Strollerderby : Michelle Malkin

N-Word Flies at Palin Rally

Brett Singer — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:00:00 GMT

This is really ugly.

I hope that whomever you happen to be voting for, this isn't something you can condone.

As the blog We Are Respectable Negroes (the name comes from the Forty Acres and a Mule document) puts it: "It seems that Barack Obama was finally called a 'nigger' at a recent Republican presidential rally."

Palin will get a lot of flack for not responding, and while I can't argue otherwise, I don't know what she should have said. (In a Palin voice: "Oh, come on now! That's a bad thing to say!") Then again, how do you stand in front of a crowd that screams out something like that?

Michelle Malkin is claiming that the person was actually shouting, "Redistributor!"

Yes, of course. I make that mistake all the time.

(Aside: in case anyone is planning to leave a comment along the lines of, "What about that Sarah Palin hanging effigy? Why aren't you railing against that?" It's terrible and should be taken down immediately.)

I'll ask you -- what do you think you heard? I actually closed my eyes so I couldn't see the captioning on the video. Send the kids out of the room and tell us what you think was said.

Source: We Are Respectable Negroes, MichelleMalkin.com

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Amy S.F. Lutz — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:32:00 GMT

I know there are a lot of people out there who don't like Rachael Ray - some complain she's too chipper, others think she takes too many shortcuts in the kitchen. I've even seen her called out for her fashion choices. But I couldn't believe the reason Dunkin' Donuts pulled its new commercial featuring Ray: because one conservative commentator thought Ray's scarf looked too much like a keffiyeh, traditionally worn by Arab men.

Come on. Does anyone, even Ray's most virulent attackers, really think Ray is a secret terrorist?

I guess Michelle Malkin of Fox News does. She wrote in her column, "The keffiyeh, for the clueless . . . has come to symbolize murderous Palestinian jihad . . . Popularized by Yasser Arafat and a regular adornment of Muslim terrorists appearing in beheading and hostage-taking videos, the apparel has been mainstreamed by both ignorant and not-so-ignorant fashion designers, celebrities, and left-wing icons."

And so, because of one critical response, Dunkin' Donuts yanked the ad. Which I think is a ridiculous capitulation to a really bullshit objection. Objects derive meaning from their context, and I can't see how this ad can in any way be read as an endorsement of terrorism. Don't these commentators have legitimately important issues to comment on?