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I just want to start this piece by saying that I really, really like Rachael Ray. I really do. I love her shows. I love her cookbooks. I buy her magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, whenever it’s on the newsstands. I love her cute little spunky personality. I think she is just so adorable… I may even have a little girl-crush on her.
See, I love cooking, and I try to cook for my boyfriend a few times a week, minimum. I really enjoy it. After a long day, I find it relaxing, and especially when I’m trying new things. Thanks to Rachael Ray, I get to experiment with all kinds of different tastes and recipes, much to Mike’s enjoyment.
Because I like Rachael Ray so much, I really wish I hadn’t seen this. I’m just totally dismayed and saddened.
Rachael is the spokesperson for Dunkin Donuts (LOVE their donuts too, by the way). Dunkin has been one of the only companies out there that has been openly strong on illegal immigration enforcement. They’ve been able to restrain themselves from embracing moonbat chic, unlike some businesses out there… like, ahem, Starbucks, maybe?
So when I saw Rachael Ray wearing this, I think my heart broke a little.
That, my friends, is a keffiyeh around Rachael’s neck, a fashion staple for Middle-Eastern terrorists, especially Hamas and Hezbollah. It’s the best in moonbat chic right now, especially in Hollywood. Supporters like to call it a “symbol of Palestinian solidarity” and of the Palestinian struggle for justice against occupation and oppression. It sounds nice, but we all know what that actually means. The keffiyeh is really anti-semitism that you can wear!
And of course, idiotic superficial celebrities and moonbats can’t gobble them up fast enough. And I’m just so disappointed that Rachael Ray has become caught up in the fad.
Michelle Malkin suggests we just give them all the benefit of the doubt:
I’m hoping her hate couture choice was spurred more by ignorance than ideology.
Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over? I’ll be interested to hear the company’s take. At this point, I’m going to give the management the benefit of the doubt. They have braved boycott threats and attacks over their lonely, principled stance against illegal immigration. Given their pro-rule of law, America first position, I highly doubt the executive offices are filled with moonbats who endorse Ray’s keffiyeh chic.
I guess the only way to know for sure is to wait and see what the reaction from Dunkin Donuts is.
Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin
CaptDMO says: [quote]Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over?[/quote]
Is Ray’s blunder worth boycotting DD over?
(now I know which format works on the new site)
No. Ray’s action is NOT a blunder, it’s a statement. If she is aware, or not, is moot.
Normally I’d say let DD slide, but she’s POSING with a DD product-logo prominently displayed (in the traditional product placement mode).
Here’s a tip. Grind your own beans, brew your own coffee, fill a thermos, enjoy a SUPERIOR beverage at a fraction of the cost and NO waiting in line enduring other caffeine addicts morning coffee farts. In doing so with metal mesh coffee filters there’s also a 95% reduction in sugar packets, plastic stirrers and lids, foam/paper cups, and gasoline used to “go out of ones way and stop” especially idoling while in a drive through. Ask any old hippie, or even reference Erma Bombeck and Hints from Heloise archives for how to
utilize spent coffee grounds.
Krispy Kreams are available frozen, besides, a piece of whole wheat toast with too much (real) butter and globs of preserves (not jelly)
can be FAR superior as “smug” dietary eeeevil!
Rachael Ray may be “cute and spunky”, too much um..caffeine I suspect. Alas, I fear she’s jumped the shark with this fashion ([i]fashion[/i]?) statement!
Jarrod says: It just looks like a regular ol’ run of the mill scarf to me. It matches her shirt.
Besides, you know us white people do love a good scarf:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/97-scarves/
WayneB says: Ok, assuming that this is an ad, you have to consider the likelihood that the wardrobe is picked out by the ad agency, and that she did not know what the meaning of it was. It’s possible that even DD didn’t know what it was, and that it was all on the ad agency.
On the other hand, in my part of the country, you can see little old ladies wearing scarves very similar to that, and have for as long as anyone can remember – many of them are handmade, by European immigrants who came here long before Israel and Palestine existed on modern maps.
Jason Holbrook says: I think it is just a scarf. look by the adams apple, there is a break in the pattern. All the Kaffiyehs I have seen are solid pattern. If you look just above the cup there is plainly a change in the pattern, like a border and a central pattern.
baz says: To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a scarf is just a scarf.
My 1-year-old son wears one given to him by a very good friend (Egyptian, and one of the sweetest guys I’ve ever met — he loves my son). Is he making some statement? Am I?
God forbid we should humanize people from other cultures.
Amanda
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