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highplainsdem

(49,022 posts)
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:09 PM Oct 2012

Even The Mitt Bobbleheads Were Made In China—By Ann Romney’s Brother

Source: National Memo

Have you ever seen a Mitt Romney lookalike bobblehead doll? Or the parody video, since removed from the Internet, with former Republican candidate Jon Huntsman’s three daughters interview a nodding Mitt bobblehead?

This year, the Romney bobbleheads are marketed on the Internet, along with Barack Obama bobble-eads that are reportedly selling faster. But the original Mitt bobblehead first appeared four years ago and was produced—by Ann Romney’s brother at a factory in China—as a party favor for big donors.

Last January, when former Utah governor Jon Huntsman was still in the GOP presidential primary race, his three daughters “went rogue” and produced the video, with two of them donning blonde wigs to imitate Fox News anchors, and “interviewed” a Romney bobblehead doll. As they studied their nails and asked sarcastic questions — “Governor Romney, people accuse you of being stiff. Do you agree?” — the bobblehead would rapidly oscillate, indicating yes or no.

If those dolls could talk, they might have a lot to tell about their country of origin and who made them there. Although Romney now complains frequently that China has unfairly “taken American jobs,” the Chinese bobblehead Mitts are yet another example of Romney’s propensity to invest in the People’s Republic—and to enrich family members such as Roderick Davies, his brother-in-law, who oversaw the creation of the dolls in China through a Utah company called Asian Sources, Inc.

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Read more: http://www.nationalmemo.com/even-the-mitt-bobble-heads-were-made-in-china-by-ann-romneys-brother/



There's video at the link, too, a news story about the video showing Huntsman's daughters having fun at Romney's expense, interviewing a bobblehead.
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Even The Mitt Bobbleheads Were Made In China—By Ann Romney’s Brother (Original Post) highplainsdem Oct 2012 OP
SO...Mittens is made in China?!? SoapBox Oct 2012 #1
Manchurian Candidate --- Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #3
+1 ProudProgressiveNow Oct 2012 #7
A lot of people in Utah are pissed at Davies and his son Angry Dragon Oct 2012 #2
Can you even order a made-in-the-USA bobblehead? maxsolomon Oct 2012 #4
Obama's stuff is 100% Made In America. The reaction by Romney? Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #5
I just had to see this... AsahinaKimi Oct 2012 #6
damn it, there goes my dream of working in a bobblehead factory! trouble.smith Oct 2012 #8
Do they sweat toxic lead? Blue Owl Oct 2012 #9
Mitt's Bobblehead is almost like a magic 8 ball aletier_v Oct 2012 #10
Mine doesn't jmowreader Oct 2012 #11

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
2. A lot of people in Utah are pissed at Davies and his son
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:28 PM
Oct 2012

because they went backrupt and lost a lot of money for people

maxsolomon

(33,360 posts)
4. Can you even order a made-in-the-USA bobblehead?
Wed Oct 24, 2012, 06:50 PM
Oct 2012

I bet our bobblehead-manufacturing sector was outsourced long long ago.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
11. Mine doesn't
Fri Oct 26, 2012, 06:54 AM
Oct 2012

I have a set of Obama and Romney bobbleheads. You ask Obama a question, and after he answers Romney agrees with him.

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