CNBC Airport Stores sell Hillary Nutcrackers
By New Hampster on May 6, 2008 at 12:12 AM in Barack Obama, CNBC, Hillary Clinton, Media, Media Bias, Obamedia
Mike Caulfield at Blue Hampshire writes that during a layover at Reagan National, he wandered into a CNBC News Shop and came face to face with a “Hillary Nutcracker”.
Mike’s full diary can be read here.
So I ask what Mike asked. Why does a CNBC shop carry the “Hillary Nutcracker”?
- To make a profit off outright sexism?
- To ridicule a strong US Senator?
- To just attack all strong women?
- To continue the GE NBC MSNBC campaign against Hillary?
I don’t know about you, but CNBC News Shops won’t get any of my money no matter how long I’m stuck in an airport.
Pics over the fold
Mike’s words
I just got back from a vacation, and I had a layover in Washington, DC. Across from where I sat lay the CNBC store, proudly sporting that NBC peacock we’ve come to know so well.
I wandered over to grab a newspaper or a magazine, and this is what I found in the center of the store, facing outward from the cash register.
Did you get it? Did you get the joke? Because strong women hate penises. Strong women want to “bust men’s balls” because let’s face it, they’re envious of our balls. They are all, you know, menopausal and uptight. And we dudes, we’re just hanging out, when they come around cracking our nuts…
Because, you know, male power is natural, but female power is a pathology. Always.
That’s why a major news outlet can sell a novelty item where a female presidential candidate cracks nuts with her “stainless steel thighs”.
Is there some way to apply pressure to CNBC to stop selling this misogynist crap? If you have any ideas, leave them in the comments.
Now, I did some quick research as I know these shops are concessions that license the brand name. CNBC News shops are owned and operated by The Paradies Shops of Atlanta. They also own PGA shops and many other airport shops.
That research aside, the brand is owned by NBC and their parent General Electric (GE). I personally hold CNBC responsible for this because their name is on the store. It is just another in a long list of anti-woman, anti-Hillary actions by NBC and their employees.
Please let NBC know what you think of their brand.
Added to my growing boycott list.
Tacky? Yep. Offensive? Sure. Funny? Absolutely. Its a joke, people. We tell bad, non-PC jokes all the time. Grow some thicker skin and move on to spending quality time w/your family. Take this example for the shallow jab that it is. Politics has made everyone so dang SENSITIVE. I’m equally disgusted with all candidates. Even if I had a favorite, I’d have to give kudos to a good marketing ploy (whilst bemoaning our capitalistic tendencies). If all the offended folks out there were viewing a Barak doll that spit watermelon seeds (and yes I’d find it offensive yet amusing), would you be as worked up? Is a DOLL enough to skew our opinions? No - it only appeals to a similar mindset. Is your outrage going to change their minds? How many other instances of clashing ideologies have ticked you off? What have you done about it? CAN you do anything about it? Think, people. Tend your garden to the best of your ability and let the rest go.
So if something was done like this to Obama - using stereotypical “black” thing it would be taken as a joke & we would be told to grow thick skin? I THINK NOT….there would be so much outrage and calling for heads to roll at CNBC
I feel/know there is a double standard here…..
I work with liberals at a shop that caters to liberals. We sell the Hillary nutcracker and it always gets a laugh. Sorry you don’t have a sense of humor.
I don’t see any joke there. Can you imagine a parent explaining to a child what the printing on that package means?
I was offended by the idea of the nutcracker…but when I saw the picture and the package I literally let out a gasp.
How tacky, rude and stupid.
Another letter goes out today. I am so tired of this stuff.
Do the schmucks who buy these know what it reveals about them? You don’t get all huffy about it. You stigmatize the product. It only appeals to low-ranking men and the women who have had to settle for them.
Actually, I would also take it as “Hillary will protect us all, she’s tough enough. Don’t mess with her.”
Any idiot who still thinks of a strong woman as a bitch, or a nutcracker is showing his age, and well, even if he’s under forty, it’s the 21st century.
And please don’t be in charge of my wars, that’s some OLD, stale, pedantic, trite, predictable thinking ya got there…
Made in China..??
Wonder what the Slave Labor over there thought about this…??
Degrading…Sick…Disgusting..Inappropiate..
