http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,440739,00.html

Gang youth!

(rafflaw – how was that snark not immediately recognized?!! Actually, if you want to see that rant about the “Broken Cross” in its original form, read Stephen King’s “Hearts in Atlantis,” which has a classic scene about the ‘origins’ of the peace sign)

Imagine, that while our American military, facing every imaginable deadly danger, ostensibly, to bring freedom to the Middle East … celebrated public figures in the United States are launching National campaigns about scarves in order to bolster inconceivable paranoia and replace our own freedom with mass paranoia and a National campaign to promote hatred.

While our Constitution is being shredded, concept by concept, the invisible hand of the market is being summoned, to not only pick our pockets – but to pick our wardrobe as well.

Meanwhile, Michelle Malkin, desperately seeking National public attention was handed two news cycles in which to market her brand of fear mongering while she waves a tattered American Flag to the sound of a pathetic violin solo, not one week after the Nation played taps to honor its war dead. Deceased veterans that lost their lives representing a Nation, that gives the opportunity for Malkin to express her freedom of expression – even when her message is offensive.

Malkin only has the power people give to her. If she calls for a boycott and everyone laughs, she’s defanged and history. It’s in her interest to periodically create a crisis, but only ones where nobody can create a meaningful opposition that would shred her case. Ideally something where the ‘bad guys’ will capitulate quickly and she can be carried around the field on the shoulders of her oh-so-macho supporters.

Hence nonsense like this. It got her name out, she “demonstrated” the ability to “force” corporations to accede to her demands, etc. It showed her supporters as “more powerful than big business” (no pun intended) and her opposition as “powerless”. Which is true, to the extent that we’re so busy laughing at the claim to take it seriously, but that was never her objective.

She might not even be aware that she’s doing this, but anyone who’s dealt with certain types of drama queens will recognize it immediately.

So, all alleged Americans who eat French crullers are actually surrender monkeys?

A scarf is outrageous but the jelly roll remains the same.

http://tinyurl.com/5khdnm

Juvenile xenophobic idiocy across the board; it’s as if the majority of the ‘politically involved’ population never matured a day past the age of five years old.

No, on second thought….

Mankind has not evolved an inch from the slime that spawned him.

And the bar code is the Mark of the Beast.

How do liburulz not recognize this stuff? It’s so obvious!!!1!1!!

I noticed this exactly! Not one of the “pressies” as I’m going to call them from now on, bothered to press them on the merits of his claims.

ARRGGG

Impeach Now!

“Why do policemen like doughnuts?”
Answer by John F. Timoney, Chief of the Miami P.D., former First Deputy Commissioner, NYCPD.

“It’s because doughnut stores, especially in NYC, are everywhere…and they are often open 24 hours day….the one staple is coffee and doughnuts. It’s quick and easy; if while you are eating in the car you happen to get an emergency call, you can discard them easily–the loss isn’t a hell of a lot. You throw them out the window and your gone. It’s always easy enough to get more.”

The whole idea is to keep cool in the hot Middle East sun…and as somebody said earlier, the symbolism is the making of Hollywood movies.

I agree this is a conundrum. When right wing crazies speak, large companies listen. Why? Part of it seems to be unity and repetetion of disinformation from their mouthpieces. If you check out the latest talking points from the administration and friends on Scott McClellan they all repete how they don’t know who he is (i.e.-he’s crazy) and he’s a disgruntled former employee. (They aren’t even allowed to say the latter as it’s a registered trademark of the US Postal Service.) I notice that what McClellan actually said is given far less coverage than every administration loyalist trying to discredit him. Those people get on message and stay there. Even so, why are these messages taken so seriously? It takes complicity to make the cycle work. Perhaps the article on puking for Christ is instructive about that.

Novin,

That’s a good idea!

Jill

It is bad coffee non-food and Rachel Ray is annoying, but prejudice is much worse.

Call upon Bibleman. He is all the defense ye shalt need!

Jill

Genius…more like Dewey on Malcolm in the Middle, but thanks anyway.

Imagine what Fixed news could do with a graffiti tagged Boxcar…likeness of Osama.

What could be more un-American than that? Your clear implication that some of our police force may be gay. That is a precarious position to take!

Jill

That was genius!

Jill

Only Fixed news can identify a traditional headdress worn by Arab men as a female scarf and miss the obvious gang-sign Ms. Ray is flashing with her right hand.

There is nothing to see here. Move along Ms. Malkin.

Actually, what he should have said was a “regular adornment of Muslim terrorists in Hollywood movies”. Hollywood has worked hard to make the kaffiyeh symbolic of terrorism, even in movies where terrorism has nothing to do with the plot. In a scene in Back to the Future, for instance, “Libyan terrorists” show up out of nowhere, inexplicably wearing a red kaffiyeh which is more common in Jordan actually.

Anyway, I find it hard to believe no one at DD knew the scarf would be controversial, especially since Urban Outfitters had a similar flack with the Zionist fashion police. Seems a little engineered.

Tuning to Rachel Ray, I am wondering what all the fuss is about for this gravel-voiced epicurean, whose main claim to fame is food she says is fit to eat after 30 minutes of prep. Speaking of time, when is her 15 minutes up?