Dunkin' Donuts caves to the right's fear of clothing accessories--UPDATED
By Steve Benen Wednesday May 28, 2008 1:30pm
Following up on an item from the weekend, I have good news — as far as a few unhinged conservative activists are concerned, you can now go back to enjoying Dunkin’ Donuts without inadvertently supporting a terrorist-sympathizing ad campaign.
For those of you who don’t read reactionary right-wing blogs, Dunkin’ Donuts recently unveiled an ad featuring television personality Rachael Ray, holding a latte, standing in front of blooming trees. Ray, however, is wearing a scarf, and for conservatives, a scarf is never just a scarf.
Michelle Malkin noted that the scarf is black and white, which she insisted meant that it looked too similar to an Arabic keffiyeh. From Malkin’s column: "It’s just a scarf, the clueless keffiyeh-wearers scoff. Would they say the same of fashion designers who marketed modified Klan-style hoods in Burberry plaid as the next big thing?"
Malkin’s cohorts quickly embraced her concerns, and there was talk of launching a boycott against Dunkin’ Donuts over the ad.
This week, unwilling to take any chances against the coordinated efforts of unhinged Fox News commentators, Dunkin’ Donuts backed down and gave in.
The company at first pooh-poohed the complaints, claiming the black-and-white wrap was not a keffiyeh. But the right-wing drumbeat on the blogosphere continued and by yesterday, Dunkin’ Donuts decided it’d be easier just to yank the ad.
Said the suits in a statement: ”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.”
I can certainly understand Dunkin’ Donuts’ reluctance to fight on this one, but by backing down, the company is only going to encourage this crowd to launch similar crusades in the future.
UPDATE: (Nicole) Uh oh. Malkin may need to start a boycott of herself. Sadly No! has found a picture of Michelle in possession of the dreaded "jihadi" chic. Can we get her readers to flood her inbox with messages accusing her of sympathizing with the terrorists?
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I'm going to boycot these assholes.
Excellent, in a time when the dollars value is in freefall collapse, when the nation is riddled with debt, when people are losing their homes, when the unemployment rate is rising.. THANK GOD somebody didn't forget about what really matters.
A Scarf.
Anchor Baby Malkin shouldn't be calling people "clueless" while ranting about a scarf.
Considering non Arab men and woman have been wearing those in the west for decades, the right crazies really need to get out more.
Their cluelessness is amusing though.
Gary @ 2:
...a friggin'...scarf...
I say we express our solidarity by wearing keffiyehs that have donuts embroidered on them. Some enterprising Etsy person could start making and selling them. It'll be like everybody adding "Hussein" to their names.
BTW, I've now got a cat with the middle name Hussein.
Dunkin' Nonuts. Stole that. Will have to go find who to give credit to.
I'm a Tim Horton's man myself, so I'm safe in the knowledge that my money goes directly to Satan, not terrorists.
Hey, they encourage people to drink "double-doubles"! That's just evil!
But now I want to see Arafat wearing a paisley keffyeh. Photoshop, anybody?
...perception of what? lively scarfs...
I'll be barfing up my double latte from this morning in protest.
I will miss going to Dunkin' Donuts. Can't support those who bow to the right and make them stronger.
I am organizing a ban of all companies that give in to this paranoid bullshit.
They lost me when they hired that obnoxious woman in the first place.
Joe @ 12:
lmao!!!Yeah...that was the first offense!!!!!
News Alert: Fashion number #1 issue in American Media
Why? Because issues of substance are too risky!
Actually, I don't think you do understand DD's reason for easily backing down. They were bought out by Bain Capital and the Carlyle Group two years ago. 'Nuff said.
Almost as sad as DD caving into this nonsense is that Anchor Baby Malkin's "readers" actually agreeing with the idiot.
OMG!!1!! A TERRIROST!! HLEP! HEPL!!!!!!
Oh yeah, the war on terror is going so well, these bed-pissing simpletons are afraid of a fucking scarf.
Tell you what, war-tards, why don't you go cower under your beds, while the grown-ups clean up your mess.
The most insane story of the year so far, bar none.
Not surprising the disgusting fascist Malkin is behind all this.
Uncle_Jack @ 5:
... an ugly, frigging scarf....
Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 15:
That is interesting. I've been had again......fck!!!!
Funny how some piss-ants with loud voices and a serious minority on the lunatic fringe can affect some companies. Of course, DD is a right winger type business and it would seriously affect their bottom line.
Is a big company like Dunkin' Donuts that chicken shit? Are they that fearful of Malkin and her fans that they will actually pull down an ad? This is pathetic. They should be embarrassed as hell for crumbling to a right wing group like that. The real reason the ad should have been pulled is that Rachael is not wearing a flag pin.
Dunkin' Donuts has given in to the terrorists.
Malkin is a pitiful human being, and she makes me sad, not angry.
LOL so what do you think the terrorists recruited Rachael Ray for, guys? If it was to annoy us to death, it's working.
casper46 @ 7:
It was me, baby. me. :)
i'm speechless...over this...and i can't stand rachel ray.
All 1.3 billion muslims are terrorists, this is 1938 and they're the nazis, kill em all, round em all up and throw them in big ovens, we can't trust any of them.
The stupid. It burns.
That's why I always prefered Southern Maid.
Man, what a country.
Baskin Robbins Heath Bar Shake is America's Unhealthiest Beverage.
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/5027/americas-unhealthiest-drink...
Baskin Robbin’s Large Heath Bar Shake (32 oz)
2,310 calories
266 g sugar
108 g fat (64 g saturated)
Oh this is Dunkin Donuts. That's healthy, so never mind.
That's ok... I'm boycotting now because they caved to this bull$hit
Insane Christian extremists. Funny how these rightarded idiots all hate and spew treason about Islamic extremists when these clowns are zero different. Their insane Christianity motivates their behaviors.
The management of this corporation is stupid. I would consider starting a campaign to boycott them because they caves in to these lunatics. The whole claim was absurd and was only a publicity stunt for that horrible example of a human being Michele Malkin. But what would somebody like me want from a corporation like Dump-n-Donuts? “You run that ad or I’m boycotting”?
OH wait, didn't we just get into a dustup about a t-shirt in a McC ad? Before we call Malkin the media whore that she is, (And she is a foolish little git isn't she? Anyone else watch the Philip Seymour Hoffman you tube of the 2000 RNC convention, where she got a cameo?!) we should try to hold the high ground.
Michelle Malkin, I wondered what she was doing since she got dumped from the RightWing Radar! Can't afford StarBucks and has to drink DD, with her Jagermanns I guess.
No wonder the donuts at Dunkin Donuts is tasteless and stale and the coffee is bitter and weak. The franchise is own by right wing fckers!!
Eventually, everything makes sense.
ROFL!!!!!
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Subject: Hooray for Dunkin' Donuts and now,
HOPEFULLY Rachel Ray (Gad she's gorgeous and she can cook too) will come out with an apology for unintentional offense to her public. She has historically shown allot of class, let's hope she continues.
Thank you Michelle, for taking the time to point out an offense to the sensitivities of the sane AND for reminding us that there really are companies that still care about their country's core values. That ad had to cost a large chunk of money and Dunkin' Donuts chucked it (although they certainly bought some goodwill by their action).
Great column (as usual)!
Who'd of thought they were bigots and racists?
Here's an idea. They were worried about a boycott? Let's give them one.
Any company that's stupid enough to give in to the likes of Michelle Malkin doesn't deserve our hard-earned cash.
You commie Libs go ahead an laff!
Real Americans only eat Krispy Kreams!
As was pointed out last weekend when this non-story broke, Rachel Ray has gained a few. Hence the scarf to cover a slightly bulged out neck and shoulders in the ad.
BTW, all over the net is the recent pic of McCain's daughter wearing an identical scarf.
Sorry, Malkin. Wrong read of the sitch as per usual.
Sorry DD, you lost my business for coffee- your doughnuts I've never been fond of.
Does Malkin sit around all day with a magnifying glass going over everything in print and on tv trying to find something that offends her? Jesus, she really is pathetic.
Yup. The terrorist won on this one.
So if scarves are so threatening what will they do about the the pants issue? I think terrorists wear pants. Then what will they do about the bathroom issue? I think terrorists use bathrooms. OMG.
