How dare they usurp Eleanor Holmes Norton's rightful claim to the Curious George moniker!
Posted on 06/07/2008 5:02:36 AM PDT by pjsbro
The president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is disturbed by an offensive t-shirt the group received in the mail Wednesday, the day after Barack Obama claimed his party's presidential nomination. The shirt has a cartoon image of Curious George, the beloved children's character, with a paper bag over his head holding a sign that says "A Truth We Can Believe in '08!!!" written underneath.
CBCF President Elsie Scott says she believes the timing of the package was no coincidence. "We received it as a reaction to Obama winning the nomination," she tells the Sleuth.
The t-shirt was made by a company called Spring River Tees, which also on its Web site sells "Obama in '08" t-shirts that depict Curious George. The "truth-we-can-believe-in" t-shirt that the CBCF received is also sold on the web site, titled "Hussein," which is Obama's middle name.
This t-shirt, which arrived by mail at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation from an anonymous donor, lists several black organizations - as well as the Ku Klux Klan - and asks: "Who is really causing the racial division?"
Scott said she found the t-shirt "offensive" and when she looked more closely at the back of it, she became "very disturbed" and reported the contents of the package to the hate crimes unit of the D.C. Metropolitan Police.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.washingtonpost.com ...
Curious George publisher may sue over T-shirt
Cobb bar selling shirts combining book character’s picture, Obama’s name
By JAMIE GUMBRECHT, CHRISTIAN BOONE
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 05/13/08
The publishing company that owns the Curious George image says it is considering legal action to stop the sale of a T-shirt depicting Barack Obama as the monkey from children’s books.
The T-shirts are being peddled by Marietta bar owner Mike Norman at his Mulligan’s Bar and Grill in Cobb County. They show a picture of Curious Georgie peeling a banana, with the words “Obama ‘08” underneath.
Rick Blake, a spokesman for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns Curious George, said Wednesday that the company didn’t authorize the use of the character’s image, but hasn’t been in touch with anybody selling or manufacturing the shirts.
“We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents,” Blake said. “We’re monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action.”
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/05/13/mulligans_0514.html
The hate-based CBC complains about hate.
I will shortly be marketing a new organic underarm deodorant..Called NO BO.
We could do a T-shirt with Chimp George and Curious George and say..Do we really want two monkeys in a row?
yes! I’ll buy a few dozen.
Strange, that seems to be the truth, so what's the bitch all about?
I might pay them some mind...WHEN I hear that they are complaining about the hate spewing from the mouths of Jeremiah Wright and Michael what’s-his-name, the priest, and the fact that their idol BHO has been “kissy-face” with them for twenty years.
I don’t believe this.
This story is what came to mind when I read this thread.
“Black fireman in Baltimore admitted to planting a noose and a note at a firehouse he works at.
Baltimore Sun reported:”
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/12/another-hoaxer-fireman-admits-to.html
Obama does look like Curious George.
I'd say that even if Curious George were a cartoon toad.
Congressional minions reporting thought crimes against our dear leaders to armed local law enforcement.
And I'm supposed to be more worried about the misuse of a cartoon monkey.
If the image had a paper bag over his head, how do they know it's Curious George?
Muslims offended by cartoons
They ain’t seen nothing yet. As president, his semiblackness will be fair game for ridicule.
My wife claims Obama looks like a flying monkey from the Wizard of Oz...
Ok, I understands if the CBCF is upset with the tee shirt. It upset me when Bush is portrayed as a chimp. But this is not a hate crime.
I don’t think I have to ask but did this company protest when nasty even worse Curious George tshirts were made about Bush?
Wouldn’t surprise if this group didn’t make and then mail it to themselves for political gain. If anyone thought the Clintoons were bad watch these people for a while.
Neither do I. They probably sent them to themselves. They love being “victims”. If no one else will bother to do the job, they’ll do it themselves.
And I agree with the poster who asked where all their concern was all these years of President Bush being slandered. At least President Bush has better things to do than give the name-callers the attention they want.
I’m also predicting a fake assasination attempt on Obama in September.
We hear about the death threats. If he hadn’t gotten any death threats he’d be the first major candidate to never get one.
I have a friend who works in a volunteer office for McCain. They get stuff often.
The “company” that claims to have received this t-shirt in the mail and reported it as a hate crime is the Congressional Black Caucus.
If Obama is elected, we will seriously see a government which you won’t be able to criticize for fear of the Orwellian thugs in the media branding you a racist. I don’t like McCain, but there’s really no option....
Oops...it’s the Congressional Black Caucus FOUNDATION. Nevertheless it isn’t a company in the sense I understand that word, but a non-profit organization.
The media is scared poopless by the Obamabots because if they dare say peep they are called racist. I have quite a few friends in the Chicago media.
A local sports guy reported several Cubs have said they are voting for McCain. All the black callers said they aren’t going to root for the Cubs anymore. How dumb is that?
My favorite Cub is Derrek Lee who has attended several Obama rallies. I like him because he’s a great player.
If they are truly non profit Im the Queen of England.
President Bush isn’t black, so it’s peachy keen to portray HIM as a monkey.
If you portray BHO as one, it’s a reportable “hate” crime.
This is what we’ve come to, and I know that most of America ain’t gonna take it.
I’m starting to get racist emails from people about Obama. I kinda thought we were past all that.
“non-profit”
There, fixed it by putting quotes around it.
I was afraid, but not surprised, this has happened. Who knows who’s behind sending the shirt - it could even be an angry staffer. But every single racist seeming incident that happens anywhere between now and November is going to be blamed on racist conservatives. Jackson, Sharpton and the usuals will be squealing like stuck pigs. And I’ll bet that McCain will apologize for every single one of them. It’s probably going to be a standard line in his stump speech.
Let’s hope they overplay their hand and turn off voters who are sick of incessant race baiting.
How do they know its Curious George under that bag and not Alfred E Neuman or Chelsea?
No you can get away with it, spin it this way: the trans-gendered part of me: female side is speaking out. Think in the wacky terms like they do, they will not bother you./Just Asking - seoul62......
Are these people you know? Or are they blanket emails going out from anonymous sources all over the net?
If the former, is this the first time you knew of these people’s racism?
If the latter, there is no way to know who is sending them. They could easily be supporters of Obama who want to tinge every opposition to him as racist. Think about it.
Or, they could be some David Duke type dead-enders who mess things up for everybody but are very few in numbers.
Or they could be kids gaming the system for a joke.
YOU DON’T KNOW, so please keep that in mind.
Say goodbye to the United States of America.
This is hateful and it should stop...as a conservative I believe that everyone should be evaluated by their character...when we start comparing humans to animals because of physical characteristics it is hurtful...
...when it was done to President Bush it was wrong and it’s wrong now.
Exactly.
As the screams of false-racism and faked-hate crimes echo throughout the media, you will certainly see more people acting out (if this is indeed real, and not a hoax perpetuated by black folks). People are getting sick of this PC thought-police crap and are starting to reach the boiling point. This incident doesn’t bother me at all, because for the most part, I don’t think the black community truly wants an end to racism-—being a victim is too empowering....
if you can’t criticize a politician vying for the presidency, you do not live in a free society. period.
Scott said she found the t-shirt “offensive” and when she looked more closely at the back of it, she became “very disturbed”
Wonder what was on the back?
Since the CBC was offended by the shirt, the sender accomplished what he set out to do. Good for him!
Piss onem if they can’t take a joke.
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