Dear Dunkin,
Because you've decided, or so it seems, to dictate your ad policies for a puny bevy of right wing idiots, you've lost the business of this left-winger.
It amuses me no end to think that you've possibly lost more patrons from the left wing in this recent attempt to save face with the right. I'm not sure if you're aware of this, depending on which polls you've seen, but....come close, I'll whisper it to you. Shhhhhhh... Republicans are the minority now... The only two places where they reign are in the soon to be democratic White House, and on Fox News. I guess if your TV is consistently tuned to Fox, like yours appears to have been, you might get the sense that Republicans are in charge of shit around here. Not so much.
Either way, I'm taking it upon myself to inform everyone I know NOT to be patron to you, because of your decision.
You infuriate me, let me count the ways.
As far as I'm concerned you're worse than Michelle Malkin, a difficult feat to acheive in my book. Brain dead famewhoring shills like Malkin exist solely by the power and platforms they're given by others. They exist by creating, and then bloviating on grossly exaggerated, sensationalized spin tacked onto absolutely nothing relevant. Further, it sickens me that the faux news they peddle on Fox News, as in Malkin's case, also deliberately exists to distract from the blunderous global pillaging going on in the name of their employers and the policy makers who pander to them.
You have empowered the likes of Michelle Malkin by pulling the Rachel Ray ad. You have shown that when empty shells wanton for useless talking points find some triviality over which to cry "terrorist!" they can do it: holler, and holler successfully. Shame on you Dunkin!
Hey. Come closer again, let me tell you another secret, Closer... It's a fucking scarf. Given that you've taken its supposed terrorist symbolism completely out of false context, let's look at some more of the immediate context: we'll stick with just what else is in the ad: Rachel fucking Ray. Yeah, okay, her perkiness and her repeatedly referring to "EVOO," and the fact that she's had no formal culinary training does infuriate me. I really can't even tell you why. But she's the furthest fucking thing from a Palestinian jihadist I can think of.
Then there's the more obvious: Why in blue fuck would a major corporation (you), trying to sell lattes, deliberately advertise with anything that might hurt their sales and be so controversial? We know you didn't do it on purpose. I think even Malkin would have to admit to that based on the above common sense. So since your motives were innocent of what's being alleged, why would you pull the ad and give any sort of credence to what these ass clowns are blithering about? You have given them exactly what they sought to get, you have validated their pitiful existence.
I can't read entertainment websites today, normally dedicated to celebrities and their overpriced fashions (I'm guilty!), without seeing this "issue," even there. Headlines, like, "Rachel Ray a Terrorist?" and "Scarf of a Terrorist?" No! I say, the answer is an obvious "no" to both questions.
It's no longer over whether the scarf or Ray, or you, Dunkin, are any of what you've been accused of, but just that this has become an issue at all! Entertainment sites post the controversy like a "Look at the ridiculous happenings-on over in politics." It's embarrassing, trivial, and ri-goddamned-diculous. All it says is, Hey, look at the bullshit hysteria that can be cooked up by a handful of paranoid, news-bereft nutjobs in political America!
Had you ignored Malkin, Fox, and the whole ilk, I think we'd all be laughing about this by now. I might even be sipping one of your lattes. As of now, though, I plan to never drink one again.
So congratulations, Dunkin, you've successfuly done what you sought to avoid. Come here, let me tell you one last secret... closer... LIBERALS DRINK LATTES TOO!
Sincerely,
A Former Dunkin Patron (and that's all you need to know).