If you go to the Dunkin Donuts website there is a link to contact them. I informed them my family is boycotting them for spreading fear, hate and intolerance. Now I have to dig up my fringed scarves. I will no longer leave the house without one. And I won't give up pants. Excuse me, I have to pee.
This was in Wikipedia so maybe I will boycott them. “They reached an agreement in December 2005 to sell the brand to a consortium of three private equity firms, Bain Capital Partners, the Carlyle Group and Thomas H. Lee Partners.”
It's the donuts that warrant concern. Terrorists want us sick and fat.
It's obviously just a scarf, and yes, it's horrible that a company would pull an ad over something so irrational. But, what of the larger issue that no one seems to be talking about: When did it become a crime in this country to be a Muslim anyway?
I mean, what if it was a keffiyeh? So what?!? Have we really sunk so low that all Muslims are viewed as terrorists? What's next? Are the storm troopers going to be out rounding them up?
We seem to have turned into a nation dominated by the petty, ignorant, and frightened. My heart aches for my once-proud nation, and I fear for my children's future.
God damn. that was the fastest 45 comments I have ever seen here. lmao
AAAAUUUUUGGGGGHHHH! (beats head against wall)
What is wrong with these people?
I think it is time to give Ms. Malkin a bit of her own medicine.
I think she is a threat to our American way of life because she 's got "slanty eyes."
Who wants to join in on this?
Anybody?
sean @ 24:
Makes me bitter.
You know, in this country, if you take a piece of fabric, put a pattern on it, and wear it around your neck, it's called a scarf. We do this for warmth, for adornment, or to cover up hickeys. A scarf may be called other things in other countries, and it may be worn for other reasons. But in this country, it's a scarf.
anchor baby malkin makes me embrassed to be asian or pacific islander. while she and her nutcase pals boycott dunkin dounots for racheal ray scarf, they are driving their suv and hummer power by oil and gas that is imported from saudi arabia.
and if i shall remind you, saudi arabia is where 15 of the 17 hijacker came from, makes up 45 percent of the terrorist action in iraq, on and on.
malkin driving in her Lin Laden power SUV/Hummer while screaming about a scarf is like foux noise anchors screaming about Senator Obama not wearing a flag pin while they are not wearing a flag pin themselves or if they do, it is make in communist china.
How stupid! It's just a scarf.
Haven't had a fascist Dunkin Carlyle product for a while now. :-P
StirFry @ 26:
hahahha Yes it was!
Actually, I think we should provide Dunkin Donuts some new slogans:
Eating our donuts makes you fat-heated as well as just fat ....
I think I am going to start a counter campaign ... Real Liberals eat at Dulcerias! Where the Pan Dulce is made by undocumented workers! But we don't wear keffiyehs! we wear ponchos!
Anchor Baby Malkin exemplifies what a reich-wing "America" would look like. Think twice about voting for McBush or any reich-winger in the future.
I work in advertising and that scarf was an insanely stupid choice. It would have lasted ten seconds on a set with me. That being said, the advertising world is so full of this kind of bullshit, I can't stand it. But they should've known better.
I hate the anchor baby (Malkin) as much as anyone, and her point is idiotic. But middle America will eat you for lunch on anything, even a harmless scarf. If it wasn't Malkin and her ilk, it would have been someone else.
The average budget for a commercial is somewhere around 500K. At that price, leave the scarf at home.
You may hate me now.
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 48:
Were you around during the Libby trial?
i was on my way to work this morning, walking down the street, minding my own beeswax. when, wham!, out of the blue i see this lady, and she looked very suspicious. standing there, looking around, doing stuff. then, when i got closer i notice that she is some sort of middle eastern/arab/s.e. asian... ok, she is not white. so, obviously, my hackles went up. who could this be? a woman, standing on MY block, not white, doing things. trouble. i could smell it. but, at this point i was only prepared to glare and maybe hurl an ugly remark.
then i noticed a scarf. a SCARF! no. friggin. shit. this lady, standing on my block was wearing a terror scarf! well, to be honest, it could have just been a black and white paisley, or even polka dot, scarf. but it LOOKED like something an arab would wear. moreover, after 911 who wears scarves anymore? right?
that was all i needed to see. i called the cops, chased her all the way back to her apartment, sprayed anti-arab slogans on the building, and started throwing rocks at the windows, hoping to scare, or hurt, whoever dared to try to look out, chanting USA-USA-USA all the while.
nothing shows ones patriotism better than blind, violent hate.
