Christmas Back On! Build-A-Bear Surrenders, Pulls Videos
by PubliusYesterday, we brought you the disturbing story of Build-a-Bear’s on-line video series warning kids that the North Pole may completely disappear in just a few days, threatening Christmas. (Average December temperature in the North Pole is around minus 40 degrees Farenheit.) Needless to say, the story received a lot of attention and sparked several organized efforts to boycott the company’s products. By the end of what must have been a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day in Build-a-Bearville, CEO and Founder Maxine Clark published the following letter to the public:
We welcome the news that the insipid videos have been removed. We’ll have much more to say on this soon and will mostly just let Ms. Clark’s words speak for themselves. It seems Build-a-Bear still doesn’t quite get where and how they went astray here.
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They should be ashamed.
Agreed, Peaches.
Just another Left Wing stab into the brain of children, whether they want to admit it or not. I will spend ZERO dollars at their franchise for any of my grandkids.
You might want to check out the jewelery displays at TJ Maxx. the only case labeled with country of origin is Israel. All other jewelery is displayed without country of origin
Fisty Bear for Maxine. Congrats to all. Haven't had so much fun since Lowe's Holiday Tree debacle.
Merry Christmas
Still done with them .. If anyone can find out how much of thier crap comes from China I sure love to fax it back to maxine…
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FFS, they caught the blowback and yanked the videos, what more do you want? We didn't even have to boycott they just got flamed and yanked the videos. I think they probably are ashamed. At least they should be ashamed they entered into partisan issues when they're trying to do business for profit.
Maxine Clark founded build-a-bear for the primary reason of making a profit, period. It had nothing to do with kids other than working out how to monetize them. Someone thought the green angle was a good idea, they tried it, they got torched for it, and now they're dumping it.
Watching our Congresss kill Christmas and the USA on CSPAN …. Reid change the vote to tomorrow @ 7am est.. "We have planes to catch" – A$$WIPE !!
Can't sneak it in at night .. try early in the morning
http://cspan.org/Watch/C-SPAN2.aspx
I'm waiting onthe Copenhagen Stuffed Earth .. you can get your kids to go up there and buy Eddy the Earth – (I'm puking as I speak)
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It seems pressure works.
Now if only our Congress would listen to the people too…. naaaaa, why would they do that?
They will probably show the video in school, along with the Fistgate videos!!! FOR SHAME!!!
I think Maxine is in need of a good fisting. Perhaps from Kevin Jennings. Naw ! She is probably too old. Hope her kids are safely locked away from this pervert's reading material.
I think that Obama loves HopenChangen. He and his lovely wife went there for the Olympics and now for global warming. That must be the only place he doesn't have a half brother. When they were talking about experience in foreign relations he thought they were talking about his family.
Don't care. All she is trying to do is make amends so people will buy the stupid product. She still has the intentions. I will no longer buy their build a crap bears or have my daughter on their website. Period.
that letter smells like they're more sorry they got hammered for it, than actually thinking that bit of propaganda was a mistake.
they should come out with a new Maxine-the-Lefty Build-A-Bear, that has its head up its a$$.
The bear people still need our money … congress already has it.
You think Maxine is DONE being green!!??Don't kid yourself! She knows it's not easy being green . . . . . she'll just start attaching the global warming message info onto each bear on a little satin cloth tab. She's GREEN, no if, ands, or butts about it.
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Refuse to use your money to support these a$$holes….
My daughter's buid-a-bear states "Product of China" – Hand stuffed in the USA". Yeah, stuffed in the USA by my daughter. I think that breaks child labor laws!
Child molesters always apologize and never change.
It's nice to know that the threat of withholding our spending in stores that go against our beliefs seems to work for now. Too bad this doesn't work with MSNBC and the rest of the kook media. I've blocked them all from my dish, but they still don't seem to get the message. Would be even better if I could figure out a way to implement this model for the US Gov't.
