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• There's No Crying In Public Diplomacy Dept.: Condi, Karen, and Cal: Friends in Diplomacy

  Published: August 15, 2007, 4:56 pm

  Tags: Baseball, Clips, Condoleezza Rice, Diplomacy, Karen Hughes, Sports, State Department, There S No Crying In Public Diplomacy Dept, Wtf

  Department-provided clip, Karen Hughes (Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy) and Condoleezza Rice, GQ’s MOST POWERFUL PERSON IN WASHINGTON, DC, sit on a couch and chat with Cal Ripken, Jr., the famous baseball player. He apparently works for State now? As… Ambassador of Baseball? Brilliant insights from our Secretary

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• The State Department has a blog so you can get the unvarnished truth spin

  Published: October 3, 2007, 9:28 am

  Tags: Karen Hughes, State Department

  this is rich. Karen Hughes and her toadies at the State Department have started a blog called "DipNote":Fox News, launched with such high hopes 11 years ago as the "fair and balanced" network, apparently hasn't lived up to its billing. CNN never had a chance. The other networks? Please. No citizen could dare trust the agenda-driven print

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• Dept. Of State Department: First-Ever State Dept. Blog Sort of Begging To Be Mocked

  Published: October 3, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Blogs, Condoleezza Rice, Dept Of State Department, Karen Hughes, Losers, State Department, Weblogs

  Hey kids, the State Department has just learned of the hot new trend from 2001, “the blog.” And like everything else in Condi Rice’s best-ever Department of State, this blog is an...

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• Dept. Of State Department: First-Ever State Dept. Blog Sort of Begging To Be Mocked

  Published: October 3, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Blogs, Condoleezza Rice, Dept Of State Department, Karen Hughes, Losers, State Department, Weblogs

  Hey kids, the State Department has just learned of the hot new trend from 2001, “the blog.” And like everything else in Condi Rice’s best-ever Department of State, this blog is an almost comical failure. Start with the name: DIPNOTE. As proven by the approximately 200 e-mails we just received about this thing, the immediate

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• “Long-time Bush adviser Karen Hughes ... [Karen Hughes Throws In The Towel]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Blackwater, Bush, Cnn, Iraq, Karen Hughes Throws In The Towel, Middle East, Quicklinks

  Bush adviser Karen Hughes will leave her post as undersecretary of state at the State Department in mid-December, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday.” Sad! Especially since the State Department has been promoting American ideals of “freedom” so well in the Middle East recently. For example:

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• Gaffe Machine Karen Hughes Leaving State Department

  Published: October 31, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Middle East, Texas, Arab, Bush, Colin Powell, Egypt, Iran, James Baker, Karen Hughes, Kissinger, News, North Korea, Policy, Politics, Rice, Syria

  An American gaffe machine gets set to go home.  Good riddance.  No amount of costuming on this Halloween can convince us that Mrs. Karen Hughes made a valuable contribution to U.S. read more

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• Karen Hughes Leaving (again)

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:07 pm

  Tags: Breaking News, Karen Hughes

  is the article: Karen Hughes to Leave Bush Administration in December Wednesday, October 31, 2007     WASHINGTON Karen Hughes, who led efforts to improve the U.S. image abroad and was one of President Bush’s last remaining advisers from the close circle of Texas aides, will leave the government at the end of

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• CNN's Cafferty Pans Hillary, Questions Timing of Hughes Resignation

  Published: October 31, 2007, 6:50 pm

  Tags: 2008 Presidential, Iraq, Liberals Amp Amp Democrats, Hillary Clinton, Jack Cafferty, Karen Hughes

  Room." His comments on Karen Hughes came after the program did a segment on the Bush confidante's resignation. In addition to calling Hughes "one of the brighter bulbs" in the Bush Administration, he complemented her service at the State Department. "[Hughes] probably did as good a job as anybody could have done." A

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• “Long-time Bush adviser Karen Hughes ... [Karen Hughes Throws In The Towel]

  Published: October 31, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Blackwater, Bush, Cnn, Iraq, Karen Hughes Throws In The Towel, Middle East, Quicklinks

  “Long-time Bush adviser Karen Hughes will leave her post as undersecretary of state at the State Department in mid-December, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday.” Sad!...

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• Your Tax Dollars at Play

  Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Your, Tax, Dollars, Play, Condoleezza Rice, Iguassu Falls, Karen Hughes, Brazil, Texas, Manaus, Colombia, Iraq, United States, Rio Negro, Ariau Amazon Towers Hotel, Conde Nast Traveler Magazine, Motorola Inc, Petroleo Brasileiro Sa, Amazon Rain Forest, Brasilia, Cal Ripke

  Fall is finally upon us, and that means one thing: time to gear up for trips to warmer climes.

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• We Watch Condi so You Don't Have To [Condi Roundup]

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Condi, Condi Roundup, Condoleezza Rice, Iraq, Karen Hughes, Pakistan, Spain, State Department, Turkey

  Our Heroine. First, her BFF Karen Hughes up and quit with nary a warning! Condi stood bravely behind the podium in a special farewell for her chum, talking about all the wonderful things Hughes had done to make the rest of the world love the USA. Other mean-spirited individuals begged to differ: Her office had no appreciable impact on

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• We Watch Condi so You Don't Have To [Condi Roundup]

  Published: November 5, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Condi, Condi Roundup, Condoleezza Rice, Iraq, Karen Hughes, Pakistan, Spain, State Department, Turkey

  What has Condoleezza Rice accomplished in the past week? The answer is always the same: nothing! What has she been doing, where has she been going? Well, that’s a more complicated question....

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• There He Goes Again

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: There, Goes, Again, Karen Hughes, Michael Chertoff, The White House, Fema, George W Bush, Michael Mukasey, Rami G Khouri, United States, U S Senate Committee On The Judiciary, California, The New York Times Company, Dana Perino, Harvey Johnson Public Official, London

  Seems that Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff has become a serial apologist of late. Every time you turn on the tube, there he is, apologizing for some bonehead move by a senior agency official. Might as well just book a daily half-hour into his schedule for the morning mea culpa.

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• Being There

  Published: December 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Being, There, Alfred Hoffman, Ann Wagner, George W Bush, Karen Hughes, Roland Arnall, U S Department Of State, James Glassman, The White House, United States, Dana Perino, Eduardo Aguirre Jr, Lewis Libby, Valerie Plame, Portugal, Republican National Committee, United Nati

  In September 2005, when President Bush swore in pal Karen P. Hughes to be public diplomacy czar, he instructed her "to marshal all the resources of the federal government to this critical mission."

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• Instead of Plum Appointments, Maybe a Lump of Coal

  Published: December 14, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Instead, Plum, Appointments, Maybe, Lump, Coal, George W Bush, Jim Mcdermott, Fema, Harry Reid, Karen Hughes, California, Boston, The White House, U S Department Of State, Colorado, Florida, Alcee Hastings, Barbara Lee, Diana Degette, Gary Ackerman, Indiana, Lynn Woolsey

  Christmas is usually a time when controversial nominees for top federal jobs wait for Santa, in the form of the president of the United States, to come down the chimney with their recess appointments.

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