Boycott…Protest…Enough is Enough…
Hillary has her own action figure. Truth be told (via Carville) she has more balls than the average presidential candidate.
So many countries have had female heads-of-state. Germany currently has one. Too bad American men don’t see how much they demean themselves across the world with behavior like this. It’s so lame and overtly insecure.
What they’re really revealing is a serious chicken-shit aspect to their character by admitting that yes this woman is strong, smart and yes I’m intimidated by her.
So pass out the condoms and let the little boys fill them up with water for water balloon fights. God forbid we have to go 5 seconds without hearing a tit joke. Somewhere right now in America another Serial Killer is being born.
Geez, what happened to American men?
They’re there, it’s just we’re seeing the weak ones, like the TV star generals who do nothing else but LOOK important, the foamy rappers who sell hate, and the wannabe political bloggers who can’t analyze or understand the greater impact of the issues, but think of themselves as important, anyway.
Notice the one thing all those people have in common is a hyper inflated sense of importance, but no talent.
Narcissists.
If this country’s a mess, it’s their fault, they can’t run it, whether it’s being an astute citizen, or a warrior.
Paris Hiltons all.
They like to keep the competition pool halved. That way, a mediocre man has a better chance.
What’s even more sad is that at our state Jackson’s Days, one of these was auctioned off.
I nearly cried. Is it that people don’t understand that it’s misogynistic, or do they think it’s some sort of compliment.
It’s disgusting.
They think it’s some sort of compliment.
And this is how they think.
You know, how we as Americas always think other people can be reasoned with, everyone is logical, everyone wants what’s best for their kids?
That’s not true, some people only understand power greater than theirs, force. They’re dumb, they don’t get it’s the reasoned approach that made America great, not thoughtless violence stemming from a childhood slight.
Which isn’t a licence for abuse, (which tripped up the lightweight STUPID childish republicans), but is indicative of a need to make those people understand you will use power against them if they break the law, harming others.
You and I, when no one is around, are still moral people, we don’t steal, we don’t abuse others.
Some people without consequence of the law, would behave as Obama, and the IL combine.
So those who uphold the law have to use it, intelligently, guys like Obama don’t want to go to prison.
But with some, the personality disorder is too great, so they have to be pushed, so to speak.
this makes me ill.
further proof that nbc hates the clintons.
Further proof, too, that this country is still more sexist than racist.
“Woman is the Nigger of the World”
John Lennon/Yoko Ono: SOME TIME IN NEW YORK CITY album
Unbelievable! I thought this was something juveniles (in biological and developmental age) bought online…I can’t believe it’s for sale in public. Just more proof that it’s okay to be sexist in America.
Hell no, surely you know that there are scads of men out there with certain issues of manhood that are exacerbated by a woman doing better than they are.
So is this likeness licensed by Hillary? I recall Arnold got involved with his likeness.
What does the Obama doll do? Curl up in a fetal position?
The obama doll has several options. In addition to the fetal position, it yells RACISM and it also can do a tantrum in the candy aisle.
Bwahahahahahah!
-scratches his face
-brushes his shoulders
-digs a knife in
-takes and hides $20 bills
…
And then blames others for his actions.
Hahahaha.
..goes thru the motions of bowling…
Holds a watermelon, tap dances, rolls its eyes and, when you pull the ring on the back of its neck, shouts, “Hey! Where’s all the WHITE wimmen?!”
Do ya think that Jesse, Al, et al would get their Gulfstreams warmed up for THAT?
Yeah, I’m certainly not going to be making any purchases in the CNBC store again. If they had a similar toy that referenced Obama in a similar, but racist way, there’d be a worldwide outcry.
But no, she’s just a woman.
Sexism is the new racism.
Well just think how lucky we are compared to Barry’s friends’ and bundlers’ countries. Why in Pakistan they set women on fire just for the hell of it. Barry enjoys taking money from Pakistanis a lot. When he reverses the gunfire for them over there, they can just assimilate with us so nicely. Barry’s travels in life consist of Hawaii and………Pakistan.
Correction: That’s “Pockiston”.
I spend alot of time thru airports… If I see one of these fecking things I will be hard pressed not to make a scene…. (will ya’ll bail me out of jail?!)
Buy one.
No, seriously. Buy one, take it home, keep it. Take it out every once in a while to remind your friends how absolutely terrified insecure idiots are of a woman, and to remind us all of the double standard.
