While you’re up, could you please shoot me:
Some concerned parents have contacted the Mattel toy company with allegations that one of its dolls utters words which promote Islam.
The Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo dolls are manufactured by Fisher-Price, which is part of the Mattel toy empire. However, a number of parents contacted the company when they heard the doll say these words: “Islam is the light.”
While the doll appears to utter “Islam is the light,” the company denies that is actually what it is programmed to say. Mattel insists that Little Mommy Cuddle ‘n Coo features realistic baby sounds, including cooing, giggling, and baby babble, with no real sentence structure.
Like a less pretentious Camille Paglia, then. No word yet on whether the doll comes to life and carves a backwards crescent into your child’s cheek, although presumably this question will be answered in the affirmative before the week is out. It does makes one long for a more innocent time, when dolls taught tots wholesome warblogging skills.
October 26, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Like a less pretentious Camille Paglia
Come on now. Paglia cannot manage to make sense even accidentally.
October 26, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Did you know that if McCain wins Virginia, Ohio, Florida, and NM or any other state he wins. Boo!
October 26, 2008 at 4:59 pm
It’s OK, Obama could lose Ohio, Virginia, and Florida and still win if he takes Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Mexico. See, it’s going to be fine.
October 26, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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God. Can you just imagine the Mattel techies realizing they now have to eliminate any sounds in their baby toys which may sound vaguely similar to anything fundamentalist crazies MIGHT object to?
October 26, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Rhetorical question: Exactly how nutty–no, not nutty–how obsessive and deranged does a person have to be to think they hear something like that (I’ve heard the recording, and it is indeed babble)? And then be so convinced of it that they actually take the trouble to protest to the manufacturer?
I mean, I’m just trying to picture it, and I can’t. I’m trying to picture the most backward, paranoid wingnut, and it’s still not to be believed.
October 26, 2008 at 7:21 pm
When it farts it sounds like ‘Jesus loves you’.
But it smells like falafel.
October 26, 2008 at 7:49 pm
ELO wants royalties on the sales of Li’l Annie Intifada.
October 27, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Like a less pretentious Camille Paglia
If Camille Paglia was less pretentious she would completely cease to exist.
October 28, 2008 at 9:24 am
But what does it say when you play it backwards?
October 28, 2008 at 9:51 am
Rhetorical question: Exactly how nutty–no, not nutty–how obsessive and deranged does a person have to be to think they hear something like that (I’ve heard the recording, and it is indeed babble)? And then be so convinced of it that they actually take the trouble to protest to the manufacturer?
Obviously, you’ve never been to a church where speaking in tongues was considered part of a normal Sunday service. Frankly, I’m amazed fundies don’t hear Satanic and/or pro-Islamic propaganda in their morning bowl of Rice Krispies.
October 28, 2008 at 10:25 am
I’m amazed fundies don’t hear Satanic and/or pro-Islamic propaganda in their morning bowl of Rice Krispies.
They do.