Commander Bunnypants spoke in a cold warehouse full of boxes today, with large lettering helping distract the crowd from the obvious twaddle he was spewing.
"See, war will kill soldiers. Less soldiers means more jobs!"
The most interesting article on this propaganda stop was over on Chinese/Taiwanese Yahoo News.
You most probably won't be able to read this, but the lovely Jessica translated. Seems that when Bush spoke in front of the boxes, all the boxes read "Made in the USA," all suspiciously stamped on in big enough letters to be read by the cameras.
The enterprising Taiwanese reporter went around the back of these photogenic boxes and found the truth: they were actually labeled "Made in Hong Kong", "Made in Taiwan", and "Made in China". What a surprise.
The article points out that not only was the Made in USA stencil used, but if you look closely at the photo below you can see the brown tape covering any other signs of the boxes' true origins. Talk about being sold a phony bill of goods.
"I get to decide who lives or dies! Wheeeeee!"
Now check out the American press reports on it here and here. Not one mention of it--of course--and one even gets the trucking company's name wrong. (Why does speaking in a warehouse full of boxes in near-freezing temperatures remind me of some of the stops of Spinal Tap's low-ebb tour?)
And why do I have to READ ABOUT THIS IN THE TAIWANESE PRESS AND HAVE IT TRANSLATED so I can get me some truth?