CNBC - the financial channel? How is this merchandise appropriate for an airport store? A financial cable channel airport store? I could see this being sold in the Haight along with bongs.
CNBC - owned by same parent company as Keith O and Tim Russert’s channel MSNBC.
All owned by GE, Jack Welch used to be head of. What the hell is going on with these guys?
>>> All owned by GE, Jack Welch used to be head of. What the hell is going on with these guys?
The VERY same GE that brought you…wait for it… RONALD REAGAN!
You. Gotta. Be. Kidding.
We need to flood CNBC with complaints about this. Have you forwarded this story to Taylor Marsh? Ben Smith?
I am sooo happy to be a Neilson family this year. You can be sure that MSNBC, NBC, CNBC, etc are not being viewed in my home and it is recorded as such. I still plan to watch Olberman one day just to find out who his advertisers are. Can anybody help me on that so I don’t have to tune in personally?
I don’t know when or where he’s on, but I’ll check it out, if possible. He may be on after my bedtime :-J.
So I guess it would be ok to have an Obama doll doing well…just use your wildest thoughts ?????
The obamalamadingdong watermelon seed extractor or obamalamadingdong chicken fryer. I mean, WHO could POSSIBLY be offended?
Chicken fryer and waffle iron.
HAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHH
waffle iron!!!!!!!!! YES!!!!
Thank you for another reason to boycott NBC. I’m going to vote this morning, and then I think I’ll hang around the polls and do some “politicking” for Hillary, as we call it in the south.
If I didn’t see this for myself I would never believe that CNBC was actually doing this. If anything, this proves without a shadow of a doubt that the whole NBC network is misogynistic. And stupid as hell.
I have been stunned at the blatant sexism that the MSM has encouraged in this campaign (Elton John was right). Can you imagine the quite justified outrage that would exist if they were selling Barack Obama lawn jockeys?
Actually, I would say, to make the point, it would have to be something people are afraid of about AAs, to match the implication that strong women are scary.
Hopeychangeyman lawn jockeys! The image is almost to much fun to contemplate!
There’s another store at National (USAirways concourse) that sells all sorts of political & DC related t-shirts and souvenirs. You can find the nutcracker there, as well. I don’t know how well they sell.
Because, you know, male power is natural, but female power is a pathology. Always.
very well put
Perhaps Barky would like to stick his remaining ball into one of them. He does have one left doesn’t he?
Tack-EEEEEEE!!!!
How about if NBC sold a bunch of money clips decorated with happy little black faces. They could be labeled as “Obama Changers”. If not that, a nice black lawn jockey adorning the top of a bottle opener or a cork screw would look lovely—a catchy little phrase like “Obama’s the fastest in the race” would just hit the spot. And I’m sure there’s loads to be done with watermelon and fried chicken. Hope all that stuff isn’t too offensive. Because I know that everytime I see the image of Hillary on a nutcracker, as a woman, it makes me feel all warm and cozy inside. Just makes me want to eat a big bowl of pecans.
I just voted..waited in a pretty long line..
The Ball is in the hoosiers court now.. ( Well and SC too )
Can’t wait to watch the returns tonight.
Go Hoosiers! Hope ya got a sticker.
Those of us who support Hillary should take this as a compliment. We should come up with a companion item: a Hillary nutcracker with Putin’s or Ahmadinejad’s head between her thighs.
I don’t think that’s such a bad image.
I agree, I’ve been called a bitch so many times just because I dare trod in mostly male dominated areas that I made it part of my moniker. I even have it written on my powerlifting belt. It let’s insecure men know that I won’t be fucked with. I compare it to a rattlesnake’s tail or the yellow/black colour scheme in nature. I embrace my inner bitch. The irony is, I pride myself on ‘being a lady’ in every other aspect of my life.
Imagine the “scream for blood” by the Obama media army if something like this is done to their candidate.
Hope the electorate see this injustice.
May “karma” befall those who promote injustice.
last time I checked, the political store
on Pennsylvania Ave. in the Marriot Bldg.
had Hillary witch buttons.
I asked why they would sell this and would
they sell racist buttons.
the response was “people buy them.”
if racist buttons were sold, there would
be a firestorm.
time for women to speak up against
the small outrage. it leads to the
large outrage, like Wolff on Hillary
in Vanity Fair re sex. he’s a pig.
the response was “people buy them.”