--this is michelle malkin, and that is my america
Even our local sports radio station picked up on this, and they had some good nuggets.
One, if a lefty was saying you shouldn't be saying this or doing that because it is offensive, Malkin would be screaming about "political correctness run amuck", and this is the ultimate ploy in political correctness.
One caller was afraid that all Osama had to do to destroy our economy was do a few of his videos wearing Nikes, drinking a Coke, while riding in a Chevy and we would have to boycott all those products!
Why do people even listen to these crazy wingnuts!
Hey,
I think Rachel Ray is as cute as a button, but perhaps we need to think a bit. Maybe Malkin has a point. We have to be on guard against these "culinary extremists".
Today its a scarf, tomorrow they will be attacking a pork farm! Emeril Lagasse said it himself, "Its all about the pork, babe!"
Remember another time these culinary terrorists attacked America? Remember when that poor old woman asked us all, "Where's the beef?"
We have to protect America from the culinary terrorists!
I hope you have your "sarcasm detector" turned on.
Wait! 'Ow my Balls' is on...
But, but...Malkin knows "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street".
Well, this silly fiasco put Dunkin Nonuts and Malkinsane in the foreground.
I haven't noticed Dunkin since the early 90s, and I thought Malkin's head exploded when she was fired from Faux.
I hate them both. So f*ck em in the donut hole.
pissed off patricia @ 22:
The owners of Dump-n-Dogshits is a right wing group.
People like coulter and Malkin aren't right wing, they're just horribly stupid people.
Putin's Bicep @ 63:
I laughed out load at your Idiocracy reference until I realized how far down that path we've slipped. Not really funny anymore.
i guess now that i will stop eating Dunkin Donuts, i'll be slightly healthier
win win
i don't see that much difference between dunkin' donuts distancing themselves from "terrorist" headgear and barrack obama putting out his i'm-not-a-muslim flyers and videos . . . both are pandering to racism and religious bigotry
when will americans learn to judge people based upon the content of their character, not the color of their skin, accent, attire, middle name . . . ?
As linked by MBR earlier today, Skippy posted a great letter by DistributorCapNY to Dunkin Donuts. This is unsurprising but disappointing.
i mean " barack"
Were I running Dunkin’ Donuts ad campaign I’d pull the commercial, too. It is a very ugly scarf and it makes Rachael Ray look even chubbier than usual.
Rachel is no terrorist, although hawkding deep-fried, unhealthy donuts isn't the best use of her time!
What difference does it make what someone wears anyway? Why do we have to be so fearful of right-wing (or even left-wing) political correctness...
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Now Malkin Claims Indy 500 Sold Out to Terrorists
Jonny at the Cape @ 47:
I'm with you, Jonny! What Dunkin Donuts did is blatant discrimination. I will boycott them (not that I ever went there anyway). We should start our own boycott for their blantant racisim. Disgusting.
I've been hearing about this story for three days now. Why is this "news" bigger and more publicized than Fox advocating an Obama assassination?
You can always count on the right to freak the hell out over just about any insult they can imagine themselves the victims of. The level of outrage.... it's like watching Deep Throat with Andrea Dworkin... except they are freaking out over Teletubbies and Paisleys and shit.
I can't believe they ruled our country for a while. Malkin reminds me of a Chihuahua on crystal meth... yapping, paranoid, desperate to prove that she is the biggest dog in the yard. But she'd be cute if she weren't too bigoted to say things like, "Yo quiero Taco Bell."
wijg @ 77:
Huh?
TERROR ALERT RED!!!!!
Terror has many faces
Principle is once again defeated by bottom line.
Samson- @ 60:
Too funny. You should go post this at the Malkin site. I would do it but I don't want to dirty my computer.
I meant to say 'hawking' not hawkding ...although one probably needs to hawkding after they eat too many deep-fried donuts!
PS - as a kid I used to love Dunkin' Donuts - especially because I thought the way they spelled Dunkin' was a NY-ism....'fohgetaboutit'
Don Davis @ 75:
That's IT! I refuse to buy another Indy car.
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 80:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0
Guess I picked the wrong week to stop boycotting Starbucks.
