Wearing white chef's aprons, Whitlock and DeMoss were doing a brisk business at noon Saturday selling the waffle mix to people crowded around their booth. Two pyramids of waffle mix boxes stood several feet high on the booth's table.
"It's the ultimate political souvenir," DeMoss told a customer.
Asked if he considered the pictures of Obama on the box to be racial stereotypes, Whitlock said: "We had some people mention that to us, but you think of Newman's Own or Emeril's - there are tons and tons of personality-branded food products on the market. So we've taken that model and, using political satire, have highlighted his policies, his position changes."
Unfortunately, I've yet to see any summary of the "highlights" of Obama's position changes. Here's the box:
And Pam's House Blend has a pic of the top:
Jim Burroway has the must-read summary on this one:
The FRC claims they didn’t know that the packaging was offensive. It’s hard to imagine what world they live in where these images don’t conjure ugly racial stereotypes from the earliest part of the 20th century. The horribly racist images run rampant throughout the packaging, proving this FRC-sanctioned vendor to be an equal-opportunity offender.
I don't see that I have to add anything to this: we know that these people are about the lowest scum on the face of the earth, a bunch of cheap small-town politicians hiding behind Bibles. To advance the argument that they didn't realize it was offensive says volumes.
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