Governor [Schwarzenegger] shaken up over bobble-head dolls

Los Angeles Daily News ^ | April 30, 2004 | Lisa Friedman

[bvw]

Arnold Schwarzenegger is demanding a total recall of bobble-head dolls made in his image.

In a letter to the Bosley Bobbing Head Doll Company, an attorney for Schwarzenegger this week demanded an immediate halt to production of the $19.99 plastic doll. The letter was obtained Friday by The Smoking Gun Web site.

But the owner of the Canton, Ohio, bobble-head firm insisted Friday he has every right to make and sell images of politicians like California's governor.

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"We feel that it's completely legal. It's all part of being an elected official," Toby Bosley said of the mocking bobbles.

The Schwarzenegger doll appears as part of the company's Bobble Head Election series. In it, the governor is depicted in a suit, wielding a machine gun and adorned with a bandoleer across his chest.

Bosley said the election series, which also features Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, President George W. Bush and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, was created as a favor to a friend to raise money for the Kristen Ann Carr Fund for sarcoma research.

[bvw]

Bosley's messing with the Owl God's Cult main man. Regular citizens have no rights in a match-up against the Owl God. That's in the secret Bohemian Grove Constitution. Which has more force of law than that old farty Constitution daft old men signed ages ago It's an antique with no modern value. That's we we need secret laws to really run things.

Ordinarily -- by US historical tradition and archaic pre-FDR, pre-Woodrow Wilson Supreme Court decisions, political figures are apt subjects for such parody. Even commercially -- to make a profit.

But we now live in the post-Nixon Empire Period. In our era why all "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others".

Washington is used to sell cars, Lincoln to sell rugs. I guess they pre-dated the Imperial Rule of the Owl God's men.

So I hear we are going to use Federal Dollars to build a cult temple of the new US State Religion at Bohemian Grove? Can anyone confirm?

I'd like to know before we go off sacrificing our virginal daughters and sons, eh?

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[Bogey78O]

Arnie's having to adjust from the idea that his image is trademarked.

[bvw]

This is also a Campaign Finance Reform issue. The elites want to squelch and bleating and barking from the sheep pen and the kennels.

That's a constant of human behavious. Even Founder John Adams engaged in it -- and Ben Franklin's son too, Elitism!.

It's a form of "entitlement-itis" no different than the mentality of a multi-generational welfare family. (If met some of those.)

I've met both. the self-entitled elites and the self-entitled welfares. Actually it is the elites that steal and rob far more of our pocket change -- I'd say the "work" they do is far, far lesser the value of blood, sweat and silver they corrupt legal process to extract from us.

[Smartass]

Go for it Arnold...Off with their Bobble heads.

[RevNix]

Nope, 'fraid that won't work, Arnold. A few years back, Rudy Giuliani tried to get his image removed from the sides of busses in NY City. The court found that the picture of a public figure belongs, well, to the public. As long as it is not used to deceive or slanderize(?), that is.
Think "Collector's Item"

[BipolarBob]

Where's the order form? I need a case of these hot little items.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

"Go for it Arnold...Off with their Bobble heads."

LMFAO

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Oh, lighten up Arnie. It's a joke.

[bvw]

Bosley Bobbers!

[bvw]

Laura Bush and her husband and father-in-law also available. Also Teddy Roosevelt and the Democrats from the primary: Clark, Dean, Kerry. Daschle, DeLay, FDR. Jesse Jackson. Didn't see Reverend Al, though.

[Smartass]

"Oh, lighten up Arnie. It's a joke."

To the Terminator, It's no joke. It's bucks!

[bvw]

The Teddy Bear and the Babe Ruth candy bar were BOTH political commentary that did very well commercoially. The Teddy Bear: Teddy Roosvelt. A positive comment.

The Babe Ruth candy? Although most associate it with slugger Herman Ruth -- his "Babe Ruth" nickname comes from the bar which was popular at the start of his career. The bar's name is after Grover Cleveland's alleged illegimate daughter, Ruth.

Both get to the name part of "name or likeness".

[chuknospam]

Geesh, they should have at least gotten it right! Assault weapons in Kalipornia cannot have removable magazines, they must be single shot or have a internal box magazine. Ammo belts are considered high capacity ammunition feeding devices and are limited to 10 rounds per belt. So the charater is breaking two laws minimum, looks like the rifle has a flash suppressor, that could be #3. Shame, shame, shame.