Tigger Smacks Kid at Disney World

[Wednesdays]

Just breaking on CBS' Morning Show.

The "Tigger" mascot at Disney World is shown on video playfully hitting a kid at Disney World.

See, this is really, really important news, folks. :eyes:

[Deja Q]

1. Guess who managed to pass the personality profiling test?

:crazy:

[Joe Bacon]

2. They don't call it SEE B.S. for nothing!

Yeah, real important news. Was the Brittney story next?

[mntleo2]

7. LOL! Good One! n/t

[Junkdrawer]

3. I saw the video online and it looked like a mountain-out-of-a-molehill...

lawsuit setup to me.

How did CBS play it?

[LostinVA]

4. Of course ir is -- Disney gets sued constantly

many times it's legit, but many times it's just something like this -- a stupid setup for a nice payout.

[Wednesdays]

5. Like a mountain.

My reaction, too. 3,000 plus dead soldiers in Iraq and this is the garbage spoon-fed to the American public.

[bdamomma]

8. their motto is keep the public dumb and stupid

US media just sucks.

[Junkdrawer]

9. Who ever the father is, he has a great press agent.

You read the print and expect to see a little boy being punched, then you look at the video and you say "Jesus, he hardly touched the kid." And the kid was taller than Tigger.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. It looked to me like Tigger was trying to put his arm around the kid...

...and misjudged. :shrug:

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. You know how hard it is to see anything out of those costumes

not to mention they're hot has hell to wear?

[Scurrilous]

11. Link w/ video:

http://www.local6.com/firstnews/10685989/detail.html

[seaglass]

12. Yep. The dad said it ruined their whole vacation and he was angry

that Disney apologized but Tigger didn't.

Other than to sue, there is no reason for this family to want this on TV, it makes them look like assholes.

[DrDan]

13. I think you hit it right on the head

I live in Central Florida - have for 22 years. I have yet to visit Disney. I have no desire to.

But this kid was going beyond simply putting his arm around "Tigger". The character claims the kid was grabbing his costume and he could not breathe. I believe that in watching the video.

Why would he simply smack the kid - that does not make any sense.

[seaglass]

15. I was suspicious about what the kid was doing with his arm

around the back of Tigger - it really doesn't make sense that Tigger would smack the kid for no reason. It looks like at first Tigger is trying to hold the kid's arm - so the choking thing sounds right to me. Plus the dad asks the kid "didn't he hit you hard?" and the kid answers "yeah, I can still feel it even with the padding on his hand" - yeah, right.

[booksenkatz]

16. Unzipping the costume.

It's so obvious that the character's "hitting" was a mere reflex to whatever the kid was doing behind his back. It looks like unzipping, in my opinion. The character should countersue.

[ChazII]

20. Tigger

should certainly sue.

[mntleo2]

14. Has Anyone Read About The Spocko/Disney Thing?

Here is the link about it on Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/1/7/213952/1006
Mike Stark also wrote about it on Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-stark/abcdisney-picks-a-fight-_b_37973.html

Basically Spocko posted some right-wing hate talk on his website along with a list of the sponsors that these wingnuts had. He also wrote to the sponsors along with sending them samples of the hate speech and asked them if they were aware of what they were supporting. Disney was one of the supporters and so they threatened Spocko's ISP with a lawsuit unless they took this guy's site down. The ISP complied.

The point is that perhaps Disney is showing things like this in order to cover their butts for the REAL concerns bloggers are rasing with Disney's strong arm tactics. This way Disney can make ALL lawsuits look "trivial" in hopes that you and I might not notice when someone points out some stuff that WOULD damage their image.

Mike Stark is going to be on Sam Seder this morning talking about it.

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle

[alcibiades_mystery]

17. If something even mildly out of the ordinary appears on videotape

It will be on all the US morning shows.

That's axiomatic.

[BadgerKid]

18. Why Tigger won't be fired

'cause he's the only one.
:evilgrin:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

19. "Bother", said Pooh, and let loose the dogs of war

Tigger the terrorist. Whooda thunkit?

(with apologies to William Shakespeare, or whoever wrote his material)

[Bamboo]

21. Paul Mooney needs new material.

My brother got hit by a character at Disney years ago which I thought was part of the entertainment.I was at Disney World today and a proud Father was taking pictures of his little daughter pulling up a flowerbed.Your cable bill feeds the beast so just admit you like the Spice Girls.Here is some real Disney news as proof of concept.
http://www.boston.com/sports/schools/football/articles/2007/01/07/if_they_want_to_play_they_have_to_pay/

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