Calling all Angelenos: Boycott Dunkin’ Donuts!
Posted By David Markland On May 29, 2008 @ 3:44 pm In Commentary | Comments Disabled
UPDATE: Keith Olberman is now calling on a national boycott of Dunkin’ Donuts. [1]
It’s now official: the bigots have taken over America. The most recent sign of this comes from Dunkin’ Donuts [2], who pulled a recent ad featuring Rachael Ray because of her fashion.
Low riding shorts showing her coin slot? Salciously exposing her cleavage? Nope. Her scarf offended right wingers.
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. [CNN [3]]
Wow. I guess I must be clueless. I didn’t know that the right to free expression excluded fashion choices including ugly scarves.
And I thought it was conservatives who were always complaining about the US becoming too PC?
Alas, I’m calling on all of Los Angeles to boycott Dunkin’ Donuts [4]. Take a stand, people!
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URLs in this post:
[1] Keith Olberman is now calling on a national boycott of Dunkin’ Donuts.: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/29/olbermann-names-dunkin-do_n_104179.html
[2] Dunkin’ Donuts: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060826221038AAB3LYT
[3] CNN: http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/29/news/companies/dunkin_donuts.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes
[4] Dunkin’ Donuts: http://www.yelp.com/topic/los-angeles-dunkin-donuts
[5] I’m Calling It The Gold Line: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/04/24/im-calling-it-the-gold-line/
[6] Steve Lopez’s sympathy for El Coyote: http://la.metblogs.com/2008/12/17/steve-lopezs-sympathy-for-el-coyote/
[7] Calling all dorks! Dorkbot meeting at Machine Project on Sunday, 3/8.: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/03/07/who-outdorks-the-dorkbot/
[8] New blog about sex, etc. from Antebellum Gallery: http://la.metblogs.com/2009/06/19/new-blog-about-sex-etc-from-antebellum-gallery/
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