Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Boycott US doughnut chain for halting scarf ad, activists urge [ANSWER..........]
Brietbart ^

Posted on 05/30/2008 10:09:49 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Boycott US doughnut chain for halting scarf ad, activists urge May 30 11:11 AM US/Eastern

US activists have called for a boycott of doughnuts-and-coffee chain Dunkin Donuts after it pulled an online ad that a conservative commentator said promoted jihad.

"Dunkin Donuts has capitulated and withdrawn an advertisement for its products following the allegation... that the spokeswoman in the ad was wearing a kaffiyeh, a scarf which is a staple of clothing traditionally worn by Palestinian men," the ANSWER Coalition said in a statement.

ANSWER, which groups hundreds of anti-war and anti-racism organizations around the United States, called for a "worldwide boycott of Dunkin Donuts... to send a powerful message to corporations that engage in racism or pander to anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racists."

A furore blew up earlier this month over a Dunkin Donuts online ad featuring celebrity chef Rachael Ray wearing a black and white scarf around her neck and holding an ice coffee.

Conservative columnist and commentator Michelle Malkin complained on her blog last week that Ray was sporting a "jihadi chic kaffiyeh" in the ad.

"I'm hoping her 'hate' couture choice was spurred more by ignorance than ideology," Malkin wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ads; answer; dunkindonuts; islam; keffiyeh; malkin; rachelray
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last
To: lilycicero

I pegged you as a Bavarian cream kind of girl (with sprinkles on top).


21 posted on 05/30/2008 10:25:22 AM PDT by RedRover (What? No tagline?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
Why aren't they calling a boycott of that loud-mourh Rachel Ray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
22 posted on 05/30/2008 10:26:34 AM PDT by kcm.org (Why are Pickens and Buffett always news--not Soros??????)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Stupid² It was a frickin scarf.


23 posted on 05/30/2008 10:26:49 AM PDT by RGSpincich
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

For A.N.S.W.E.R., this is absoutely business as usual.

If it’s anti-American in any way, A.N.S.W.E.R. is sure to be helping out in some way.

I can see why you said it was bazaar. To a loyalist U.S. Citizen, it truly is.


24 posted on 05/30/2008 10:27:05 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Votes to Pass Leftist Policy: McCain Senators 90, House 375 / Obama Senators 58, House 275.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mysterio
Claiming a scarf somehow promoted Islamic extremism is almost paranoid schizophrenic-level delusion.

Believe me, there is a "terrorist chic" fad (along with the Marxist chic fad--see below) going on here in DC among the lefties. I see women wearing them at least a couple of days a week as I drive into work. Between the scarves and the Fidel Castro hats and Che tee-shirts, I don't often have to wonder which side of the aisle these people are on.
25 posted on 05/30/2008 10:27:32 AM PDT by piperpilot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

First of all, Krispy Kreme is a better donut.

Second, I don’t think the scarf was that Arab thing. It looked like she was just wearing a scarf in and iced-coffee ad to show how cold it is.

But who knows. I still don’t even know who Rachael Ray is.


26 posted on 05/30/2008 10:29:27 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mgc1122
Many libs in this town look down their noses at Dunkin Donuts. Maybe its the lines of construction workers, cops and average blue collar folks one sees at DD every morning. They'll bitch and moan about Starbucks but they prefer that place to Dunkin Donuts.
On Boyslton street not far from where I live there is a Starbucks and a DD separated by a side street. Its a real cultural study seeing who goes into each coffee shop.
27 posted on 05/30/2008 10:29:31 AM PDT by warsaw44
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
If it was Rush or Mike Reagan or another guy commentator, I'd be concerned that he'd misinterpreted the pattern on the scarf, somehow got something wrong.

But I don't think much gets by Mrs. Malkin.

If anything or anyone screwed up, it was Rachel Ray.

28 posted on 05/30/2008 10:31:47 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

Time to eat the donuts.


29 posted on 05/30/2008 10:35:44 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: piperpilot

Yeah, I’ve noticed the Castro hats in vogue now. I’ve called out some people I know about it.


