Dunkin' Donuts yanks Rachael Ray ad

Source: 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. "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." 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."

Read more: http://www.boston.com/ae/celebrity/articles/2008/05/28/dunkin_donuts_yanks_rachael_ray_ad/

of us don't do Dunkin Donuts.. I especially don't since profits help feed the Bush's

Too bad the closest one is 405 miles away. I'm picking up a couple dozen when I go see my mother next week.

about a week ago and, since then, they and their nasty donuts are dead to me.

Their donuts taste like crap anyway.

Krispy Kreme all the way.

is nasty. My daughter and I can't beleive they started selling for itfor home brewing. I don't care who is selling it dressed as what ack.

Hmmm...D&D iced coffee.

The executives however, are a bunch of cowards.

We must have principles.

:thumbsup:

Krispy Kreme has had some financial problems recently. The company blames it on the Atkins craze, but I believe it is due to them expanding too fast. Three years ago there was one store here in Miami-Dade County. They opened two more, but those ones closed down after a year or tow and we are back to just one store.

We got a dozen chocolate glazed Krispy Kreme's (my favorite ... mmmmmmmm) and they had a weird taste to them. I was disappointed. I don't eat them that often, so I don't think the trans fat would have killed me. .....

Damn.

Bake

fast that if I was to "belong" I must stop going to the Northern Dunkin Donuts and go to the Southern Krispy Kreme. We had one next to a night club.. it was always just so odd that the red "hot" sign was lit up, just as the club doors were closing. I think they made more money at 2 in the morning than they did all day.

Taste like raw dough.:puke:

sugar. I feel like I'm having a Homer moment......"doughhhhhhhnuts....drool"

your clothes, car seat (because you can't not eat them in the car)!!:donut:

eating them in the car - the sticky steering wheel the next day is a minor annoyance. :)

that just sounds wrong, but they taste so right.

We used to be a Dunkin family, but I won't support them given their corporate parentage.

I'm not so effete that I'd turn down a gob of deep-fried, sugar-encrusted dough (especially when it's stuffed with Bavarian cream) to occasionally accompany my elitist latté, but it should be a simple matter to find an alternative that doesn't put money into the pockets of the fucking Carlyle Group.

Resist the urge to buy a ticket to that sideshow freak.

She is horrific. Clearly a mental case. I have to assume that her "followers" are dim-witted sheep, i.e. the conservative faithful. Who else would be taken in by such an obvious wack job?

He loves McCain, O'Reilly, Malkin, all of the right-wingers.

He's 95, there's only so many more elections he's going to vote in.

and never will go there .

"We don't need no h'edukayshun...
We don't need no thought control...
No dark sarcasm in the class room...
Teachers leave them kids alone..."

Rachael Ray a terrorist? Gimme a break.

...nah. At least not the way they imagine.

nt

now we can't wear anything with a black and white pattern :shrug: :sarcasm:

first of all, :wtf:

here we go again. i thought the louder part of the 20-something percenters had finally stopped with this kind of ridiculous rhetoric. i never cease to be dumbfounded by their ignorant xenophobia and fascist paranoia.

secondly, and more importantly, michelle malkin- it has been almost a year since i unintentionally clicked a link containing one of her intellectually devoid blatherings...here is my intellectually devoid response: :puke:

my life was so much happier without her; she makes me sick (as plainly observed above)...i think i might have to take a break from the internetz now...:freak:

i am going to request a warning- graphic content!!11!! j/k

the lunatics run the asylum. By the way, who listens to Michelle Malkin anyway?

:wtf:
:banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

I'll boycott DD now since they took the ad off. Talk about racism.

The stupidity of people in this country knows no bounds.

paranoid dummies.

We should all send them email saying we are going to boycott them for pulling the ad.

They likely determined that that it was more profitable to drop the ad rather than continue it.

And then hide behind "the bottom line" canard.

:puke:

dumb asses

I believe you'd get your ass kicked wearin' something like that, to a beheading, man.

Had I seen that the last thing I would have thought of was "terrorist" headgear...it isn't even on her HEAD! Oh for cryin' outside...get a life already! Can the intellectual carp in this country get any dumber?

