Thursday, June 12, 2008

Sock Monkey Update

[When Sock Monkeys Attack] The Park City David Lawson says he's not, repeat, not the same person marketing the allegedly racist sock monkeys. Apparently, the blogosphere (ulp, that word again) has come down hard on the poor guy. What with being a Mitt Romney supporter and a real-estate agent, he's had enough trouble this year already, so I hope the blogosphere goes easy on him.

Park Record reporter Patrick Parkinson tells me he's requested an interview with the real-estate agent, and it looks like the story might end up in the paper's Saturday edition.

A whois registry search for the domain TheSockObama.com returns the name of a Canada-based custom plush toys manufacturer:

domain: thesockobama.com
owner-name: Binkley Custom Products
owner-address: 163 Beach Rd.
owner-address: L8L4A4
owner-address: Hamilton
owner-address: Ontario
owner-address: Canada
admin-c: RB306-GANDI
tech-c: RB306-GANDI
bill-c: RB306-GANDI
nserver: ns1.binkley-toys.com 209.61.241.75
nserver: ns2.binkley-toys.com 209.61.241.76
reg_created: 2008-04-16 15:40:19
expires: 2009-04-16 15:40:19
created: 2008-04-16 17:36:03
changed: 2008-04-16 17:36:03
person: Robert Bishop
nic-hdl: RB306-GANDI
address: Binkley Custom Products
address: 163 Beach Rd.
address: L8L4A4
address: Hamilton
address: Ontario
address: Canada
phone: +00.19053128962
fax: +00.19055474245
e-mail: 05c43f8e6866b140a554983f9c2a5a23-rb306@contact.gandi.net
lastupdated: 2006-09-19 17:11:13

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 12, 2008 at 4:16 PM

    Damned Canuks. Can't stand them trout eatin' bastards.

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  2. AnonymousJune 13, 2008 at 11:09 AM

    hmmm..if they're canadian..I'm gonna have to say...naaah on the racist part. I've seen blowing for columbine! The canadians are probably laughingly just marketing them because they know,

    1. they will sell well among the repub racists.

    2. they will sell to kids in places like Utah who don't understand the significance.(and neither do their parents)

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  3. SheaJune 13, 2008 at 6:47 PM

    It's hard to believe this company wasn't aware of the history of this doll -- the sock monkey. I suppose this company could pretend that the production of someone else's design is just business, but it seems unlikely that they weren't aware of its racist nature.

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  4. AnonymousJune 15, 2008 at 9:54 AM

    http://www.customplushtoys.com/sock.shtml

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