My daughter already bought one buildabear this year and wanted to buy at least 2 more. I am going to have to say no at this point. I wont support a business that attempts to scare children through propaganda of any kind.
I am very disappointed.
Good call – I wonder if she has seen the links for FistGate – maybe I'll send them to her so she cna think of a Kenin Jennigs doll… I mean he is our Safe Scool Czar … she must be on his side …
Now that we've done a little wake-up activity with Build a Bear, it's time to hit all the other places that are hotbeds of environmental/political hypocrisy…like the Bronx Zoo and all the other places that push on children the notion that human beings are destroying the planet and the animals….I've decided to withhold my hard earned money from all these "green" gonads because money speaks loudest of all to them after all…that's what AGW is all about–follow the money trail….
They didn't "pull" the videos until they finished their normal run so I can't give them credit for that. Keep flaming them. It's obvious from the letter that they see nothing wrong with propagandizing our children using one of the most respected authority figures (Santa) to spread their lies!
Yes, but that is not the true estent of the brainwashing. On the buildabearvill.com ebsite, where these videos were playing, BAB has a recycling center and they really push the green agenda in the newspaper and "magazine" on the virtual site where the kiddies play with their furry friends onlne. ALL of the green nonsense on BAB has to be pulled, etc.
Oh, they did not post that propaganda-looney-toon at the behest of parents! Gimme a break. They have no business being in the social engineering business; what happened to actual Christmas stories anyway? We parents endure a constant barrage of leftist values, especially earth worship, being foisted onto our kids without our consent, and we're tired of it. Raising children is difficult enough without having to de-program the State's agenda on a daily basis! Kids get a steady diet of socialist lies and moral relativism from school, pop culture, and every d@mn television show that's on the air! Did Mr. Build-a-Commie really think that kids and parents wanted more brainwashing when shopping for toys? Yeah, that's pretty much what liberals think. They believe they are the saviors of the universe, and their arrogance and zealotry is without peer.
My wife is not getting a bear this year. At least not from these morons. Apologize all you want Maxine, your brain cell isn't going to change its views. I hope you go bankrupt. That would be a good lesson to all the rest of your ilk. Not that they are in the least capable of learning anything at all. Being a leftist means never having to say "I am intelligent".
She builds stuffed animals… next there there will be a voicebox option that say's "Mmm Mmm Mmm…"
Good idea! Maybe that will LET HER KNOW why people were raising such a stink about her video…assuming that she cares, that is!
I think I'll start a company called Build-A-Middle Finger and personally send the first prototype to Maxine…(it'll be green, of course….as in colored green).
Check it for lead based products
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Didn't ANYONE actually READ what the CEO of BuildABear said?
They didn't "PULL" the ad. They said that it had completed its run (as well as accomplished their goal of propagandize the children who used their web site) so they were done with it for this year.
They didn't do anything to reassure the children that this was just a story and not propaganda pushing AlGore's Global Warming fantasies. They didn't admit that their own company is a major generator of CO2 which is now designated as a "greenhouse gas".
All the CEO did was try to cut down on the loss of revenue her scheme will ultimately cause her company.
Sp anyone who thinks that they PULLED their ads is kidding themselves. They did no such thing and she said exactly that in her letter.
Then to add further insult she ended her letter by saying she uses customer's suggestions when designing their sales campaigns. Does ANYONE actually believe that customers had suggested that developing these scare tactics toward little children as a way of expanding their sales?
Only in Obamaland could that kind of statement be believed.
Way to go! Can you send a few versions to Dodd and Lieberman also? From a Connecticut Yank in Colorado.
I think their Mao bear is really cute, buy one before Christmas and you get a disposable Tiananmen Square Victim for free!
The left really doesnt understand why indoctrination is such a bad thing, after all it made them who the were told they were supposed to be.
I was co-hosting a Build-A-Bear Birthday party in January. . .no longer.