30 posted on 05/30/2008 10:38:41 AM PDT by weegee (VOTE MCCAIN: Susan Saradon says she will move to Italy or Canada if he's elected)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
Special to FR “US activists have called for support of Dunkin Donuts that US activists have called for a boycott of doughnuts-and-coffee chain Dunkin Donuts after it pulled an online ad that a conservative commentator said promoted jihad.” Don't forget the bagged coffee available at your local store.
31 posted on 05/30/2008 10:39:22 AM PDT by CarryingOn (Don't tell me words don't matter. Barack H. Obama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
The islamo-fascist terrorist symbol of choice is that ugly checkered headscarf and there is no excuse for anyone not to know this.

Activist muslims and the ACLU will have us wearing 666 on our foreheads sooner or later because there will be no-one left to stand up and say no to their demands made in the name of appeasement, multicultural diversity and religious tolerance. No one has the courage to stand up and say "no" to outrageous, anti-Christian demands so we all get hearded into the cattle cars of fate, together.

32 posted on 05/30/2008 10:41:43 AM PDT by x_plus_one ("let them eat cake, drive small electric cars and take the bus")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver
Its amazing how a simple fashion choice has the retards of the Right and Left foaming at the mouth.

I lost a LOT of respect for Michelle in letting her imagination run wild. It is JUST A SCARF and Rachel Ray (the bulbous buttocked domestic goddess) is NOT A MEMBER OF THE PLO.

33 posted on 05/30/2008 10:42:29 AM PDT by Clemenza (No Comment)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: goldstategop

I don’t particularly care for their donuts, but I will make a point of buying some next week. And the week after. And the week after that. Etc.


34 posted on 05/30/2008 10:42:39 AM PDT by piytar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: mysterio
Claiming a scarf somehow promoted Islamic extremism is almost paranoid schizophrenic-level delusion.

Check the posts about the under-the-radar Islamofascist and FARC-Commie-narcoterrorist chic. I think someone tried to slip something into the ad, and Michelle Malkin nailed them. I don't think Rachel Ray necessarily knows what a keffiyeh is, or what that scene is about (I don't think she knows much about much, outside the kitchen, frankly), but maybe someone else did and tried a little guerrilla inescutcheon, a political placement within a commercial ad.

35 posted on 05/30/2008 10:44:16 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: mysterio

“Dunkin Donuts should have ignored Malkin. Claiming a scarf somehow promoted Islamic extremism is almost paranoid schizophrenic-level delusion.”

I’m just hearing about this situation. Malkin usually doesn’t fly off for no reason. But a scarf??? On an Italian? I’ve got a scarf nearly identical to that one...made in the USA over 50 years ago. There are reasons to be upset, this isn’t one of ‘em.


36 posted on 05/30/2008 10:49:10 AM PDT by AuntB (Vote Obama! ..........Because ya can't blame 'the man' when you are the 'man'.... Wanda Sikes)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: lentulusgracchus

If you’re right on this, I would be surprised. Sometimes a scarf is just a scarf.


37 posted on 05/30/2008 10:49:25 AM PDT by mysterio
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: Sub-Driver

An absurdist reaction to a STOOOPID essay by Malkin.

It’s kerfuffles like this that make most people laugh at the people concerned about the increased accomodation of Muslim practices in America.

Stupid dingbat, Michelle.


38 posted on 05/30/2008 10:56:08 AM PDT by swarthyguy (Osama Freedom Day: 2500 or so since September 11 2001! That's SIX +years, Dubya.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Clemenza
It is JUST A SCARF

To me, the fury of the A.N.S.W.E.R. ants at having the ad pulled suggests it wasn't just a scarf. Anecdotally, I have absolutely never seen anyone in one of those (quite distinctive) scarves who was not a multi-pierced Commie or Jew-hater. They're all the rage (as it were) at pro-abortion rallies.

And you can understand why. They're ugly, and make the wearer look ugly. No one would purposely wear one (I don't think RR wore hers knowingly) except to show that one hates the right people, i.e., the Jews and America.

39 posted on 05/30/2008 10:57:22 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: RedRover

HAHA...you know me too well. I almost wrote...”with sprinkles” on my tagline..but thought I would try to keep a tamer image.


40 posted on 05/30/2008 11:03:04 AM PDT by lilycicero (Just for today...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson