Ali dolls out the spin (Get your talking Baghdad Bob action figure NOW!)

Sky News ^ | 4.17.03

[mhking]

Ali dolls out the spin

An American toy company has begun selling a talking doll of the Iraqi Information Minister, widely known as Comical Ali.

It recites some of the phrases that made Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf a cult figure during the Coalition offensive.

The 63-year-old's bravado in the face of overwhelming evidence made him an unlikely media star embraced by both supporters and foes of the US-led war.

Connecticut custom doll-making company Herobuilders.com has produced the 12-inch action figure in tribute to what it calls his "one-man battle against the observable facts".

The standard version of the doll is selling for $24.95 and the talking version for $35.95.

The "Iraqi Dis-Information Minister" doll recites phrases such as:

• "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!"
  
  
• "Our initial assessment is that they will all die."
  
  
• "No. I am not scared and neither should you be."
  
  
• "We have given them a sour taste."
  
  
• "They're not even (within) 100 miles (of Baghdad)."

Herobuilders.com claims to have been swamped with hundreds of orders for the doll in the first 24 hours they went on sale.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[w_over_w]

This guy was crazy to "off" himself. Assuming he would of been cleared for war crimes (and that's a big assumption) he could be making millions on dolls, book tours, talk shows, his own show with distinguished guests like Bubba! What a waste.

[HassanBenSobar]

I NEED one of these...

[pbear8]

If he's not dead he has a great future at CNN.

[Terpfen]

If only I wasn't a poor, starving college student...

[Victoria Delsoul]

LOL! I need to get one. This is hilarious.

[ErnBatavia]

So why did they make him look like Shepard Smith??

[mylife]

Please add me to the "hold muh beer" Ping list
Thanks!!

[Only1choice____Freedom]

>>"If he's not dead he has a great future at CNN."

He still does! CNN puts up the dead too.

[nhoward14]

Looks like Tom Ridge to me.

[Lawgvr1955]

I think it looks like Norm MacDonald from Saturday Night Live.

[faithincowboys]

they should have made him look more like himself-- they made him look like a 25 yr old hardbody with 20/20 vision. i want glasses, swarthy plastic and wrinkles. i want a huge schnozola, the heavy eyebrows isn't enough.

[ErnBatavia]

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

"I am getting no royalties! Herobuilders.com will have their stomachs roasted in the courtroom at the hands of my lawyers!"

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Hahaha! That's bad!

[Canticle_of_Deborah]

Ping!

[mhking]

Of course, it's from the same company that brought you....

...the Khalid Sheik Mohammad filthy dungeon action figure.....

...and the "King of Pop Baby Drop" Michael Jackson action figure, complete with blanked-headed baby....

[Wilhelm Tell]

"Baghdad Bob" was so pathetic and ridiculous that I could not help but feel a little sorry for him, though I kept reminding myself that he must have had some part in Saddam's crimes. In a happier world, he would have been a used car salesman, or a televangelist, or a telemarketer, or perhaps a dot com huckster predicting that the Dow would top 50,000 any day now. I read somewhere that Saddam had demoted him over the years. I can imagine his bosses trying to leave the country while ordering him to stay in Baghdad and spin, spin, spin. Finally, evidently, he did spin his last. In the breeze. At the end of a rope.

[Calpublican]

Ah! The sweet smell of budding entrepenuership is in the capitalist air.