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Rachael Ray Dunkin Donuts Ad Pulled Over Keffiyeh

052808rachaelray.jpgHeads up, hipsters: Those keffiyeh scarves, long associated with Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian resistance, are officially ‘so over.’ While the choice of keffiyeh as fashion accessory – at least when sported by sweaty, coked-up white kids mincing for Cobra Snake – has about as much political heft as a neon Che Guevara thong, the trend’s death knell has been rung not by a sudden surge in good taste but by divisive food celebrity Rachael Ray.

First Ray mortified hipsters by hosting a party at Austin’s SXSW indie rock snob-in, now she’s ruined the keffiyeh for everyone by wearing it in a Dunkin' Donuts commercial. Next she’ll want to join in the dodgeball games at McCarren Park Pool – unless she’s stopped, which the Dunkin' Donuts corporation seems determined to do; the company has yanked the commercial after getting complaints from incensed hipsters. Scratch that – incensed conservatives.

Fox News pundit Michelle Malkin led the pack decrying Ray’s keffiyeh, calling it a symbol of the “murderous Palestinian jihad.” But the company denies that their perky spokesperson was trying to subliminally link their iced coffee to Israeli opposition: “In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by her stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, given the possibility of misperception, we are no longer using the commercial.” Ray was too busy organizing a fabulous rock-throwing party in Ramallah to comment.

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  • InsoMia

    A lot of people have been killed by somebody wearing a baseball cap; that doesn't mean it's a violent symbol. Shame on Dunkin Donuts for pulling the ad.

  • S.D.

    Kreo, I am a US citizen and a small group of people, not representative of millions of Muslims, attacked us.

    Despite that, I really think this "Keffiyeh issue" is a bunch of extremists acting bat shit crazy.



  • Kreo

    #47, there is no such thing as "zionist terrorists" anymore.

    Do not confuse political assasination of someone protected by bodyguards (cowardly Rabin's termination) with real terrorism - pigs killing and violently beheading on camera random innocent people with the sole purpose of planting the seeds of terror in the hearts of volnurable general public.

    It is a fact that in the eyes of some who were exposed in one way or another to the islamo-fashists' terror acts the keffiyeh will always represent an attribute of terror.

    I am a US citizen and islamo-fashists openly declared a war on my very own US - that makes me very sensitive to the keffiyeh issue.

  • yoplay

    RR is a mouth breather

  • Purdwobb



    I've always had a sneaking feeling that Rachel Ray was a terroist. Thirty minute meals a convienence? Ha! They just give everyone more time to plot and build bombs!

    P

  • Kojak

    Dude69: "Malkin is a total prud who probably needs a good hard fuck real bad so to loosen up her tight dry pussy."

    lol Yes! She seems bitter at every freakin thing. Shes too polarized politically. She needs to get laid.

  • SFNY

    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.

  • sonyactivision

    What we don't want, what we don't want to see, is her minge. Ever.

  • Robin11

    Rachael has a neon orange kitchen with bad lighting as her Food Network set for 30 min meals. All that money and still no taste. Usually wears the least flattering clothing she can find, and wears it loud and proud. Here's betting she couldn't even pronounce 'keffiyeh' if her life depended on it. To the wacky folks here who are saying that wearing it is the same as wearing a swastika:I guess as much as I disagree with your attitude, I have to see the comparison in a symbol that has old meaning and was used in a way that had nothing to do with it's origin. BTW, when you support the basic human rights of the Palestinians, you are supporting PEOPLE, not terrorists. Plenty of Palestinians are just trying to live their lives while the Prime Minister of Israel declares he will unleash a "holocaust" upon them. Nice.

  • theultimateend

    |"Scratch that – incensed conservatives." - No, no, just people who have a social conscious. You don't need to be a hipster d-bag nor a "no-spin-zone" kind of guy to understand this. What once stood for the legitimate right for a group of people to govern themselves now stands for a murderous entity of people who can't have repeatedly shown that they either can't, nor are unwilling to govern themselves.

    It's pretty much on par with the Swastika these days. Sure - I'm all for raising up the German people after WWI - but I'm pretty sure exterminating groups of people and taking over the rest of the world failed to achieve that...|

    While I usually ignore garbage on the internet I sometimes make special exceptions, this is one of them.

