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

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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.