30 minute meal or 30 minute bomb?

By The Elahater

So this may be old news by now, but in addition to making quick and sensible meals, Rachel Ray apparently supports terrorism, or Palestinian solidarity, or whatever.

Dunkin Donuts pulled an online ad that featured Ray wearing a keffiyeh, which is a scarf that I also see about 40 non-middle easterners wearing everyday.

In case you don’t know what a keffiyeh is, it’s either a symbol of Palestinian solidarity, a practical headwrap that Arab men have been wearing for years, a symbol of the middle east/terrorism (same thing, right?), or more recently, a symbol that you shop at Urban Outfitters.

So in fear of sending out the wrong message, Dunkin Donuts removed this hate-promoting ad.

Enjoy your iced latte, Western imperialists.

Commentator Michelle Malkin further enlightens us to the dangers of this scarf:

“The keffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad. Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos….”

According to Dunkin Donuts reps:

“In a recent online ad, Rachael Ray is wearing a black-and-white silk scarf with a paisley design. It was selected by the stylist for the advertising shoot. Absolutely no symbolism was intended. However, as of this past weekend, we are no longer using the online ad because the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee.”

Dunkin Donuts does have a certain pscyhological power over people, and can very easily persuade the feeble-minded into committing extreme acts.

In terms of addiction, it goes: crack, cigarettes, then iced hazelnut coffee.

I love how it took 11 months for people to figure out that this scarf has a political connotation, ya know, after they made it in colors like hot pink and purple, and sold them for $35 a pop. Many people have been rocking the keffiyeh, including:

John McCain’s daughter.

Bombs over Baghdad, daddy!

Models who care about three things in this world, and I guarantee you Palestinians aren’t one of them.

Wouldn’t it be funny if she was Jewish? Annnnd look at her shirt.

Drunk Germans or something?

I’m pretty sure drunk-dialing is counter-productive to any revolution.

And Ricky Martin, who out of all these people, surprisingly had more than an inkling of what the scarf means.

Shake your bon-bon for a two-state solution.

(ALSO, the thumbs-up in the middle east is the same as a middle finger in the U.S., which makes that picture even better and painfully ironic.)

Fashion is great because it allows you to broadcast how down you are with a movement or culture while investing the smallest amount of energy possible.

On sale for $15 at Wal-Mart.

With fashion, you can easily co-opt a culture and struggle while remaining completely ignorant about it.

Are the Soledad Brothers related to Soledad O’Brien? Also, I dig her afro—very retro.

It also let’s you have the credibilty of being poor or broke, but only if you’re rich enough to afford it.

Pay $1,295 for a purse called a “hobo bag,” and then refuse to give change to a real hobo.

If that purse isn’t Derileeked, I don’t know what is.

Trash bags—so hot right now.

So keep on shopping, America, and keep on wearing things that are cute and expensive, but look cheap and edgy. Hopefully it won’t ruin your career.

There’s a bomb in that jar of pasta sauce.