Olbermann Names Dunkin' Donuts Worst Person In The World, Calls For Boycott

Wednesday night on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann declared Dunkin' Donuts his "Worst Person in the World" for caving to the lunatic fringe and pulling an ad featuring Rachael Ray wearing a scarf that the far-right thought was too Arab looking.

"They were as weak of their decaf," Olbermann said of the donut and coffee company, and proposed a boycott of the company:

How about this? How about the rest of us boycott Dunkin' Donuts for giving into fascists like Michelle Malkin? And for giving weight to perhaps the most absurd idea the lunatic fringers have ever belched forth: that there are terrorist scarves! Terrorist scarves! Dunkin Donuts: time to stop buying the donuts.

Watch, and be sure to notice 1:05 in when, in reference to Time critic James Poniewozik's critique of him, Olbermann says (of Joe Lieberman), "I'd lapse into self-parody here, Senator, and mock you, but obviously you're doing too good a job mocking yourself."

Comments

[Philippa]

Of course, DD pulled the ad. There still are too many people who listen to and believe in the likes of Malkin.

[Bluedog12]

I bought my Filipino wife a scarf for her birthday and now she has filed for divorce on the basis that I am an unamerican terrorist sympathizer.

[rachel88]

How is rioting over a scarf any different from rioting over cartoons?
Olbermann is absolutely right, the right wing lunatics have more in common with islamic nutbags,
than they probably realize.

[LeBelAge]

Amen.

[adamsmith]

Olbermann.............Woooooorrrrsst "journalist" in the woooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrllllllllllldddd. Dork...

[adamsmith]

Olbergoebbels. Punk.... I'm buying two dozen for the office on Monday....Olby, ha...hahahaha......hahahahahahahaha...........hahahahahahahahahahahahhahhahhahahahaaa!!!!!!

[JessWonderin]

I'm sure the McSame staff will enjoy them . . . .

[rachel88]

Wow, you sure showed him!

[LeBelAge]

I'm so impressed with adamsmith's articulate commentary. ;)

[VOTER]

UPDATE:

Tonight Keith O showed a photo of a young woman wearing a "Terrorist Scarf"............

It was Senator McCain's daughter! ROFL

Where is Malkin? LOL

[lisakaz2]

I saw that too. He NAILED IT for how stoooopid Malkin is.

[scottyboi84]

I'm in. I hate Dunkin Donuts anymore. I am an avid coffee drinker, but I refuse to ever go to Dunkin Donuts again, and not even about the Rachael Ray scandal. Every damn time I go there I have to wait forever in line to get to the speaker to order a latte for them to always tell me that their machine is down, or they're out of mix, or they don't sell them...I went across town where I live to another Dunkin to try again on the same day, I used to love their lattes with an extra shot of espresso, but the idiot working there tried to play dumb with me. He says,"What's a latte?" "I don't think we sell those..." What retards, it was right on the f-ing menu board. I will never ever go there again, and I would encourage anyone else to do the same. I hear Folgers is better anyways, because Starbucks ain't much better, that's for sure.

[fairandjust]

I am ashamed of Dunkin Donuts management! What a ridiculous decision and yes, I will boycott just because of this stupidity.

All the defense they had to offer was that McCain's daughter Meghan is pictured wearing the same type of scarf!
http://gawker.com/5003288/mccain-daughter-in-islamoterror-scarf-shocker

[JessWonderin]

FLASH:


McSame just issued a statement claiming that is not his daughter and is "puzzled and confused, it isn't the Meghan he knows . . ."

Film at 11 . . . .

[whitey7]

I think DD is dumb but, my brother had a simular scarf on in the airport in Rome and had a wonderful couple of hours explaining it to security.

[freedomisabsolute]

I don't eat donuts or drink coffee and make my own real fruit no added sugar smoothies so I have been unintentionally boycotting DD for years now. But they shouldn't have allowed themselves to be bullied because of a perception that is divorced from reality, they should have done and said nothing. If less people responded to this ridiculousness would it continue? If they had done nothing in response, story ended. Scarf looks Muslim... oh well. Fatty donuts and caffeinated drinks, not a political or cultural statement. Boy are we a nation of idiots paying attention to this stuff. Hey I'm getting paid right now so I got time. Let's stop being distracted and start paying attention to the forces behind the curtains people. And Keith pick a better target, who cares.

[Srkdqltr]

I think the country is having a collective breakdown.
The media has gone crazy and is taking most of the blogging public with it.
The scarf is a scarf and Rachall Ray ..... Like her Not Like her dosn't matter. ... is a cook not doing anthing but shareing and entertaining.
The issue is stupid.
Dunkin Doughnuts caved where it should not have.
The talking head Malkin?? is really heading for the rubber room.
Oberman used to be good but has gone the way of the rest of the talk show folks who think they are more important than they are.

[rsquared]

Shame on DD. The worst thing you can do nowadays is to let yourself get pushed around by the Lunatic Nutbag Fringe.

I'll pay the extra for (better) Starbucks coffee (until they do something lame).

[Marlyn]

I love the mad pipe organ music.

[nolabels]

"Terrorist scarves"
I was laughing my ass off. Thank you, KO.

[appleknocker]

DD should wake up and smell the coffee. Sorry!