Saturday, January 24, 2009

Must Not Have Gotten a Big Enough Cut of the Profits

Michelle Obama: 'Inappropriate' to use daughters to sell dolls.

They’ve been in the White House less than a week, but the first daughters have already been co-opted by marketers — and Michelle Obama isn’t happy about it.

Ty, the toy company responsible for the popular Beanie Babies dolls, is now marketing “Sweet Sasha” and “Marvelous Malia” dolls.

The first lady’s office said Friday Ty was out of line. “We feel it is inappropriate to use young private citizens for marketing purposes,” said a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama in a statement.

Given the number of Obama commemoratives out there, Michelle's objection can't be about anything else.