Rachael Ray, Kaffiyeh, And Coffee
Oh my, just when I thought that people were becoming more open minded and rationale! I have never been a fan of Rachael Ray, let me say that outright. This latest uproar over her makes me kind of feel for her though. For those who may not know, she is a spokeswoman for Dunkin’ Donuts. So there she was, doing her job, being her uber perky self as usual, right? She made this Internet commercial about how good Dunkin’ Donuts coffee is (by the way, I do like Dunkin’ Donuts coffee).
Suddenly, out of the blue, she is being accused of symbolically supporting terrorism! Come on now, this irritatingly cheerful person you see on TV several times a day a supporter of violence? As much as her personality and shows grate on my nerves, I just cannot see her trying to promote terrorism by trying to get away with wearing a kaffiyeh look-a-like in a Dunkin’ Donuts commercial.
Perhaps Michelle Malkin, the blogger who put up these suggestions, is mistaken? Or maybe she has got something personal against Rachael Ray? Seriously, the drama of it all! Why can’t a person wear what she wants to when plugging good coffee without being misunderstood? More than this, who says that the kaffiyeh is only used by terrorists?
Anyhow, Dunkin’ Donuts has pulled the plug on this commercial. In the interests of peace, I suppose it was the right thing to do. Now let me go get some of that iced coffee to cool off.
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I agree with you, java queen! This is way over the top! In a world where ‘terrorism’ is the worst thing you can do, are we really going to start punishing people for wearing a harmless piece of clothing? I fail to see anything inducing fanatics to acts of terror in the wearing of an otherwise attractive - or at the very least, neutral - piece of clothing. It smacks of paranoia to me. Whether or not you like Rachael Ray is beside the point, and I hope it doesn’t diminish her perkiness, for her own sake. Besides, I have a hippy -flowered scarf that looks quite a bit like hers, and I would be stunned if anyone thought I was inspiring people to be excessively mean to each other by the wearing of it, for any reason. Let’s just get a cup of coffee and be mellow, shall we?
I don’t know why, in these difficult times when Americans are dying in an effort to protect America and the world from global terrorism, and in light of what was done to America and Americans on September 11, 2001, anyone — much less the likes of supremely aggravating Rachael Ray, speaking for Dunkin’ Donuts — would want to wear anything — a thread, even — that would suggest or adumbrate or intimate the slightest whiff or breath of anything that even remotely reminds anyone of the garb of a terrorist. And the Kaffiyeh does. Ergo, she is weird and was very wrong to wear it, and it strikes me as distinctly anti-American, which gets my dander up. Let’s stay as far away from those associations as we can instead of flirting with them and then getting all riled up when people take offense. Everything means something, and it would be disingenuous of either the gravelly-voiced irritating foodie diva or of Dunkin’ Donuts, to claim otherwise. They knew what they were doing.
You know what we call a kaffiyeh in western culture? A scarf. The great threat to the free world is a little bit of wool. Looks like it’s up to the conservatives to save us from granny’s knitting circle.