By now if you're moderately newsy you're aware that Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an ad with celebrity foodie Rachael Ray because the nut case blogger Michelle Malkin (the poor man's Ann Coulter) fingered Ray's paisley scarf as an approving nod to Palestinian jihad. Instead of being laughed into the next universe, Malkin was rewarded both with corporate capitulation and 2,013 hits on Google News, last I looked (and that doesn't include the blogosphere). Normally I wouldn't comment on this and add to the madness, although Malkin's observations are predictably certifiable:
Anti-American fashion designers abroad and at home have mainstreamed and adapted the scarves as generic pro-Palestinian jihad or anti-war statements. Yet many folks out there remain completely oblivious to the apparel’s violent symbolism and anti-Israel overtones.
What caught my fancy in all this, however, was the way Dunkin' Donuts capitulated:
In a statement, Margie Myers, senior VP-communications for the donut firm said that "the possibility of misperception detracted from its original intention to promote our iced coffee."
In its dry understatedness, that has to be one of the funniest lines ever perpetrated by a publicist. It is improbable that even The Onion's best writer on her best day could have come up with anything half so droll.
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