Rachel Ray is wearing it all wrong.
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"Dunkin Donuts has capitulated and withdrawn an advertisement for its products following the allegation...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.
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Of Rachel Ray!
Preferably, the FHM pics!
Pretty-please?
It’s part of their “dress uniform”.
You posted a picture of their field uniform.
LOL.
ANSWER an anti-war, anti-racism organization??? Bull!! International ANSWER is a communist organization. Period. Check its website sometime. This outfit is as radical as it gets.
Rachel Ray is wearing it all wrong.
Does this mean I have to go buy a dozen donuts there?
answer is a terrorist backed, communist supported org that seeks to aid those trying to destroy America.
I spent five years in the Middle East and I never saw one of them damn rags with fringes on it. I do not believe she was wearing one. However, I could be wrong and I still love MM.
I think the squealing has to do with an imagined racist conspiracy, as opposed to a defense of Islamofascism.
Malkin seems to think the scarf was sending a political message. ANSWER seems to think the response to the scarf was sending a racist message.
My guess is that they're both wrong and the scarf was just a scarf. Unfortunately, but hilariously, the loonies on both sides are feeding off of each others' paranoia in a self-perpetuating cycle of stupid.
“Dunkin says it was a black and white paisley scarf. Not the checks of the islamo fascist thing...”
It may be, but in the picture it does *look* like one of them whateverthehelltheycallit things. If she wanted to convey scarf she should have picked a big crocheted thing with stripes or something.
Maybe A.N.S.W.E.R. would be happy if they reshot the ad with Rachel wearing a suicide vest?
I saw the ad, it was a scarf around the neck.
Jihadis wear scarfs elsewhere.
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