| D.C. Follies: Dolls that Tax Credibility |
| Written by Stephanie Finnegan |
| Tuesday, 12 October 2010 22:54 |
![]() I was channel-surfing the other night, and I came across a teaser on the news for a Christine O’Donnell witch doll. In case you’ve been living in a cone of silence for the past two months, O’Donnell is the Republican/Tea Party-backed candidate for U.S. Senator in the Delaware senatorial race. I stayed through the commercial break (which featured a lot of ads for vitamins, pills, weight reducers and sexual enhancers—we Americans are a wreck) and settled down to see what the scoop was about the witch effigy.It seems that a company called HeroBuilders, based out of Oxford, Conn., has decided to capitalize on the candidate’s teenage flirtation with the occult. Her admitted dalliance with the devil—to impress a boy she was dating—has turned into an Internet and radio call-in sensation. Some people are wondering why the GOP couldn’t have supported a more viable, less eccentric politician, while others are glad to have one more solid fact to demonize the Tea Party movement with. Whichever side of the aisle you belong to, you have to admit that a televised self-proclaimed confession of being a practitioner of the “dark arts” is a comedy gold mine. Being an intrepid snoop, I immediately went in search of HeroBuilders and clicked on its Web site: www.herobuilders.com. The lineup of available dolls is a rogues’ gallery of current event darlings and past event villains. It’s like a resin time capsule of folks who have enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame and others who wish they could have fled from the press’ unblinking focus. Along with Christine “Bewitched” O’Donnell in her Halloween garb, there is also the “Executive Action Figure” model—a much more staid and ordinary replica of Christine in a mundane office-sensible ensemble. Right beside this new lightning rod for controversy is America’s tried-and-true poster girls for senseless partisan attacks and undeniable self-promotion: Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman. Bachman has only one figure, and it labels her a “Great Republican.” Palin, however, has four depictions. They run the gamut from traditional business suit to slutty schoolgirl to sexy workout to superhero costume. The latter actually looks more like Muhammad Ali’s boxing trunks meet The Matrix. In addition to the Conservative coterie, there are also Democrat targets: Michelle and Barack Obama are praised and parodied; Joe Biden is on hand, as are John Edward and Tim Geithner, along with other progressive and Liberal members of the Cabinet and U.S. Congress.
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Politics make strange bedfellows, and it makes even stranger dolls. The dolls are unattractive, but so are many politicians. Sorry.
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I think these dolls are quite grotesque. All of the characters look horrible. It doesn't matter what party they belong to. They're all caricatures. The company should spend money and hire better sculptors. I think Anna Chapman who is really quite pretty looks like a man. Maybe she's going undercover as a guy?
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There seemed to be an equal division of party members that had been sculpted, and I suspect that a "news junkie" is the ideal buyer. If you worked with Anderson Cooper or Sean Hannity, this is where you could get him a little knickknack for his office desk. I think it's set up for men who love the news. And the treatment of Sarah Palin makes me believe it's for guys who would really love to see her in a "Moms of the Wilderness" Playboy photo shoot. It's interesting to see who is promoted and who is squirreled away at the bottom of the site.
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