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Dunkin' Donuts TV ads featuring goonishly smiley Food Network personality Rachel Ray have been pulled after a right wing commenter claimed Ray's scarf looks like Palestinian garment. Seriously?
Noted Fox News wingnut Michelle Malkin proclaimed that the black and white scarf resembled the checkered kiffiyah traditionally worn by Palestinians. And therefore must somehow be associated with terrorism. And Dunkin' Donuts, as you know, is into supporting Islamic terrorism. Not just, you know, making Boston Cremes.
The scarf, as you can see, is a tasseled number probably purchased at Saks. Dunkin' Donuts: I love your chocolate glazed, but you should be ashamed of yourself for capitulating to such nonsense.
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6-01-2008 @1:09PM STH said... I agree, Red. Corporations give shrieking hysterics like Malkin WAY too much power when they give in to these ridiculous fake "controversies." Dunkin Donuts explained that it was a paisley scarf, not a keffiyeh, and they should have left it at that.
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6-01-2008 @4:33PM So Good said... I wrote about this a couple days ago, and quickly had a couple blind-to-reality Michelle Malkin lovers all over my site calling me a "liberal moonbat."
I don't think this is a liberal vs. conservative issue, it's an uptight about everything moron vs. no overreacting to everything issue.
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6-02-2008 @2:33PM Tug Spicer said... @ML: THAT is actull The Oregon State Capital Building in Salme Oregon. It is not a Mornon Temple!
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6-02-2008 @11:36PM malcolmxmas said... Are you people illiterate or just so caught up in your own agendas that you can't function?
"Malkin's comments were ridiculous and reflect how little she knows about the middle east..."
You mean this comment: "I’m going to give the management (of Dunkin Donuts) the benefit of the doubt."
Or this one: "I highly doubt the executive offices are filled with moonbats who endorse Ray’s keffiyeh chic."
Or did you mean the part where she called Ray "clueless".
Yes, Malkin's "generalization" based on a butt-ugly scarf is ridiculous. But so is all of the vitriol against conservatives.
But this whole post has nothing to do with food or the food business. It is liberals attacking a conservative. Fine. Liberals attack conservatives every day. And conservatives attack liberals every day. And both make the generalization that the extremists in the other group are representative of the whole.
The BS with this post is the "we all hate Rachel Ray" but we're all so much better than Michelle Malkin - who doesn't seem to hate Ray (she's "clueless") or Dunkin Donuts.
Rachel Ray is a hell pig of satan, yet you are all so caught up in spouting your hatred of Malkin and anyone "conservative" that you willingly jump on anyone that presents a view other than "Bush Sucks", "Malkin Sucks", "Conservatives Suck" or "Americans Suck and deserve the hatred of the planet".
Just think about why this post is here in the first place.
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6-03-2008 @6:16PM Mathi said... Apparantly 30-minute-bombs just didn't catch on.
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6-03-2008 @8:50PM Gobo said... I loathe the ideological conflict of liberal vs. conservative -- it's way too easy to scapegoat and generalize.
My point isn't an attack on conservatives, it's me rolling my eyes at the notion that an ugly scarf can be politicized like this.
The way I see it, millions of people all over the world wear this sort of floppy tattered scarf. Grandmas in Milwaukee wear them; kids in California wear them; and yes, they're also popular in the Middle East, because they're nicely functional: they keep the sand out. A small group of scarf-wearing people in the Middle East are also terrorists. Does this mean that ANY article of clothing or style of facial hair that terrorists are seen to wear is off-limits for fear of being "terror chic"?
That's a ridiculous way to live and think.
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6-04-2008 @6:26PM Linda Bender said... I don't go to Dunkin Dognuts because of Rachel Ray, not her scarf. They should just dump her all together. She is an idiot and cooks slop.
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