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05-14-2008, 03:13 PM
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T Shirt sale
The T-shirts are being peddled by Marietta bar owner Mike Norman at his Mulligan's Bar and Grill in Cobb County. They show a picture of Curious Georgie peeling a banana, with the words "Obama '08" underneath. The Bar owner says...... "Look at him ( Meaning Obama). . the hairline, the ears -- he looks just like Curious George." http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/pol...ontroversy.wsb Rick Blake, a spokesman for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns Curious George, said Wednesday that the company didn't authorize the use of the character's image, but hasn't been in touch with anybody selling or manufacturing the shirts. "We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents," Blake said. "We're monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action."
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05-14-2008, 06:57 PM
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Oh, please. It seems like "sue" is always the answer these days.
EDIT: It actually does look a like like Curious George... Okay, sue.
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05-14-2008, 07:02 PM
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Offensive.....what is offensive about it? Anyway, yeah that is a copyrighted symbol...go get em.
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05-14-2008, 09:28 PM
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It's offensive... And I can understand why it would upset people in the black community.
To me, it seems as though the T-shirt is calling Obama a monkey.
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05-14-2008, 10:44 PM
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I can see how it can be viewed as offensive. He is probably in bigger trouble with the copyright infringement issue though. He was also saying that some portion of the profits were going to some charity organization (can't remember which one) but that charity said they were not aware of it and would not accept any proceeds from the shirt sales.
I actually live in Marietta and I have never heard of this bar before, so I guess if this was a marketing stunt, it worked. Like I said, can absolutely see how it can be viewed as offensive, but at the same time I am a little frustrated with how politically correct everything is these days. This may have taken it too far, though.
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