That's a new phrase to me.

Yes, that describes Malkin et al perfectly.

after all. :D

Now if they'd just hurry up and flounder, it would tip the scales. Ar ar ar...

I wish Michelle would clam up for once...

Thanks for the pic!

their listeners how ridiculous their point of view is by critizing a sweet American Italian lady who is very popular, plus a beloved treat like a donut. Let them rant on.

I am very disappointed that DD has decided to let Fox Fascists media take over their media, though.

Rachel Ray a terrorist sympathizer? Because she wrapped her scarf a certain way?

I have wrapped scarves this way a number of times over the years in cold weather. It's a standard wrap.

Let's burn her! She must be a witch, too!

Her cooking shows on Food Network are wonderful to watch for so many reasons. Her personality can cheer just about anyone up. A lot of her cooking is even *gasp* vegetarian! And even if it's not, it's usually low-fat and can be considered healthier than most.

In the picture, she looks like a really pretty lady in a fucking scarf.

ZOMG I'm so scared! She must be a terra-ist!!

:grr::headbang::grr:

Someone has way too much time on their hands to find a way to make a Dunkin Donuts ad be pro Muslim, even more for Rachael Ray. Most scarfs and "fashionable" things women wear could probably be construed in many negative ways.

Amen, bamacrat. There are so many right-wingers with Princess and the Pea Syndrome, it's getting hard to function in these United States.

Idiots at Fox and comp....Guess anybody wearing anything slightly foreign is a terrorist....oh well, I hate DD anyway, never buy their brand of fat pills. I am a true Krispy Kreme believer...KK started in my hometown and yes over the past 7-8 years have done some really stupid, expensive expansions....oh well, that's why I'm not in business or retail...They just make great donuts...

they'll continue to have power over the mainstream media and our politicians. It was idiotic for the company to allow them to have ANY say at all-they should have simply neutered them by holding up the paisley scarf and saying "what kind of terrorist wears paisley?? Get a life, people"! or simply ignore their idiotic rants. Here we can't even get a RW hit piece that blames Clinton for 9/11 off ABC! I guess we need to start screaming in unison over trivial nonsense with misconstrued meanings to be taken seriously. :eyes:

I don't know why, like nails on a chalkboard for me.

Maybe they should threaten to boycott DD for being so stupid and cowardly.

It is obviously and demonstrably apparent that way too many of these brains are not evolved sufficiently, thereby operating very inefficiently.

Only the basic reptilian functions of these brains, the "flight or fight" ability is managing their reactions.

Rational thought, critical thinking and deductive reasoning are not "wired in" or even "above the horizon" for all of these folks.

Our brothers and sisters, the "sheeple", have been "dumbed down" by a system that requires masses of consumer and producer "ants".

Now! Get back in line for your Kool-Aid, and next years models.

If I owned a company and the right wing loons threatened to not show up at my business, I would work as hard as I could to continue what I was doing to offend them. By the way, Rock Star energy drink is owned by the son of Michael Savage...Just to let you know. I NEVER buy the shite.

People are such fuck heads.

...with "Queen Victoria." Here's Friday's strip.

Rachel Ray a terrorist sympathizer, what the hell, how stupid can people be? Now this thuggish regime we have is labeling everyone. Rachel as Keith said does not even pick out her outfits. A scarf?????? what the hell is wrong with these people. Now they are dictating what a person should wear????

these right wing people if I could even call them that, would be afraid of their own shadows, god how disgusting, worried about a scarf, I think it looks pretty nice, and I wear alot of scarves.

That such idiocy and ignorance as Malkin's can affect a large company's operations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keffiyeh

Remember that series on the Food Channel she had called "$40 a day with Racheal Ray?"

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/show_ad

Sure you can eat for cheap if you don't tip your servers. Bitch!

If you can't afford to tip the people serving you, then you shouldn't go out.

Are you telling me she doesn't realize servers only make like $2 an hour, that they rely on tips to make a living?

F her and her jihad against working people!

I don't recall her ever advising folks to stiff the table
staff as a way to save money. In fact, at least two meals
a day in that series seemed to come from places that didn't
*HAVE* table staff (such as markets and take-away places
and the like).

