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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Corporate America Bows to Xenophobic Freak(s)

"Don't tase me, bro!" - The Rachael Ray photo that
mobilized ultra-rightwing gladiators.


THE WOMAN WHO MISTOOK A SCARF FOR A TERRORIST

If the image of the kaffiyeh starts to get associated with babelicious types who drink Dunken Donuts Coolattas, isn't that a worst nightmare to those who want it to mean something else?
Michelle Malkin's campaign against the wonder bra Rachael Ray scarf (supposedly a Kaffiyeh) has to go into the pantheon of the supreme paranoia that drives that part of the GOP's ultra-right approach to all things foreign.

HIDE YOUR KAFTANS - THEY ARE WATCHING

Even the Little Green Footballer is in on the gig, worried about the "mainstreaming of terrorism".

I've looked at their "arguments".

IT'S TASER-TIME WITH/FOR RACHAEL RAY!

I have one question. If everyone wears a kaffiyeh, doesn't it start to lose its symbolism (if you believe it has much)? If the image of the kaffiyeh starts to get associated with babelicious types who drink Dunken Donuts Coolattas, isn't that a worst nightmare to those who want it to mean something else?

As such, isn't the mainstreaming of these symbols, to co-opt them, a kind of smart counter-insurgency?