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<DIV><FONT size=2>Is this akin to seeing the image of the alleged Virgin Mary on
a pancake from Shari's?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>W.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, December 05, 2008 3:11
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Local Shopper
Questions Doll's Religious Message</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>>From today's (December 5, 2008) Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman
(Wasilla, <BR>Alaska)
-<BR><BR>-----------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Local
shopper questions doll's religious message<BR><BR>By Michael
Rovito<BR>Frontiersman<BR><BR>------------<BR><BR>The Fisher-Price Little
Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle and Coo doll, <BR>pictured, gurgles baby talk,
including a phrase that sounds like 'Islam is <BR>the Light.'<BR><BR><A
href="http://tinyurl.com/684war">http://tinyurl.com/684war</A><BR><BR>------------<BR><BR>WASILLA
- Some Target customers in the Valley are angry over a doll that
<BR>apparently says "Islam is the light" when activated by motion.<BR><BR>The
doll has prompted some parents to ask the store to take it off
shelves.<BR><BR>The toy in question, Fisher-Price's Little Mommy Real Loving
Baby Cuddle <BR>and Coo, is a motion-activated doll that babbles baby talk
when activated. <BR>After listening to one of the dolls brought to the
Frontiersman office, <BR>the toy seems to clearly say "Islam is the light" at
the end of the third <BR>track.<BR><BR>Internal communication between local
Target officials obtained from a <BR>store employee shows the reaction from
parents has not taken lightly.<BR><BR>"Many guests and team members have heard
what the baby says, and they are <BR>finding it extremely offensive," the
document says. "A guest recorded the <BR>baby and threatened to give it to the
news if we didn't pull immediately. <BR>Product has been pulled."<BR><BR>But
Nicole Engman of Wasilla said the baby is back on shelves at Target <BR>and
she thinks it shouldn't be there.<BR><BR>"I was shocked," Engman
said.<BR><BR>She said her main concern is the number of children who might
receive the <BR>doll and hear what is says.<BR><BR>"The public needs to be
aware of it," Engman said.<BR><BR>Unlike many toys that talk, the Cuddle and
Coo doll does not have quotes <BR>printed on the box indicating what it might
say.<BR><BR>Engman pointed out the "Islam is the light" statement comes at the
end of <BR>the third track, following some babble. She said a parent buying
the doll <BR>might not hear the phrase before making a purchase.<BR><BR>Target
reportedly has not announced plans to pull the product, and the
<BR>manufacturer has not issued a recall.<BR><BR>Scott Hayes, the Wasilla
Target store manager, said he doesn't have a <BR>comment on the issue because
he has to see how the company's going to <BR>respond.<BR><BR>Whether to pull
the product is up to Target corporate, Hayes said. <BR>Target's normal return
policy will apply to the doll.<BR><BR>Consumers complaining about the talking
doll aren't limited to the Mat-Su <BR>Valley. Across the country, reports say
some can clearly hear the entire <BR>phrase, while others say only the word
"light" can be clearly heard. <BR>Others have said the phrase appears to be a
subliminal message.<BR><BR>A newspaper in Greenville, Tenn., ran a lengthy
article featuring a local <BR>resident who said she got the creeps from the
doll. A man in Plano, Texas, <BR>told his local news he doesn't think the doll
is appropriate for young <BR>children.<BR><BR>Fisher-Price has reportedly said
it will change the recording in future <BR>dolls, which will eliminate the
"Islam is the Light" phrase.<BR><BR>There have been no reports or word from
the manufacturer as to how the <BR>phrase might have ended up on the
recording.<BR><BR>-----------------------------------------------------------<BR><BR>Seeya
round town, Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR> <BR>"For a
lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist <BR>Unitarian
Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go <BR>to
work."<BR><BR>- Roy
Zimmerman<BR><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This
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