PHOTO-OP COVER-UP: BOXES READ 'MADE IN CHINA' NOT 'MADE IN USA'!

The Drudge Report ^ | January 22, 2003 | Matt Drudge

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PHOTO-OP COVER-UP: BOXES READ 'MADE IN CHINA' NOT 'MADE IN USA'!

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XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX WED JAN 22, 2003 15:02:37 ET XXXXX

PHOTO-OP COVER-UP: BOXES READ 'MADE IN CHINA' NOT 'MADE IN USA'

When President Bush gave a speech touting tax breaks for small businesses today, he stood against what appeared to be a backdrop of cardboard boxes stamped “MADE IN U.S.A.”

But the boxes in the south St. Louis warehouse had actually been painted on a large screen behind the president. The real boxes in the warehouse were stamped “Made in China,” although someone tried to obscure the stamps by plastering over them with blank white labels.

Asked about one of the labels by The Washington Times, Randy Shore, warehouse manager for J.S. Logistics, smiled and said: “I don’t know how it got there.”

He later explained the labels would be filled in with numbers to identify their location on racks throughout the warehouse. Pressed on why the stickers were placed precisely over the “Made in China” stamps, he added: “That’s as good a place as any.”

“Nobody instructed me” to obscure the stamp, he insisted.

But the White House later acknowledged the stickers were affixed intentionally. White House Deputy Press Secretary Claire Buchan attributed the move to “an overzealous volunteer.”

“Obviously, it’s not appropriate,” she added.

Asked if an overzealous volunteer was responsible for the “MADE IN U.S.A.” backdrop, she smiled and said: “No.”

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[HighRoadToChina]

I thought that this is really interesting. On the front page of The Drudge Report: President Bush caught in front of what are really Made in China boxes!

Can't America even make Made in the USA boxes anymore?!?

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[HighRoadToChina]

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[Commander8]

I saw this on Fox News Channel earlier today, I didn't know whether to laugh or wretch.

[nhoward14]

The whole pic looks like a Photoshop hack job to me.

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[Holden Magroin]

What difference does it make? If it's made in America, it was probably made by illegal aliens, anyway.

[HighRoadToChina]

At least the illegal aliens are not like the Jews in concentration camps--as is the case with the slave made products from Communist China.

Go see The Pianist to get an idea of the situation of the Laogai's in Communist China TODAY.

[HighRoadToChina]

A resurrection ping!

This was pulled by Sidebar Moderator earlier tonight, but low and behold it's back. So, I am pinging you again.

Please FRemail me if you want off my Nazi China list.

[Lancey Howard]

The best part about things made in China by slave labor is that we Americans can buy the stuff really, really cheap. Why pay more?

[Once-Ler]

"But the boxes in the south St. Louis warehouse had actually been painted on a large screen behind the president." - "Asked if an overzealous volunteer was responsible for the “MADE IN U.S.A.” backdrop, she smiled and said: “No.” "

Drudge makes it sound like Bush was caught in a lie. This is yellow journalism worthy of the Washington Post. He should be ashamed

Obviously Dubya's press guys intended that to be the backdrop all along. This wasn't some drawing they came up with at the last second in a desperate act to fool the American people into thinking that America actually manufactures anything these days when Bush knows it is not true. Bah!

It doesn't matter a hill of beans what boxes are behind the backdrop because the backdrop was intended to be the backdrop days? weeks? months? earlier when they manufactured the backdrop. This is a non-story. They choose that spot because it accommodated spectators and reporters. Should the business have moved all the "made in China" boxes 2 rows farther back?

Bush has long been a supporter of free trade.
Why should he choose a business that doesn't trade with foreign countries? I bet Dubya doesn't think isolationism is good for economies.

[HighRoadToChina]

And I suppose you would buy a pair of shoes made by Jews in Nazi concentration camps...if they were cheap enough. </sarcasm>

[HighRoadToChina]

First of all, I am a supporter of GWB. I think that he is a great President. And in the future trials with Iraq, North Korea and, probably, Communist China, I believe that he will show that he is one of the greatest presidents of the United States. But time will tell.

Having so said the above, the people who surround him and give him advice are not that much different than those who surrounded BC--probably with more integrity but mostly the same old status quo on major issues. Garbage advice => bad decisions.

Drudge had every right to run with this story. What this story illustrates is that America and Americans really haven't realized the extent of how much PRC "trade" is impacting American life.

If the President of the United States can find American products to literally stand behind, there is something REALLY wrong with the picture. That is why this story is significant. If they had to cover up those Made in China boxes to say Made in America, it might be a sign for Americans that they better wake up and smell the roses.

This so-called "free trade" with Communist China is neither "free" nor is it "trade". Communist China utilizes its millions of slave labor population to supply a labor force to produce goods for Wal-Mart and others at $0 per hour or close to it. How can any company or country compete with this type of Nazi economy?

