A television celebrity is all "dolled up" by fashion designers to hawk Dunkin' Donuts in a TV ad. Nothing out of the ordinary there.
But wait, this is post-9/11 United States of America. Isn't that black-and-white scarf she is wearing "too Arab looking?" Is she selling doughnuts or promoting terrorism?
(Never mind that doughnuts kill way more Americans daily than terrorism ever will.)
To avoid forevermore being mistaken for al-Qaida, Dunkin' Donuts pulled the ad, thus exemplifying our country's continued decent into the abyss of ignorance and its natural offspring - fear and hate.
We have become a nation of mindless consumers; a national "focus group" whose vicissitudes are constantly monitored, marketed and manipulated by self-serving corporations and politicians.
A wingnut from the right cries in horror at the sight of a black-and-white scarf launching a corporate-level, Red-paranoid response to "terrorism." That's pathetic.
My suggestion: America run FROM Dunkin'. It could save your life.