The party was cancelled yesterday and moved to another venue. . .I will not step foot in
a store that oversteps itself in an attempt indoctrinate with my children. The store sells toys –
but they got caught pretending it was either; a political movement, elected office holder,
and/or a not-for profit philanthropy – NOT!
The store, at which I had made arrangements and cancelled, was very upset with me. . .I explained
why and but was told it was not their fault — rather their corporate. So Sorry — cancelled!
I next called the company customer service line and was on hold 15 minutes. A very fiustered,
yet polite young woman took down my message, for the CEO, of the reasons of my in-store
party cancellation. . . .ENOUGH is ENOUGH — Ms Clark!
I called Build-A-Bear today and told them what I thought about their webisodes with a climate change agenda. I won't spend a dime there and I'll be sure to tell all my friends the same.
Exactly-it was a non-apology.
Here is my response to Ms Clark:
I have been to Build-a-Bear several times with my 4 year-old daughter to create fun and lovable dolls. However, after viewing the propaganda filled Santa Climate Change video, I will no longer be taking my daughter to your establishment. I have reached my limit on how many kid-focused business use their products to indoctrinate young children. Teaching children about being responsible and respectful of their environment is a perfectly good message. Teaching as fact, that humans are the cause of global climate change and that we will be the cause of the end of “cute and cuddly” animals is not only offensive, it is irresponsible. As a scientist, I try to teach my children using actual factual evidence, not political conjecture. Hopefully others will feel as I do and you will feel it in your “wallet” and consider more carefully the next time you decide to use children to push your political agendas.
Publius, did I say I love Federal #44?. Ok. I admit it.
Not only did they take down the videos, but I can no longer build the Mao, Stalin or Mussolini bears. I can't imagine how my little Obamites are going to make it through the WinterHolidayFest celebration without a symbol of fatherland love and paternalistic presence.
They still have the Peace & Hugs bear, but he's a wimp and no substitute for the love only a powerful leader can provide.
Hilter started them young too….mmmmm…..mmmmm…..mmmmm
Heck, I'll send a huge one to Al Gore himself…but yeah, Dodd for sure deserves to get one!
Inglorious Bearstards!!!
Make no mistake, these people are not ashamed. They did what they did knowing there could be a backlash.
They made a calculated risk and still got their message out if just for a while.
People like this have no shame. Just an agenda.
I did that too….then I realized they still get my money eventually if I have the programming package they're on. I dropped down to the Family Package on Dish Network so CNN and MSNBC don't even get any of my money. The Dish Network Family Package has Fox News and DIY too…..all I really want (Even though NBC owns DIY Network, which still kinda stinks.
Too late Maxine…
Let's hope BH&G takes back their commendation. AndThe commendation as a good business to work for. No one should get any recommendations when their Chief officer pulls a stunt like this. I feel I am green, cleaned up beaches
when my children were todllers; taught then to turn off the water, don't waste, turn off the lights, etc, etc. I pick
out the alum cans my husband throws in the trash, you name it I've done it. So please don't put all of us 'greeners' in the same basket. We need to take the bus or train instead of 1 man to a car & car trips should be saved to do several errands. We do need to save our Earth and take care of it but not the 'al gore'way or these crazy animal activists.
The Progressive liberals will stoop to any level to indoctrinate our youngest citizens, as well as those who are not yet citizens but likely will be next year. Goebbels was right.
How bout Build-O-Bama
Stuffing optional, for best results, inflate with hot air.
That's all very good to hear. Next time maybe they'll just sell friggin' toys and stop trying to proselytize left-wing horsecrap to children, and then nobody will have any reason to get upset at them.
Another "Ooops I Pooped". Gotta love it!
Only you sick freaks could tie fisting to toys…two of your favorite sicknesses? Seek help pedos.
All the rest is Chinese. Probably.
