Exploitation

 ” Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, are our nation’s new first daughters and they are both, well, sweet and marvelous. “They’re such adorable girls. How can we resist?” Ty spokeswoman Tania Lundeen told the Chicago Sun-Times. But Lundeen also insists the $10 dolls are not replicas of the Obama girls. And this fact must make it much worse- We do, too, but we’re a little concerned with the company the plush Sasha and Malia are keeping. The TyGirlz Collection also includes Bubbly Britney, Lucky Lindsay and Precious Paris.” E! Online reports.

Michelle Obama is reported to be none too happy, responding through her spokesperson, that her kids are “private citizens”. If the Obamas were going to agree to licensing & merchandising for their kids images you’d think the kids would at least get colllege fund money out of the deal.

Ty is skirting the line by saying they just randomly picked the names, and they are meant not to represent the first kids.

Oh Please! That is a cheap shot of Ty to do this without permission, and then insult our intelligence by saying the doll name choices are just a coincidence? On the week of the inauguration, no less.

Others critique that the dolls have breasts, and are made “less black” in their features.

I would think since both Obama’s are lawyers, they might shut this folly down, on image copyright laws. If that is the case, it would make the dolls even more rare & a collectors item.

Seriously though– who would want your kids to be in a category of merchandise that includes Bubbly Britney, Lucky Lindsay and Precious Paris??

Rehab & psychotherapy sold separately?

* I realize unauthorized replica dolls are not high on the list of things in the big picture of problems this country faces, but the Obama’s have not been the first family for 1 full week yet, and already this kind of exploitation is happening.

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