Bush names new domestic policy aide

[IChing]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush hired think tank scholar Karl Zinsmeister as his new top domestic policy adviser, the latest in a series of changes to the White House staff.

Zinsmeister, whose new role was announced by the White House on Tuesday, is a fellow at the conservative American Enterprise Institute and is editor-in-chief of the American Enterprise magazine.

He replaces Claude Allen, who stepped down in February and was later arrested on felony theft charges.>>>>snip

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-05-24T154534Z_01_N24299908_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-STAFF.xml&src=rss


He wrote this in 2005

The War is Over, and We Won
By Karl Zinsmeister

Your editor returned to Iraq in April and May of 2005 for another embedded period of reporting. I could immediately see improvements compared to my earlier extended tours during 2003 and 2004. The Iraqi security forces, for example, are vastly more competent, and in some cases quite inspiring. Baghdad is now choked with traffic. Cell phones have spread like wildfire. And satellite TV dishes sprout from even the most humble mud hovels in the countryside.
Many of the soldiers I spent time with during this spring had also been deployed during the initial invasion back in 2003. Almost universally they talked to me about how much change they could see in the country. They noted progress in the attitudes of the people, in the condition of important infrastructure, in security.>>>>snip

http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18615/article_detail.asp

[PaDem]

1. is it Zinsmeister........

or Spinmeister?

[MrModerate]

2. Just what Georgie needs . . .

Another serial fabulator who'll spend all his time chanting, "Youse was right, boss."

Too bad the rest of us are also screwed whenever George falls on his ass.

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Wheee PHD in Spin hahaha

:rofl:

[central scrutinizer]

4. In other words he is a PR flack

Those RW "think tanks" are really just public relations firms that add a cachet of authority to their flacks by giving them fancy pseudo-intellectual titles like "Senior Fellow". All they "think" about is ways to disguise their real agenda and push pro-corporate laissez faire capitalism down our throats.

[IChing]

5. But, but... "the war is over and we won"

Free enterprise is flourishing in Iraq,
the roads to the Iraqi airport are full of cars of happy shoppers.

I think that they are bringing in the architects and engineers of the "new american century " to help prevent their house of cards from falling down.

[Divernan]

8. Remember that Freeper cruise they were all excited about?

Why don't they take their summer vacation in Baghdad?

[formercia]

6. Thanks for the snip

My brain was about to explode....

[Justitia]

7. Fascinating. How many KKKarl(s) does he know? Or does he just

call himself that to keep it easy for the Blivet-In-Chief?

Maybe everyone that gets churned out of those Nazi Proving Ground schools gets some vaguely teutonic sounding name as a rite of passage?

[IChing]

9. "Propaganda in America?" By Karl Zinsmeister

"Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was a brilliant man with a Ph.D in literature and history, and many of his ideas will sound very familiar to contemporary ears. He counseled propagandists to go beyond crude lying and employ different kinds of truth: half truths, limited truths, truths out of context. The propagandist must reserve the right to define his own terms, he insisted. And "when it would be dangerous to let a fact be known, the modern propagandist prefers to hide it, to say nothing rather than to lie." About one-fifth of all press directives given by Goebbels between 1939 and 1944 were actually just orders to keep silent on one subject or another, Ellul reports. (Shades of Hillary’s billing records and the Juanita Broaddrick non-response.)"

"Goebbels sounds most contemporary when he says (Begala-like) that "We do not talk to say something, but to obtain a certain effect." And the propagandist doesn’t worry about being consistent; claims can even be contradictory for different audiences. Goebbels, for example, promised farmers he would increase the price of bread at the same time he was telling city dwellers he would decrease it."

http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleid.16961/article_detail.asp

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. The one thing about these maniacs

Is they openingly admit to what they are doing and they are proud of it.

They break the law and could care less. Anything for the cause. Even 9-11.

[Robbien]

11. Editor at Conservative Magazine To Be Top Policy Adviser to Bush

President Bush yesterday appointed a longtime scholar at the American Enterprise Institute to be his top domestic policy adviser, a post that has been vacant since February, when Claude A. Allen stepped down after being charged with stealing more than $5,000 in a phony refund scheme.

Karl Zinsmeister, who has worked the past 12 years as editor in chief of the American Enterprise magazine, is slated to assume his White House post June 12. At the institute, he focused on examining cultural issues, as well as social and economic trends. His columns for the magazine included pieces praising Wal-Mart's efficiency and extolling the role of religion in forming the glue that bonds communities.

. . .
"What the establishment media covering Iraq have utterly failed to make clear today is this central reality: With the exception of periodic flare-ups in isolated corners, our struggle in Iraq as warfare is over," Zinsmeister wrote in his column last June. "Egregious acts of terror will continue -- in Iraq as in many other parts of the world. But there is now no chance whatever of the U.S. losing this critical guerrilla war."

Zinsmeister also has shot a documentary about soldiers in Iraq, scheduled to air on PBS stations next year.

"Karl has broad policy experience and a keen insight into many of the issues that face America's families and entrepreneurs, including race, poverty, welfare, and education," Bush said in a statement. "He is an innovative thinker and an accomplished executive. He will lead my domestic policy team with energy and a fresh perspective."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/24/AR2006052402349.html

[daleo]

12. American Enterprise Institute

Chock full of neo-conservative fools.

[saltpoint]

13. What was that? "Spinmeister?!" Something like that...

Perhaps a war is lost when the will of the occupied tells the Occupier to hit the road.

[proud patriot]

14. puke , retch ,,,Oh the Hypocrisy

Bastards :grr:

[Robbien]

15. In reality nothing is really changed here,

AEI is the think tank contractor BushCo currently uses for its policy decisions. This hire just makes it official and could be considered an interdepartmental transfer.

[Erika]

16. Yep, just like Tony Snow n/t

[IChing]

17. dupe original thread is here...

Also I found some interesting articles by him in the orginal thread


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2303759&mesg_id=2303759

[Robbien]

18. No wonder I didn't see it, what a bland title they gave that one

Reuters: Bush names new domestic policy aide

WaPo: Editor at Conservative Magazine To Be Top Policy Adviser to Bush

The moonies know how to drag in a reader.

[IChing]

19. yes, sorta hard to find taken from reuters vs WP

Interesting propagandist this guy,
seems to be his speciality, I think he is way above tony snow in his skills,
so we need to definitely watch some of the new spin he will do.

[Up2Late]

20. The words "scholar" and "American Enterprise Institute" do not belong...

...together in the same sentence.

AEI is all about Bogus Spin.:mad:

[Robbien]

21. Editor at Conservative Magazine To Be Top Policy Adviser to Bush

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