"It seems pressure works." — We're tea-baggers and we attack toys!!! We're important and damn it…we're doing stuff man! YAY! We're being rewarded with at least 10 fisting comments for our ability to attack toys. YAY!
Didn't you hear? The "science" is settled… Except that polar bear populations are at an all time high… But never mind the real data…
I've warned my granddaughter about the poor bears they bludgeon for the Build-A-Bear fur. So sad; those poor things belong on the endangered species list.
well, well, well.. one little victory. let's not gloat, but stay vigilant and keep the march moving!
not only do i boycott certain retailers, tv programs and so forth because i disagree with how they choose to use profits earned (ben and jerry's anyone?) – but i will often contact the sponsors of these tv programs and such to let them know that i'll not buy their product, and tell them the reason why. does it make any difference? who knows – but i do it with a clean conscience.
Now that's funny! Ho ho, ho.
Too late. I already wrote them off my list of approved businesses to patronize.
Not to hijack this thread, but have you joined DUMP DODD yet? You can find it on line and I heartily suggest you join.
Me too, I got an email from them telling me they pulled the stuff off the site. I discussed it with my 9 year old, who loves their bears, and she said "they are over-priced anyway, let's not go there any more, there are other bears". Now that is the future of America. I am proud of her.
I agree with BG, they seem to not "get" why people are upset.
The fact they really don't acknowledge that makes me want to make sure not to support this company in anyway again.
I am done with them
Stockholders that are infuriated with this episode and this company should in re-invest in Gold. I dont see a good profit margin any longer.
How disingenuous of a response. They didn't mean to politicize it. RIGHT !!!!!!
What they are really saying is , "dang it you caught us."
Standard liberal claptrap as practiced many times by Mr & Mrs (ahem) Clinton.
"We're sorry if you were offended."
No apology, no remorse, no change in loony lefty thinking. They are so convinced of their own moral rectitude it is inconceivable to them that they might be wrong.
A caller on tonight's Lars Larson show said that she was canceling her subscriptions to liberal media publications with a note that she couldn't afford them as a result of tax increases the publications supported.
Good move. Think I'll try it. Maybe BAB hasn't figured out that paying for Cap and Tax and Copenhagen isn't going to help her customers pay for toys.
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They should be ashamed themselves is right.. What were they thinking when those videos went up on their website, I guess they want to dash the imagination of young children and say the North Pole will melt. I thought this company had more sense than this, they should just stick to sellng cute and cuddly stuffed animals to children and stay out of the Global Warming Controversy. I will not purchase anything from this idiotic company again.
"It seems Build-a-Bear still doesn’t quite get where and how they went astray here."
Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
No, they don't quite get it yet. Surrender will occur in bankruptcy court.
Build a bear, have a Merry Christmas and a final new year!
For those that don't know… this story was broke when a listener of the Glenn Beck radio show called in to report what she saw her daughter watching on the buildabear site.
Way to go watch dogs!!!
Build a Bear makes toys, why on earth should they have anything to with environmental causes.
Like hell they were not politicizing the issue, that letter only convinces me that the CEO of BAB thinks we(their customers) are all idiots.
I have decided to help Build-a Bear in their global crusade. Every time I am at the mall, I am gonna leave my cup of ice left over from my drink at their counter. I expect them to ship the ice to the North Pole.
Who’s with me?
You're opinion on this subject is meaningless to me…Merry Christmas!
@mrm….and UCONN Blue OMG!!! Thanks for the BELLY LAUGH…after those videos of "entertainment and engagement" I sure needed it!!! @Jellybean….ABSOLUTELY!!!
Ms Clark is obviously not effected enough by this "uplifting economy", but felt she needed to P.O. at least half of her ex-customers!! Sounds like there will be an opening for a small business sect that needs to have a place where kids can BE kids! And the part about "….big teeth and eat (penguin) for breakfast" was for …what? So guess instead of a polar bear to take home the kids get a bloody,shredded remnant of a bear??? ROFLMAO!!! We gotta hit them in the wallet it's the ONLY GREEN they care about!!! And I agree with ALL those who said we need to take our kids childhoods back from these liars, thieves and morons!! Hear that A SNORE?? BACK AWAY QUICKLY from the child!!!!
