Governor Girlie Man


A Washington lobbyist, who's tangled with Schwarzenegger before, is at it again — selling a bobblehead doll of the Governator in a pretty pink dress.

You can buy your own (for only $19.95!), listen to sound samples from what is hopefully the world's only female Schwarzenegger impersonator, and see a truly unsettling animation of the doll dancing at governorgirlieman.com.



The purveyor spent a fair amount of his own money defending himself against the last lawsuit Arnold filed against him (that time, it was for selling a bobblehead with a gun, but no sexy dress). Consequently, he's not above a little bit of vengeful Governor-baiting (emphasis mine):

Governator doll wears pink well
(Chicago Tribune) Schwarzenegger sued Edgell last year for selling a bobblehead of which the film star didn't approve -- depicting him in a suit holding an AK-47. Now Edgell's Governorgirlieman.com Web site is hawking another doll of the Governator with the assault rifle, but this time he's clad in a pink dress. Also available: a chew toy that looks like Arnold, and condoms bearing his caricature.

"This being America, don't get mad, get even," says Edgell, 43, a Democrat who estimates he spent $20,000 defending himself against the suit, filed last year by lawyers for Schwarzenegger's film production company. They cited a need to protect their client's likeness and publicity; Edgell argued that the Republican California governor is a public official subject to satire. Edgell donates a portion of proceeds from sales to a cancer charity.

The suit was dropped in a settlement that discontinued sale of the gun-toting doll. With his new "Governor Girlie Man's Got a Gun Again" bobblehead, Edgell seems to be goading Ahnuld to sue again. "He won't because he's a sissy," Edgell claims. "He tried and failed and won't try again."


I'm not nuts about the likeness -- if you'd told me it was Warren Beatty I might have believed it -- but that's not going to stop me from buying one.

(There is no financial or sponsor relationship between governorgirlieman.com and marchingorders.org)

Posted: Tue - May 10, 2005 at 11:22 AM   | Category:     |   |   | |



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