Was the Photo-Op, (Made in China) Cover Up Involving Bush Intentional?

Drudge, FOX | 1-22-03 | Myself

[Joe Hadenuf]

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.”

[Joe Hadenuf]

Jezzzzzz.. I just read this tonight, and FOX just ran it.....Any comments here? Just an honest mistake?

Check out the photos on Drudge.

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[Joe Hadenuf]

Attention, all recently employed Walmart workers..

[Down South P.E.]

An honest mistake in politics?

[Joe Hadenuf]

I just got home, my wife showed me this, almost choked....

[antaresequity]

Any tampering or staging was stupid...sounds like a lacky got carried away, OR...an employee of the facility took it upon himself...

No Bush Mgt had a hand in this. To amature.

[Rightone]

Someone was attempting to make a good backdrop for a photo-op. Not right, but the ex-president and his media helpers were experts at this. They were flagrant at doing this sort of thing. Not anything new.

Bush needs to tell his people to back off a bit as it becomes distracting to read this sort of thing.

[upchuck]

Here's the pic:

[Joe Hadenuf]

You gotta see this.....

[chance33_98]

I could care less - at least he was not selling state secrets to the chinese and giving monica the presidental squeal of approval.

And why does the media care? They practically kneeled in the oval office for turns at clinton no matter what he did, he was given pass after pass. When Bush uses up his passes then I will start emailing him. But that would take more then the 8 years he will be office.... :)

[maui_hawaii]

This Drudge story should get the award for most posted story in one night :^) There are a few threads out there with comments...

[Joe Hadenuf]

No Bush Mgt had a hand in this. To amature.

What's amature? This was not a freelance *amateur* in my opinion......

[Joe Hadenuf]

I could care less - at least he was not selling state secrets to the chinese and giving monica the presidental squeal of approval.

Huh?

[Revel]

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

This story is a bit confusing, but anyone with any sense knows that it going to be real hard these days to find boxes that don't say made in China. With the sign above it toting the US economy it would have been a precious and extremely accurate photo indeed. "America's Economy-Made in China". Of course the sad part is that it is becoming unmade in China also.

[Down South P.E.]

It is probably difficult to find a warehouse in America without "Made in China" stamped on the boxes. I wouldn't have stooped to plastering "Made in America" labels over that garbage but I sure wouldn't want any of them around when I showed up to give a political speech.

Anything this country has from China should be shipped back. If there is a consumer demand for any of the junk we get from them someone else will fill the void.

[Willie Green]

Yep. The Shrub's propaganda machine got caught with their pants down around their ankles.

[Revel]

[maui_hawaii]

I think it was a political statement, but by whom I don't know.

[American Soldier]

Exactly. I don't mind buying things from third world countries - I just don't want to turn China into a first world country.

[chance33_98]

I could care less - at least he was not selling state secrets to the chinese and giving monica the presidental squeal of approval.

Huh?

Clinton. Chinese. Money. Military. 'Nuff said. :)