Free trade implies the free flow of goods. "Free Trade" between US and Communist China in 2002 was a one-way flow of almost $100 billion US dollars into China in exchange for a lot of slave labor goods and almost slave labor goods. This is not "free trade." This is called slave trade. No different than if Nazi Germany were to export toys and shoes made by Jews in concentration camps to America--while at the same time use the hard currency from such "trade" to arm and build their military.

GWB is not God. He has made mistakes and on this China trade issue, he is simply wrong. Time will tell.

[Lancey Howard]

And I suppose you would buy a pair of shoes made by Jews in Nazi concentration camps...if they were cheap enough.

LOL, there's no more Nazi concentration camps! They were put out of business at the end of World War Two, some 57 years ago. You crazy, man.

[HighRoadToChina]

Well, I have so news for you.

http://laogai.org/en/index-en.html

[piasa]

What are you griping about- I charge 19 bucks per square foot to paint murals and would be overjoyed to get paid to do one of boxes, when people could simply buy real American made boxes in the cardboard company in North St. Louis for less than a buck a box.

Let me know if anyone needs me to paint fake backgrounds for them for at least 19 times the price of real background materials. I can use the work... and you can then be proud of the backdrop since it will be American-made, by an American.

[HighRoadToChina]

I think that your name speak volumes about where you are coming from. ChiCom Conservative. That's a misnomer if there was ever one.

OK. Here are some facts to consider.

PRC-Nazi Comparisons:
1. "The Taiwan Problem" vs. "The Jewish Problem"

2. "The Motherland" vs. "The Fatherland"

3. 65+ million Chinese died at the hands of the Communists vs. 6 million Jews at the hands of Nazis

4. Laogai slave camps vs. Nazi Concentration camps

5. 2008 PRC Olympics in Beijing vs. 1936 Nazi Olympics in Berlin

6. PRC invading Tibet vs. Nazi Germany invading Poland

7. September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland vs. 1949 invasion of Tibet

8. Hitler's “final solution” (extermination of the Jews) vs. Mao’s code language of “Take Revolutionary Action” (an order to the Red Guards on the night of Aug. 18, 1966 to go “rampaging through the city, killing whoever displeased them, 1,741 in all,” just in that one day alone. The rationale was: “My neighbor is a capitalist? Torture him. Kill him.”)

9. Harry Wu says he “felt a terrible link with the Jews whose lives were destroyed on Kristallnacht and during all other official pogroms.”

10. “The photographs of Hitler, that terrible sneer on his face, his eyes bulging out, were a warning to the world that he would kill anybody in his way.” The difference between Hitler and Mao? Mao Smiled as Millions Starved. “One never saw Mao with an ugly expression on his face.” No, you see, “With a sweet smile on his face, he was responsible for millions of deaths from starvation [and for] millions being banished to camps, for many being executed,” Harry Wu tells us.

11. Mein Kampf vs. The Little Red Book of Chairman Mao

12. When Harry Wu visited Nazi camp at Dachau, he noticed a slogan on the iron grillwork of the front gate: ARBEIT MACHT FREI. Tanslated, it means “Labor makes [you] free.” How ironic! “In China, the slogan for our camps was ‘Labor makes a new life.’"

13. “In China, we did not have Hitler’s gas chambers, but in a racial sense, we do put Tibetans and Uighurs and other minorities in a special category. And we put our troublesome people, our class enemies in camps and make them work. I have no doubt that if war came, the Chinese would kill people in the camps if they could not use them. The Chinese have created an enemy, a separate class, a prisoner class.” (Harry Wu)

13. The Nazis would subject prisoners to “human experiments" vs PRC traffic in human organs--forced organ harvesting. Like the Nazi doctors before them, the Chinese physicians saw sacrificing the lives of prisoners as a necessity to achieve a higher good.

[HighRoadToChina]

BTW, if Communist China is such a dream land for you, maybe you should live there.

[Once-Ler]

If this story proves what ever you believe about free trade or China then I think that says a lot about your ability to reason. The boxes could just as easily have said Made In Japan, Mexico or Canada. All three countries import more goods into the US. This is a non-story that says nothing about the trade imbalance with China.

I don't think Dubya is God either, but I do believe this is a fluff story with less compelling interest than stories about Dubya's malapropisms.

I come back to my question what should Dubya's advisors have done? Picked a company that doesn't import t-shirts to screen print? Or a car manufacturer that doesn't import seat belts? Or a printing company that doesn't import ink? Or a...well maybe you get my point.

This wasn't a failure of the advisors...it was hostile reporters looking for a way to dig into Bush. The story says nothing about nothing...but it is inflammatory and easily twisted into innuendo. I stand by my statement that this is yellow journalism and Drudge deserves a smack for it.

