The Values Of A Good Breakfast

By Kleinheider Posted on September 16, 2008 at 7:38 am

The producer of Steve Gill’s radio program can’t believe that a product featuring this cartoon visage of Barack Obama on a box of waffles would be controversial:

“We are very surprised by the charges of racism for a product based simply on political satire,” said Noelle Federico of Nashville-based Gill Media Inc., which represents Obama Waffle creators Bob DeMoss and Mark Whitlock.

“It is quite unbelievable that people would attack a harmless box of waffles with such vehemence,” Ms. Federico said. “We are not making a statement about anything with this product, we are simply in the business of political satire.”

Mr. DeMoss and Mr. Whitlock were selling boxes of the waffle mix, which featured a caricature of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., for $10 each at this weekend’s Voter Values Summit in Washington, D.C., according to The Associated Press. The summit’s organizers cut off sales of the waffle mix Saturday, the AP said.

Wade Munday, a spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party, called the novelty item “a classless advertisement.” He said they did not show respect for Sen. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee.

“Those aren’t the values I grew up with,” Mr. Munday said.

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Pouring Syrup On Racism Don’t Make It Pancakes

By Kleinheider Posted on September 15, 2008 at 7:51 am

Two Franklin men put the kibosh on at the Values Voters Summit after attempting to sell a Barack Obama gag gift:

Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed “offensive material.” The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.

The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix. They sold it for $10 a box from a rented booth at the summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council.

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