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The Barack Obama Action Figure, on Sale at NBC
MediaBistro ^ | August 19, 2009

Posted on 08/19/2009 12:17:12 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

Much is being made about the Barack Obama merchandise on sale at the NBC Experience store in Manhattan and on the store's Web site. So we decided to head up to 30 Rock to see what the fuss was all about.

First the backstory.

Last week, Joe Luppino-Esposito, a blogger who calls himself 'Newark Young Conservative Examiner' wrote about how the retail store at NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters has been selling the merchandise.

Earlier this week, Maxim Lott of FoxNews.com started asking around about the ethics of a company that owns a national news network and cable news channel selling merchandise featuring the president.

Lott reveals the CBS and ABC online stores sell books about the president but no merchandise, while Fox and CNN do not sell books or other memorabilia.

And while it may be smart business journalism professors and ethicists think it crosses the line.

(Excerpt) Read more at mediabistro.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: nbc; obama; staterunmedia; trinkets

1 posted on 08/19/2009 12:17:12 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
BTW, has anyone seen the obama toilet bowl brush for sale anywhere?
2 posted on 08/19/2009 12:18:39 PM PDT by duckman (My Grandma Isn't Shovel Ready!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

What action? Bows to the East 5 times a day!


3 posted on 08/19/2009 12:18:39 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

Ha! where’s the Saudi King figure?


4 posted on 08/19/2009 12:21:14 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Which action figure? The one with him bowing to the Saudi King, or the one with his head up his Obama?


5 posted on 08/19/2009 12:21:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: 1000 silverlings

and it throws like a girl.


6 posted on 08/19/2009 12:22:26 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: 1000 silverlings

GOT to have one of those to bow to, don’t cha’ know?


7 posted on 08/19/2009 12:23:11 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON!!!")
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To: massgopguy

Comes with Mom Apple Bottom jeans


8 posted on 08/19/2009 12:24:04 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: Dr. Ursus
What action? Bows to the East 5 times a day!

I saw the Oval Office starter set. Obamy in a white shirt, rolled up sleeves, no tie, no shoes. Founding Fathers Desk to put feet on was extra.

9 posted on 08/19/2009 12:24:23 PM PDT by This_far
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To: duckman

BTW, has anyone seen the obama toilet bowl brush for sale anywhere?
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Isn’t that the one that doubles as a toothbrush?

I hear it will be standard hospital issue under ObamaCare.


10 posted on 08/19/2009 12:24:48 PM PDT by Brookhaven (http://theconservativehand.blogspot.com/)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I’m going to make a KILLING on miniature “mom pants” for Barry’s action figure. It will also come with a “throws like a girl grip”. Not to be outdone by Barbie and her sports car, the Barry doll will have his own 1999-vintage limo complete with a backseat “companion”, and replica of a packet of “snow”.


11 posted on 08/19/2009 12:26:30 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: massgopguy

Does it have the Kung Fu grip?


12 posted on 08/19/2009 12:27:37 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The Obama action set I recently purchased has Obama and Larry Sinclair in the back seat of a limo. Larry is sitting on the seat and Barack, well we know how he got those ears.


13 posted on 08/19/2009 12:27:46 PM PDT by stockpirate (Barack Obama, America's Usurper-in-Chief)
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To: SERKIT

and don’t forget, his BFL can be John(My little pony) Edwards


14 posted on 08/19/2009 12:29:28 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Birth certificate not included.”


15 posted on 08/19/2009 12:44:03 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Are they selling a corresponding Larry Sinclair action figure?


16 posted on 08/19/2009 12:44:08 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne (Buy Gold and Guns Now!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

My favorite! I almost cry laughing when these commercials come on!

17 posted on 08/19/2009 12:51:31 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I like this one better! Photobucket
18 posted on 08/19/2009 1:01:58 PM PDT by passionfruit (When illegals become legal, even they won't do the work Americans won't do)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

the all talk, no action figure.


19 posted on 08/19/2009 2:02:18 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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To: passionfruit

Obama does PrayingMantisKungFu!!!!!!!!!!!!
20 posted on 08/19/2009 2:05:52 PM PDT by ari-freedom (Obama acted stupidly...and that's after knowing all the facts.)
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