OK, so this has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read (from the Boston Globe).
Does Dunkin' Donuts really think its customers could mistake Rachael Ray for a terrorist sympathizer? The Canton-based company has abruptly canceled an ad in which the domestic diva wears a scarf that looks like a keffiyeh, a traditional headdress worn by Arab men. Some observers, including ultra-conservative Fox News commentator Michelle Malkin, were so incensed by the ad that there was even talk of a Dunkin' Donuts boycott. "The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad," Malkin yowls in her syndicated column.
Following what the Globe calls the right-wing drumbeat on the blogosphere, Dunkin' Donuts caved and yanked the ad. This apparently has satisfied Malkin.
So now we've got to worry about what scarves we wear. I actually own a scarf that has a fringe on it like that. Guess I won't be appearing in it anytime soon.
I think we should just yank Fox News off the air and have done with it.
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But, it's not just fringy (is that a word?), it's paisley. And paisley is an asian pattern. And Ms Ray looks kind of dark there. Could she be an A-rab?
As some comic says, "You can't fix stupid."
I think I once saw her preparing hummus/homous on her TV show ...
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