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Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs James K. Glassman FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog Commentary by Ted Lipien, October 4, 2008, San Francisco -- James Glassman, Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, gave incomplete and misleading answers when asked Friday whether the elimination of vernacular broadcasts to Georgia, Russia, and India is going to hurt his "war of ideas" effort. Speaking in Washington at a National Press Club luncheon on "The New Age of Public Diplomacy," Glassman seemed surprised and annoyed by the question. His answer that the U.S. is not...

President Bush intends to name a well-known conservative commentator and journalist to lead the State Department's struggling efforts to improve the U.S.'s image abroad, replacing long-time confidante Karen Hughes, who is leaving government by the end of the year, The Associated Press has learned. Bush plans to tap James K. Glassman, now chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America, to be the new undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs, administration officials said. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made. The officials said the...

With gasoline prices close to $3 a gallon, President Bush this morning gave a disingenuous speech to an alternative fuels association about what he was going to do to stem the rising tide. There were a few flashes of candor and insight, but, on the whole, it was a sad example of political capitulation by a former Texas oilman who certainly knows better. What Bush clearly understands is that prices rise when demand increases faster than supply, and that supply is being limited in the United States by government

JIM LEHRER: The stock market story and to Phil Ponce. PHIL PONCE: Today's 513-point drop means the Dow Jones Industrial Average has now lost all the gains it's made this year. It's now down to where it was last November. Some insights now from three market watchers: Joe Battipaglia is chief investment strategist for Gruntal & Company. Michael Metz is managing director for CIBC Oppenheimer. James Glassman is a financial columnist for the Washington Post and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Mr. Battipaglia, what happened today? The Dow Jones Industrial Average has now lost all the gains it's...

Just how far will the Left go with its "Hate Bush" campaign? Syndicated columnist James Glassman says way, way too far. Noting that first there was Michael Moore's movie, "Fahrenheit 9/11," a crude quasi-Marxist fantasy about the war in Iraq filled with distortions. Then there was the July 8 fund-raiser for John Kerry in New York, at which Whoopi Goldberg "fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush's name in a riff about female genitalia," as one newspaper put it. Paul Newman said that Bush's tax cuts were "borderline criminal." Now there is a book by a major...

RUSH: Over the course of the many recent months, I have -- to the great consternation of many of you -- spoken of my optimism for the future of the country based on today's young people, and a lot of that has been based on the generation of people that's joining the military, knowing full well what they're in for. You know, if you look at a leftist anti-war protest march, you don't see very many people under 50 because they're not successfully recruiting young college students or high school students these days. They're not interested, and what you...

Forward Observer By James K. Glassman The Soros Threat George Soros, the 38th richest person in the world according to Forbes, says that defeating President George W. Bush in 2004 is "the central focus of my life." In an eye-popping interview recently with the Washington Post, he argued that "America under Bush is a danger to the world.""When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' it reminds me of the Germans." It evokes memories, he says, of the Nazi rhetoric of his childhood in Hungary.This wild antipathy toward the President is making Soros--who earned his $7 billion...

MILAN, Italy -- On many of the walls here at the Feira Milano conference center, site of the giant United Nations meeting on climate change, Green activists have posted flamboyant posters showing a picture of Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla), with a quotation from him: "Global warming is 'the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.'" The idea being proffered by these sophisticates, of course, is that Inhofe is a typical American rube. Global warming a hoax! What a dope! In fact, Inhofe is one of the best-informed Senators on the science and economics of global warming. And "global warming"...