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youtube.com - 10/8/2008

CUTE DOLL SPOUTING ISLAMIC MESSAGE AND SOLD ACROSS THE COUNTRY - Fisher-Price Doll and the Devil (video)

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A cute doll that should coo sounds like it's spouting a message of hate. For the full story, watch the video report from Fox's Kerry Barrett. Target has alre...

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Gizmodo:  Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda [Fisher-Price]

Boing Boing Gadgets:  Cheap speaking toys say what reporters tell people to hear

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gizmodo.com - 10/8/2008

Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda [Fisher-Price]

— gizmodo.com — The hard-hitting investigative team at MyFox has just discovered the latest and greatest threat to national security and your children : Fisher-Price's Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, which is sold across the country, has ... (more) Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda [Fisher-Price]

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Fisher-Price Doll Reprogrammed by Al-Qaeda [Fisher-Price]
Gizmodo — The hard-hitting investigative team at MyFox has just discovered the latest and greatest threat to national security and your children: Fisher-Price's Little Mommy Real Loving Baby Cuddle & Coo Doll, which is sold across the country, has apparently been hijacked by Al-Qaeda to reprogram your children into followers of Allah! If you squint your ears, one of the talking doll's catchphrases sounds like "Islam is the light." God-fearin' parents everywhere are horrified, or at least outside of this McDonald's and Pizza Hut. Why hasn't anyone been talking about the surge where we really need it, the heart of Fisher-Price??? ...

Cheap speaking toys say what reporters tell people to hear
Boing Boing Gadgets — The sound chips used in toys turn recorded voices into incomprehensible babble. It's the result of making them as cheaply as possible, and it sometimes gets manufacturers in trouble. Why? Because people love to be upset and angry: combine paranoia and pattern recognition, and you get wonders like people believing a Fisher Price doll really is saying "Islam is the light." This is, to Fox News, "spouting hate." Usually, however, people think these things are just talkin' trash. Someone should make a fluffy Zeus head doll that says "Wise fwom your gwave!" Fisher-Price Doll ...