Larisa Alexandrovna: ABC News' Showcases Vomitous Shock & Awe "Barbie" Collection

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Larisa Alexandrovna: ABC News' Showcases Vomitous Shock & Awe "Barbie" Collection

Edited on Mon Nov-24-08 10:34 PM by Hissyspit

http://www.atlargely.com/2008/11/cbinbc-news-rolls-out-shock-awe-barbie-collection.html

November 24, 2008

CBI/ABC News rolls out Shock & Awe Barbie collection

Some are surely stunningly attractive. Some are indeed incredibly popular. And some - gasp - can actually reason. None, however, are described accurately. What am I talking about? Well the Claire Booth Luce Policy Institute has released its right-wing pin-up girl tribute called "Pretty in Mink," a stupid take on the popular John Hughes film, Pretty in Pink. If you know anything about the film, you know that the main character is not establishment, not a propagandist. Is not part of the rich-folks on campus. Not a racist. Not a female version of Joe McCarthy. Rather, she is an artist, a loner, a loser in a world surrounded by these types of pin-ups. But I digress, as I often do. In addition to this tribute and for reasons unknown, ABC News is showing off this bizarre collective in a slide-show.

Here is how CBI describes their calender:

"We took some of your favorite leaders of today’s conservative movement on a journey back in time, and made them up into glamorous movie stars of classic Hollywood. Back when the big screen was a little more glamorous, women were a little more feminine, the men a little more charming—and the world a little less politically correct."
Cute no? I wonder what they mean about the world being "a little less politically correct" back then. Perhaps they mean that in those days, a white-power groupie would easily admit to such a thing in public? Or that a Neo-Nazi would not be celebrated by a so-called woman's leadership forum, but instead run out of town? Let's examine one of these "leaders" in some detail and see what would have been written about her when the world was "less politically correct."

I also urge you to look up each Neo-Con Barbie in this Shock and Awe collection, clearly developed by Mental, not Mattel. Do some research and compare their little bio with the reality of who they are. Feel free to share your findings in the form of bios in the comments.

Since the Neo-Nazi Barbie is the most obvious one, I will focus on this "leader" as an example.

Ann Coulter - Neo-Nazi Barbie

Here is what her calender entry says about her:

"Ann Coulter is the author of six New York Times best-sellers, a popular syndicated columnist and a frequent TV pundit. She is the 2004 recipient of the Luce Policy Institute's Woman of the Year Award and the 2001 recipient of the Institute's Conservative Leadership Award. Coulter is wearing a brown mink coat from her personal wardrobe."
Here is Coulter's real bio, as written by me:

Ann Coulter is a paid propagandist who makes her living with shock-jock books such as one entitled Treason, in which she mostly fabricates the recent history of the United States and places Joe McCarthy into sainthood. Coulter finds nothing too be beneath her if a buck is to be made.

She has often called for the mass murder of her fellow citizens whose only crime is that they are of a different political party. She has openly lamented that terrorists did not kill more journalists. She has spent the better part of the past few years advocating that a nuclear weapon be used to commit genocide against the entire Muslim world.

Coulter was a star on the Conservative stage for several years until her plagiarism, extremist views, and alleged drug use got her booted from a majority of publications she had previously been published in. Coulter has a law degree as well, but that did not stop her from getting a snitch to steal the grand jury evidence relating to the impeachment of President Clinton - in the form of the Linda Tripp tapes - and carrying them around in her purse. In short, Coulter is the epitome of the right-wing world. She is white, rich, a WASP, who advocates the mass extermination of people who are liberals, Muslims, Jews, and anyone not entirely white enough or christian enough. That is why she is this years Neo-Nazi barbie.

I am sure you will have no problem locating Fascist Barbie, Idiot Barbie, and any other true identity of each starlet on display in this warped homage to extremism, nicely wrapped in fur, but not much truth.

Blech: