Check your product tags
Automagfreek
21-11-2004, 06:05
http://www.apologiesaccepted.com/upload/1100804514apology.jpg
There was a story in the Wall Street Journal about this a little while back, and it was concluded that this was not Photoshopped.
Incertonia
21-11-2004, 06:12
Hell, I've got the tee-shirt the company made with the logo on it after the story originally broke. And to really piss the Freepers off, all profits from the tee-shirt went to a local organization that benefitted veterans, especially homeless ones.
Cannot think of a name
21-11-2004, 06:14
Hell, I've got the tee-shirt the company made with the logo on it after the story originally broke. And to really piss the Freepers off, all profits from the tee-shirt went to a local organization that benefitted veterans, especially homeless ones.
sweet. Who are they? I'll buy thier swag.
Jeruselem
21-11-2004, 06:55
Democracy in action under the guise of commerce!
Sanity and Reason
21-11-2004, 07:13
Not exactly.
Tom Bihn, president of the eponymous company, said he doesn't know which of his 10 employees are responsible. "They know my French is so bad they could sneak it past me," he said. But he doesn't appear to be too determined to root out the guilty party and said he's "not opposed to the sentiments" about Mr. Bush.
"We haven't looked really hard to find out who did it because it's good for us. When we find them, we'll give them a raise," said Mr. Bihn, who insists the "president" mentioned on the tag is a reference to himself as the company's president and not to Mr. Bush.
The tag has "hit a resonating chord" all over the world, including France, where some customers believe the reference is to their president, Jacques Chirac. "People out there think a number of presidents are idiots," said Mr. Bihn. "It's a universal message."
From snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/tombihn.asp)
Cannot think of a name
21-11-2004, 07:42
Not exactly.
From snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/tombihn.asp)
The rest of that Snopes article confirms the donation part as well as the caveat that the 'explination' could be nothing more than plausible deniability and that they have started selling bags with the 'treason tags' as a selling point. I had expected a snopes.com thing to refute that the tags existed, but it really just seems to acknoweledge that it did.
Incertonia
21-11-2004, 08:32
They're worth supporting if for no other reason than they're socially responsible--they pay their workers a good wage, and they don't outsource overseas. When they made the tee-shirts, they bought them from a co-op in LA where they were manufactured. There aren't many garment manufacturers left in the US, but Tom Bihn found them.
I'm a Freeper. Freep Freep Freep Freep Freep. I just don't have a lot to Freep in a red state. So this is a welcome break.
Outlaw the company and freeze the profits!