By now I’m sure you know how much I despise Rachael Ray.
It’s mostly been her ubiquity that’s annoyed me. Her steadfast refusal to turn down any endorsement, any magazine cover, anything at all that would give her 5 minutes out of the spotlight and all of us a few minutes of peace.
Now, however, I have a whole new dimension of loathing for her, and I’m giddy with excitement.
Dunkin Donuts pulls Rachael Ray TV ad
Now, I realize that Rachael Ray is no Mensa member, but seriously, how stupid do you have to be?
It’s disturbing enough that you see clueless teenagers doing this kind of shit. But Rachael Ray? Does she not have a coterie of stylists and make-up people and image consultants? Was there not one person in her empire with a higher IQ than hers, or is that a condition of employment ?
I will say that I’m glad Dunks had the sense to pull the spot. They resisted a little initially, but you honestly can’t run a spot like that will a straight face. I’m pretty sure Jews eat donuts.
I look forward to the replacement ad, which will most likely feature Rach in a Che Guevara T-shirt.
Dummo!
30 responses so far ↓
1 Letty Cruz // May 27, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Best part is she assuredly had no clue what that scarf stands for — like Cameron Diaz in Peru nearly run out of town because of that communist-symbol-styling bag, stomping around like an idiot in a country where Maoists have terrorized the population for decades.
Karma served in a steaming Nabisco cracker & cheese whiz pie! Because you know it’s healthy — YUMMO!
2 creeto // May 27, 2008 at 6:36 pm
I thought the scarf was supposed to distract you from her expanding mid-section.
3 katzinoire // May 27, 2008 at 6:50 pm
How did the fact checkers miss this one?
4 pal Jacky // May 27, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Rachel Ray has been the food advisor for Dr. Laura for the last few years. Though Dr. Laura has eaten babies since her conversion to orthodox Judaism, she has eaten male homosexuals for a very long time. She has lavish BBQ’s where gay men are roasted on a spits. Rachel Ray was the first to insist that she cook them fully to kill off anything infectious. Since Rachel Ray already has Herpes , Vaginal and nasal warts and a bad case hepatitus C she must be refering to HIV.
She I continue this thread no matter what.
5 Solonor // May 27, 2008 at 7:39 pm
The hell?? Has everyone gone batshit insane? I’m no fan of Ray’s, either, but it’s a fricking scarf! The same scarf, by the way, that John McCain’s daughter wears.
Sheesh! People need to get a grip.
6 John Foley // May 27, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Oh brother. A link to crooks and liars.
In one sense, yes it’s just “a fricking scarf”, but it’s also part of the uniform that middle eastern terrorists wear. Do I think it means that Rachael Ray is a terrorist sympathizer? No. Do I think she looks like a clueless idiot? Yes. Just because Michelle Malkin overreacted in hysterical fashion to this shouldn’t excuse Rachael Ray from acting the fool. You expect this kind of thing from dopey college kids with no sense of history. College kids think it’s cool to dress like terrorists and to wear the mug of a death squad commander like Che. Rachael Ray should be a little more sensitive and realize that the kaffiyeh, to a lot of people, is not especially qualitatively different from a swastika.
I apologize for breaking Godwin’s Law, but I think it’s an apt comparison just this once.
7 unclemike // May 27, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Solonor, you took the words right out of my mouth. Er–keyboard, whatever.
April, honey, darling, little lamb, yes she does have make-up people and stylists and one of them gave her the clothes for the shoot. It’s not like famous people just wear whatever the hell is hanging over their Stairmaster to film a national commercial.
It’s a fucking scarf. With fringe. Not a blowjob for Arafat.
8 Infinite monkey // May 27, 2008 at 8:32 pm
leapin lemur’s, it’s been pulled outa the InSinkErator!… somebody please call the Macrame’ help line!
9 April // May 27, 2008 at 8:34 pm
It’s just a scarf like a KKK hood is just a hat.
10 pal Jacky // May 27, 2008 at 8:43 pm
we are talking rachel ray here. I would say that she would capitalize on her own bowel movements but that is how she got her start. “it’s my potty’ was entertainment for children’s parties. Why rent a clown when Rachel Ray will come over and poop in your pogonias? After a two month yeast infection she started her first food business, ‘Rachel Ray flavored yogurt’, but had to stop after those who consumed the product were getting pustules on the roofs of their mouths.
11 Infinite monkey // May 27, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Halal for R.R…. Halal for R.R…. yeaaaaa!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal
12 bjimba // May 27, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Holy shit! Solonor, you’re right on the money. Malkin is an idiot, as is anyone who looks at a fucking scarf and says, “Look, terrorism!”
Paisley is “part of the uniform”? Batshit crazy is right. I’m beside myself with the stupidity of this.
13 John Foley // May 27, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Good. Stay beside yourself.
Signed,
Just another idiot.
14 April // May 27, 2008 at 9:52 pm
People get the idea that certain things are fashionable and cool without understanding their meaning.
Che Guevara executed hundreds of people, and yet stupid kids wear his face like it’s Von Dutch.
