When I was little, I had a Chatty Cathy doll. She was made of plastic, had artificial blonde hair and rosy cheeks

[jls4561]

painted on her face. Momma made her some pretty dresses from a Simplicity pattern and fabric from the remnant drawer.
When you pulled the string in her back, she said things. The only phrase I remember is “I love you”.
She had a squeaky, little girl voice.
She was not my favorite doll. She wasn’t cuddly and Barbie could have more adventures.

I haven’t thought about her for years. Until I saw Karoline Leavitt spewing falsehoods and invective at the WH Press Corps. Many, including myself, have called her Baghdad Barbie, and the parallels between Saddam Hussein’s minister of propaganda and Fatass45’s minister of propaganda are many.

But I think Ms. Leavitt is more like Chatty Cathy. Blonde hair that’s artificial (hey gurl, get them roots touched up!), rosy cheeks that are painted on. But when the string in her back is pulled, what comes out of her face is just lies.

Lyin’ Karoline. Not as good as Baghdad Barbie but possibly more accurate.

[MontanaMama]

1. We call her Bullshit Barbie in our house.

KKKaroline is better at her job than I’d like her to be. I haven’t seen rapid fire lying like she dishes out very often. It’s a “gift”, I guess.

[jls4561]

3. I like Bullshit Barbie. Guess it's mandatory for WH bimbo spokesperson to wear a cross. Still waiting for the

cross to burst into flames.

[MontanaMama]

4. I don't identify as Christian but

I PRAY that her cross bursts into flames!

[Demovictory9]

2. I had a Chatty Cathy Doll!

[KatyaR]

6. Me, too!

My parents went all over three counties trying to find one, but they did. I loved it, but my mom hated it, she said it was ugly. She had those cute round granny glasses.

[dflprincess]

37. You may be thinking of Charmin' Chatty

she came with round glasses, Chatty Cathy did not (I had both dolls). Charmin'she h Chatty also came with different disks you could change so had more to say than Cathy.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/tM4AAOSwg2hjnyak/s-l1600.webp

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I did too.

[dflprincess]

22. Me too!

But she was smarter and more articulate than Karoline.

[Sequoia]

26. Mine had dark hair.

Got her for 8th Christmas along with a fantastic Etch-a-Sketch !

[Scrivener7]

28. My sister had one. They tried to hand it down to me, but that thing freaked me out.

I've always loved babies but I was not a doll girl. I never knew what I was supposed to do with them.

[calimary]

35. So did I!

[mcar]

5. Spot on!

I listened to 5 minutes of that mess and had to turn the channel. She makes Sarah Huck seem professional. She was shrieking invective at Pres. Biden and Jeffrey Goldberg that made not one bit of sense.

[msongs]

8. one wonders how much time the ivanka clone has spent with daddy nt

[rubbersole]

21. Obviously enough.

And beyond gross.

[Scrivener7]

29. Ewwww .... yet, so true.

[lame54]

9. Karolyin'

[Teacher of the Year]

10. Many many many moons ago, someone messed with Chatty Cathy...

I remember the article about how someone had rerecorded a bunch of the dolls. When you pulled Chatty Cathy's string in the messed with ones she said, "Kill Mommy."

History repeats itself.

(edited to add: I looked it up. The doll was not a chatty Cathy but a bilingual doll and the ""kill mommy" was actually Spanish for something else. LOL... that's why we should do our research first!)

[MurrayDelph]

24. That was an episode of Twilight Zone

The voice actress was June ("Rocky the Flying Squirrel&quot Foray, who also did the voice tracks for Chatty Cathy.

The Twilight Zone version's catchphrase was "Hello. My name is Talkie Tina, and I'm going to kill you."

[Meowmee]

11. I seem to remember having one too

I remember my beagle pup chewing all my barbie dolls too 😹

At some point I decided dolls were creepy and threw them away. I have always preferred stuffed animals etc. I will never forget when my blue teddy bear flew out the car window of our blue valiant on a family trip, never to be seen again 😹😢 🧸

[Blue Dotty]

12. My Chatty Cathy was possessed

She creeped me out. I threw her down the basement steps,killed her. Of course it didn’t help when my older brother mimicked her voice and whispered scary things at night. 😱 But yes, I see the resemblance.

[Efilroft Sul]

13. She's Bergen-Belsen Barbie

[paleotn]

15. Even better than Baghdad Barbie.

Well played!

[dchill]

23. Berlin Bunker Barbie.

[RazorbackExpat]

34. LOL!

[mgardener]

14. As I have said here before

She worked for Elise Stefanik.

She has perfected the art of lying and deceit.

She also has limited morals & ethics.
https://www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025-02-03/nh-campaign-debts-raise-ethical-questions-for-karoline-leavitt-as-trumps-press-secretary

[AmericaUnderSiege]

16. I would say plain falsehood is the distinguishing feature of Republicans.

They are sub-humanly two-faced. You can be absolutely certain that if they say water is wet, the only reason they said it is because of some ridiculously corrupt scheme they have that somewhere ends up with them making money or hurting a minority to make themselves feel powerful.

Just evil little pieces of garbage.

[madamesilverspurs]

17. I didn't have a Chatty Cathy.

But I did have a Betsy Wetsy: put something in her mouth and it came right out the other end. Maybe we should be checking the press room podium for puddles.


.

[calimary]

36. I remember those, too!

[johnnyknj]

18. Need a name for her

Karolyin'
Lyin' Leavitt
Take it or Leavitt
.....

[BurnDoubt]

19. KKKaroline is,...

like several others of his appointees, tarted-up to look like Ivanka, and, not being actual kin... "If she were my daughter, I'd..."

[Hassler]

20. Baghdad Barbie should go back to

Playing softball while she can.

[proud patriot]

25. that's what I'll start calling her

it truly fits

[jls4561]

27. Since I first posted this opinion, I've been thinking about how many people in the Drumph orbit look like dolls.

Javanka was compared to Barbie and Ken. Ivanka has a high proportion of plastic in her, that’s for sure. Jared always reminded me of a Ken doll left too close to the burner on the stove by someone’s little brother. Fatass45 likes guys who look like GI Joe with square heads. I guess he thinks they’re manly. But one of the most memorable things about Ken and GI Joe (as pointed out by someone else’s little brother)
was that they had no visible genitalia.
We need Mary Trump to write an article about little Donnie’s childhood toys.

[Kali999]

30. I had one too

[markodochartaigh]

31. Now Available,

Lyin' Karoline's boyfriend Whisky Pete with his drinking bro Beerbong Brett!

*supremacist court gavel sold separately

[littlemissmartypants]

32. I...

Had a Chatty Cathy. One of the neighborhood boys wrestled her away from me and threw her on the roof. She was up there talking away for a while.

Maybe someone needs to throw Ms. Leavitt on a roof.

[chouchou]

33. I wanted a "Little Donnie Liar" but my mom said he would corrupt me and was 700 dollars.

[valleyrogue]

38. I really tire of the misogyny inherent in calling any woman, regardless of political persuasion,

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as a "Barbie." I don't think people truly realize just how offensive it is.

Take issue with this woman over the merits, and there are plenty to get her on, and stop substituting sexist stereotypes for arguments.