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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhen I was little, I had a Chatty Cathy doll. She was made of plastic, had artificial blonde hair and rosy cheeks
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 wasnt cuddly and Barbie could have more adventures.
I havent 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 Husseins minister of propaganda and Fatass45s minister of propaganda are many.
But I think Ms. Leavitt is more like Chatty Cathy. Blonde hair thats 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
(24,510 posts)KKKaroline is better at her job than Id like her to be. I havent seen rapid fire lying like she dishes out very often. Its a gift, I guess.
jls4561
(2,517 posts)cross to burst into flames.
MontanaMama
(24,510 posts)I PRAY that her cross bursts into flames!
Demovictory9
(36,855 posts)
KatyaR
(3,600 posts)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
(28,938 posts)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
(44,299 posts)dflprincess
(28,938 posts)But she was smarter and more articulate than Karoline.
Sequoia
(12,666 posts)Got her for 8th Christmas along with a fantastic Etch-a-Sketch !
Scrivener7
(56,536 posts)I've always loved babies but I was not a doll girl. I never knew what I was supposed to do with them.
calimary
(87,167 posts)mcar
(44,970 posts)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
(71,874 posts)rubbersole
(10,168 posts)And beyond gross.
Scrivener7
(56,536 posts)lame54
(38,153 posts)Teacher of the Year
(200 posts)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
(5,594 posts)The voice actress was June ("Rocky the Flying Squirrel" 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
(9,212 posts)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
(140 posts)She creeped me out. I threw her down the basement steps,killed her. Of course it didnt help when my older brother mimicked her voice and whispered scary things at night. 😱 But yes, I see the resemblance.
Efilroft Sul
(4,099 posts)paleotn
(20,646 posts)Well played!
dchill
(42,660 posts)
mgardener
(2,112 posts)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
(777 posts)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
(16,322 posts)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.
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calimary
(87,167 posts)johnnyknj
(39 posts)Karolyin'
Lyin' Leavitt
Take it or Leavitt
.....
BurnDoubt
(864 posts)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
(4,463 posts)Playing softball while she can.
proud patriot
(102,160 posts)it truly fits
jls4561
(2,517 posts)Javanka was compared to Barbie and Ken. Ivanka has a high proportion of plastic in her, thats for sure. Jared always reminded me of a Ken doll left too close to the burner on the stove by someones little brother. Fatass45 likes guys who look like GI Joe with square heads. I guess he thinks theyre manly. But one of the most memorable things about Ken and GI Joe (as pointed out by someone elses little brother)
was that they had no visible genitalia.
We need Mary Trump to write an article about little Donnies childhood toys.
Kali999
(237 posts)markodochartaigh
(3,443 posts)Lyin' Karoline's boyfriend Whisky Pete with his drinking bro Beerbong Brett!
*supremacist court gavel sold separately
littlemissmartypants
(28,632 posts)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
(2,192 posts)valleyrogue
(2,238 posts)Last edited Thu Mar 27, 2025, 09:31 AM - Edit history (1)
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.