4:32 pm - 01/21/2013
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a new job. It has been announced that Rice will be joining CBS News as a contributor. According to Yahoo , CBS News chairman Jeff Fager and president David Rhodes stated, Rice "will use her insight and vast experience to explore issues facing America at home and abroad".
After working on the National Security Council under President George H.W. Bush, Rice became the national security adviser to President George W. Bush during his first term. When she became secretary of state in George W. Bush's second term, Rice made history as the first African American woman to ever hold the post. It's a little surprising to see Condoleezza Rice on CBS, considering the fact that the network's news department is so frequently painted as unabashedly liberal. Some would speculate that maybe CBS is trying to change its image.
The New York Post reports that Rice made her network debut Sunday on the program "Face the Nation". She will contribute to coverage of the inauguration on Monday. Rice's involvment in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign was among her most prominent activities since the end of the Bush administration. She offered the Republican presidential nominee advice on general strategy and foreign policy, and was highly praised for her speech at the Republican National Convention.
Rice is an accomplished woman in so many areas. It will be interesting to see what she does at CBS, as well as future endeavors, and whether or not she ever gets a shot at her dream job, commisioner of the NFL.
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Condoleezza Rice to work for CBS news
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a new job. It has been announced that Rice will be joining CBS News as a contributor. According to Yahoo , CBS News chairman Jeff Fager and president David Rhodes stated, Rice "will use her insight and vast experience to explore issues facing America at home and abroad".
After working on the National Security Council under President George H.W. Bush, Rice became the national security adviser to President George W. Bush during his first term. When she became secretary of state in George W. Bush's second term, Rice made history as the first African American woman to ever hold the post. It's a little surprising to see Condoleezza Rice on CBS, considering the fact that the network's news department is so frequently painted as unabashedly liberal. Some would speculate that maybe CBS is trying to change its image.
The New York Post reports that Rice made her network debut Sunday on the program "Face the Nation". She will contribute to coverage of the inauguration on Monday. Rice's involvment in Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign was among her most prominent activities since the end of the Bush administration. She offered the Republican presidential nominee advice on general strategy and foreign policy, and was highly praised for her speech at the Republican National Convention.
Rice is an accomplished woman in so many areas. It will be interesting to see what she does at CBS, as well as future endeavors, and whether or not she ever gets a shot at her dream job, commisioner of the NFL.
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Maybe it would have been better for me to say "Apologist politics at its finest."?
I'm a white male wannabe-feminist, and I was firmly anti-Condoleezza until I started watching documentaries and really reading about her. I was struck by her intelligence because, honestly, I assumed she was going to be an idiot warmonger like George Bush. That change in impression led me here - to respect. Looking at myself more closely after your comment, I think I was probably over-reacting positively because she was so different to my long-held assumptions about her. I'll try and read more about her in an attempt temper my rose colored glasses and form a more well-rounded point of view. Thanks.
I should add that certainly Condoleezza Rice is a woman of many incredible accomplishments, I don't doubt that she is one of the smartest (if not smartest) persons to have been in American office. However, it doesn't, and shouldn't, detract from her record as an American politician. As an American politician she has been - and I do not believe that I am employing hyperbole when I make this claim - treasonous and is a war criminal. When you ignore her personal background and accomplishments, and look at her political career and actions, what elevates her from Rumsfeld or Bush Jnr? From my perspective, it's a deeply American behaviour to judge a politician on the content of their personal history and character as opposed to their record as a politician. It's a behaviour that is beginning to deeply permeate British politics - its start began in 1979. Celebrity politics.
What I find fascinating about responses to Rice from the left and feminists is how it greatly varies along race lines. The African American left and womanists have generally remained incredibly (and rightly) critical of her throughout her tenure with the Bush administration - as they have of Rumsfeld and Bush Jnr. Yet, the white left and feminists have typically always felt the need to whitewash her political activities and pay respect to her personal character, whilst Rumsfeld and Bush Jnr are the target of scathing attacks. Certainly, Rumsfeld and Bush Jnr deserve it but Condoleezza Rice's record should not be ignored. It is clear the reason that the white American left do it is because of a bizarre and totally unhelpful white apologist guilt.
I hope I make sense and all of this rambling just happens to be my opinion~