You have to wonder if Malkin gets this sort of thing from her past and uses it to make herself appear more "Patriotic". I bet those that support her rantings against anything that appears Muslim or Arabic today were the very same people that were watching her family of Asian decent closely during the Vietnam war. I bet her family was labeled as being Viet Cong sympathizers by the way they dressed just like she labels Rachel Ray and her scarf in that ad.
I do think you gotta watch out for the slippery slope.
I wanted to get a massage one day. Then the next I wanted to see what crystal meth looked like. And then.... Well, you get the point.
So, you never know what Rachel Ray is doing today.
Blue Lensman @ 85:
I believe NASCAR also uses a checkered flag.
We're surrounded.
So the comedic term "Fashion Police" has become real?
Whats funny is the right-wing cannot understand why the left calls them stupid and ignorant.
And black and white scarves were going to be the BIG thing this coming (winter) season. Macy's is going to be bummed. They have already ordered 2,243,543 of em.
Drop any of these guys a note! I sent a letter yesterday to their President and told him I was boycotting them for caving into loonies! I'd rather drink Starbucks than give my business to anyone that legitimizes trash like Malkin!
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Phone: 781-737-3000
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Randy Brashier, Vice President, Operations Services
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Lynette McKee, CFE, Vice President, Franchising
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Web Site http://www.dunkindonuts.com
My cat, Fred the Cat, is black and white. Think I need to keep an eye on him? Or what does that color cat say about me?
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 1:
I am too. At the Dunkin Donuts website, I have chosen to leave feedback in the Product Feedback area to let them know.
I recommend you do the same. Here is what I wrote:
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I recently read that Dunkin Donuts is pulling an advertisement due to complaints by Michelle Malkin. Not only is her point regarding the scarf color completely ridiculous, but what is even worse is that you have chosen to legitimize her completely ignorant views by pulling your advertisement.
You have now lost me as a customer. I will indeed miss your coffee, but unless you change your views and publicly renounce Michelle Malkin's completely insane and divisive so-called debate, there are other places for me to get my caffeine and pastries.
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 1:
It's not enough to simply do it...tell them and then do it! Maybe if their profit margins take a hit, they'll realize they screwed the pooch--no reference to Malkin intended!
http://www.cafepress.com/buy/malkin/-/pv_design_details/pg_1/id_10951789...
If you're interested in purchasing one of these scarfs, there are tons of them over on eBay. Search under "Arab scarf."
I would be great if thanks to nutbag Malkin, these become a fashion rage again!
Very disappointing. I'd boycott DD, but I don't eat doughnuts to begin with, so I guess there wouldn't be much impact there.
Maybe the wingnuts are their best customers, and that's why they did it?
Think about it...
"..television personality Rachael Ray".
Damn. I took a slight pride in not knowing one thing about Rachael Ray, other than this foolishness about her scarf. She was like Lindsey Lohan. I've known of her for at least a couple of years, but otherwise don't have a clue who she is, or why she's a celebrity.
Whatever happened to Rula Linska?
Well, the right was the group that created a decline in French language classes and changed the name to Freedom Fries because the French objected to the Iraq invasion (which Scott McLellan now says was sold via false propaganda to the American public: the French were right after all!) These manic righties will stop at nothing to make anything sound like an instrument of terrorism, then complain they can't use sexist or racist language because "we have to be politically correct."
It would be sad if Dunkin Donuts and Baskin & Robbins weren't headed down the drain. These chains have closed so many stores in my area that I was surprised either type of store was still in operation.
this has got to be the stupidest fucking complaint from the right wing, in a long, long, long, long time. seriously.
wtf, are we going to demand everyone boycott hummus next?? its a god damned SCARF! its not a bomb, its not even a religious doctrine, its fucking CLOTH!
arrrrgh...
There is no greater threat to the American family than trendy neckwear.
Oh! A scarf!
Pitchin' a donut (barf...)
Could anything be cruller?
What a twist.
Is Rachel danish?
Let's roll. Cinnamon preferably.
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 83:
ah, thank you Captain whose name gets longer and longer Kangaroo
i would definitely post this, but i refuse to sign up for malkin's trash. why does it seem all the neo-wannabe-fascist blogs require registration before one can post a message?
