Posted on 01/25/2009 1:29:20 AM PST by kcvl
Here's one mom who won't be buying those new Sasha and Malia dolls produced by Westmont-based Ty, Inc.:
First lady Michelle Obama.
On Thursday, her office gave the toys the raspberry.
"We believe it is inappropriate to use young, private citizens for marketing purposes,'' Katie McCormick Lelyveld, the first lady's press spokeswomen said in an e-mail to the Sun-Times.
A spokeswoman for Ty did not return a call Thursday.
On Wednesday, company spokeswoman Tania Lundeen told the paper that Ty, Inc. founder H. Ty Warner was inspired by the Obama daughters.
"How can we resist?" she said.
Crain's Chicago Business quoted an unnamed company official saying that "we certainly hope that [the Obama girls] like them."
But Lundeen told the Associated Press that the doll names -- "Sweet Sasha" and "Marvelous Malia" -- were chosen because "they are beautiful names," not because of any resemblance to first kids Malia and Sasha Obama.
(Excerpt) Read more at suntimes.com ...
I hear that the dolls real father is actually Barry and he did the deed right after trying to have a whole list of book banned in the library of congress.
I agree with Michelle O on this one.
Now how about addressing all the inane hero worship your hubby your is getting, Ms O?
> I agree with Michelle O on this one.
I don’t. If it was OK to drag Sarah’s family into the spotlite, it’s OK to do the same with the Obama’s. What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
Now, if only they’d make Barry & Michelle Obama Voodoo dolls...
Wonder how much these things will be worth to the little brainwashed moonbats in say 20 years. Might behoove us to buy a few and keep them in a box.
We will all be poor slaves in 20 years with none of our own possessions, what was I thinking.
Your post reminded me of a movie I watched on cable last night — “Conquest of the Planet of the Apes.” This was the movie that showed how the apes took over the world from the humans. It made me think of how conservatives may be treated in a post-Obama world. :>)
I don’t recall any company making and selling dolls with the likeness of Palin’s family attached. (Though there were a coupled of disgusting websites about Trig.)
I agree with Mitchelle, leave her kids alone. Every other vile, nasty and underhanded tactic the dems used is fair game.
There is plenty of material to work with on her and Barry.
Betcha Ty Inc will be having a change of heart real soon, so to speak...
I’m just sayin’.....
And michelle needs to get used to it....
Diehard??? Your comment cracked me up...
The Obamas are anti-capitalism; want to deprive others of money-making opportunities in the name of, what?... their own insipid personal insecurities.
Bushes/Palins would take the arrival of action figures in his daughters’ image in stride; maybe buy a couple as gifts.
And that, my friends, is the difference between Obamas and Bushes/Palins.
I recall certain “comedy shows” exploiting the entire Palin family. Just as commercial as making dolls.
Those dolls were NOT made as a put-down on the girls!!!
No one made fun of them!!!
And this is hardly negative spotlight. They were disgusting with Palin’s family. If anyone wants to make a cute little doll, I suggest a Piper doll.
I understand that.
What you said!
“Now, if only they’d make Barry & Michelle Obama Voodoo dolls...”
Why? Voodoo dolls are for people who wish harm to befall another person but are too impotent to actually cause that harm.
Yep. What can any one do about that? The left owns the media.
The are a number of those ‘entertainers’ I’d love to take on a weekend long fishing trip.
They should make a talking Michelle doll. It can say, “This is the first time I’ve been proud of my country.”
Yippeee Skippy!!!
FINALLY someone agrees with me!!!
;)
;)
> If anyone wants to make a cute little doll, I suggest a Piper doll.
(Grin!) She was something else, ay! The way she looked after her little brother and all.
That cute little girl would have been gorgeous in the White House alongside Mum the Vice President...
The US voters missed out on something pretty special there.
It’s going to be twice as good when the Palin kids grace the White House alongside Mum the President in 4 years.
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