Rachael Ray ad seen as terror link?!

[Hot Rod]

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photo_StoryLevel/080528/080528-ad-rachael-hmed-12p.hmedium.jpg


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.

"However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."

[NormanPride]

Is it offseason for political pundits as well?

[SoonerStormchaser]

Holy **** these politicians are grasping at straws this time of year...first it was all those O'Bomba ****wads going to town on HRC over her RFK allusion...and now this.

[yermom]

what a stupid bitch

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1133/malkintinfoil2fp.jpg

[NormanPride]

lol fair and balanced

[SicEmBaylor]

Holy **** these politicians are grasping at straws this time of year...first it was all those O'Bomba ****wads going to town on HRC over her RFK allusion...and now this.

Wouldn't the purposeful maligning of his name be included?

[KC//CRIMSON]

A turban would have been so much better.

[C&CDean]

Wait. A Confederate flag is bad and worthy of our scorn for what it symbolizes - but a rag worn by terrorists is not?

You libs can't have your cake and eat it too now.

[NormanPride]

It's a scarf, Dean. Sometimes a scarf is just a scarf, especially when some bimbo is wearing it for a freaking Dunkin' Donuts ad.

[yermom]

http://www.mukto-mona.com/Recent_Debate/arafat.jpg

yep, looks like she's giving props to Arafat to me

[Sooner_Havok]

Wait. A Confederate flag is bad and worthy of our scorn for what it symbolizes - but a rag worn by terrorists is not?

You libs can't have your cake and eat it too now.

Dude, if terrorists are running around wearing paisley print silk scarves, and we are having this much trouble with them...

[C&CDean]

But the stars and bars are just some freaking cloth man....

Hey, I ain't agreeing or disagreeing with the bimbo on Fox. I'm just saying the argument holds water based on precedence.

[NormanPride]

I'm amazed you're backing a thin argument from the sensitive "PC" crowd, Dean. This is obviously weak sauce, as the only similarities are white cloth and dark ink in intricate patterns. Perhaps Bear Bryant's hat was the inspiration for these people? ;)

EDIT: Well, I say "backing" but I guess I mean "playing devil's advocate for".

[yermom]

it's not like it's got some Arafat logo on it or something, or is tied to some country or ideals

it's a scarf. as far as i know the only symbolic nature of it is what the dumb Fox broad put on it

[silverwheels]

Rachael Ray is a terrorist. She terrorizes my sanity.

[C&CDean]

Personally, I wish somebody would stick an IED up RR's coochie and detonate it while she's standing next to all the other Martha Stewarts, Emerils, etc.

When people start identifying pieces of clothing (red for bloods, stars and bars for rednecks, etc.) as something offensive then y'all can't be that shocked about this whole deal. It does kinda look like one of Yassar's castoffs.

[yermom]

I'm amazed you're backing a thin argument from the sensitive "PC" crowd, Dean. This is obviously weak sauce, as the only similarities are white cloth and dark ink in intricate patterns. Perhaps Bear Bryant's hat was the inspiration for these people? ;)

EDIT: Well, I say "backing" but I guess I mean "playing devil's advocate for".

i was thinking Bear Bryant as well :D

[NYC Poke]

I think I might have some terrorist dish towels . . . :eek:

[Sooner_Havok]

I think I might have some terrorist dish towels . . . :eek:

Dude, I have a terrorist Stetson pearl snap:texan:

[SoonerInKCMO]

On a positive note, this made me read Malkin's take on the stance Dunkin' Donuts and Applebee's have taken on illegal immigration.

http://michellemalkin.com/2006/10/02/support-dunkin-donuts-and-applebees/

[tbl]

Your mom is a scarf... wait.

[LoyalFan]

"Stars and Bars"; A national flag of the Confederacy.
http://www.confederateflags.org/national/FOTCs_b.htm

The "Battle Flag"; Often mistakenly referred to as "The Stars and Bars".
http://www.confederateflags.org/army/FOTCarmy.htm
There were a LOT of versions and variations, some not familiar to most of us (See: Army of The Peninsula.) but the most popular was the blue St. Andrew's Cross, with white stars, on a field of red, o'course. A symbol of bravery rather than slavery, despite what libs and some others might say.

Me? Oh, I'm a Union man, m'self, Civil War-wise.

LF

[mdklatt]

On a positive note, this made me read Malkin's take on the stance Dunkin' Donuts and Applebee's have taken on illegal immigration.

http://michellemalkin.com/2006/10/02/support-dunkin-donuts-and-applebees/

Anybody who supports Applebees hates America. Or at least good taste.

[Animal Mother]

what a stupid bitch

http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/1133/malkintinfoil2fp.jpg

HEY!!! That's not fair to the other stupid bitches!!!!!!!!!

[85Sooner]

I would like to interogate her for awhile

[texas bandman]

Michelle Malkin is a total whacked out, crazy@ssed b*tch. Makes me glad I'm a lib!!!

[King Crimson]

she makes Ann Coulter look like Aristotle.

[def_lazer_fc]

i remember the time i stumbled upon a website that posted her personal information including phone number. we prank phone called her all night. good times.

[Viking Kitten]

The scarf issue is so stupid it's not worth debating.

But I will say the whole thing is a byproduct of 24 hour news channels. They have to fill time with talking heads, and so they'll put on any little media whore who generates ratings. The ones who get the most airtime are the ones who have learned they get more attention if they say shocking things. (Michelle Malkin is Asian! She wrote a book defending Japanese interment during WWII! DRAMA! Get her on the show!)

Now, what's even sadder is that the news channels have new fodder because they can discuss the Dunkin Donuts decision thus getting more talking heads on discussing Michelle Malkin, which only has the effect of giving the little troll more of the attention she so desperately craves. Retarded.

[Animal Mother]

Dean. You forgot to say all libs are ghey!!!