don't know exactly, no, I don't know. There was no -- there was no incident -- there's -- I don't know exactly. There was some discussion that he appeared to have been driving too slow -- too slowly."

And with unabashed babbitry, here's what Hughes had to say upon her nomination: "I view America's public diplomacy as a partnership for progress, an opportunity to work with other nations and peoples to replace oppression with opportunity, tyranny with tolerance, and ultimately to overcome hate with hope."


Yeah, that ought to do it. It's simply ko-ko-kosherific.