This type of situation reminds me of a Steve Martin line from “The Jerk”: “It’s a profit deal!” ‘Bout sums up the whole BO (and Bush) travesty.
That’s the store where I saw the Chelsea Clinton button i describe below.
I used to buy stuff from that store, I let them know that I would not be a customer any longer. They didnt’ give me the amoral “people buy them” line though.
I just went to the Paradies website, and this is what I found:
Every day of the week … 365 days of the year … employees of The Paradies Shops demonstrate the company’s TRIFIC core values with each other and with the customers they serve. TRIFIC stands for:
T – Trust
R – Respect
I – Integrity
F – First-class Service
I – Innovation
C – Family Culture
I think we need to flood Paradies with phone calls asking them how, exactly, those “core values” apply to the crass and sexist nutcracker display.
Jeffrey Brown is responsible for all the merchandising in all the stores. I, for one, will be calling Mr. Brown this morning.
Jeffrey R. Brown
Vice President of Merchandising
The Paradies Shops, Inc.
5950 Fulton Industrial Boulevard, S.W.
Atlanta, Georgia 30336
404.344.7905
I sent an email…
Maybe some patriot has scheduled airing of, “Shaka Zulu (all ten episodes!),” on TV in NC on election day.
Twenty dollar gold piece to the first wag who slips a copy of, “Putney Swope,” into the tape player aboard the, “ENOLA HOPE-A-DOPE.”
I remember reading that Tucker Carlson has an instinctive reflex to cross his legs any time he meets Senator Clinton.
This isn’t about Senator Clinton, but whatever fear and anxiety some men have in this society about power and how this is translated culturally. It is sexism and misogyny. It is also downright pathetic.
Senator Clinton is tough and although men may describe it as testicular fortitude, it is really the power of the feminine. It is about being a woman. I find nothing unusual about Senator Clinton’s toughness or resilience. The human race would have died out long ago without it.
“”"I find nothing unusual about Senator Clinton’s toughness or resilience. The human race would have died out long ago without it.”"”
Well said.
Did you see the Hillary hit-job in today’s NYT?
1. photo choice: smiling Barack next to back of Hillary’s head.
2. Lead head and inner head emphasizing “ruthlessness”
3. 3rd paragraph filled with un-sourced, sexist slurs — gender-slur-relevant, fact-free namecalling.
Listen the only reason the Times loves Barry is because Karl Marx isn’t available.
I wouldn’t compare Obama to Marx. One of them at least was highly intelligent; and despite weaknesses, had ethics. Guess who I am referring to.
I gotta agree that this doll is incredibly offensive. And it’s not the “tough” part that’s offensive of course. It’s the insinuation (as someone already pointed out) that tough women are men-haters. Sexism alive and well.
Sorry, make that yesterday’s NYT.
“This kind of language and pugilistic imagery . . .evokes the baggage that make Mrs. Clinton (get that) usch a provocative political figure . . . . critics describe her as “divisive” “a dirty fighter” or “willing to do anything to win.”
I agree with what people have posted above. I highly doubt stores would sell a Obama lawn jockey. Why the hell is it OK to sell a Hillary nutcracker? I could see them selling in a cheap shop but the MSNBC Shop?! Disgusting
Does NBC wonder why women are protesting at their studio and boycotting them for months now?
I saw them called “PMSNBC” after their notorious remarks months ago. I haven’t watched them since.
Why don’t they make an “Obama is a Weenie” doll?
His head on a phallic body in a wimpy bun.
Jeffrey Brown’s answering machine just got an earful.
Thanks for the number.
MSNBC is next.
and while I’m feeling feisty and like cracking some nuts I’ll give Dean and Pelosi another email too.
Aren’t daughters part of their Family Values?
The story made it to Ben Smith
I like it! If you want to protest CNBC, do it because they’re another corporate media outlet not telling the truth. You people are all blind.
They misspelled things on the case… It shouldn’t be “Is America ready for this nutcracker?”, it should be “Is America ready for this nutjob?”
