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‘Obama Waffles’ featuring racist, stereotyped images sold at Values Voter Summit.
Think Progress —
... — with “popping eyes and big, thick lips” — and another image of him wearing an Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Its creators, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, said it was meant as “political satire,” and sold the box for $10 from a booth at the Family Research Council event. CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, “My wife will love this!” A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand. ...
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Rising Hegemon —
... eyes and big, thick lips” — and another image of him wearing an Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Its creators, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, said it was meant as “political satire,” and sold the box for $10 from a booth at the Family Research Council event. CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, “My wife will love this!” A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand. And just to add that "EXTRA" touch of class, Lou 'fuckin' Dobbs poses with them. Congrats CNN.
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Ben Smith's Blog —
... All to the Obama Meet-up."
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Obama waffle sellers are banned from the Values Voter event for offensiveness, but not before Lou Dobbs (who probably didn't examine the box in detail) grabs one.
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Philip ...
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Balloon Juice —
... — with “popping eyes and big, thick lips” — and another image of him wearing an Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Its creators, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, said it was meant as “political satire,” and sold the box for $10 from a booth at the Family Research Council event. CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, “My wife will love this!” A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand. ...
Lou Dobbs photo/story scrubbed from Obama Waffles site
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Pam Spaulding
To bookend Jesse’s post... CNN's Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, "My wife will love this!"
Hmmm...why would the page on the Obama Waffles site linked above suddenly get pulled? After all, Lou Dobbs, a speaker at the Values Voter Summit, stopped by the vendor table to give a slamming endorsement of the product; it depicts Barack Obama as a Muslim bug-eyed Aunt Jemima. The photo, as you can see, shows an approving Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand. For ...
Racism Is a Value, Too
Comments from Left Field —
... — with “popping eyes and big, thick lips” — and another image of him wearing an Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Its creators, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, said it was meant as “political satire,” and sold the box for $10 from a booth at the Family Research Council event. CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, “My wife will love this!” A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand. UPDATE: American News Project interviewed the creators, who said they were just “having a little fun during the election season,” and denied that the box ...