*snaps finger, loudly* drat
I have to make a stand in a small way as this is just too stupid. I have in the past would pick up a dozen or two donuts from Dunkin on my way to a weekly meeting with whom I contract for. I pledge I will no longer cater to Dunkin until this issue gets resolved. If they kowtow to the likes of racist hate mongers then I'm no longer a customer.
Somebody help me here, haven't I seen some of our troops wearing scarves like these during sandstorms in Iraq?
posting again, because seriously. wtf.
"oh I see you're cooking with OLIVE OIL, eh? whatcha makin, some pasta? pretty big advocate of Al Capone, huh?"...
Dunkin Donuts needs to put these morons in their place. you can bet if they reversed the tables, the boycotts would be a blessing. make a commercial saying "some petty right wing extremists threatened to boycott us because of a scarf but we told them no" and you can bet more liberals will go out of their way to eat at Dunkin Donuts.
"BTW, all over the net is the recent pic of McCain’s daughter wearing an identical scarf."
I was just wondering myself which blog or fake news show will be the first to show a bunch of pictures of prominent Republicans wearing scarves. It would really awesome if someone could find one of Malkin.
And another thing. Was the ad even running on any Fox channels? If they have a problem with it why don't they pull it themselves?
The real question is what does Ray think of this and is she upset that Duncan donuts pulled the ad she's supposed to be making money from. And can she and other "keffiyeh-wearers", Muslim or otherwise, sue Fox for slander for associating them with the KKK?
What republican woman would wear a scarf on her head?
They just use everyday cans upon cans upon cans of Aqua Net.
They could be killed in a tornado, but doesn't their hair look nice.
Darth_Romney @ 99:
I was thinking the same thing!
In fact, I was considering purchasing one of those scarves today, but I am a little worried about how it will look along with the Black VC pajamas I normally wear.
Uh-oh, Anchor baby Malkin supports Hitler and Nazis!!!!
Anchor baby Malkin: http://www.novatownhall.com/blog/graphics/malkin_sm.jpg
Adolf Hitler: http://jordanmaxwell.com/images/questions/hitler-boots.jpg
How dare Anchor baby Malkin wear those tall leather Nazi boots!!!!
Joe O. @ 88:
but the thing about malky, and the way she catapulted her putrid body onto the national chattering class scene, was thru apologizing for, and encouraging future use of, internment camps for certain races/ethnicities during times of conflict. she openly applauds the rounding up of japanese-americans during WWII. she even named her book 'in defense of internment'
she is, quite possibly, the shiniest toy the rightwing extremist have to play with now.
I agree with Michelle Malkin about one thing. We should deport anchor babies like Michelle Malkin.
I think the scarf looks stupid but I don't get the terrorist angle. I must admit though that I am not a very stylish person. It is a shame how hyper-sensitive people have become.
YAY!!! Now I can wear my Keffiyeh with more pride after Malkins objection!!
I may have missed it but is there a way to contact DD? Can we send this photo to Dunkin donuts? They should know they caved into a hater. By the way those scarves are all over New York. You can buy them anywhere. I would bet if you did a search you find a Bush and or one of his Saudi's buddies with the same scarves. I would but I don't look at photos of Bush or Malkin... I know I should go to help for my anti-american ways.
Dunkin' Donuts. Where the coffee is weak and the pastries are not doughty.
wijg @ 86:
This is truly outrageous. It's only a brief joke, but if anyone to the left of Genghis Khan ever said anything remotely like this, the liberal media would organize a lynch mob. Democrats far and wide, even those as yet unborn would be pressed to denounce and distance themselves from this vile person. They'd be asked to apologize, and of course, they would.
But, it was said by someone on the right, so I guess it's all just good fun.
Alec @ 61:
Osama sitting behind the wheel of a Chevy convertible while the song is sung... "Make your get-away in a Chevorlet".
pissed off patricia @ 91:
Fashion is Fascist.
so i guess if i get a keffiyeh when I am in egypt next year(and I will now because I'm tired of this rightwing bullshit) and bring it back to Canada I'm supporting the terrorists?
We all have to start wearing these scarves--make their tiny brains explode.
whats the point?
its time to give up the fight...the wingnuts have won
they are louder, more obnoxious and wield a big stick
i'll be that bin ladin and his cronies never thought that after what they pulled on 9-11 that it ever turn out this good for them.
