Exhibitors at a Family Research Council meeting are under fire over an anti-Obama parody: Obama Waffles (follow the link to see the image; it's copyrighted and I can't use it here). It was meant to make fun of Obama's voting record, but of course the whole thing brings to mind Aunt Jemima. The FRC made the exhibitors pull the sales booth after complaints. A blogger for World, the conservative Christian newsmagazine, calls the parody "racist." At the very least it's racially insensitive.
Jeez, how stupid are these so-called parodists? And why did it take a reporter asking questions about it to get FRC officials to order the obnoxious product pulled from the Values Voters Summit, where the parodists had been doing a brisk business selling boxes of the Obama Waffles mix?
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Why did it take a reporter asking about it for them to take it down? You chalk it up to stupidity. Maybe there is simpler answer: they are racist and do not even realize it. When there are several possible explanations of something, go with the simplest one unless there is a compelling reason no to.
Why did it take a reporter asking about it for them to take it down? You chalk it up to stupidity. Maybe there is simpler answer: they are racist and do not even realize it. When there are several possible explanations of something, go with the simplest one unless there is a compelling reason not to.
TR: It's being a jerk, but being a lone jerk on the Internet isn't quite the same as a major conservative organization supporting jerks.
Read the article, Thomas R. It was a small exhibition manned by two chaps at a convention sponsored by the Family Research Council. The Council itself did not produce the lampoon. The two fellows in question offered a mild lampoon of a working politician. They did not utter false and defamitory remarks against a sizable confessional group.
TR: I'm sure I can find one if you're really that desperate for one. It's not like it's hard.
The task of definition has been onerous enough to defeat you and 'Daniel' in succession.
The previous post was mine.
Fire insurance is great. When you know you aren't going to be punished for your actions, you can do pretty much anything. Lie...cheat...destroy someone's character...no problem as long as it is for the greater good of electing "Godly" Republicans.
To put someone's visage on a box of waffle mix is to 'lie...cheat...destroy [their] character..."?
"The task of definition has been onerous enough to defeat you and 'Daniel' in succession."
TR: I don't know what you mean here. I found it easy to find caricatures of Obama that haven't caused controversy. Just look through any editorial cartoon site. If that's too hard I'll give you a link.
http://www.comics.com/editoons/
Just look through and I'm sure you'll find one.
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