Posted on 04/12/2004 2:37:38 PM PDT by ATCNavyRetiree
Bush-bashing finds its way into bags
10:31 PM PDT on Tuesday, April 6, 2004 By ELISA HAHN / KING 5 News
SEATTLE How often do you read the washing instructions inside your bag or backpack? A local bag manufacturer has learned to read them more often after finding an apparent anti-President-Bush message in fine print. The cat's out of the bag at Tom Bihn Portable Culture, a Seattle retailer.
The owners said the company found out Monday.
Inside their laptop bags and backpacks was a dirty, little secret printed on the washing instructions. How fitting that it's in French.
"Nous somme desoles que notre president soit un idiot. Nou n'avons pas vote pour lui." Which means: "We are sorry our president is an idiot. We did not vote for him."
"I just burst out laughing," said Tom Bihn, company president. Bihn claims he had no idea what was written on the tags they have been sewing onto their bags for six months.
"I guess if my French was a little bit better, I would have caught it earlier," he said.
But is it really an employee up to an old bag of tricks? "That's what we think, but until we know who it is, we really don't know," said Sunga Rose.
Some customers thought it was probably nothing more than a joke gone awry. "I'm sure whoever put it in didn't expect it to get mass produced and put into bags," said one shopper.
The company only discovered the message after getting e-mails and phone calls. It's been a hot topic of discussion on the Internet.
"A couple people were very angry jumping to the conclusions that we were French-loving Bush-bashers," said Bihn.
"It's not normal. I don't think people expect political statements in a merchandise piece," said one disturbed shopper.
While the company owners are proud patriots, they do admit they're registered Democrats who are amused by the joke, even if it was played on them.
"I can't really say I'm upset about it," said Rose. The company says it has a few hundred tags left. Once those are used, they probably will have the tags redesigned
This guy is trying to blow smoke up everyone's butt...now that he is being called on his misdeeds, he is trying to get out of it by stating that the tag was meant for him. Anyone who lives here in Port Angeles knows of Bihn's (and his employees') Democratic party activism.
Until he went down in flames, a "Dean for America" sign was in his store window, and during the major combat phase is Iraq, he had a "NO Iraq War" sign in his window.
These libbies like to call Bush a liar...look who is lying now!
LET'S GET THE WORD OUT, FREEPERS TO BOYCOTT TOM BIHN BAGS!!
CONSERVATIVES BUY ALOT OF THESE KINDS OF PRODUCTS!!
(After all, we have jobs and money, freeloading libbie/hippies don't!...and I just don't buy his statement that is profits have gone up, nor that they are going to Veteran's Hospitals)
Or are you a relative of Tom Bihn???? ZOT!!!!
Goldstategop, shame on you. For a self-proclaimed conservative, your post shows an amazing lack of common sense. This is clearly a jab at President Bush; any other excuse is a whitewash. Think about it: when was the last time you "voted" for the "president" of a company? Small to medium-sized business owners are rarely referred to as "presidents" by their employees. And other than the board of directors of a corporation, who gets to "vote" for the company's CEO? Combined with the documented Leftist political activism by this company and its staff and I think the message is crystal clear.
If the tag had stated, "We're sorry our owner is an idiot; we didn't hire him," that would have been another story.
Let's rewrite this without the liberal journalist's spin:
While the company owners are proud patriots Marxists, they do admit they're registered Democrat activists who are amused by the joke even if it was played on them they have played on the public.
"The company says it has a few hundred tags left. Once those are used, they probably will have the tags redesigned."
If this was truly corporate sabotage by a disgruntled employee, they not only would have destroyed the remaining tags, but they would have recalled the outstanding merchandise. They certainly wouldn't continue using the remaining stock of "vandalized" tags. And notice that they stated that they'd probably redesign the tags. The truth is, they'd be happy to print more as long as it doesn't hit them in the pocket book.
Goldenstate, are you really this naïve? Do you think the Leftists only own communes and co-ops? Some of the largest mega-corporations in this country are owned and operated by Leftists.
The days of big business being "in bed" with the Republicans died long ago. Unfortunately, the lamestream media is so left biased that they are able to continue to propagate this myth; they never write about the businesses and business leaders that are deep in bed with the Democrats.
The truth is, the Leftists have infiltrated and--for the most part--control every segment of our society: the media, the educational system, the government, the churches, the judiciary, and much of the corporate world. Even the military has been infiltrated and subverted. All part of their plan to destroy America from within.
They didn't withdraw the tags. According to the article, the tags will be used, and when they run out of them, they will "probably" redesign the labels. In other words, they'll keep using them, and when they run out, they'll make more and continue using them.
Of course like typical lying liberals, they call themselves patriots.
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