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Ah, but can you make a toy with skin that thin?
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This just in from The Theater of the Absurd!
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She definitely has a case, but my hat is off to Habro for making her make this argument in public:
“She says the toy wrongfully appropriates her name and persona,”
To have to argue that an inanimate rodent has appropriated her persona is just priceless. The humiliation she must have to be going through.
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I don’t see the resemblance. The hamster has a mohawk.
http://www.ew.com/sites/default/files/i/2015/09/01/hasbro-9999.jpg
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Another of Rupert Murdoch’s Foxy News minions desperately trying – like Megyn Kelly – to become and create the news instead of reporting.
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But, for her children’s sake[1], does her husband smell of elderberries? That’s what I want to know.
[1] She has two.
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Hey, Pepper.
Guess what? You’re a choking hazard!
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Black Lives Matter
But some black lives matter less than others.
Had the title and article left out the single word, Fox, would TPM commenters disparage this woman’s persona, appearance and sensitivity? A corporation has appropriated a person’s name and other features for corporate profit without permission, without recompense and without regard for her explicit request to cease and desist. How many of us supported Stephen Colbert’s poutrage a few days ago over Jebya’s raffling off a free ticket of Colbert’s first Tonight Show without first getting Colbert’s permission, even though the raffle proceeds would go to charity?
For the record, hired by a Fox affiliate station in Rhode Island doesn’t make her a Rupert “Foxy” minion, but based on this photo, she is a very beautiful woman.
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That is pretty shitty.
Is that thin skin on the other (your) foot? It’ll be interesting to see how a court rules on this?
I wonder if Hillary was amused by the nut cracker they were selling 8 years ago – or Bill was amused with the corkscrew they made out of him. I can’t think of a single celebrity who was outraged when somebody made a bobble-head out of them. But really, if this tiny pet is supposed to be a hamster, I think the hamsters have a better reason to sue.
This is just your typical publicity stunt. Look at me, Look at me!
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Benson Detwyler isn’t thrilled…
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Note the “TM”; I wonder how that will affect her lawsuit.
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And the whole smokey eye makeup/fake eyelash thing is not even close to being unique to the Faux Filly Follies.
Her dad’s last name is Harris … where did Faulkner come from. I seem to recall another Faulkner or two in history that is also not uniqe to her.
And the tawny fur of the adorable critter doesn’t resemble her, albeit, beautiful complexion.
Is there a case? Really?
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Ok…entirely missing the point by a huge margin. Having a toy company make a hamster with your name is actually not a thing like being shot and killed by police officers. Not even remotely.
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was my very first comment.
And your record is very much mistaken. She is not working at a Fox affiliate. She sits in for Sheppard when he is on vacation and is a regular co-host on Outnumbered. She is most definitely a Rupert minion.
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I can’t imagine getting upset over a toy for 4-year-olds, and if I found a toy named after me, I’d probably buy a dozen.
If a minor challenge like this were to happen to a celebrity I admire, I’d look at how they handled it. If they handled it with good humor and laughed it off, my respect would grow. If they acted like a prick and went to court over it, my respect would lessen.
Harris Faulkner and anybody who cares about her reaching her full professional potential should be a lot more concerned that she is working for Fox News, which doesn’t say much for her journalistic or personal integrity. Working for Fox is a red flag for half the nation, and it is an organization which will never really give her any respect. Personally, I will try not to remember her name and that she works for Fox so that if she manages to climb out of that sewer into some respectable job, I can judge her on her new position and perhaps laugh with her that she once worked at Fox.
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I am not sure what credibility she has as a Fox journalist, but I agree that using her name for a toy hamster is exceedingly uncool. If she were an MSNBC host, TPM readers’ heads would be exploding.
Perhaps if it was an adult toy somebody left of center might object, but probably not even then.
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I disagree, condew. I think the outrage would be palpable.