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 In case you didn’t catch this already.

Mattel Apologizes to China over Recalls

LOS ANGELES - Mattel Inc. tried to save face Friday with Chinese officials, taking the blame for the recent recalls of millions of Chinese-made toys as it strives to mend a strained relationship with the nation that makes most of its toys and fattens its profit.

The world’s largest toy maker sent a top executive to personally apologize to China’s product safety chief, Li Changjang, as reporters and company lawyers looked on.

“Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to you, the Chinese people, and all of our customers who received the toys,”Thomas A. Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice president for worldwide operations, told Li.

When I first read this the family and I were eating at Chick Fil-a. My wife is starting to dread these little ‘discoveries’ of mine when we are together. Not only did she receive a fifteen minute history lesson on the historic arrogance of the Chinese and how they honestly believe that the universe revolves around them, but also a recap about how then Sec. of State Colin Powell had to apologize profusely and more than once because some hot shot fighter pilot was stupid enough to accidently ram one of our slow flying surveillance planes a few years back and paid for it with his life.  The groveling at the time in an attempt to free our captured crew was gutwrenching but at least had a worthwhile objective. This pathetic lap dog effort played out on the world scene was downright embarrassing.

I also would like to take this opportunity to apologize to the Chinese for them poisoning thousands of our dogs and cats, putting anti-freeze in toothpaste, selling us shoddy goods and covering millions of our children’s toys in lead paint.  I’m sorry.

Boycott China? How about boycotting Mattel?