From MSNBC:
Dunkin’ Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.
In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is “popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos.”
Dunkin’s Senior Vice President for Communications Margie Myers issued a statement saying the scarf “was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended.
Now that Malkin has taken down Rachel Ray and her Jihads on $40 dollars a day, she can concentrate on the biggest terrorist supporting company of them all…. Pillsbury.
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17 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.This is the ultimate in stupidity, quite a stretch to see that scarf as a kiffiyeh. Even more shameful that Dunkin didn’t tell Malkin to suck it. The controversy here in Oregon is that she’s in front of the Capitol Building in Salem – or at least that is what was added behind the green screen, and the fact that Oregon doesn’t have any more Dunkin’ shops – the last one ironically was in Salem.
I’d wondered what had happened to all the Dunkin’ Donuts in Eugene. Now I know that they’ve all been shut down by Homeland Security…
The terrorists win again!
This is xenophobic racist garbage. That woman should be ashamed of herself, and so should Dunkin Donuts.
Knowing she has a book titled “In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror” you can’t really be surprised.
Knowing she has a book titled “In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror†you can’t really be surprised.
Amazing. And here I thought that she had only written cookbooks!
Woah, Piri, you’ve gotta be kidding me. Somebody actually wrote a book in defense of interment? And she has a column in print? Which people take seriously?
I’m shocked and disgusted. I’d send some mail expressing my disgust but at this point I think FOX and it’s associates actually enjoy the flood of angry letters. These are the kind of people that just can’t be reasoned with.
Well, whaddya expect from Fox News?!? “Fair and balanced”, my tuchis!!!
This DOES make me want to wear MY kiffeyeh (I love to collect ethnic clothing)… but I have a job in the most Republican location in my city: the financial district. Have to do it on my own time, I spose.
Actually, is that a kiffeyeh? My version was called a shmaagh when I bought it. (From Kuwait, in case Homeland InSecurity is monitoring Cynical-C…)
“Actually, is that a kiffeyeh?”
No, it’s called a “scarf”.
I do a fashion trend report for one of my clients every 6 months and in my latest report I included these large cotton scarves because european models are wearing them while traveling to and from their fashion shows.
Piri, why do you hate America?
One legend about the origin of the croissant is that it was intended to mock an Islamic enemy that was laying siege to some city (if memory serves me correctly). By this reasoning, Pilsbury could be seen as a conservative anti-Islamic hero.
The french name of the pastry poses a problem. “Liberty Crescents”, “Bush Slivers” and “Patriotism Moons” are suitable replacement names.
I have a red and white kiffiyeh that I’ve had for about 20 years. I used to wear it as a scarf in the winter time, but haven’t had the guts to since I was hassled the winter after 9/11. Pharking idiots.
I wonder if Michelle Malkin can tell us which color of the kiffiyeh supports which faction of Palestinians/terrorists.
And yet, as this blog and other judeo-leftist blogs called Ron Paul supporters “loons”, the same cry heard from the Malkin/Charles Johnson right. Tell me, is anti-zionism still crazier, than the mainstream respectable neocon right?
This is what you get. This is what you wanted. This is the “loon”-free world. Live with it.
I had an interesting conversation with someone about the anti-semitism of the left yesterday. Interesting in that this person couldn’t bring up a single decent argument and refused to relent. He was at least a step ahead of you in that he offered arguments instead of just hurling accusations.
I fail to see how this scarf, which doesn’t even look like a kiffiyeh, is offensive to anyone. Heck, even if she were wearing an actual kiffiyeh I’d fail to see the reason for anyone to be particular offended by it, aside from staunch pro-zionist elements.
Can you imagine the hubbub had Dunkin’ contacted Ace Frehley again and made him wear the scarf?! Utter pandemonium would erupt.
Actually, it may well be a kiffiyeh: I was shopping in C&A (in a European country) a couple of weeks back and they had them on the shelves. They were being sold as regular scarves, not as muslim garments, but they were identical in wevery respect to the one I picked up in Egypt a few years back.
Here in saudi arabia we wearing Jeans all the time , is it mean that we are support the america “war” policy ?!
This reaction of a scarf mean two things to me :
first : U.S has islamic+arab phobia .
second : U.S is extremist . like what they said about us .