Conservative Idiocy over Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts
by Jacob G. Hornberger

Americans received a good dose of conservative idiocy over the weekend.

The dose, which almost defies belief, involves noted conservative commentator Michelle Malkin, who got upset with a television advertisement by Dunkin Donuts that featured 30-minute chef Rachel Ray.

The reason for Malkin’s distress over the commercial? The war on terrorism, a war that excites conservatives even more than the war on drugs, the war on communism, or the war on immigrants.

Malkin went ballistic because in the commercial Rachel is wearing a scarf that bears a resemblance to a kaffiyeh, a traditional scarf worn by Arab men, which apparently some people in the Middle East view as a symbol for Palestinian independence and Islamic radicalism.

So, there you have it: Rachel Ray, the chef who shows people how to make 30-minute meals, and Dunkin Donuts, the company selling donuts and coffee, secretly and subliminally promoting terrorism and al-Qaeda and maybe even anti-Semitism.

Hey, it gets worse. According to the a blog by Monica Corcoran in the Los Angeles Times, the kaffiyeh has been won by dozens of celebrities, including Colin Farrell, David Beckham, Kirsten Dunst, and both Olsen twins.

Oh my gosh! Those anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorism moles have now infiltrated sports and Hollywood? Quick, declare them all “enemy combatants” and ship them off for a bit of waterboarding at Guantanamo Bay.

Is this idiocy or what? Alas it’s what goes for intelligent commentary in the conservative movement these days.

Let me tell you why conservatives are spending their time with this type of idiocy. They know that it wasn’t just the neo-cons who supported the war of aggression against Iraq. It was also the conservatives. Take a look at any conservative website and you’ll find a host of articles from the 1990s calling for the U.S. government to overthrow Saddam. Once the adventure took a nosedive, conservatives chose to do anything to avoid confronting their personal responsibility for the debacle, even trying to mislead people into thinking that it was all the fault of just the neo-conservatives.

Look at what conservatives have done with their out-of-control government spending, especially on the U.S. military, the military-industrial complex, and Iraq. For the last several years, the dollar has cratered in value, resulting in soaring prices at the pump and in the grocery stores, restaurants, and elsewhere. Conservatives are doing everything they can to avoid taking personal responsibility for the horrific consequences of their big-spending ways.

Look at how conservatives have legitimized intentional violations of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, including presidential wars waged without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war, torture and sex abuse, indefinite incarcerations, kidnapping and rendition, secret overseas prisons, kangaroo military courts, and denial of due process, habeas corpus, trial by jury, and effective assistance of counsel.

Unable to confront the shame of their actions, conservatives now spend their time wallowing in idiocy, as the Malkin complaint about Rachel Ray and Dunkin Donuts so perfectly reflects.

Unfortunately, Malkin successfully intimidated Dunkin Donuts into withdrawing the ad. Wouldn’t it have been wonderful if the company and Ray had instead responded, “Malkin, take your conservative idiocy and shove it”?  

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4. 04-06-2008 20:51

Zionist Anti-Arab anti-Semitism

The fundamental messages from the Jewish Holocaust (6 million dead, 1 in 6 from deprivation) and the World War 2 Holocaust in general (30 million Slav, Jewish and Roma dead) are "zero tolerance for racism" and "never again to anyone" - injunctions grossly violated by the racist Zionists (RZs) and their anti-Arab anti-Semitic Bush-ite and neo-Bush-ite supporters.  
 
This extraordinary episode over the lady wearing something resembling a kaffiyeh says a lot about the extent of Zionist-inspired anti-Arab anti-Semitic racism in America. 
 
America started healing itself from centuries of racism in the 1960s with the civil rights movement and desegregation - we saw it, living in New York at the time as a "mixed", "Black-White" couple. 
 
However this healing of America in the 1960s coincided with the invasion and occupation of all of what was left of non-colonized Palestine - and the traitorous racist Zionists have spent the last 40 years campaigning for anti-Arab anti-Semitic racism in America. 
 
40 years of racist propagandizing has brought us to a pass in which US or US surrogate forces occupy a swathe of countries from Occupied Somaliland to robotically-bombed Waziristan in Pakistan; a nuclear-armed Apartheid Israel continues to variously occupy and bomb its neighbors and imprison millions of Occupied Palestinians in a series of concentration camps without charge or trial; and a Zionist-beholden America having extricated itself from the Indo-China war (13 million excess Indigenous deaths) is involved in genocidal butchery in the Muslim world, the extent of which is deliberately UNREPORTED in the Western Murdochracies - excess deaths 2 million (Occupied Iraq 2003-2008, 4.5 million refugees), 4 million (Iraq 1990-200, 3-7 million (Occupied Afghanistan, 2001-2008, 4 million refugees) (see: Palestinian, Iraqi, Afghan, Biofuel and Climate Genocides – Silence Kills and Silence is Complicity ). 
 
Decent Americans must wise up to this gross violation of the sacred messages from the Holocaust and sideline the evil, traitorous racist Zionists (RZs) from their presently dominant position in the United States of Israel - just as other evil, racist psychopaths such as the Nazis, neo-Nazis and the KKK are persona non grata in US public life.

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