Dunkin Donuts pulls Rachel Ray ad

[RoniMan]

WHAT THE?!?!?

link to entire story and picture (http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/29/news/companies/dunkin_donuts.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes)


Dunkin' Donuts pulls Rachael Ray ad
The coffee and donut chain says it yanked online spot to avoid 'misperception'; professor says links to extremism are narrow-minded and even racist.

BOSTON (AP) -- Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

The coffee and baked goods chain said the ad that began appearing online May 7 was pulled over the past weekend because "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."

In the spot, Ray holds an iced coffee while standing in front of trees with pink blossoms.

Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. ''The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,'' Malkin wrote in her syndicated column.



don't know if this belongs in the "political" forum...but please move if so.

so back to what i was saying...WHAT THE?!?!?

really? is this gonna be the "red scare" of this century?

[sbp]

Those ads should have pulled cause they encourage a non-healthy lifestyle with more overweightness. Where is the big nanny state with the intrusive fat police when they are really needed? Plus Rachel Ray is annoying as hell-so that by itself is good enough reason. http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/wink2.gif

[DarkFury]

Seriously, these folks just go too dayuum far. :rolleyes:

:2far: OMG... I'm just not believing this. :2far:

[cheapie]

re.tarded.

but i gotta say i'm surprised no one at teh ad agency noticed it before it went public.

[sbp]

C'mon the woman is worth tens of millions and that's the best scarf she could come up with? Obviously its a conspiracy and I'm going to have to blame the neo-cons on this one-it was one of them that shamefully put the jihadi sympathizer scarf on Ray. Plus that scarf is kind of hideous anyways (would any of you wear it? Of course not!) so in addition to food police being after Ray, so too are the fashion police. http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/wink2.gif

[Thesifer]

Oh come on, the irony is awesome
"Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. ''The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,'' Malkin wrote in her syndicated column."

For the "Clueless"

Oh the comedy.

[gwilks98]

kind of reminds me of this:

http://elblogador.blogspot.com/2006/04/ben-jerrys-black-tan-death-by.html

people just get ridiculous with symbolism.

[Jeffbx]

Oh come on, the irony is awesome
"Conservative commentator Michelle Malkin complained that the scarf wrapped around her looked like a kaffiyeh, the traditional Arab headdress. ''The kaffiyeh, for the clueless, is the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad,'' Malkin wrote in her syndicated column."

For the "Clueless"

Oh the comedy.

Even funnier:


A statement issued Wednesday by Canton, Mass.-based Dunkin' Brands Inc., however, said the scarf had a paisley design, and was selected by a stylist for the advertising shoot.

So for the clueless conservative commentators, I don't think any Muslim terrorsts are sporting paisley prints this season.

[mojo]

i always knew there was something i didn't like about their coffee :hmm:

[ShawnLee]

Eh - didn't bother me. Unlike people wearing Che Guevara stuff. That still annoys me.

[gear02]

woof!