~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Office of Global Communications to put salesman-like spin on America's image abroad Of course!! What else could be causing such gross misunderstanding of the US by practically the entire world, other than a lack of effective salesmanship? "Why do they hate us?" queried Dubya, that walking repository of international understanding and clarity. Let's fix this. Let's get some Hollywood in there, some spin doctors, some rap and rock on the radio, and just show them the facts the way Hollywood and Madison Avenue do!! "How has this state of affairs come about?" House International Relations Committee Chairman Rep. Henry J. Hyde (R-Ill.) said in a speech last month to the Council on Foreign Relations. "How is it that the country that invented Hollywood and Madison Avenue has allowed such a destructive and parodied image of itself to become the intellectual coin of the realm overseas?" Uh, could it have been movies and advertising? And maybe too the weapons sales and the bombings and a sort of general heavy-handed pushy remoteness compounded by fundamental ignorance of the rest of the world? posted by Robert Brady 1:03 AM . . .
