Action Figures For Imbeciles -Mark Morford

[Sticky]

It's the G.W. Bush "aviator" doll, just in time to degrade every notion of heroism, ever

Country's in shambles and economy's gutted and schools are shot and Iraq's a violent bloody mess and joblessness is rampant and it's a proud time indeed to be an American, and hence you might be asking yourself, what, pray what, can I give the hardcore lockstep pseudo-Christian homophobic Republican on my gift list?
It's true. It's real. The Bush action figure is a genuine serious item and not, as you would fully expect, a joke, not a parody, not necessarily meant to be a gag gift you would give to your favorite rabid pro-military war aficionado to make them cheer and stroke the flag and sigh wistfully for a time when men were men and Uzis were legal.
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There he is, all faux manly and squinty and artificially buffed up, his gull-wing ears toned down and the thin-lipped brow-furrowed monkey confusion so common to his scrunched little face apparently erased by expert doll craftsmen and/or a drunken 50-cents-an-hour sweatshop employee somewhere in China.

MORE:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2003/08/22/notes082203.DTL&nl=fix

[realFedUp]

1. dupe.

I posted this thread earlier today...a good one.

[Terran]

4. please go here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=7199

[JackDragna]

2. I'm going to buy a Bush doll..

..stick it in the back of my car, then put an "AWOL" sign in one of its hands.

[Sticky]

3. Dang!

Sorry about the dupe. I guess I didn't travel back far enough to see the story. While I'm here, check out the related visual here:

http://www.markfiore.com/animation/action.html