[…] CNBC Airport Stores sell Hillary Nutcrackers (by New Hampster at No Quarter) Mike Caulfield at Blue Hampshire writes that during a layover at Reagan National, he wandered into a CNBC News Shop and came face to face with a “Hillary Nutcracker”… So I ask what Mike asked. Why does a CNBC shop carry the “Hillary Nutcracker”? To make a profit off outright sexism? To ridicule a strong US Senator? To just attack all strong women? To continue the GE NBC MSNBC campaign against Hillary?… […]
What a GREAT idea, thanks!Except she should be wearing her yamica!
I do not like Hillary Clinton and I hope I’m not forced to vote for her this November, however, this is appalling. It is inexcusable and shameful to see in this year of 2008. While I do not want any of Hillary’s politics, I do have great respect and admiration for her life accomplishments. I just don’t want her as the President of this country. I want Senator Obama leading us in change.
Elizabeth Tjader
Change to WHAT???? Tell us! PLEASE since your candidate can’t
Oh nevermind… I’ll tell you.. Change to anti-american, anti-semetic, anti-white, anti-low income, racist, sexist, militant, pro hamas…. need I go on????? Stop being SO NAIVE AND GULLIBLE~!!!!!!!
I love it - Hitlery could deball McIsane on pay TV for like a billion dollars and everyone wins!!
[…] CNBC Airport Stores sell Hillary Nutcrackers (by New Hampster at No Quarter) Mike Caulfield at Blue Hampshire writes that during a layover at Reagan National, he wandered into a CNBC News Shop and came face to face with a “Hillary Nutcracker”… So I ask what Mike asked. Why does a CNBC shop carry the “Hillary Nutcracker”? To make a profit off outright sexism? To ridicule a strong US Senator? To just attack all strong women? To continue the GE NBC MSNBC campaign against Hillary?… […]
There’s a political memorabilia store in downtown DC which sells campaign buttons. One button has a picture of Chelse Clinton and a word bubble which reads “Dont tell Momma I voted for Obama!”
So no, some people have no shame. I think this button is even worse than the nutcracker, because it’s puttin gwords into someone’s mouth which are in direct opposition to what that person has said publicly many many times. How about a button with Michelle Obama saying she intends to vote for Hillary? Not likely.
Well she acts like another cracker we know who wants to ‘nooke’ Iran which means she must also be a complete nutjob.
I am buying one of those for every one of my friends LOL
Yes, I’m sure you’d also be amused if someone came out with an Obama doll hanging from a noose with God damn America written on it?
You know what? I’d be outraged. I’d be filing complaints and writing letters. It’s a shame that other so called Democrats don’t have the integrity to take a stand against sexism.
Hell, I’d buy 10 of those, too.
McCain, Shillary, Obama: this time, there is NO lesser of the two (or three) evils.
Why should ANYBODY be offended? This is a woman who threatened to ‘obliterate’ Iran if they fought with Israel. If threatening to vaporize hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children isn’t ballsy, I don’t know what is!
LOL!
I hate to say it, but there are so many other things more offensive than some piece of political memorabilia which will prove valuable, especially if she gets the White House.
Her husband had all kinds of tasteless memorabilia, and I don’t remember any outcry.
She is a bit of a nut job. let’s see, tells tales of surviving harrowing sniper fire that never happened, later says she “mis-remembered” it and expects people to think that’s ok, threatens nuclear genocide against another nation, even in a scenario where that nation doesn’t attack the US, and on, and on.
Anyone who votes for a crazy person to have control over the nuclear button must also be crazy. That goes for McCain too, as he’s having a good deal of trouble remembering what he did or did not do or say lately too. He might forget what the button does.
That leaves Ron Paul and Obama. I’m not sure either of them is sane either! What’s in the drinking water in Washington???
Hahaha! Funniest thing I have seen in a long time.
I am buying at least 10 of them next time I fly.
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I bought 2.
Gonna be a collector’s item someday.
I got a sixpack of REALLY stale Billy Beer, if you’ve got Excess Money lying about.
Since sexism is o.k going in the Clinton direction why not back the other way!!
How about a Michelle Obama doll carrying a purse with her husbands “nuts” in it.
On the purse it could say, “Obama’s nut case.”
There could even be a string in the back. When pulled, Michelle starts complaining about how “obama can’t make a bed as well as their youngest child.”
She did say that before. What’s the harm!!
It isn’t like she is being called a nut case, just her purse. That is where she keeps them isn’t it?