Advice for President Bush, about how to look good in front of the Chinese people during his upcoming trip to Asia

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Advice for President Bush, about how to look good in front of the Chinese people during his upcoming trip to Asia 1) Hire knowledgeable, professional translators to go with the president, not inexperienced but ambitious showy stars without any knowledge of the culture. With a team of good translators, the President and his staff will be well-informed and well-served, and will not be culturally blind and illiterate. 2) Avoid the White House or local correspondents from U.S. news stations. Even if they can speak Chinese and claim to have local connections, they still have the same anti-Bush agenda as they do in the U.S. They want to challenge or embarrass the President in order to preserve their own identity and to advance their ratings. He should remember that one of the reasons his response to Hurricane Rita was so good was that he bypassed the media and managed things directly, in his own way, rather than falling into the trap of trying to defend himself from the media’s constant attacks. 3) Meet with some advanced cultural scholars from leading universities such as Qinghua University and ignore any protesters or troublemakers. This will counteract the people who are culturally blind and biased, and help out with Chinese-American relations. 4) The media recently invited scholars such as O’Hanlon from the Brookings Institution, and misquoted him as part of their anti-Iraq funding campaign right on the White House lawn, in an attempt to stop the Senate from voting on the defense appropriations bill with $50 billion for Iraq included. 5) They will undoubtedly use the Asia trip to make the President look bad and to derail the U.S.-China relationship. CNN’s Lou Dobbs makes daily attacks on China, saying that the President’s visit to China is an assault on the American middle class, because Bush wants to export American jobs to China.

6) To Quote Senator Arlen Specter, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman, 10/18,

"Harriet is being tried by the media, but the one place she should be tried is by the Senate Judiciary Committee". "So we need a date to start". The date to start could be November 14, in order for all of the papers to be sorted through, as November 7 would be too early.

The media is encroaching on both the legislative and executive branch.

The White House juggles daily with the media gang which makes a living by churning up controversial stories.

But the rating is always that American approval for the Media is fallen by at least 10 points. If CNN says the approval is 39% for Bush, then the approval for the Media is only 29%.