Posted on 05/29/2008 11:09:50 AM PDT by JZelle
BOSTON (AP) -- Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.
The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."
In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.
Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. ''The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,'' Malkin wrote in her syndicated column.
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Because she's not. She's not wearing any headdress at all. She's wearing a black and white paisley neck scarf, which has nothing at all to do with Palestinians.
If it were a real kaffiyeh, like this, then yes, Malkin might have a point. But it's not a kaffiyeh, and it's not even close to a kaffiyeh (it's not even on her head, for Gosh sakes), so Malkin is being ridiculous.
It’s an ad for iced coffee, so the idea is to include something associated with cold.
Ugh, Logic, that’s so Twentieth Century.
If we let the terrorists dictate what clothes we can wear, they win.
And what I mean by that is:
My daughter got thrown out of middle school one day because she dyed her hair, and the school decided it wasn’t “natural”, and therefore it was a “gang color”. See, the gangs had chosen every unnatural color there was for their various garbs, so the school decided if you had any color hair that wasn’t what it was supposed to be, it had to be gang-related.
This makes us all look stupid. We are the philosophy that symbols don’t matter, it’s substance. But now we are screaming about some symbol nobody knows or cares about.
She’s wearing a scarf because it’s an ad for iced coffee.
She’s wearing a scarf that is considered “hip” right now (I’m sure “hip” is not the hip word anymore).
Let’s prove to the world that conservatives have nothing better to do with their time than complain about the deep, hidden meaning of a scarf worn in a donut commercial.
You know, if they show a donut that has a bite out of it, that would look like an Islamic crescent, so we could scream about that as well.
Well said.
I feel like I’m Kyle in a South Park Episode.
Dude, It’s a Scarf. Why would anybody where a burka in a Dunkin Donuts ad, unless the ad for appealing to Muslims, in which case why would I care if they had a muslim woman wearing a burka in an ad?
But a Burka at least is really a traditional garb of the thing that scares you.
This is a scarf. It’s not a specially shaped scarf. It’s not a specially decorated scarf. It’s not a scarf with evil writing on it, at least so far as we can see.
It’s just a scarf.
Am I supposed to go throw out all the scarves in the house that are black and white and have tassles on them now, because someone thinks they look like some headress being worn around the neck?
Maybe I am.
It’s a scarf.
Of course, I know Michelle Malkin went overboard years ago, and this is just more of the same. I’d rather keep my right to make fun of people for getting upset about pictures of Mohammed, than give up the high ground so I can get all in a tizzy over some hip-scarf look in a dunkin donuts ad.
Who the heck is Rachael Ray?
It’s an ad for iced coffee.
She is some ditzy chef with some shows on the Food Network. She is not even a very good chef, but her shows are popular because some guys think she looks hot. (I don't agree.)
Out of respect for you I actually went and read the column. I’ve read more of MM’s columns than I need to know what she’s all about. She’s a shallow, shrill, unnuanced, drum-beating rabble-rouser. She’s vulgar and thuggish, intoxicated by her sense of mission and utterly lacking in self-doubt, shame, compassion, or principle. I loathe her entirely.
Here’s my take: MM has a bee in her bonnet about sentimental lefties who sport the keffiyah to send a message. Fair enough. What’s unfair is her stupid hijacking of the DD commercial as a springboard to air her grievance. Her real point of course is to implant anti-Palestinianism as the default middle eastern policy amongst American conservatives.
MM is a propagandist with nothing to say to thinking people.
So is this, from the article:
"Kaffiyehs are worn every day on the street by Palestinians and other people in the Middle East - by people going to work, going to school, taking care of their families, and just trying to keep warm."
And so is the fact that they mean something quite different when worn in New York City.
While I do think this is over reaching, my husband has one of those scarves he got in Beirut - it does look just like that.
The fashion industry is showing stylish adaptations of burkhas and other terror-wear? I find that hard to believe. Do you have a link?
The whole point is that Rachael Ray is not wearing the “traditional headdress of Palestinians”. She’s wearing a black and white silk scarf. And any comparison of Ray’s scarf with the kaffiyeh clearly shows the difference.
What I don’t get is why no one’s upset with John McCain’s daughter?
Now I know where the name “Hot Air” came from. Rediculous.
I'm glad you are one of those with the capacity to be shocked, as I was. I believe it was a Paris fashion show, maybe a month ago or less. I don't have a link, but I'll bet Dr. Google would. (He's probably wearing a burkha himself.)
I saw an article on Moslem bathing suits for women—I think that one was in the New York Post, more recently. Fashion people are always looking for novelty, which is fine, but they also hate normal people, which is not. They think "subversive" is cute. I like to see it on the end of a rope.
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