May 28, 2008
Dunkin Donuts Yanks Rachael Ray Ad for All the Wrong Reasons
Remember when most of you lost your minds over whether or not it's OK for hipsters to sport Kaffiyehs. (The conclusion: it's fine to wear them, but they tend to overpower an outfit as an accessory.)
Well, scenesters, get ready to put down the straw, wipe your nostrils, and head over to Crossroads to sell your black-and-white Kaffiyehs. Sausage-fingered Food Network star, Rachael Ray love them. And she just had her Dunkin' Donuts ad yanked after several hundred or so mentally-estranged Americans complained after seeing her wearing the Arab headdress while hawking delicious Dunkin' Donuts pastries.
Michelle Malkin, mind-numbingly dumb FOX news commenter/hole, went nuts over Ray's scarf, saying, "the keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad." Or, as SFist already pointed out, it is/was a fashion trend.
This is too bad. Dunkin' Donuts are second to none.
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Sure would be nice to have a fuckin' Dunkin Donuts out here or two (unfortunately, that's not how they roll...once one goes in you can expect a swarm; almost worse than Starbucks); I liked their rotgut coffee.
I loved her when I considered her a novelty on $40 a Day (even though she's kind of a lousy tipper). Now she's all over the damn place. Ugh.
they sell dunkin donuts coffee at costco now. a big bag of grounds that will last you a few weeks if not more. it's soooo good!
I don't get why conservatives get upset about this kind of thing. If you want to make Mohammedans look silly, what better way could there be than draping their magical handkerchiefs all over a Dunkin Donuts commercial?
I do agree, though -- we desperately need a DD here in SF. Next door to an In-and-Out, please.
matty, i couldn't agree more. we need one here.
also, there are many krispy kremes located next door to in-and-out throughout CA, but...KKs are too much at times. they're the dark chocolate of donuts.
E.V.O.O!
I remember Dunkin Donuts when I visited New York just a couple of months ago. They were everywhere! But not as bad as the swarms of McDonald's and Duane Reede's (NYC's version of Walgreens).
Maybe they can buy out that Krispy Kreme's down at Daly City, then the place would be packed.
Michelle Malkin needs to be rounded up.
Rounded up, and tied with a kaffiyeh.
I don't like Malkin. She pissed off a ton of Japanese Americans and Asian Americans by claiming that the interment camps during WWII was a good idea. And she's Filipino and doesn't know shit about her own ethnic group's struggle.
I'd personally toss her in an Asian American Studies class here at SFSU to teach her a lesson.
when did conservatives become so easily offended and seem to cry on demand for these sorts of things? Running around screaming and crying like a liberal in Santa Cruz over their version of political correctness. WTF?
frankly if someone hadn't told me a) about RR's ad and b) that in fact she is wearing what Malkin claims is a kaffieyah, I would have just thought she was wearing a scarf...it was not immediately obvious to me.
I guess when your job is to scream for money, you gotta keep screaming louder and louder and acting like a two year old throwing tantrums if everyone doesn't give you the cookie on demand.
She's got fat arms. I would have banned her for that alone.
I can't get over the cognitive dissonance.
It's like catching a No Blood For Oil pin on Mickey Mouse.
Eww, I would never call Krispy Kremes the dark chocolate of donuts. They're the white chocolate of donuts! Sickeningly sweet. Blech!
I will NOT put the straw down...well maybe I'll just use the key in the dressing room when I'm selling my arab scarf.
For her part, Malkin was pleased with Dunkin's response: "It's refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."
W.
T.
F.
By Malkin's twisted logic we wouldn't allow Sikhs outside, for fear of offending the sensitive, if ignorant, anti-jihad Americans. What an f'ing clown.
I like Rachel Ray's fat arms. They're the least annoying thing about her. People who cook for a living SHOULD have fat arms.
WTF indeed.
Next thing you know wearing a beret won't just look dumb but you'll be accused of being a french jihadist apologist.
Oh but when will the day come when wearing a cowboy hat makes someone an imperialist blood sucking oil corporation apologist.
oh no!
I think if anything this has convinced me to buy and wear a kaffieyah just to see if I can get someone mad at me so I can point out their stupidity.
I would love for Rachel Ray to start wearing that thing on her show in protest.
And also for her to cook Michelle Malkin in one of her recipes.
i have newfound love her RR. (i hear once the cameras are off, she's incredibly down to earth and cool.) and for kaffiyehs.
Well, if the kaffiyehs piss of the wingnuts, where do I get me one?
http://talibanana.com/ among many places.
You can even make one in white and blue with a mogen david motif
http://jewschool.com/2006/11/22/the-kaffiyeh-yisraelit/
Support your affinity group today!
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"Well, if the kaffiyehs piss of the wingnuts, where do I get me one?"
There may be a resurgence of this is/was fashion trend thanks to Fox news.
Dunkin' Donuts disgusts me for giving into this silliness. Why on earth would Rachel Ray be wearing a kaffiyeh for crying out loud? It just looks like a white scarf with some kind of black design. These people sound like the idiots who find subliminal messages in Disney cartoons.
Sean Hannity likes young boys. I don't know this for a fact, but he does fit the profile - if ya know what I mean. *wink wink*
Dunkin Donuts? Terrible. I'll never understand how anyone can tolerate those dry, doughy, unpleasant wads passed off as "cake doughnuts".
And Krispy Kreme too sweet? How can anything ever be too sweet? It's impossible!
Rachel Ray though? One of the worst things on the fucking planet. I don't see how anyone who respects food in the slightest could even stoop to shit in her face.
Krispy Kreme is a disgusting sugary mess. I feel sorry for anyone who has not experienced the joys of "Daylight Donuts" with their thin, not too sweet glaze of perfection.
The hilarious thing is, IT'S PAISLEY!!!!!!! It's not even a keffiyeh. Look closely (beyond the fringe & the fact that it's black & white) and you can see the flowers and curves.