On Jihad and Donuts
| Burn, America, Burn!!!!! | ||
Dunkin’ Donuts is pulling an ad that featured Food Nutwork’s Rachel Ray because right-wing nutjobs complained that she was wearing a Palestinian scarf, which she wasn’t (20 bucks says Arafat never wore paisley).
The best commentary I’ve read on this that really captures the absurdity comes from DailyKos:
To bring America to its knees, all Bin Laden must do is make his next video while drinking from a can of Coca Cola. The nation would erupt in chaos; Coca Cola sales would vanish into nothingness. In his next video, he could casually munch potato chips; the entire snack industry would collapse. One after another, he could film himself driving an American car; he could insert himself into a Girls Gone Wild video; he could appear next to a caveman, or a gecko, or Captain Crunch; he could enroll in DeVry University. On the day he refinanced his home at new historically low rates, the United States housing market would collapse irretrievably. One by one, he could decimate the entire economic fabric of America merely by association. Not one person in fifty would be willing to buck social trends and still buy Coca Cola if Bin Laden was seen drinking it; our consumer-based economy would be destroyed.
Why stop at scarves, after all? If Islamic militants wished to truly damage America, they should make pants a symbol of their jihad. All of conservative America would immediately go patriotically pantsless, and the collective loss of American appetites would render the entire nation weak and anemic and ripe for takeover.
Read the whole thing here. It’s a giggle.