[ppaul]

Remember just prior to 9/11/2001? China had kept our airmen hostage - the first major crisis of George W. Bush's presidency?
Then 9/11 happened and we all forgot about China.

[HighRoadToChina]

Thanks for the visual sign of support. If Americans know the truth about Communist China today, everyone would be boycotting all Made in China goods. Thanks!

[JZoback]

Thanks for the visual sign of support. If Americans know the truth about Communist China today, everyone would be boycotting all Made in China goods. Thanks!

Nice comforting rose colored thought if it was true.

No, if this was front page news every night for a week, the American people would still pay for "Made in China" goods because they are cheap.

Never get in the way of Wal-Mart shopper and their pocketbook.

BTW, I'd rather have goods crossing the borders than armies

[HighRoadToChina]

"BTW, I'd rather have goods crossing the borders than armies"

In this case, you can't have the cake and eat it at the same time. The goods crossing the borders are helping to build the armies that will come later.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Maybe we could use the illegals from south of our southern border to build the wall before we ship them back?

[Paul Ross]

AND THE WINNER BY A KNOCK-OUT!!!!

[alnick]

Somebody's got waaaaay too much time on their hands.

[WatchNKorea]

Bttt

[WatchNKorea]

This was pulled by Sidebar Moderator earlier tonight, but low and behold it's back.

If all my years here - I've seen an increase in pulling (and banning for posting thoughts contrary to the move-one'ers -) and surely now all of this has ceased, isn't this correct High Road???

[the horrific part of all the pulling and banning ......is that all the lurkers see --
- -Exactly what is going on!!!!!!]

[ican'tbelieveit]

I think there might be more to this story than the boxes being made in China. I purchases boxes for the company I work for and there is no way we would purchase something in China and then have to wait for it to ship to the US. I never pay more than 60-70 cents for each heavy duty shipping box we purchase.

[WatchNKorea]

(anxious to hurriedly correct this typo:
"In all my years here...

(how appropriate it is that I am choosing to spotlight pulling and banning........!)

[WatchNKorea]

"A resurrection ping!"

Why absolutely! Bttt

[RightOnline]

I think you misunderstand something here.

America has long shifted to a service-based economy. We don't compete when it comes to consumer goods very well. Our labor costs here are far higher than other countries, and since Wall St. pounds companies on quarterly results vs. long-term planning / results........and since CEO's and Boards must answer to shareholders who buy into this "what have you done for us this quarter??" mentality.......can you blame them for doing anything possible to cut costs? Labor is the single largest expense for any company, right?

Then........you should aim your potshots at the millions upon millions of Americans that have made Wal Mart the monstrous corporate juggernaut that it is. They provide, in their stores, cheap, foreign-made consumer products that are popular with folks looking to stretch their over-taxed dollars as far as possible. Anyone with a brain knows that a huge percentage of their products are made in the Far East.......and they don't give a damn. When you're feeding and raising a family on what USED to be a decent income, you are forced to do whatever it takes.

It's called "economics". If China disappeared from the face of the earth tomorrow, we'd find other sources for such goods in a matter of days.

Assailing Bush for the above is akin to yelling at your neighbor for that annoying afternoon sunlight streaming into your living room.

[tallhappy]

I think it is extremely disingenous to Jews to compare China to Nazis.

Yes. ChiComs actually killed more than the Nazis.

You, at least, are honest in your screen name this time around.

Your name is impossible, though. There are no Chinese Communist conservatives. It's self-contradictory. Like being a pro-life abortionist.

[concerned about politics]

President Bush caught in front of what are really Made in China boxes!

The title is anti-Bush. It's misleading. But the boxes in the south St. Louis warehouse had actually been painted on a large screen behind the president.
Drudge just likes to start trouble for a story. It must be a slow news week.

[concerned about politics]

The real boxes in the warehouse were stamped “Made in China,”

Bush stood in front of a backdrop. The "real boxes" were not behind the president - they were out in the warehouse. Drudge is losing it. His 15 minutes of fame are over now that Monica is gone.

[tallhappy]

PRC-Nazi Comparisons: 1. "The Taiwan Problem" vs. "The Jewish Problem"

Not apt.

The real analogy is PRC-Nazi Comparisons: 1. "Landlord Problem" vs. "The Jewish Problem"

Comparing the Chinese communists to Nazis is not rhetoric or hyperbole. A strong case can be made the Chinese communists were worse.

They liqidated an entire class of people for the same things the Nazis liquidated the Jews for. They were believed by the ChiComs to be inherently bad, greedy, rich and exploitative of the people.

It was Jews for the Nazis, Landlords for the ChiComs.

The Chinese communists summarily killed millions of them.

