The Republicans Have Lost Their Minds

[SLCPUNK]

Dunkin' Donuts scraps Rachael Ray ad over scarf

By Mark Jewell, Associated Press
BOSTON ? Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.

Critics, including conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. Critics who fueled online complaints about the ad in blogs say such scarves have come to symbolize Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The kaffiyeh, Malkin wrote in a column posted online last Friday, "has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."

A statement issued by Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Brands Inc., however, said the scarf had a paisley design, and was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot.

"Absolutely no symbolism was intended," the company said.

Dunkin' spokeswoman Michelle King said the ad appeared on the chain's website, as well as other commercial sites.

Malkin, in a posting following up on last week's column, said of Dunkin's decision to pull the ad, "It's refreshing to see an American company show sensitivity to the concerns of Americans opposed to Islamic jihad and its apologists."

Ray, host of the Food Network television program 30 Minute Meals as well as a syndicated daytime talk show, began appearing in ads for Dunkin' Donuts in March 2007. When Dunkin' announced the partnership, it said Ray would be featured in TV, print, radio and online spots in a campaign running through 2010.

[Bill 213]

  Soooo this is the White House's smear tactic to take some attention off the McClellan book!

Rachael Ray = more annoying than Al Qaeda anyday!

[Genesis]

It's wrapped around her neck, not her head. American ignorance at its best.

[SLCPUNK]

Too bad the Neo Cons didn't go after Osama Bin Laden like they do hosts of the Food Network.

[Bill 213]

Too bad the Neo Cons didn't go after Osama Bin Laden like they do hosts of the Food Network.

Or looking for schlong in public bathrooms! If the Bush administration had HALF the drive that Larry Craig had, Osama would have his hands full....literally!  BOOM.

[The Estranged MrFlashbax]

do you have a link to this article?

[Sober_times]

Thats kind of sad that they would pull the add for such a moronic reason. But I also I find it amusing. 

[Bodhi]

you're right the republicans have lost their minds! what racist assholes....everybody knows that it is the owners and workers of these Dunkin Donuts who support Muslim extremism and terrorism...not Rachel Ray!  

seriously though...even i think this little uproar is ridiculous....i think Dunkin Donuts is stupid for even responding to it...

[Layne Staley's Sunglasses]

Rachel Ray threatens our national security with her 30 minute Lemon Chicken.

[Genesis]

do you have a link to this article?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7427206.stm

[Dr. Blutarsky]

Am I missing something? The word Republican does not appear once in the article.

And yes, this accusation of Rachel Ray promoting muslim views with a scarf is a stretch to say the least.

[TAP]

I read Malkin and Lowry in the NY Post just to have my intelligence insulted first thing in the morning. Dumb and dumber.

[guns_n_motley]

I had no idea One batshit fringe person = whole republican party

[DeN]

You call yourself a Christian
I think that you're a hypocrite
You say you are a patriot
I think that you're a crock of shit

http://www.deezer.com/track/18548

[Howard2k]

I had to check my calendar and confirm that we're not back to April 1st.

So now anyone who wears a head scarf is a possible terrorist?   Is this the best that US Intelligence can give us?  "hey, it's the guy with the head scarf, he's the one".

[Dr. Blutarsky]

I had no idea One batshit fringe person = whole republican party

Punk created the title to this topic. Enough said.

[Jim Bob]

to be fair, Michelle Malikin doesn't really reperesent ALL republicans.   I agree its stupid.

[Vicious Wishes]

Am I missing something? The word Republican does not appear once in the article.

And yes, this accusation of Rachel Ray promoting muslim views with a scarf is a stretch to say the least.

Yeah, SLCPUNK kinda assumes that anything negative is representative of every republican out there.


We've decided it's charming...... Well, some of us have.

[fuckin crazy]

   Is this the best that US Intelligence can give us? 

No, the intel fucks have taken a screen shot from a video game, and attributed it to the boogey man(Al Queda). I'll see if I can find a link.

McCain's daughter has been seen wearing one of them alkyda scarfs ... fuckin' bitch supports the enemy. (I'll also try to fink a link to that)

[sandman]

more importantly....


"Al Qaeda is on the verge of a strategic defeat in Iraq"

Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

In a strikingly upbeat assessment, the CIA chief cited major gains against al-Qaeda's allies in the Middle East and an increasingly successful campaign to destabilize the group's core leadership.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24885150/