Right-Wing Bloggers Claim Victory Over ... Rachael Ray???

By: TheGreenMiles
Published On: 5/29/2008 8:38:11 AM

I can barely believe this is actually true:
Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men.

Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin’ Donuts boycott. [...]

Said the suits in a statement: ‘‘In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.’’

For her part, Malkin was pleased with Dunkin’s response: ‘‘It’s refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists.’’
I can certainly believe that Michelle Malkin thinks anyone wearing a patterned white scarf is a terrorist apologist. I mean, girl crazy. But what is Dunkin Donuts doing taking her seriously? What a black eye for the company.  

Comments



Checkered gingham (Teddy - 5/29/2008 9:04:30 AM)
tablecloths are what I think of when I see most keffiyahs.  Paisley patterns come from India and Hindu culture.

This is such an hysterical reaction I can only think the right wing mavens (if you can call them that--- I don't want to insult mavens everywhere) that they were looking for some kind of excuse no matter how little to mount a public furor in order to, now follow me here, remind Jewish voters of threats from Arab Muslims, of the Palestine dangers, and, therefore, of Bush-McLaine's total support of Israel, Obama's presumed secret Muslim background and his "failure" to support all things Israel, and so, ergo: Jews should)support McCaine in November, not some Democrat.

Fantastic? Yes, if it were anybody but Michelle Malkin and Fox. This is how they (and Karl Rove, now with Fox News( actually think, plan, scheme...  



Just another tactic (Alter of Freedom - 5/29/2008 10:01:10 AM)
By those displaced and soon to be out of office social conservatives whose only hope of an October surprise is beating home the terrorphobia card upon Americans.

First she boycotts SBUX cause its too liberal in tone, green I think, and nor Dunkin Donuts. Hey Michelle, its just coffee and donuts love...lighten up already.



My dad's reaction (TheGreenMiles - 5/29/2008 10:30:05 AM)
"And while we're talking about that, have you noticed what most Iraqis walk on?  Sand.  That's right, sand and pebbles and stuff.  And have you also noticed what unsuspecting Americans walk on when they go to the beach?  That's right, pal: sand.  Sand and pebbles and stuff.  And who goes to beaches?  Why, those leftist liberal commie pinko terrorist-coddling scarf-wearing media-types, that's who!"


They've gone completely nuts (Alicia - 5/29/2008 11:13:10 AM)
to quote Olbermann -- a "terrorist scarf"???????????????

what the hell?



Malkin is just jealous she didn't get the Maxim/FHM layouts nor the Dunkin ads (snolan - 5/29/2008 11:43:42 AM)
I mean really... does anyone think Rachel Ray, who posed for Maxim and FHM, who has been photographed in a bikini is even muslim, let alone a terrorist sympathizer?

Someone (Malkin) needs to stop doing drugs....

My wife is a hand weaver, and she has made similar looking scarves herself, and trust me, she is no terrorist either.  It's just a pretty pattern that is fairly easy to weave.  Le sigh.



Watch it (TheGreenMiles - 5/29/2008 12:02:52 PM)
Dude, you better hope Michelle Malkin isn't reading this. She'll report your wife to DHS. They'll be checking out what magazines you read in no time. And if you listen to A Prairie Home Companion ... well, you might as well pack your bags for Gitmo right now.


Confessions (snolan - 5/29/2008 12:29:27 PM)
Well - I don't go out of my way to listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" - for I find it far to conservative for me.. but I don't switch it off WAMU either when it comes on....

Magazines?  They come on paper, right?  We dropped paper based magazines years ago because we are eco-terrorists!

Yes, I hereby confess, that once I read Zodiac, I became an eco-terrorist!
Now I will be on their watch list for sure... but that's ok, every activist needs a little jail time and a highly public court case so they can get media attention to rant about their cause du jour...  oh wait... that's French, clearly a leftist sympathizer as well...  oh my...  

jk



But if Malkin stops doing drugs (aznew - 5/29/2008 12:30:54 PM)
we might no get to see stuff like this any longer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...



Total embarassment (DanG - 5/29/2008 12:34:16 PM)
Actually caving into nutjobs like that?  Remind me never to get donuts there again.  


Krispy Kreme FTW (Silence Dogood - 5/29/2008 1:05:15 PM)


Of course, if Dunkin Donuts had any bawls... (snolan - 5/29/2008 12:35:02 PM)
They replace it with an ad campaign where a mysterious woman promoted the donuts and coffee while wearing an abaya...

Mine is an evil laugh.

Heck, they could make it an entire campaign, bring in a Yasser Arafat impersonator (preferably a bad one, so people would know it was a joke), raving about how he uses Dunkin Donuts coffee to stay up late when negotiating with Israelis and he finds the donuts useful for bribing Hamas members when they come to him to make a deal.

Follow that up with an arab oil sheik claiming he uses Dunkin Donuts to bribe US Congressmen and make them pliant to his whims.

Ah, the subversive power of advertising and humor...



scarf as Rorschach test (hereinva - 5/29/2008 2:14:22 PM)
Only from the mind of M.M...

This sort of wack stuff falls into the same category as the old Proctor and Gamble logo and the "controversy" over the Starbucks mermaid.

Most of the D.D.'s I visit are family operated franchises-so I will still visit the shops. Nothing beats a cup of D.D. coffee and an "old fashioned".



The Scarf (Kris Amundson - 5/29/2008 3:28:16 PM)
Now, I gotta tell you that I think the scarf was an ill advised fashion decision.

But Rach? Promoting terrorism? EVOO maybe. Mark your datebooks, boys and girls. Today (well, yesterday, I guess) is the day the Other Side jumped the shark for good.  



I don't know what everyone else thinks (legacyofmarshall - 5/29/2008 11:37:51 PM)
But to me donuts, coffee, and bubbly annoying young white women on tv are the most fanatical Islamist presences in America.  Throw a scarf in and those liberal Massachusetts types at Dunkin' Donuts are just airing a very thinly-veiled (no pun) Al-Qaeda recruitment video.

Question is - where's the Homeland Security alert?  Shouldn't we be at at least Orange for this?  What if the ad is a coded message to activate cells...

I haven't been this scared since that ugly guy tried to ignite his shoe on an airplane.



Nah, too far from an election to bother changing to Orange (snolan - 5/30/2008 10:37:38 AM)
It is terrifying though... that said scarf is hiding her charms.