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...
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