Likewise, a kaffiyeh is not a paisley scarf. It may not have meaning to you, but some people find it deeply upsetting. They’re entitled to those feelings, despite the fact that Michelle Malkin is an idiot.
Are rosaries “just beads”? Maybe we should throw those to girls who show us their tits.
15 bjimba // May 27, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Perfect analogy. Suppose Rachel had Mardi Gras beads, and Malkin went nuts, saying they were rosary beads.
The point is, that scarf IS NOT A KAFFIYEH! Jesus, I have towels that look more like a kaffiyeh than that scarf.
16 April // May 27, 2008 at 10:15 pm
It’s not about Malkin. It’s about how smart it was to use a scarf like this.
Given that there are 50 billion scarves out there, choosing one that looks this much like a kaffiyeh was idiotic.
17 Speedy Cerviche // May 27, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Hmmm.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
My Speedy-sense is tingling.
18 Speedy Cerviche // May 27, 2008 at 10:37 pm
But Michelle Malkin, goddamn.
Reminds me of something a friend of mine used to say:
“That bitch is a piece of duct tape away from being a perfect 10.”
19 Gina // May 27, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Even if the scarf is paisley, it’s undeniably modeled after a kaffiyeh. I don’t know how anyone could make the argument that it isn’t. You have to look past Michelle Malkin’s involvement because it automatically muddies the waters and becomes all about her instead of being about the scarf. I did the same thing when I first read about this last week. I thought it was bullshit that she was making a big deal about this when she said nothing about Meghan McCain (she did mention McCain in her weekly column that was published a couple of hours ago) and there’s nothing that pisses me off more than selective outrage. But she’s right about this.
20 Speedy Cerviche // May 27, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Alright, after doing some research, I guess it does bear a vague resemblance to a terror-rag. Still not sold on the idea that this was some sort of statement on what’s-her-face’s part. I mean, for a human being whose main accomplishment in life is cooking simple meals and using cutesy words for everyday kitchen items, I doubt she even has the brain capacity to hold any real political opinion, let alone a radical one.
Despite and still, anything bad that happens to Rachel Ray is good news for the rest of the world, so I guess Dunkin Donuts did the right thing. And need I mention how jumpy Bostonians are? Aren’t these the people who called in the anti-terrorism task force because of those cartoon Lite-Brite things? Better to err on the side of caution when it comes to things that might be vaguely construed as something that might resemble something having to do with something connected in some way to terrorism.
21 coasterboy // May 27, 2008 at 11:01 pm
I’d throw her a rosary if she’d show us her tits….
22 Speedy Cerviche // May 27, 2008 at 11:07 pm
giggity
23 bjimba // May 27, 2008 at 11:23 pm
To be fair about this: I understand your gut reaction that anything Rachel does is, by definition, boneheaded. And I’m sure you understand my gut reaction that anything Malkin does is, by definition, the same.
That said, we are in dangerous territory if we equate everything Arabic with terrorism.
24 jim // May 27, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Do NOT make me choose between Rachel Ray & Michelle Malkin. Very bad menu – DO NOT WANT.
Oh dear … not eager to be the major-league turd in the punchbowl here, BUT … you do know that both US & British Special Forces wear kaffiyehs too, right? The real deal, I mean. In fact, they’re awfully ubiquitous in the Middle East – where the sand can strip paint off a car let alone skin off your nose & lips. That garment in itself has zero religious or political value among the folks traditionally prone to wearing it, symbol-fetishist hip white radical-wannabes notwithstanding. Never mind that what EVOO-witch is wearing is obvously not the “PLO tartan” or even very close to it – it’s paisley.
Begging to differ: it IS about Malkin, specifically about the fact that her cultural capital is tanking right now & she feeds on controversy like a leech feeds on blood. This was a non-event until she made the ad into a controversy, with the help of her VERY loyal readership. To say her rep is spotty is a major understatement.
In this day & age, tabloid media-pimps don’t think twice about manufacturing their own story, in fact it’s lauded as “The New Creativity” – someone going downhill like she is has no problem with going on the warpath over anything from a wardrobe choice to kitchen countertops – & enjoying the notoreity that comes with it.
If folks are going batshit crazy over a paisley scarf, some head-checks are in order … there are MUCH better reasons to equate Ray with septicemia than this, real ones … it looks about as rational as those Born-Agains telling everyone that Spongebob was gay a few years back.
PROTIP: taking your cultural cues from internment-camp apologists/child-stalkers may not be a wise move.
25 coasterboy // May 27, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I’ve said it before, wouldn’t it be a lovely planet without religion? It does seem to attract the bone heads….
26 Speedy Cerviche // May 27, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Jim, how dare you bring logic into this discussion!
We don’t take kindly to your types ’round here.
27 bnaivar // May 28, 2008 at 4:55 am
Actually, the sad part is that even though the ad got pulled Rachel Ray still got paid for doing it.
28 JohnnyBoy // May 28, 2008 at 8:06 am
Che Ray ! Che Ray !
29 April // May 28, 2008 at 8:20 am
I started to answer you Jim, but it got lengthy (surprise) so I’m posting a new blog.
30 eBayEnigma // May 28, 2008 at 8:23 am
I just have one word to say to Rachael Ray: DECAF!