Dunkin' Donuts pulls Rachael Ray ad

www.cnnmoney.com ^ | 5-28-08 | AP

[fr_freak]

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.

OK, so your position is that Michelle Malkin is mistaken in identifying Ray's scarf as being a kaffiyeh, but not that she would be unreasonable in objecting to a kaffiyeh, if it were worn. That seems like a reasonable position. What I don't like seeing is the knee-jerk characterization of Michelle as some lunatic who sees bogeymen behind every door by the majority of posters on this thread. She is anything but a lunatic.

As it happens, Michelle merely made reference to the objections of the LGF guys in the original article. She did not make a big deal of it, and even stated that she doubted this was anything to make a stink over. Remember, she maintains an actual blog, so commenting on these types of things is exactly what anyone would expect her to do.

Unfortunately, the media seems to have gotten wind of it and blown it out of proportion in order to make Michelle look foolish and, as usual, a whole boatload of blowhards on FreeRepublic fell for the MSM version hook, line and sinker and jumped on the opportunity to show how tolerant and elite they are by trashing Michelle.

Don't believe me? Here is the link to Michelle's original article:

Michelle's original blurb on the kaffiyeh thing

[One-Four-Five]

4th Trackback link on the page with that ‘original’ story:

http://www.red-alerts.com/just-plain-foolish/in-defense-of-rachael-ray-lgf-sets-its-sights-on-a-new-victim/

Interesting.

[fr_freak]

I'm sure you feel much better about your tolerance and inclusiveness now that you and others on this thread have thoroughly trashed Michelle. With friends like you, who needs enemies.

Here is Malkin's original comment about the scarf on her blog. If you read it, which I'm sure you haven't, you will note that it is anything but hysterical, and it is certainly not the frothing-at-the-mouth lunacy that the MSM wants everyone to believe it is. Michelle merely commented on on observation made by Little Green Footballs. Read it yourselves, THEN comment. You know what the definition of a "conservative" who believes what the MSM reports is? A sucker .

Michelle's original comment on the kaffiyeh thing

[SlapHappyPappy]

Michelle has done a lot of damage to the conservative cause with her seemingly constant calls for boycotts and taking offense where only she seems to see anything wrong.

Frankly, I think she figured out that calling for “action” gets her attention, and that means more to her than any cause or belief system.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Laura Bush, Hijab, etc.

[Hacklehead]

“So, a culture that tells women they have to wear certain clothing is now being challenged by a culture that says that women cannot wear certain clothing that even looks like the clothing that might remind people of the culture that tells women they have to wear certain clothing.”

Nonsense. There is a world of difference between being against something and forbidding it. A store is free to hang a gay pride flag in their window, but I don’t have to shop there.

[CharlesWayneCT]

I have a friend who Michelle trashed without ever meeting him, and without knowing the facts.

So pardon me if I’m not too worried that my comments on her actions in this case might reflect poorly on her.

It’s a scarf, and this has done more to advertise the palestinian cause, AND to make conservatives look foolish, than any stupid Dunkin Donuts ads could.

On the other hand, I reject your characterization that I “trashed Michelle”. I faulted her for going overboard on this issue, which was a comment on her ACTIONS. I said nothing about her personally.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

If the owner was wearing a shirt with a rainbow as part of the pattern, would you not shop there because the rainbow might be taken as a gay symbol?

[Always Right]

I'm also just as shocked that so many people here find Ann Coulter hot. She is not. If you ask me, Coulter and Malkin could both use a couple or three sandwiches.

I agree about Ann, she is too thin. But Malkin is a petite Asian, not even close to anorexic.

[GulfBreeze]

Cute cat picture.... What did all those words mean?

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Cute cat picture.... What did all those words mean?

You mean OMG and Oh Noes?

The first is an Internet acronym for Oh My G_d. The second is Lolspeak for "Oh No!"

Lolspeak comes from Lolcats. Lolcats is where people post pictures of cats with captions in a special dialect called Lolspeak. The name of the website is I Can Has Cheezburger?". It even has a Lolspeak dictionary. Basically Lolspeak is just an imagining of the way a cat might spell and pronounce things if it could write/talk.

The anagram is my own creation (with a little help from the Internet Anagram Generator).

Does that answer your question?... :)

[GulfBreeze]

no. It was the Anagram that got me. I was confused and thinking ACRONYM. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what all those first letters were supposed to spell...

I had reeducate myself on anagrams and I see now...

Cute cat picture still.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Ah.

Actually, a sentence where the first letter of each word spells its own word is called an acrostic.

All of these similar “a” terms can get a little confusing...

[GulfBreeze]

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Cute cat picture...

lol

[Hacklehead]

“If the owner was wearing a shirt with a rainbow as part of the pattern, would you not shop there because the rainbow might be taken as a gay symbol?”

I might shop there even though I don’t know a straight man who would wear a shirt with rainbows on it.

[AndyJackson]

I lke Starbucks,anyway

Comments like that get you banned around here.

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Well, since what Rachel Ray was wearing was NOT a keffiyeh, you shouldn’t have any problems with Dunkin Donuts.

Good.

[AndyJackson]

I think we need to look at Michelle Malkin's original words where she says:

Dunkin Donuts’ spokeswoman Rachel Ray’s clueless sporting of a jihadi chic keffiyeh in a recent DD ad campaign. I’m hoping her hate couture choice was spurred more by ignorance than ideology. Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over? I’ll be interested to hear the company’s take. At this point, I’m going to give the management the benefit of the doubt.

Doubt? Ignorance? Jihadi chic?

There ain't no doubt. The whole issue is so f'in dumb, anyone who starts with logic rather than chic conservative jihadi bashing would be ashamed to pour such slanderous garbage across a printed page and attach her name to it.

It is hard enough sustaining a vigilance against fundamentalist terrorism. Starting a war against every cute girl wearing a scarf is silly, and makes conservatives look dumb, dumb, dumb.

Benefit of the doubt? Conservatives do not sustain freedom by damning with faint praise like this. It is like saying I will give you the benefit of the doubt that you didn't rob the bank of $1M this time, which I utter against an upstanding citizen, a pillar of church and community, who lives and works across country from the robbery has never traveled to the city of the robbery, and has continued to live with modesty and frugality.

Once again, conservatives need to start looking in a mirror, examining their souls and asking themselves what image they are projecting when they write indefensible garbage like this.