    First off, the middle eastern people are no different than Americans. Now on the very superficial level you can make an argument they are very different, but that's for someone shallow to come along and do.

    They are a people that have strong beliefs and are very passionate about their views. I find it very unfortunate that they feel that violence is the only way to reach those views, but really are we any different? 600k dead Iraqi's since we invaded Iraq 7 years ago. That's almost 100k people a year dying because of an incident the US government began.

    Also anyone throwing around Jihad as if it means holy war is a fool. A Jihad is just a protest, its a protest against some sort of inner conflict or an outer one. The whole holy war schenanigans is probably Fox new's doing.

    As for WWI and WWII. After WWI, the US, UK, and France (and probably a few other nations) drilled Germany's economy into the shitter. People were so poor that no amount of pooling up money could get them enough for some bread, the people were destitute. Hitler would of NEVER been able to do what he did without this horrible situation that these other major nations caused. He didn't even run on the 'kill the jews' line, he told the German people he could save them and he slowly, and meticulously moved them towards the murder of the Jewish people.

    Who else has slowly and meticulously moved an entire nation to attack and kill another group of people in recent times?

    The German people were not evil, just as the people of the middle east are not evil. It's conflicting views that unfortunately get greatly out of hand, but whenever you whole heartedly think some magical creator is the reason you live then your generally going to get into some silly shit. Especially when your only reason for believing so is a book that was written buy humans.

    Personally when I want enlightenment on computer repairs I don't read a book written by a chef, I go straight to the computer technicians and their literature. I feel the same way about faith, so until I get an email or honeygram from god personally I'll be highly skeptical.

    We need to get over this gangster mentality, wearing something doesn't make you suddenly part of some group. Being a part of that group does, I'm pretty sure Rachel Ray isn't killing anyone, except for maybe a Diabetic or two.

    We are in a situation that was already unfortunate (much like Germany post WWI) and we've decided to step in and make it MUCH WORSE (like Germany after the treaty who's name i'm forgetting), so you know what is going to happen? Whenever people enter desperate times, lots of people die.

    Hardly has to do with fashion.

  • mad_mike

    Interestingly, similar scarves to the keffiyeh are very popular in Cambodia. They call it a krama, and from a glance it looks very much the same.

    http://www.agirpourlecambodge.org/images/fille_krama.jpg

    (They're more common in black, actually)

  • bugsinamber

    100% agree with #47. Anyway CR:

    First of all, suicide bombers don't go out on a mission looking VERY ARAB, sporting a keffiyeh and all.

    Second, there has been a mass slaughter of those WEARING the keffiyeh as well. I assume you know this, so why am I even restating the obvious.

    Third, the sign of swastika was ADOPTED by Hitler's maniacal movement, it wasn't a German symbol in pre-Hitler times. As a cultural icon it existed elsewhere, mainly the Sub-Indian continent. And we still use the swastika (in its more traditional design) in the Sub-Indian continent, though the meaning is different because of the context. I've seen it mostly used in religious ceremonies, etc. A keffiyeh is a piece of clothing that existed long before Israel did.

  • thefacts

    Zionist terrorists wear yamulkes when they murder worshipers at the El Aksar mosque or kill the Israeli Prime Minister, to name just two examples.

    Shouldn't other Jews stop wear that head wear?

  • aveB4life

    Rachel Ray is launching a jihad on her body with those donuts

  • redhookreject

    Is Malkin even relevant?

    What next Michael Savage objects to the Charmin Bears as gay?

  • AvenueHebrew

    http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/25/oh-noes-is-meghan-mccain-a-terrorist-sympathiser-too/

    “Keffiyeh is also called a Shemagh and is used by almost every military force in the Middle East right now. You can buy it at most Army-Navy stores and it is very popular amongst British, Australian, and US troops. It is not only used by the troops to help cover their mouths and faces during sand storms, but worn as a scarf to prevent sunburn along the back of their necks during the day.”

  • interlard

    Who'd have thought the fashion police were Nazis.

  • whatstheproblem

    Time to make the donuts.

  • Dude69

    I like me a keffiyeh, looks comfy.

    Malkin is a total prud who probably needs a good hard fuck real bad so to loosen up her tight dry pussy.

    CR is a total idiot, stupidest comments I have seen today.

    And I love RR!!

  • matty

    holy typos @ my posts.

    DM - I did not know that!

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