Here's the deal

I am rushing back to New York to try and make a live TV interview with a broadcast news network (!)

They want to interview me on the the Dunkin Donuts story I broke on Rachel Ray and the keffiyeh, icon of the jihad. Don't know if I'll make it - it's the 5 - 6 slot. The Bostom event at AEI was incredible (but off the record - sorry guys I didn't know).

Wish me luck - don't think I'll make it to NY in time (delays at La Guardia)............story of my life

Much thanks to Debbie for giving credit where credit was due.

Check out ABC NEWS story here:

The controversial ad, which appeared earlier this month on the doughnut chain's Web site to promote its iced coffee, came under fire nearly two weeks ago when pro-Jewish blogger Pam Geller posted it under the headline "Rachel [sic] Ray: Dunkin Donuts Jihad Tool."

"Have you seen Rachel [sic] Ray wearing the icon of Yasser Arafatbastard and the bloody Islamic jihad," Geller wrote. "This is part of the cultural jihad."

Guess they dug the quote. :) I was spelling her name wrong - I made her ..... Jewish. lol.

UPDATE: The New York Times weighs in here:

Social security is no longer the undisputed third rail of American politics. Israel, race and religion and the draft all earned the title in May, leaving readers bewildered and journalists struggling to keep their dark metaphors straight. For the sake of clarity, shall we rotate the title on a weekly basis? We’ll kick it off with an unusual — yet completely plausible — nominee: the doughnut.

A few months after doughnuts became a presidential campaign issue, they stood at the center of a storm created by right-leaning bloggers. This was a story about “donuts and dumb celebrities” who were “mainstreaming terrorism” to make a buck, asserted Little Green Footballs and Michele Malkin. And Atlas Shrugs revised a bell-ringing catchphrase thusly: “TIME TO MAKE THE JIHAD!”   

Suddenly, Dunkin’ Donuts was accused of promoting terrorism, thanks to the wardrobe choices of Rachael Ray, its celebrity spokesman, during an online advertisement. According to the bloggers, she had decided to embrace “hate couture” by wearing a keffiyeh, a scarf popular in the Arab world and preferred by Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian militants during their rise in the West Bank and Gaza.

UPDATE 4:29 Stuck on the ground in DC. Ain't gonna make CNN. :(

Here's scenes from the lunch............. will be interviewing Bostom in the next few days.

Atlas, Father Roderick, Christian Solidarity International, and the mighty Bostom

Paul Wolfowitz and Diana West

Comments

[RISE_UP]

Well ell make them WAIT!! can't wait to see. where will it be which news? Be safe.

[jusa]

I saw this on the IHT today. Surprised it got coverage, good that Dunkin actually responded without overly lame excuses. But you weren't mentioned
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/28/business/NA-FIN-US-Dunkin-Donuts-Complaint.php

[blocked]

The Arafat-scarf might not be as overt a symbol as the Che Guevara icon, but its association with terror is obvious.

[chsw]

When stuck on a plane, do a phone interview.

If in DC, all networks have special NYC-DC video links so that reporters in NYC can interview politicians in DC and DC reporters can interview NYC businessmen and UN poseurs.

As you missed this evening's newscasts, I hope to see you on one of the morning shows.

chsw

[lilredbird]

Pam, thanks to you and to Dunkin for having the sense to graciously acknowledge the concerns and withdraw the ad, millions of people all over the country are now aware of what that wretched scarf signifies.

I can hear the cries of "Waitaminnit, you're not going out of the house wearing that!" now, heh...

Back in my day this was called "consciousness raising". Still works.

[Mystical Time Traveler]

Yet Dunkin' Donuts still call it a paisley print in black and white, after they photoshopped it.

I know a keffiyeh when I see one. And in the original picture it was a keffiyeh.

Way to go!

[TexasFred]

Well, you tried, and that's what matters...

Saw the story and they said Malkin was all over it, do ever 'conspire' with her??

Great catch, an old backslider like me wouldn't know the difference, so, thank you...

[Underzog]

Fox News lawyer, Greta Van "facelift" Sustern is indirectly blasting you for catching Rachel Ray with that terrorist scarf. Greta is attacking Michelle Malkin, but you were the one who caught the obnoxious ad first.

Greta had on some other idiot from the trashy "Star" magazine (I think it's a clone of "the Enquirer"), blasting those such as you who caught Rachel Ray's idiocy in wearing the terrorist garb. As if those shallow morons at "Star" or the "Enquirer" know what the issue is.

That fellow screaming obscenities at me was also wearing the terrorist scarf. He certainly knew what he was doing wearing it.

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[Yidwithlid]

Here's the real Issue that NO ONE is talking about. From a marketing point of view, why would Dunkin Donuts have rachel ray do their ads, Lets face it, the little Porker should be doing one of those Slim Fast ads, or something for a Salad Bar. When I first saw the keffiyeh picture on your site I figured it all out. Yassir Arafat didn't really die, Rachel Ray ATE HIM

[Shy Guy]

Paul Wolfowitz? After such ignorance, what forgiveness?