Political comic relief from primary fatigue: Michelle Malkin calls Rachel Ray a terrorist [View All]

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Michelle Malkin, who seems to be competing to take Ann Coulter's position as most outre right wing nutjob, has announced that Rachel Ray, the ultra chirpy, "all American girl" type cooking lady from the Food Network's "30 Minute Meals," may be a jihadist -- or at least dresses like one.

Rachel wore a traditional Arab scarf, a keffiyeh, in a Dunkin Donuts promotional ad, and now Malkin mulls launching a boycott against the coffee and donut chain:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/23/of-donuts-and-dumb-celebrities/

Charles Johnson notes, and many readers have e-mailed about, Dunkin Donuts’ spokeswoman Rachel Ray’s clueless sporting of a jihadi chic keffiyeh in a recent DD ad campaign. 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.

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Perhaps her over-use of "Eee Vee Ohh Ohh" could be construed an act of mass violence against her listening audience, but really -- wearing a scarf now can get you accused by the lunatic right wing of being "jihadi chic" and sporting "hate couture"?

Perhaps we DUers could skip our usual liberal lattes today today for a good old coffee and donut from Dunkin or break our 24 hour a day cable Al Jazerra habit to watch one of Ray's too many shows just to show kooky Malkin just what we think of her idiotic finger pointing.

Bias disclosure: Perhaps it is a conflict of interest that in one of her talk show contests, Rachel Ray chose my favorite local pizzaria, Gaby's, on Hillside Avenue in Queens, as making the best pizza in all of America; but I have no financial interest in Gaby's.

For the LA Times blog reaction, see:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2008/05/rachel-ray-gets.html