All I can say is they better leave Tony the Tiger alone !!!

If not, we could be talking boycott time.

Here's one of the rare moments...

I'm with you! This is the dumbest thing ever. You know what you say to your kid that wants the sugar cereal? "No." Suck it up, be the parent, and say "No."

I am going to be honest here. I don't think getting rid of the cartoon character's is necessarily a good idea; however, we do have a major problem with diabetes in this country. I figure, if they can legislate tobacco and alcohol, why not sugar too.

"[B]ecause you can’t even take your child to the grocery store because
they’re clamoring for the products with characters on them. When are we
going to see them disappear?” Storm asked correspondent Nancy Cordes."

You mean like parental responsibility, Hannah?

Hannah, Hannah.....cute as a button, and almost as smart.

“[B]ecause you can’t even take your child to the grocery store because
they’re clamoring for the products with characters on them. When are we
going to see them disappear?”

What's wrong with parents just telling their kid no? My 5-year old clamors for every product in the store with a cartoon or movie character on it and I just say...No. Is it really that hard? Do we really need legislation, lawsuits, and bureucracy to take over for this very simple two letter word?

Nanny state indeed.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I sure hope that all ads that were originally for Froot Loops, will be replaced with ads for Al Gore's movies and rock concert events during these children's programs. 

"Honey, ah sugar sugar"  'Sugar Sugar'

How about QUEERIOS? Pour them in the bowl and they eat each other.

Lysdexics Untie!

This is just sad.

The liberals can't say no to their kids, because the kid will throw a tantrum, which can be quickly rectified with a spanking, or slowly rectified with "timeouts", both of which will be hate crimes before the end of the decade.

I watched an obviously liberal parent (bumper sticker gave her away) allow her 5 year old kid to throw a tantrum in the aisle without doing a damn thing about it.

I walked up to her and said, "You need to discipline your child, right now. You're in a public place and your kid is throwing things at you." She stared at me for a few seconds, then went back to shopping as if nothing was happening. Once more...I spoke, "Lady, if you let him get away with that, what's to stop him from doing that to my kid in school?" Another blank stare.

I knew it was time for me to give up and walk away before I did something she could sue me for.

The Center For Science in the Public Interest (or whatever they're called) has WAY too much say in a democratic society...it's like one guy and his minions.  "Food Police" is right.  "Food Nazis" is even more apt.  Go away, killjoys. 

What a crock..taking away a few colorful and cute mascots from advertisers is going to somehow change the way kids eat.  If I'm not mistaken, these cereals have been on the market for 50 years WITH mascots.  Childhood obesity is a more recent problem.  The two are not related then really.  

Kellogg's: Please, why do you cave to these idiots???

Cereal is one of the greatest inventions in the world. 

Anyone who says they support the troops but not the mission is a liar. 

These people would've had hystronics if they had seen what my parents did when I was four. They would set up the night before a covered bowl of cereal, a glass of milk in the fridge and the tv to whatever channel had cartoons on it. Also, if I was good I got to choose some candy from a store that sold it in bulk, with a limit on price. They did this for several years. When I was seven I was shopping like mad on those Fridays "Let's see, I can get a 1/8 of a pound of Jelly Bellies or 1/4 a pound of Now and Laters. Decisions, decisions."

In return I had to let my parents sleep until they got up, unless there was an emergency, and stay quiet until then.

Mother nature is a bitch - Ninth Corollary of Murphy's Law

I wonder if the PC food police will go after a good socialist company who donates tons of money to socialist causes like Ben & Jerry's ice cream who co-incidently have the highest percentage of artery clogging milkfat in their product with bright colorful hippie induced packaging. What will the libs say if they can't get their "Cherry Garcia" ice cream? Needless to say B&J will most likely be off limits with the food nazi's.

I bet if Toucan Sam and Snap, Crackle and Pop were for abortion or against the war there wouldn't be a word being said!

I have some ideas for new lawsuits.

First off I want to sue the Today Show because Al Roker is a bad influence during the breakfast hour. He rotundness makes me eat too much at the breakfast table.  Also it sets a bad example for millions of children.

Next I want to sue CBS News and the Morning Show. Hannah Storm influence has given my wife an eating disorder. Also my wife spends too much on makeup trying to look like Hannah. Those are quantifiable monetary damages I've suffered.

 What’s worse, she uses words like "conflict resolution", "consensus" and "good idea". She got that from Hannah too!!! It is ruining my marriage.

Can anyone at NB recommend a crusading attorney?

I am sure these are the same people who want the schools to teach their kids how to properly have sex and are OK with promiscusou teens "as long as they use a condom or birth control".

Of course, if they have an "accident" they'll just wisk them off to Planned Parenthood for a quick abortion, without telling mom & dad of course.

"...because you can't even take your child to the grocery store because they're clamoring for the products with characters on them."

Maybe because some parents who never should have been allowed to breed can't say "no" to their kids????

There will be hell to pay if these namby-pamby neo-fascists even so much as to attempt to retire the Trix Rabbit.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. George Orwell

Hannah Storm, Albert Belle's on the phone for you ...

I have laughed my butt off reading all these comments.  Can't say as I can top any of them, as yunz have covered every thing I was going to say.  Except, Storm, keep your boney fingers off my CoCo Krispies or I might have to snap, crackle, pop your stupid liberal @$$!!!

Tell your kids "NO!" and feel free to list ALL the "I know better than you and everyone else" reasons as to why while dragging them through the store, just like the rest of us "unwashed" parents do ... Or just leave your kids in daycare while you shop.

I suppose all the cartoon characters can be replaced on the boxes by liberal heroes (sort of like jocks on the Wheaties boxes) ... You know: Che Guevara, Castro, Hugo Chavez, Jabba the Rosie, Sean Penn ...

I IMPLORE all to go to the Center for Consumer Freedom's website and take some action against these commie lib fascists who run the corporate media trying to make this country into a socialist Utopia!

www.consumerfreedom....

I think it's time we voice our dislike of these companies bowing to this Nazi group.

Conservatives, it's time you flood these companies with faxes and letters. I've already faxed them (of course, they'll see my fax # is from outside the US and maybe not care).

Come on... you got the illegal immigration amnesty act destroyed, it's time to teach these LibaNazis a lesson.... show them they can't destroy our culture.... and... I LOVE Fruit Loops!!!! We need to stop these people before we are living in a Stalinist version of Nazi Germany :(:(:(-shudder-):):):

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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." ~ Thomas Paine

This blows. It's cereal, not cigarettes, for crying out loud!

At least they can't kill this beloved cereal character.

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"Was it a millionaire who said 'Imagine no possessions?'" - Elvis Costello