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Rachael Ray, Terrorist?
Rachael Ray isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but who knew she was a terrorist? Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin knew: A Dunkin’ Donuts ad featuring Ray wearing a black-and-white scarf has been pulled after Malkin claimed the scarf was a keffiyeh, the traditional headdress of Arab men. In her words:
The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not so ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities and left-wing icons.
After blog fury ensued, Dunkin’ Donuts pulled the ad, saying the scarf “was selected by [Ray’s] stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.”
The Huffington Post has a screen shot showing the offending scarf, and Ray does indeed look terrifying. But is her scarf traditional enough to be called a keffiyeh? Similar scarves have become such a ubiquitous hipster accessory that the likes of Lauren Bush and Meghan McCain have donned them, and the trend is pushed by Urban Outfitters, a store owned by a conservative Republican. It’s all so confusing.
Commenter pubius maximus at Salon suggests that changing the term doughnuts to freedom-nuts might help resolve the issue. Dunkin’ Freedom-nuts: yum-o.
Posted by | Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:51am | 4 comments
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Michelle Malkin is such an idiot she forgets that she has been photographed with the same kiffeyeh, only in red:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05...
Too bad that Dunkin' Donuts cave in to the same kind of people whom the terrorists are: bigots who want to shame everyone into doing things their way. Idiots!
There is a great comment on the blog blog.charlescronn.com hella funny!
That totally looks like a kiffeyeh, but who cares, we are getting so politically correct it is giving me a head-ache. Who cares, live life....Love all....
Whatever Rachael Ray does is not news! She is the most over exposed food celebrity extant...less of her the better! Her face is on the most pedestrian and commonplace items all in the name of "branding" the name. Too bad she wasn't wearing that keffyieh when she put her mug on Triscuits and Wheat Thins!!!