OMG!! PLEEEEAASSEEE don't give the morons any ideas, lmao!! I thought my head would explode when I heard that video! These arrogant ba*(&rds are JUST stupid enough to put your idea into motion! (Just teas'in) I HOPE!
YUP!!! Her true color (gr$$n) has already been outed!!! I'm gonna put this out to everyone I know! And I hope next Christmas some nice SANE person has started a NEW "Build a something" that helps the economy! Is she really try'in to put it out there that the materials to make her "bears" are climate friendly….hypocrites!!! ALL of them!!
SCARING Children into thinking that the North Pole is MELTING so badly that it MAY be ALL GONE THIS CHRISTMAS? And the CEO of their Company, and 99.99% of the Obama Press, along with 99.9% of the manipulated young guilt Voters just don't get it!.
How about they EDIT their "Scare Christians Children" into a lets Scare all other Religions like (random order) MUSLIMS or HINDU or Buddah?
We can't, in some parts of this Country, say the word GOD in Schools? We cant put out the manger scene in our towns? We can't have tea partys that are completely LEGAL? And yet these MICE just keep following the Piep Piper (i.e. Al Gore and others) all the while making fun of others who don't believe the MANIPULATED DATA (as we found out 3 weeks ago.
This Company, the people behind the "lets Scare Christian Children" Video, should be NAMED – SHAMED – TONGUE LASHED IN FLAMES (i.e. everyone should call his officer and voice any/all of their sincere compalints).
Great story!
Jeffrey Schrembs
Maybe Build-a-Bear will be deemed "too big to fail"…. Such a proven shill for the propaganda…
Never again. I like Naan's idea. maybe i'll try it next time we're at the mall.
Too bad they didn't do a video about how Congress will steal their future Christmases by taxing mommy and daddy to death. "Sweetie, I can't buy you that bear. I have to pay for the healthcare in Nebraska."
You're absolutely right! It's Christmas Eve! No more debating…Merry Christmas!!!
In the current political environment, businesses get ONE shot at not politicizing their product – it's that simple. And with our socialist government under control of the left, those businesses who lean left will pay the price. My daughter will NEVER AGAIN walk into a Build-a-Bear.
What, no lord Monckton bear? I thought not.
They can't convince us of Global Warming (well, us who actually think for ourselves), so now they are going after our kids.. unbelievable… oh well, hopefully this will bankrupt them. They certainly won't get anymore of my families money!
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Those polar bear numbers have not yet been adjusted using tree ring data.
Another child rearing buisiness caught being part of your childrens indoctrination. Nothing happens in corp. that is not well thought out. Only scum attacks children. With them the assault starts in the womb.
A PROPHETIC 1944 SPEECH
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968), and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President, was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
A PROPHETIC 1944 SPEECH
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968), and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President, was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__xQRsYhanvI/SFpXXwN5jRI...
Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
A PROPHETIC 1944 SPEECH
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968), and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President, was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__xQRsYhanvI/SFpXXwN5jRI...
Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of “liberalism,” they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” He went on to say: “I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform.”
IT'S a mazing what people will do to make a buck. Bernie Madoff had the same out look at making money. Con the people and hide the dough. I'm not sure once the arrest warrants are issued there will be enough jail space to house all the global alarmist. Hitler had idea let's gas them.
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with CO2
Fox News reported Clark donated $50,000 to Obama, and is on the board of JC Penney. Perhaps Miz Clark will have a first hand look at this Hopey-Changy thang.
There are stuffed animal alternatives like this store in San Diego: http://www.bearsbuddiesandtoyssantee.com/. I've also seen where you can rent a machine & supplies for parties, etc. No more BaB for us.
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