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'Keffiyeh Kerfuffle'

There is an undeniable allure in putting those two words (coined by conservative blogger Michelle Malkin, not me) together. Beyond that, I found this story -- about Rachael Ray's controversial Dunkin Donuts scarf-with-jihadi-undertones, which made it through the mad, mad world of the blogosphere all the way to the New York Times today -- to be too fantastical for anything but a Friday Exchange blog posting. Fridays are our designated day for frivolity here on the blog; often we turn to comic stalwarts like John Stewart or Stephen Colbert. Luckily, neither of them had to make this one up (though it seems straight from the Colbert playbook). Nope, it really happened. As recounted succinctly on The Huffington Post:

Dunkin Donuts has pulled a commercial featuring pitchwoman Rachael Ray wearing a scarf because Michelle Malkin and other conservative observers thought the scarf looked too much like a keffiyeh, what Malkin describes as "the traditional scarf of Arab men that has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad."

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