Name Change for Sasha & Malia Dolls

[Undercurrent]

Hoping to buy a pair of those Sasha and Malia dolls? You’re out of luck. And the White House couldn’t be happier.

White House officials were very, very pleased on Tuesday after learning that the company that makes Beanie Babies had decided to stop selling its Sweet Sasha and Marvelous Malia dolls.

A spokeswoman for First Lady Michelle Obama had protested that the dolls were inappropriately using “young, private citizens for marketing purposes,” even though the company, Ty Inc., insisted that the dolls were not intended to depict the Obama girls, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7.

Still, the brown-skinned, brown-eyed dolls clearly bore something of a passing resemblance to the first daughters. On Tuesday, the company’s Web site included pictures of the two dolls beneath a red sign that read “Retired.” Tania Lundeen, a spokeswoman for Ty Inc., did not return several calls for comment.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/dollmaker-drops-sasha-malia-figures/

[demokatgurrl]

1. Yeah... a very passing resemblance

I'm glad to see this. They are hideous, IMHO.

[crikkett]

2. Good. No more sweatshop-sewn dolls of the first daughters

(and anyone who has one of these dolls is now holding a bundle of money. Sigh.)

[Lyric]

3. This was Ty's plan all along.

As I predicted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=4900513#4903144

Manipulative fuckwads. I cannot STAND Ty.

:grr: