{"id":2165,"date":"2008-09-15T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:51:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T14:51:10","slug":"note-to-values-voters-racism-aint-political-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/09\/15\/note-to-values-voters-racism-aint-political-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to &#8220;values voters&#8221;: racism AIN&#8217;T political satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frcaction.org\/index.cfm?c=VVS\">Value Voters Summit,<\/a> 2 grade A nimrods sold souvenir boxes of Obama Waffles, linking Obama with Aunt Jemima, Muslim myths [&quot;Point box toward Mecca for better waffles!&quot;], stereotypes about&nbsp;rap [bilge on side of box]&nbsp;and generations of pop-eyed African-American mascots with smiles bigger than their heads. See <a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid1417423198?bctid=1790977147\">this video<\/a> for details of Obama waffles packaging and the disingenuous justifications of the nimrods for spreading their hatred.<\/p>\n<p>When confronted directly with this train wreck of sexism, racism, exoticism and general stupidity, said nimrods protested that they &quot;didn&#39;t even think of&quot; the Aunt Jemima comparisons. They insisted that their product was &quot;political satire.&quot; No, it&#39;s not. They&#39;re just bigots trying to fit into satirists&#39; clothing. What dipsticks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the recent Value Voters Summit, 2 grade A nimrods sold souvenir boxes of Obama Waffles, linking Obama with Aunt Jemima, Muslim myths [&quot;Point box toward Mecca for better waffles!&quot;], stereotypes about&nbsp;rap [bilge on side of box]&nbsp;and generations of pop-eyed African-American mascots with smiles bigger than their heads. See this video for details of Obama&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/09\/15\/note-to-values-voters-racism-aint-political-satire\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Note to &#8220;values voters&#8221;: racism AIN&#8217;T political satire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[656],"class_list":["post-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6055,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions\/6055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}