With Rachael Ray, the terrorists always win
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Leave it to right-wing/ conservative/ Republican/ Fox News-watching faux writers to criticize innocent fashion. Anyone remember the group who proclaimed that driving an SUV supported terrorism?
I like the other Dunkin Donuts commercials better anyway...... the musical numbers. LOVE THEM!
ZM
Posted by: Zackery M | May 29, 2008 6:52:09 AM
Idiot Republicans- I know. It's redundant
Posted by: oy | May 29, 2008 9:57:58 AM
Over on adland the post about this has turned into "spot the celeb in a kaffiyeh" image fest. :)
http://commercial-archive.com/node/143893
Posted by: Dabitch | May 29, 2008 11:46:45 AM
I was hot on this article and issue since it came out on the 23rd... here's my "open letter" to Ms. Malkin (I'm still awaiting reply).
"Michelle -
I'm writing you directly (rather than leave my commentary on your site) in response to your May 23rd "Of Donuts and Dumb Celebrities" post.
All I can think is "Are you serious?". This looks like an article that should have appeared in The Onion not on a notable journalist's/ author's blog.
Thank you for being so concerned for all of us frightened and under-educated Americans that can't seem to distinguish a scarf from a scarf... but quite frankly, it's just a scarf. You justify your own point (in the follow-up article) as you mention John McCain's daughter was seen wearing a (gasp) scarf.
These keffiyeh are popular the world-over, not just among hell-bent jihad radicals. I spent 8 months last year traveling in South and Central America, Europe, and Africa - saw 'em everywhere. Now, they're making their way into our American pop-culture/pro-fashion conscious society, no surprise there - we've always been a country to both set, and follow trends. I'm aware of their origins, but I'm also not going to jump to any absurd conclusions and assume Dunkin Donuts or anyone wearing a keffiyah is "pro-terrorist" or whatever claims you seem to be implying.
If there was any real reason to boycott Dunkin Donuts it should be done for the simple fact that they are absolutely terrible for your health, and the overall health of our nation. Which, I think goes without question could only be described as "suffering". The numbers may still be out, but in my estimation Dunkin Donuts is probably responsible for more American deaths than the keffiyeh.
Sincerely,
Bill Galusha"
Posted by: Bill Galusha | May 29, 2008 2:44:40 PM
What’s next?
Two words: Rachael Che
Posted by: Jeff | May 29, 2008 3:23:06 PM
Man, what a country.
A coke-sniffing, alcoholic, borderline retarded business failure as a two-term president presiding over a population of fat, sloppy, loud, whiney morons with a collective case of severe ADD.
Posted by: | May 29, 2008 6:44:24 PM
I think its ridiculous that some douche bag has nothing better to do than to sit around at the computer and say that Rachael Ray is a terrorist because of a scarf she is wearing. My grandmother has the same one, does that mean she is a terrorist? Find something better to write about dickhead.
Posted by: Kevin | May 31, 2008 11:58:33 AM
Interesting. Its racism of course, plain and simple. Its like if Coke pulled a Bill Cosby ad because his black skin was insensitive to people who had had crimes committed against them by people with black skin.
I don't think Dunkin Donuts or capitalism in general is racist in itself. Its just a basic tool in the toolbox for splitting people up, keeping them disorganized and breaking down the social bonds that lead people to have supportive feelings about each other. This de-socialization is really a key element in getting wealth and decision making into the hands of private power. Divide and conquer. Identity politics. Its complicated 'tho. You have to pick a vulnerable target to match the situation, and you can't go too far, or it can backfire. Right now in many situations of course Arabic peoples are the vulnerable target. A good media person has good instincts here, that's how you get ahead in the game and maximize funding from the advertisers. Michelle Malkin's nationally syndicated column is doing very well.
On her website it looks like she's also having fun with several other people dividers. Illegal immigrants is a great program of course, it attacks us on so many levels. It incorporates racism, but also increases the percentage of the working class who have no political or social rights at all. It drives down wages, pitting legal and illegal sectors of the working class against each other instead of uniting in common interest against the ruling class, etc. That's why we have it, not porous borders. Other countries with more difficult borders maintain 100% control when they want to. In Europe they chose to use the "guest worker" program to split people up, some of the ruling class wants to implement that in the US now, that's what they're talking about on the TV when they say "immigration reform".
More interesting on the web site is how Malkin is working on splitting up the coffee drinkers. Dunkin Donuts ("conservative") vs. Starbucks ("liberal"). This corresponds to a big effort here throughout the media, check it out on your computer. Its usually in the context of "conservative" verses "liberal". Consistent efforts to portray country music as "conservative" and rock music as "liberal", gun nuts as "conservative" and non-gun nuts as "liberal", Christians as conservative, etc. Which of course in the reality of everyday people is bs. The Beach Boys are Reaganites and Merl Haggard loves Hilary Clinton, etc. Right wing gays and hippys abound, I know some. The actual social mores of a "conservative" bible belt person of course exceed the wildest decadent fantasies of your stereotypical "east coast liberal" intellectual.
Posted by: pappy | Jun 1, 2008 8:24:29 PM
HOW CAN RACHEL PROMOT TERRORISM BY WEARING A SCARF.. whAt idiot sparked this stupid idea..probably someone without an education and a brain...people like this have nothing else to do then dig a hole of racism about everything all the time...the next pathetic story will probably be that African Americans cant advertise anything because their too black and a Hispanics cant advertise anything because someones brother was injured by a Hispanic (the things that miserable ppl do)...THE PEOPLE THT MAKE THIS SHIT UP SHOULD PROBABLY GO AND GET AN EDUCATION ...WHT NEXT (UFF) WHT NEXT?
Posted by: ARE-YOU-SERIOUS..wht next..lol? | Jun 1, 2008 10:02:51 PM
Has this woman ever walked down the street in New York? I work in SoHo and see one of these scarves every time I step out of the front door of my building. Some people need to really chill out and put their energies to better use.
Posted by: | Jun 2, 2008 4:02:25 PM
Please Malkin, get a brain.
Posted by: bigblackdress | Jun 5, 2008 9:16:04 PM
Have you heard about the wingnuts' favorite hysterical plagiarist's "baby daddy" comment about Michelle Obama?
warm terrorist fist jabs to all of you.
Posted by: Bob Crispen | Jun 19, 2008 12:51:05 PM