Perhaps you watched a different series than I did?

Tesha

Then went to 15%, now 20%?

Who gets to decide what the standard is, and did they consult with the public?

There isn't some agency that comes up with what an acceptable tip is. The public are the ones who determine what they think the service was worth.

10% is alright, it's something. But when you realize how hard servers work and if you got great service then maybe 20% is a better tip, right?

It comes down to how cheap you are. You go out to get served, you generally pay for that. If you think 10% is a great tip than fine, just keep in mind the next time you go to the place again, they're probably going to remember you. If you shorted your server, don't expect the kind of service the person who REALLY tips gets.

They are truly insane, every last one of them

The RW nutters are seeing terrorists behind every rock and tree.

Any knuckledragger that found an issue with that ad has ALOT more problems than political in my view. More like a vastly undeveloped brain that is 70 percent beer and 10 percent NASCAR.


Oh well Fuck Dunkin'Donuts! They are cowards in my view.

:shrug:

These scarves have become quite popular, if they're what I'm picturing.

http://www.abercrombie.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/category1_10051_10901_12278_-1_12203

http://www.hollisterco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/category1_10251_10201_12616_-1_12552

http://www.ruehl.com/ruh/index.html#/DEPARTMENT/SCARVES/13923/

To my....untrained eye, it looks like she's wearing a.........scarf. Sorta trendy, fashionable at the moment type of thing. Something her stylist picked up at A&F or Hollister most likely. But Malkin must be right, Sound Transit has a billboard with a girl wearing one like it, so we now know that Sound Transit are terrorist sympathizers and showing solidarity for Palestinian murderers! Burn the busses!!!! Down with Sound Transit!!!!


Oh....wait. It's just a scarf. If they wanna give her shit for hawking crappy donuts, be my guest, but this has to be the most moronic thing I've ever heard out of a wingnut's mouth yet. Until O'Reilly gets into it, that is. Or that fat assclown Limbaugh, who obviously has no problem with the product being sold.

of a petition protesting Dunkin Donuts for caving to the right wing looney tunes (not to mention insulting Arabs), please post it. I'm going to write a letter but a group thing would be much more effective. Normal people outnumber the Malkin freaks and companies need to realize that pissing off the masses to cater to the few will hurt them where it counts.

If they're going to crater to a shrill, nasty, fascist geisha girl like Malkin, they can damned well do without my business.

Krispy Kremes are better, anyway.....

Yeah, that scarf REALLY makes Rachel look like Yasser Arafat. :sarcasm:

Cowards is right.

Just after Bush's daddy's investment group bought up Dunkin'



http://cheesebikini.com/2006/07/16/selling-out-the-presidency/

This is so stupid.

Paula Dean! I read a wacked out rw message board (lucianne.com) and they are in full alert about that terrorist Rachel Ray. Many who posted admitted they didn't know who she was, but were glad she has been 'exposed' and they will now buy DD coffee. One thinks she even had Obama on her show! I doubt that, but why should they worry about the truth when posting.

They are also after Paula Dean- on pg. 43 of one of her cookbooks she praised Jimmy Carter (Paula is from GA after all). So they will boycott her also. Also a problem now with Urban Outfitters and their Islamofascist clothing.

Carryin' a couple of bazookas in her blouse.

A very talibanish look, don'cha think?

How many rights groups protested this pic showing her weapons of mass seduction ?


lol


not many I'm sure except for those who think women should be wrapped head to toe in a burka....like a piece of chocolate ... ;)

not that it'll be a great disaster. A Tim Horton's showed up here in Bangor and sometimes I go there. Now I'll always go there.

No one in their right mind would look at that ad and think it's un-American. Jeebus, right wingers need to get a fucking grip on reality!

I love that scarf, it's a fashion statement, not any other statement.

Hate DD, and their coffee which tastes like watered down sugar tea. (IMO)

just keep those donuts commin cherry pie lady

So everybody can stay home and make their own...

:donut:

less Rachel Ray! :think:

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=234946205

They are getting a good laugh.