Where is Michelle in the update pic? All I see is two grizzled old men.
Steve @ 116:
They are actually quite practical in nasty weather Steve. I have seen lots of people use them in Europe.
Not just a fashion accessory
VietVet67 @ 108:
And didn't Patrick Swayze wear one in "Red Dawn"? Is she calling the Wolverines islamofascists?
burnt @ 103:
Algebra and Arabic numerals are next. Those f@cking terrorist math teachers shall feel the wrath of outrage.
wijg @ 77:
We covered that story too. Twice.
Jaramilr @ 110:
It's not a phony pic of Meghan McCain. Photos of her wearing the scarf were on her website until yanked over the weekend:
http://gawker.com/5003288/mccain-daughter-dons-islamic-terror-scarf
How about this picture that somehow Malkin missed, Senator McCains daughter wearing a real Arabic Keffiyeh!
moneymucker.blogspot.com/
Captain Bitter Elitist Husein Kangaroo @ 50:
And you're elite! :>)
Michelle Malkin husband made big bucks due to the "war on terror" for the RAND corporation.
This makes me want to scream...
With that updated picture a right winger would say, after seeing that ews checkered scarf, that Malkin is a member of the abu sayyaf group in the Philippines. Malkin needs to remember that her own ethnicity (which includes us all) can and will be used against her later by those same racists that support her now.
How about this picture of Senator McCain's daughter wearing a actual Arabic Keffiyeh at:
http://monkeymucker.blogspot.com/
I have ZERO problem with following her example and boycotting ALL people who use this. Well all right-wing bigots.
This made Olbermann's "Worst Person" last night. Check out the clip:
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=c11280eb-893a-4e0e-a1a2-d7e7d...
Malkin...I'll remind everyone, that this is the same right wingnut con-servative Filipino blogger who during Tom Delay's national exposing, corruption scandals stated "Tom Delay is my hero"....
The same Tom Delay who with Jack Abramoff & others ran the whole casino gambit money laundering operation....and lets not forget the ultimate exhibition of Tom Delay's morality...which Malkin I guess can 'conveniently' exorcise from her 'steel trap mind'....
The same guy who thought that the slave labor & forced abortions of the Northern Marianas Islands (just a hop & skip away from the Phillipines) was just the best little 'perfect petri dish of capitalism' and 'shining symbol of what the Republican Party is trying to do in America'....
Hmm...that guy is who Michelle Malkin proclaims is 'a hero'.... What's that thing I always say about the self-hater epidemic in the GOP/right wingnut universe??
I can't say I visit Dunkin Dounuts often but I did always enjoy their coffee and dounuts when I did. But I will NEVER taste them again. Screw them and their lame un-American caving-in to fringe wingnut radicals!
Can one of you smart people figure out how to make MM completely irrelevant to the point where we need never give her any attention again?
Thank you.
Paul D @ 139:
Thanks Paul. I wanted to see this again. His rip on her and her bed-wetters was wicked-awesome
Dr. (Bitter Hussein) Matt @ 37:
I love how there is no dissent on Michelle's site. When I first heard of her meaningless antics, I had to look. It's just another one of those sites that you have to login to make a comment. They can cut you off before your words of difference make it to the website.
I just saw a clip of Hillary Clinton wearing a neon blue pants suit with a black and white scarf. Get on it, Ms Malkin.
Anon E. Mouse @ 96:
I tried e-mailing them earlier today and both attempts bounced back. Maybe they're getting bombarded with our e-mails? I sure hope so!
leoburnett'sghost @ 58:
I agree with you. The scarf really doesn't look right when it's not worn with perhaps something a little more fall or winter that would definitely require a scarf in NY. She's wearing a short sleeve v-neck. It doesn't even match her skin complection. That is all the fashion you'll ever hear from me.
I found it!
http://www.pic.dvory.co.il/products/big_reliable_media_store/15434.jpg
The VERY same kaffiyeh that Anchorbaby Malkin is wearing is called (wait for it)...
Red Arab Scarf kaffiyeh
It available on Ebay.
Blue Lensman @ 142:
Catch her in a Filipino adult reel?
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