[Republic]

Oh please Matt. Could be the BOXES where made in China, but not the products inside. Geeez. Give it a rest.

[Paul Ross]

You're missing the real point. GWB is the one in denial. Our economy would be so much more secure for a war on terror, hell a war against anything, if ONLY we were a manufacturing nation again. It is inevitable if we don't resume our industrial and technical capacity, that we will go the way of England "the sick man of Europe." Motorola for example is not only moving all of its new semiconductor plants to China...it is building ALL of its new R&D operations in China as well. The writing is on the wall, and the Communist Overlords are gloating...just patiently waiting us out. The only thing that can upset their apple cart is that of civil unrest over their domestic populace seeing democracy working in Taiwan and South Korea. Which is why they are really behind Kim Il Jung the whole way. If they weren't he would already be toast. The Chinese are also behind much if not most of the so-called "academic" radicals who faithfully preach their line and various forms of appeasement.

[WatchNKorea]

"Assailing Bush for the above is akin to..."

I think that High Road is basically - looking at - the horrendous....big picture.

[an example of other articles pertaining to...the big picture:
"Ashcroft Faces Quandary Over Clinton Scandal Secrets" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/613188/posts

[fogarty]

"Why should he choose a business that doesn't trade with foreign countries? "

It's much more than just that. Bush has aided and abetted the gutting of economy and the massive amount of money that is moving the Chinese manufacturing. I need not remind freepers that China is the key arms and military supplier of North Korea, one of those 'Axis of Evil' countries that we are supposedly at war with.

It's like threatening a prostitute with arrest and yet giving $billions of support to the mafia boss that runs them.

[fogarty]

"Could be the BOXES where made in China, but not the products inside."

Thanks for a great laugh. If you actually believe that I suggest you take a trip to Walmart. Heck, even go to Home Depot and see if you can find ANY cordless drill not made overseas.

[concerned about politics]

You're missing the real point. GWB is the one in denial. Our economy would be so much more secure for a war on terror, hell a war against anything, if ONLY we were a manufacturing nation again.

U.S. union labor is too expensve. People can't afford to by union made in the U.S.
Maybe it's not the Chinese that's our real problem. Maybe it's unions. They've gotten too greedy.
They get what they've created. Looking for a scapegoat won't fix the problem.

[Destro]

2 points of historical error on your part. The Great Wall of China was built by conscripted labor not slave labor. China was never a slave owning society in the way Rome was. Secondly the Mongols did not breach the Great Wall by force. They got someone/s to open the gates for them.

[RightOnline]

Sorry, but I don't think I'm missing a thing. True, I'd love to see our country rebuild its manufacturing base..........but it is simply unrealistic to assume that that's going to happen unless MAJOR changes occur in this country.

Taxes have to be cut dramatically. Wall St. and investors must rethink the ways in which they evaluate companies. Unions have to be gutted.

When all of the above happen, then your scenario may be possible. If not..............fuhgedaboutit.

[WatchNKorea]

"Geeez. Give it a rest."

Nah...

[wku man]

Yeah, and that really, really, cheap 5-dollar shower curtain or candle holder set you bought at Wally World goes to buy another mortar round to drop on our troops in the future. We Americans, in pursuit of the eternal "great buy", have financed China's military transformation from third world joke to budding superpower. Read "The China Threat" by Bill Gertz, and think again about those really, really cheap things you can buy at Wal-Mart and Fred Meyer. They aren't so cheap after all.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[fogarty]

I think the comparison is appropriate. Although a comparison to Stalin's regime is more exact. Let's see:

Hundreds of thousands of Christians imprisoned and forced into Chinese labor camps.

A secret police force which arrests and terrorizes the populace.

Millions of forced abortions. In one province alone in one year, the Chinese government mandated a quote of 20,000 forced abortions.

A communist government which has not changed its warlike stance against the US.

I'd say you're smoking some strong stuff if you think China has significantly changed since we were fighting them in the Korean War. A better definition of China is: a communist enemy.

[fogarty]

Gimme a break! Unions have been on the decline since the 1960's. We have states where there are virtually no unions whatsoever - and guess what? These states still have horrendous unemployment because management has shipped off all the jobs overseas.

The time for blaming unions went away 20 years ago. It's time to put the blame where it belongs: on corporate CEOs who are willing to put their personal profit over the future of the United States as a country, and government which aids and abets those corporate CEOs by giving unlimited trade privileges with our communist enemies.

[fogarty]

Unions have already been gutted. Unions have been on the decline for at least 40 years.

Here's some steps that would help:

Tariffs, as the founding fathers' intended.
Revocation of all H1B's.
Revocation of communist China's MFN status.
Elimination of IRS and return to a sales and tariff based revenue for a smaller government.