[barend]

Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link

Malkin claimed scarf similar to those worn by murderous Islamic extremists



Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

In the ad, Ray is wearing a scarf that Michelle Malkin said in her nationally syndicated column resembled a kiffiyeh, Middle Eastern garb that is "popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos."

Dunkin's Senior Vice President for Communications Margie Myers issued a statement saying the scarf "was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended.

"However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In her column, Malkin also noted that it could appear at times that actor Colin Farrell, rapper Kanye West and Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean have been photographed in similar scarves that were "distinctive hate couture."

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Just so you know, there are two types of television hosts;
Fox News Hosts
and Terrorhosts.

This post has been edited by barend: 28 May 2008 - 07:25 PM

[J m HofMarN]

Absolutely amazing. These ass clowns have never seen a keffiyeh in their life.

I created one for an international cultural awareness deal. A keffiyeh is a large square piece of checked cloth (black and white for Fatah, Red and white for Hamas. I'm sure you can imagine which color I made) that is folded over into a triangle. You then place the triangle over your head with the two long sides facing down the sides, one a good bit longer than the other. You hold the long part of the cloth right over your eyes and then swing it around to the other side, around your head, and tuck the end of it into the part youve been holding beside your eyes. The short end hangs down your chest, and it's then secured with a special band whose name escapes me at present.

So, yeah, there's your Arab head dress knowledge for the day. Ans by the way, that's Arab head dress. Further east where Bin Ladin hangs out the turban is the usual headware. I know the people at faux news just call them all towel heads, but they could at least tell one style of towel wrapping from another. This woman is in no way wearing a keffiyeh. She is wearing a scarf. It amazes me that the mere suggestion that someone might be wearing an article of clothing that is like another article of clothing worn by a group of people, and that among this group there might be so-called terrorists who also wear that clothing... It's madness. Hey, Faux News, Bin Laden wears an American flag lapel pin to bed every night. No, not really, but it'd be great to see those proto fascists blanch in horror and rip at their chests.

This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 28 May 2008 - 08:44 PM

[civilian_number_two]

Yeah that's awesome. Do we hear sabre rattling for the Fox reporter to be fired or to resign? Because where I live that sort of generalisation is a damn site more offensive than "nappy-headed hos."

[Dr Lecter]

As punishment for this, it is decreed that she will be given a suspended sentence. However, her parole officer will be a known terrorist. Her only way to get out of this, is to give a public address and give a speech that include the lines "If were a law against stupidity, I would be the gallows".

This post has been edited by Dr Lecter: 29 May 2008 - 04:34 AM

[Chefelf]

Isn't the real shame that Dunkin' Donuts pulled the ad? They caved and basically said that they'd rather be xenophobic than just ignore the idiotic ramblings of people that found this offensive. Isn't being a racist more offensive than being someone of a particular race?

[barend]

Agreed. If I were the head of Dunkin Donuts, I'd be so offended by the bad press that my next add would have a beheading style home video look in which four men in balaclavas were reading in arabic off a note and pointing to the chair in front of them in which Poppin-Fresh (the Pillsbury Doughboy, or whatever his name is) were tied.

Tell me you'd get your donuts anywhere else.

This post has been edited by barend: 29 May 2008 - 07:07 PM

[J m HofMarN]

they'd rather be xenophobic than just ignore the idiotic ramblings of people

Fox news counts as people? Now that's news!

[Deucaon]

Isn't the real shame that Dunkin' Donuts pulled the ad? They caved and basically said that they'd rather be xenophobic than just ignore the idiotic ramblings of people that found this offensive. Isn't being a racist more offensive than being someone of a particular race?

I wasn’t aware that Islam was a race or ethnicity.

[J m HofMarN]

Arabs.

Also, that statement was pretty interesting, cuz after checking the forums I went to my inbox, and lo and behold a bunch of anti-war and anti-racism groups are now calling to boycott Dunkin Donuts. I think that's a bit extreme, but then if they'd had her in a skull cap and they'd pulled it because it looked like a Yamulka, these people would be hanging from a tree somewhere.

[Deucaon]

It would be less confusing if they used the term "Palestinian terrorists" or "Arab terrorists" and not "Muslim terrorists".

[Chefelf]

Why is it that no one is concerned about wearing a sacred head wrap as a chic scarf being offensive?

[civilian_number_two]

Good point Chef. The "offense" seems to be that Dunkin Donuts has taken something associated with Muslamaribic terrorization and tried to use it, subversive-like, to sell us donuts. Have they scanned that video for the obvious secret message it was sending to the terrorizers? Curious they pulled it so soon ... has the message already been received?

Hey, remember when everyone was supposed to be a communist or a commie sympathiser? How everything we know and love, like gated communities and privatised medicine, was going to disappear because we were soft of commies? I don't remember if there were obvious fashion accessories that the commies could use to identify one another. These Muslimists is smart.

[J m HofMarN]

It would be less confusing if they used the term "Palestinian terrorists" or "Arab terrorists" and not "Muslim terrorists".

That's a tiny, tiny part of what's so offensive. They associate this headware with all Muslims and terrorists in specific. I made quite clear that this head ware is largely eastern arab (Palestinian groups dont typically attack the US, so why should we be offended by their headware?) and not of the same sort that Qaeda would wear. And what's more, there is no Muslims headware. The Quran, to the best of my knowledge, says nothing about what to put on your head. So there are Muslims who might wear baseball caps, fezes, or fedoras. It's kind of a double edge attack on decency between
1: All Muslims are towel heads
2: It's wrong to portray someone who wears clothes that make her look remotely like an evil Muslim.

Like I said, If this woman had a spiece of watermelon in her hand and Fox news said the commercial needed to go down because she looked like a black person, not only would that commentator no longer have a job, the network would be boycotted, and that show would be taken off the air.

My strategy, if I were Dunkin Donuts, would be to take down this commercial and put up a new one with a Muslim wearing an actual Keffiyeh. Then watch in amusement while the whole fox news building jumped out windows and tried to activate their special building escape parachutes they bought after 9/11.

This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 30 May 2008 - 08:42 PM

[Deucaon]

This just in: IRA terrorists wore jeans so if you wear jeans who are a terrorist supporter or worse... Irish.

[reiner]

*spits Jamesson on his keyboard in disbelief*