Chinese Firm Offers Clinton Two Million Dollars to be "Image" Envoy

BEIJING, Feb 18, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A major Chinese garments firm unveiled Sunday a two-million-dollar offer to Bill Clinton to represent the company and said he was considering the proposal.

Fapai, a firm specializing in men's garments and based in the freewheeling Wenzhou city in eastern China's Zhejiang province, had asked Clinton to be its "image ambassador," a company spokesman said, confirming a Beijing Youth Daily report.

The company had written to Clinton in May 2000 but the offer was considered premature by the then U.S. president, the report said.

When the offer was repeated after he left the White House, Hillary Clinton acknowledged it in a letter, it said.

"Mrs Clinton thanked us on her own and her husband's behalf for the offer and expressed readiness to discuss it face to face with the company director," the daily said quoting the firm.

A company spokesman told AFP that Hillary Clinton's letter was received last week.

Fapai has already roped in top Hong Kong film actor Tony Leung, who made a name for himself in the French film "L'Amant" directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse)

[A HREF="http://www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=292216">Still on the PLA payroll! Chinese firm offers Clinton $2 million per year

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), February 20, 2001

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Still on the PLA payroll! Chinese firm offers Clinton $2 million per year

-- Ain't Gonna Happen (Not Here Not@ever.com), February 20, 2001.

What IS it with you and your obsession with Clinton? I guess you're just jealous that he's been wildly popular, gets laid on a regular basis AND has the opportunity to make some bucks. Admit it, you wish you were him. (C'mon, Ain't...take the bait. Demonstrate that Bush-quality Juvenile Delinquency you're so famous for! Fill up this WHOLE thread with your mad rantings.)

-- Watch (Ain'tExplode@SetUp.com), February 20, 2001.

PLA? Make that PRC.

-- Barry (bchbear863@cs.com), February 20, 2001.

Come on, Ain't. Are you seriously claiming that this company's a front for the PLA? That's like claiming Levi Strauss is a front for the FBI!

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 20, 2001.

PLA = People's Liberation Army

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 20, 2001.

So far, the only so-called news here is that a Chinese clothing company says it made an offer to Bill Clinton and a "company spokesman" claims it was "acknowledged" by letter.

But, where are the quotes from that letter? You know, I once received a letter from President Reagan myself, acknowledging receiving my suggestion that he stop funding the contras in Nicarugua. Mr. Reagan sounded very positive about what I said in my letter and promised he would give it every consideration, although he was sure that he was doing the right thing, and so on.

Now compare this to the fact that Larry Flynt keeps his name in the news at every chance he gets by offering to pay millions of dollars to a variety of women if they will pose naked for Penthouse magazine. And yet, somehow these offers almost never result in any naked pictures of Janet Reno or Barbra Streisand.

Do you really think Flynt cares whether his offers are accepted, so long as they are reported? This technique was perfected by PT Barnum 150 years ago. It's as if Ain't had never heard of the words "publicity stunt".

Now compare this to our "best ever" president Ronald Coleman, oops I meant Ronald Reagan, who actually pocketed $1 million as a speaking fee from a Japanese company immediately after leaving office. He also accepted a free $1 million home.

Comments, Ain't?

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 20, 2001.

In Ain't world, that makes Reagan a shill for the Japanese.

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), February 20, 2001.

tu quoque vs mea culpa. Where's a man when you need one?

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), February 20, 2001.

Carlos, you were a little vague in your "mea culpa" comment. Who is supposed to be accepting blame and for what?

Suppose I own a considerable business running gun shows around the country. I write and offer George Bush Sr. $5 million dollars to come to 3 gun shows, sit in a booth and shake hands with the attendees. Bush asks his his secretary to send me a letter saying that it was very nice of me to make such a generous offer. I get no follow up from Bush, so I hold a press conference and insinuate that Bush has accepted my offer, saying that the letter expressed "a very favorable attitude toward the offer."

Are you saying that if Bush didn't issue a public apology, then he wouldn't be "a man"?

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), February 21, 2001.

Got me wrong there Nipper. The "tu quoque" part is what you missed. Tired here of *sure he did but look what he did* bullshit. As for bush, never met one I didn't like.

-- Carlos (riffraff@cybertime.net), February 22, 2001.