Take Off that Two-Color Checkered Scarf with Tassles, You Terrorist!
WARNING: THIS ENTRY CONTAINS DELIBERATE TYPOS AND DUMB ASS USAGE OF "1337" (INTERNET SLANG).
People, I'm sorry, but Rachel Ray is a terrorist. Rachel Ray, as well as Hugo Chavez, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Colin Farrell, Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst, Kanye West, Ricky Martin, Meghan McCain, Howard Dean, AND Dunkin' Donuts. Yes, I know, it's shocking, but it's the absolute truth, people. Extremely observant right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin caught the phenomenon first with an iron catcher's mitt: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/28/the-keffiyeh-kerfuffle/
If you don't want to read her article, here's the gist of it: Rachel Ray did a TV spot for Dunkin' Donuts, which apparently ran for an extremely short time before being removed from public broadcast after Malkin noticed something very suspicious around Rachel's neck:
OMG! A black-and-white-checked-and-tassled scarf! IT'S JUST LIKE THE ONES TEH TERORISTS WEAR! OMFGHS.
WOW. Malkin's stance on this extremely important issue is that this "Jihadi Chic Keffiyeh" is a form of anti-American "Hate Couture" that has been plaguing the United States as of late. As Malkin states:
"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, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."
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"Traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad." ............ So, what can we learn from these statements? Michelle Malkin:
1. lumps all Arab men with muslim extremists because of a traditional garment they wear
2. suggests that Palestinians alone are the murderous jihadists beheading journalists
3. apparently believes that her own readers who are ignorant of the traditional garb of Arab men are "clueless"
(Granted, that last one is a sort of cheap shot on my part, but I'm tired and already losing interest in this story)
Never mind that, on a daily basis as I walk through the PSU campus, I see about a dozen or more women wearing burkas, another traditional garment of that general region of the world. With Michelle Malkin's proposed national dress code, what will be done with the people who wear certain traditional clothings of their religion?
One of her readers apparently goes on to basically suggest that we might as well "wear T-shirts with the Crusaders' Cross on them and pretend we don't know what it means." Yeah. You know, I kind of feel as though a white T-shirt with a giant red cross on it is a little more deliberate than a piece of dual-colored checkered cloth around someone's neck. I feel that wearing a "keffiyeh" is far more acceptable than wearing, say, a fucking U.S. flag as a garment, since we've been such incredible saint-holes to everyone throughout our extremely short history. Not to mention the fact that the flag would be a god-awful tacky addition to anyone's wardrobe. Unfortunately, not even that stops many people.
Anyway, because of this reference to "anti-American" ideologies around Rachel Ray's neck, the TV spot was actually pulled from public broadcast, and Dunkin' Donuts even issued a statement assuring the public that no symbolism was intended by the use of the scarf. WHO THE FUCK CARES?
For an added spice for perspective, note also that Michelle Malkin is against statues of Vladimir Lenin, because they are "commie statues" which represent "mass brutality and evil." Never mind that Lenin basically started Russia on the path to modernization and becoming a major industrial power, and that he spoke outwardly against anti-semitism. I guess bigots like Malkin might be compared to mass-murdering anti-semites like, oh, maybe Hitler? Or is that another cheap shot? Well, I say she's racked up enough to be more than deserving of them herself.
I have a nagging feeling that there is far more to be said about all this, but I think I just hit a brick wall. My bed is calling to me....
People, I'm sorry, but Rachel Ray is a terrorist. Rachel Ray, as well as Hugo Chavez, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Colin Farrell, Sienna Miller, Kirsten Dunst, Kanye West, Ricky Martin, Meghan McCain, Howard Dean, AND Dunkin' Donuts. Yes, I know, it's shocking, but it's the absolute truth, people. Extremely observant right-wing columnist Michelle Malkin caught the phenomenon first with an iron catcher's mitt: http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/28/the-keffiyeh-kerfuffle/
If you don't want to read her article, here's the gist of it: Rachel Ray did a TV spot for Dunkin' Donuts, which apparently ran for an extremely short time before being removed from public broadcast after Malkin noticed something very suspicious around Rachel's neck:
OMG! A black-and-white-checked-and-tassled scarf! IT'S JUST LIKE THE ONES TEH TERORISTS WEAR! OMFGHS.
WOW. Malkin's stance on this extremely important issue is that this "Jihadi Chic Keffiyeh" is a form of anti-American "Hate Couture" that has been plaguing the United States as of late. As Malkin states:
"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, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant (and not-so-ignorant) fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."
.........
"Traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad." ............ So, what can we learn from these statements? Michelle Malkin:
1. lumps all Arab men with muslim extremists because of a traditional garment they wear
2. suggests that Palestinians alone are the murderous jihadists beheading journalists
3. apparently believes that her own readers who are ignorant of the traditional garb of Arab men are "clueless"
(Granted, that last one is a sort of cheap shot on my part, but I'm tired and already losing interest in this story)
Never mind that, on a daily basis as I walk through the PSU campus, I see about a dozen or more women wearing burkas, another traditional garment of that general region of the world. With Michelle Malkin's proposed national dress code, what will be done with the people who wear certain traditional clothings of their religion?
One of her readers apparently goes on to basically suggest that we might as well "wear T-shirts with the Crusaders' Cross on them and pretend we don't know what it means." Yeah. You know, I kind of feel as though a white T-shirt with a giant red cross on it is a little more deliberate than a piece of dual-colored checkered cloth around someone's neck. I feel that wearing a "keffiyeh" is far more acceptable than wearing, say, a fucking U.S. flag as a garment, since we've been such incredible saint-holes to everyone throughout our extremely short history. Not to mention the fact that the flag would be a god-awful tacky addition to anyone's wardrobe. Unfortunately, not even that stops many people.
Anyway, because of this reference to "anti-American" ideologies around Rachel Ray's neck, the TV spot was actually pulled from public broadcast, and Dunkin' Donuts even issued a statement assuring the public that no symbolism was intended by the use of the scarf. WHO THE FUCK CARES?
For an added spice for perspective, note also that Michelle Malkin is against statues of Vladimir Lenin, because they are "commie statues" which represent "mass brutality and evil." Never mind that Lenin basically started Russia on the path to modernization and becoming a major industrial power, and that he spoke outwardly against anti-semitism. I guess bigots like Malkin might be compared to mass-murdering anti-semites like, oh, maybe Hitler? Or is that another cheap shot? Well, I say she's racked up enough to be more than deserving of them herself.
I have a nagging feeling that there is far more to be said about all this, but I think I just hit a brick wall. My bed is calling to me....