Rachael Ray, Dunkin' Donuts And The Keffiyeh Kerfuffle

[Terri]

By Michelle Malkin
May 28, 2008

I've been a fan of Dunkin' Donuts for years. Their Munchkins are heaven. Their coffee is better and cheaper than Starbucks. And the company's management has taken a brave and lonely stand in support of immigration enforcement -- refusing to hire illegal aliens and blowing the whistle on applicants with bogus Social Security numbers.

So it was with some dismay that I learned last week that Dunkin' Donuts spokeswoman Rachael Ray, the ubiquitous TV hostess, posed for one of the company's ads in what appeared to be a black-and-white keffiyeh.

The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that 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.

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[welder4]

As always Michelle gets it right , it is appalling to see the news media fawn all over Islam as if it were some special religion that was the salvation of the world when in fact it promotes jihad and the beheading of all the infidels that will not convert. I sometimes wonder if any of the so called journalist have read the Koran and its call to clean the world of non believers. We the people of the United States deserve better from our news people then to call us haters and demons. The Christian faith and the bible teaches us to seek and to save that which is lost, we are not intrusive at all as a matter of fact the Bible tells us when we have presented the truth of the gospel and it is rejected we are to dust our shoes off and leave from their sight never more to seek that person again . That is so we will not waste precious minutes dealing with someone that is not going to accept Jesus as their personal savior , that does not mean God has given up on the person but we are to go else where with the idea we have little time to waste and it will be better spent on a receptive ear. Hopefully another person will come along that has the right words and the right way of presenting it that this one we lost may be found . The Christian faith will not behead any one nor will we intimidate as the Islamic faith does .

[fouroaks93]

Okay, Dunkin'Donuts has apologized for their mess up. Now I wonder*****will Rachael Ray??? If she doesn't, my husband will definitely find someone else to watch on the Food Network. I would have thought that she was a little more savey than that.

[RW]

Next up? Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell modeling the ever fashionable and centuries old classic...the black burka...one size fits all.

[Kaylancor]

I thought the end of the article was well said.
After 9/11 no one should be glorifying or looking up to anything related to the terrorists. I think Dunkin Donuts did great in retracting their ad when they realized the symbolism. I can't imagine anyone in their right mind wearing something that is even close to what a terrorist would wear.

[LAC]

I find this article interesting.

Something that I have noticed for years,
and I think that we DO have to acknowledge is,
1. That Rachel Ray is very naive.
2. She is really not that smart.
3. Seems to always be a bit tipsy.

Rachel is where she is because she accommodates the accepting of all things, very liberal.
She knows how to be a good suck up.
And acts like she is still in high school.

But that should not excuse her or her publicist in NOT doing their research properly.

Ignorance is not always bliss.


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[blessedkids]

Thank-you Michelle for exposing this 'ignorance' and standing up for what is right. Great job. Keep up the good work.

[sashamom]

Once again, Michelle is right. It is time for Conservatives & Christians to be just as vocal as Liberals and object to this type of display. I am tired of the double standard that keeps being played on Conservatives and Caucasions in the political arena. I used to think it was silly for people to object to silly and trite issues. But it seems to get press and I have come to believe that the squeaky wheel does indeed get the grease. Either it is the deliberate intent of Rachel Ray to use her celebrity as a free platform to get out her political message which is not afforded to other individuals or it is another example of how ignorant and easily puppeted our celebrities are. Thanks Michelle for bringing up this issue.

[Big Al]

Terri,

Quite some time since I excercized my privilige. I appreciate Michelle Malkin's article relative to Rachael Ray. I don't agree with the adjectives used by a fellow member pertaining to Ray, though they may be correct.

I like and watch the Rachel Ray show because, up to now it has been about cooking. I feel Rachel has the right, as well as the obligation, to clarify her position on this rag that Muslim Terrorist use to hide their murderous faces. If she chooses to ignore the situation I must consider her guilty of knowing what she did. Should that be the case, should she, Rachael Ray be guilty of wearing this "blood rag" of the
lecherous Muslim Terrorists in a sign of support for these "dogs of the human (?) race, then we should condem her, as well as her show, her products as well as everything connected with her.

This lady already has a strike against her for having Rosie O'Donnel on her show. Rosie & I do not eat out of the same bowl, I rather eat slop with the pigs than share anything with that traitorous leach.

[antiDemt]

Bostonglob.com "informed" about the add by attacking "the ultra-conservative" Michelle.

That is what I e-mailed them:

“Does Dunkin’ Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer?”

What kind of question was that? Who cares about Ray’s sympathies? I hope we are not in a totally “liberal” state yet to police a performer’s personal believes.

Dunkin’ Donuts’ concern is the message – and rightly so (should I’ve said “leftly”?).

Well, apparently the article [bostonglob.com] author would cheer Ray wearing any male-related piece of apparel as far as that make the “ultra-conservative observers” mad.