Are YOUR Donuts Ideologically Acceptable?
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, and sometimes a scarf is just a damned scarf.
As if to prove her egalitarian bona fides, Michelle Malkin has added Dunkin Donuts to the list of proposed boycotts of chains for purely idiotic reasons.* Not content with mudslinging over the left and immigration (the columnist, born in the States to parents who were here on visas, believes that children born to noncitizen parents don’t deserve citizenship; when’s she going to revoke hers?) she’s now turned her attention to the purveyor of starchy goodness and cheap, high-octane coffee. She called for like-minded Americans (pause here and let that thought sink in… terrified? Good, let’s continue) to boycott the chain because to her, it appeared as though they decked Rachel Ray out in a black and white scarf that looked like something that Yasir Arafat would wear on casual Fridays.
Call me silly, but I don’t think that Dunkin Donuts is a hotbed of jihadi fervor. I could be wrong here, but it strikes me as difficult to sneak subliminal messages into an Old Fashioned. Or to hide an ayatollah in a jelly donut. I’ve seen scarves like that on mannequins, old ladies, and the occasional snowman. Unless Al-Qaeda is getting very desperate, I don’t think we have anything to fear here. I just can’t see them recruiting Frosty. I hear those Afghan summers are pretty brutal, besides…
Anyway. Perhaps the best response to this whole thing would be to drink Dunkin Donuts coffee by the gallon, and stuff your face with Boston Creme donuts ’til you puke. Better still, the French Crullers. That’d really piss her off.
Postscript: The story’s unhappy ending: the chain caved and pulled the ad.
*see also the Starbucks Mermaid story…