Keffiyeh Controversy = Pig Vomit Episode
- Posted by Beth on May 29th, 2008 filed in Blogs, Blogtards, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid, Terrorism, WTF pig vomit
TOTALLY Pig Vomit. (I am so using that phrase for all similar episodes of stupidity in punditry.)
Thankfully, hysterical paranoia isn’t the default for the conservative blogosphere. Merri (a long-time Rachel Ray watcher) and plenty of others have more. But I guess sanity doesn’t sell in the blogosphere, does it? Pig Vomit.
By the way, I don’t like the so-called “keffiyeh” scarves (plaid and paisley are now keffiyeh?) either, but it’s a style preference. I think they look ridiculous, like stupid trendy urban hipster-wannabes. Terrorist sympathizers, not so much. More like, “I wanna look radical, but I don’t really like what radicals are about.” It’s just ugly and stupid-looking.
GAWD, I’m so sick of other conservatives who make us look ridiculous.
UPDATE: For sanity-check purposes, a tip: If the only other people having fits about something are basically just Malkin, Schlussel, and Pamela/Atlas Shrugs, you can pretty much be sure that you’re wildly overreacting. (Charles Johnson, though…he’s usually a bit less hysterical. I guess everyone has their moments.)
UPDATE 2: Heh. (Still stupid looking for the same reasons above, but I like the humor behind it.)
TC says:
I’ll withhold judgment on the subject until Ann Coulter, the paragon of rational decency, lets me know what I should think.
Beth says:
It would be so much easier to know what to think on all the issues if she had a blog! ;-P
Lord Bitememan says:
*sigh* The saddest part is that there are plenty of conservatives out there of poise and erudition who could make forceful spokesmen for conservatism. Thomas Sowell comes to mind as one. It saddens me that our culture allows sensationalist demagogues like Coulter and Malkin to thrive.
raz0r says:
Dunkin Donuts has pulled the ad. It wasn’t really a keffiyeh. Meh. Still not a fan of Rachel Ray.
Merri says:
Thanks for the link, Beth. You know how I feel. I mean, c’mon! I think I’m going to go throw away the paisley silk scarf I have from like 1992 that I never wear any more. Just in case I might be considered a terrorist apologist. Um…yeah.
doubleplusundead says:
To be fair, Rachael Ray is the Antichrist. While this whole thing was silly, I still got to declare my strong dislike of the Annoying One, so Malkin gets a thumbs up for giving me an excuse to do so. :P
TC says:
One can purchase scarfs like that from Ranger Joe’s.
http://www.rangerjoes.com/scarfshemagh-british-sas-p-1623.html
One of my friends is an officer in SF and I have a few photos of him wearing a Keffyah-type scarf. And a beard. He must be a terrorist sympathizer.
As for Rachel Ray… Annoying. Really annoying. If she endorses it, I don’t buy it.
As for Coulter/Malkin/Pammycakes/Schlussel… Hysterical reactionary bitches.
Susan B. says:
Hi Beth,
Thank you for the dose of sanity in the face of this completely ridiculous “controversy”. When I first saw this on LGF, I could tell it wasn’t really a keffiyeh. It was a totally different pattern — it just happened to be black on white. I’m not a fan of Rachael Ray and I don’t care for Dunkin Donuts, but this whole brouhaha was just stupid and makes conservatives look stupid. Lefty blogs are having a field day over this. Things like this are such an embarrassment. :-(
c.a. Marks says:
Thank you! And thank you for having the balls to come out against the MSM bloggers who have become increasingly sickening to me.
sierrahome says:
Rachel Ray drives me crazy, she’s probably a good person I dunno but what I don’t get is spending thousands of dollars on marketing and hiring a firm that is supposed to know their stuff–I’m no fashion expert here but that scarf looked like a huge WTF–wouldn’t one of these highly paid college graduate marketing guru types look at the situation and suggest that there might be a problem. The first problem I see is that it looks like they are selling scarves and not coffee because as I just mentioned that scarf looks like a huge WTF.
On another note I would LOVE (or maybe not) to stick Rachel in the kitchen of my old pub on a Friday lunch cooking for about 130 people over 120 minutes–with 3 cooks (broiler-fryer & prep)she’d be a sniveling pile of overpaid hype.