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Dear Michelle Malkin, I'm not familiar with your body of writing, but I have come across your column on the "keffiyeh kerfuffle" in a local newspaper. Yes, the fashion moguls and Hollywood stars have made pop icons out of Che, Mao, and other revolutionaries, and, yes, that may be happening with the keffiyeh. But... (1) Rachel Ray was not sporting a keffiyeh, as the picture clearly shows. You accuse those who are unaware of the keffiyeh as "clueless"--well, seems to me that your charge was "clueless." The scarf has a paisley pattern and fringes--only someone who is "clueless" about the keffiyeh would mistake it for a keffiyeh. (2) The keffiyeh is not a symbol of terrorism. Your saying so is a sign of significant cultural ignorance. You wrote that the keffiyeh is a sign of "hate culture" and likened it to the infamous hood of the KKK. The keffiyeh is traditional headress in Palestinian Arab culture and has been worn for thousands of years--long before the PLO, long before the present Israeli/Palestinian conflict, long long before Rachel Ray. You have thus branded an entire culture a "hate culture" and likened an entire people to the KKK. That is bigotry if ever there was such. One need not endorse terrorism or be a "liberal" in order to exhibit a bit of cultural knowledge and sensitivity. I am disappointed to find on your website/blog that you are entrenching on this issue. You would do yourself much better to acknowledge the above two points, admit your mistake, and make an appropriate apology. Your doing so would win respect from both left and right. Sincerely, Darrin W. Snyder Belousek

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are you serious ..... complaining about a scarf someone is wearing get a life..... shes just madd cause she will never be as famous as racheal ray ... are people really siding with this woman cause this is complete nonsense.... so many othere topics to blog about n this woman picks a nice person like racheal ray to jump all over ...personally your opinion is complete rubbish....

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Michelle, You are truly ignorant! I guess you have no Arab friends or have not spent any time in an Arab country. Why do you have to embarrass yourself like this and project your overall ignorance and stupidity. You are another Conservative who can't speak to real issues that affect common every day Americans. Get a life.

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Wow, you are so knowledgeable about Arab garb and terrorism. Thank you so much for informing us about the origins and nature of the Keffyeh ... As an Arab American woman, not only did I laugh really hard at your silly commentary [actually I'm still laughing], but I also couldn't help but wonder do Mao style shirts piss you off too? Miss Malkin, get a grip and get a life ... P.S. SHAME ON DUNKIN DONUTS FOR YANKING OUT RACHAEL RAY'S AD.

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You have got to be kidding me!!! Are you serious. You know we have drugs out there that can help you with your little paranoid issue you have going here. This is a typical response from another neo-nazi bible thumping jesus freak. The sad part is that there are people, though very shallow, that actually pay money. If your so dead set about this why don't you join the military you coward and go join the fight. You won't though, cause your a Jane C. (coward or civilian you choose). Hurry the war won't last forever. You will lose your chance to kill a Muslim. Your just like the rest of the neo cons, You talk a good game until it's you that have to put your ass on the line. By the way I protected your home land for 8 years. I think a thank you is in order.

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This is another "non-story -non-issue" presented by a person who craves attention and uses cunning and outright sensationalism to get it. there is nothing "intelligent" about this piece of writing but it is proof that we love the mediocre and avoid the serious. I would like some recognition but I, like Malkin, have very little writing ability so i shall opt for her style of presentation which we might call "innuendo and exaggeration". So I submit the following. "Michelle Malkin, real name: Maglalang, is of Filipino extraction. Members of her family are said to have significant ties to Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Movement in that Island nation. She has ancestors who were thought to be members of the deadly communist terrorist organization called "the Huks" or The Hukbalahap, the military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines".............This is how rumors get started. Like Obama is a Muslim. As you see there is as much truth in what I have written as there is in the things you have written but we can both take advantage of the masses can't we. Even if we are somewhat less that truthful. We are all quite aware of the use and power of terms like: 1. "said to have" 2. "were thought to be" Ms. Malkin I have accused you of nothing..just rumor. But readers will think otherwise. You are very clever but be careful that your cleverness does not make you a target as you have attempted to make others." Replies:

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Re: Samson My comment is not about Rachael Ray nor Dunkin Donuts. It is about using freedom of the press and freedom of speech to slander other people. it is about the use of sensationalist propaganda and it's evils from any point in the political and social spectrum. If this is not important to you so be it. Your prespectve on one single person and some pastry outlet seems to be lacking here. I would suggest that you reconsider. If you had lived you life under a dictator where these tactics were comonplace, and used to instill fear into the populace for 40 years. You attitude is simply a manner of opening a Pandora's box you may well wish you had never opened. "This can't happen here because this is America?"....a very naive attitude at best.

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I have been a fan of your clear thinking and analysis in the past, but this does not qualify as either. This is lame and is not worthy of you. This type of hubris reminds me of the hysterical politically correct comments generally heard from the left. I am embarrased. Please modulate your rhetoric. If you do not have a good topic, do not make a lame one up.

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Don't you have anything else to do with your time FREAK! Seriously, what is this nonsense about Rachael Ray and Dunkin Donuts. What a waste of the wear and tear on your keyboard keys to write this article. You are lame!