Paula Dean,Paula Dean, Paula Dean....not surprised it is so

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http://newsone.com/2602922/paula-deen-deposition-racist/

[Gen]

not surprised one bit eedah.

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The real surprise would have been if she were a better person. And bet you none of her friends and family even stop to tell Deen that she was out of order, so all them the same too.

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[Gen]

why she a look forgiveness ???

backathebus biscuits not selling well in her shop ??? aye sah

[Tropicana]

Fired:

Food Network Drops Paula Deen

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/22/dining/paula-deen-is-a-no-show-on-today.html

Paula Deen, the self-proclaimed queen of Southern cooking and a sugary mainstay of the Food Network, was dropped by the network on Friday, following a bewildering day in which she failed to show up for an interview on the “Today” show and then in two online videos begged her family and audience for forgiveness for using racist language.

A network spokeswoman said it would not renew Paula Deen’s contract when it expires at the end of June. Ms. Deen has faced a volley of criticism this week over her remarks in a depositionfor a discrimination lawsuit by a former employee. In the document, she admitted she had used racial epithets, tolerated racist jokes and condoned pornography in the workplace.
The Food Network statement did not elaborate on its reasons for dropping her, but a person close to the network said its shows featuring her sons, Jamie and Bobby, would not be affected. Ms. Deen currently has three regular shows on the network, including “Paula’s Best Dishes.”
In her first video on Friday, posted on YouTube and later removed, Ms. Deen, near tears, said: “I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that I’ve done. I want to learn and grow from this. Inappropriate and hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable.”
In a longer video posted later in the afternoon, Ms. Deen appeared more composed. “Your color of your skin, your religion, your sexual preference does not matter,” she said, adding, “ I was wrong, yes, I’ve worked hard, and I have made mistakes but that is no excuse and I offer my sincere apology to those that I have hurt, and I hope that you forgive me because this comes from the deepest part of my heart.”
Earlier in the day, Ms. Deen failed to appear on “Today” for a scheduled exclusive interview with Matt Lauer, citing exhaustion. She had agreed to the interview, extensively promoted by NBC News on Thursday night, to address the uproar generated this week by her statements in her deposition.
Clearly upset by her absence, Mr. Lauer told viewers that Ms Deen had spoken with him on Thursday, agreed to an “open and candid” discussion, flown to New York City — but in the morning, had her representatives cancel. “We just found out she’s a no-show,” he wrote on Twitter. “Hoping to get more info on the Paula Deen situation soon. Very confusing.”
In her second video, she said, “I have to say, I was physically not able this morning.”
Ms. Deen, 66, commands a small culinary empire, having produced numerous cookbooks, lent her name to other household products from butter to mattresses, and served as a spokeswoman for Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Smithfield Foods. She and her sons own and operate a restaurant in Savannah, Ga. Her magazine, Cooking With Paula Deen, has a circulation of nearly 1 million, her Web site says.
But Ms. Deen has managed to offend even her most uncritical fans before, most recently in January 2012, when she announced her diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes on the same day she endorsed the diabetes drug Victoza and a lucrative collaboration with Novo Nordisk, the drug’s manufacturer. Because she had built her career on a no-holds-barred approach to sugar and fat (creating recipes like a cheeseburger patty sandwiched between two doughnuts and a Better than Sex cake, made with cake mix, pudding mix, and heavy cream), she was roundly criticized for encouraging an unhealthy diet for others, hiding her illness and then trying to profit from it.
On Thursday, criticism of her statements about race mounted on Twitter — even spawning a sarcastic hashtag, #paulasbestdishes — and on Ms. Deen’s own Facebook page.
The lawsuit against her was filed in March 2012 by Lisa T. Jackson, the general manager of Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House, a restaurant that Ms. Deen owned with her brother, Earl (Bubba) Hiers. Ms. Jackson, who is white, said that her father was Sicilian, with dark skin, and that she had suffered prejudice as a result.
In the deposition, Ms. Deen said that she had used a racial slur in the past, though not in the restaurant, and that she and her family did not tolerate prejudice. “Bubba and I, neither one of us, care what the color of your skin is” or what gender a person is, she said. “It’s what’s in your heart and in your head that matters to us.”
She also stated that “most jokes” are about Jews, gay people, black people and “rednecks.”
“I can’t, myself, determine what offends another person,” she said.

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Reaction to Paula Deen's Dismissal is "Mixed"

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Last one...promise

[j-kid]

Did they forgive Isiah Washington?His career is still ruined. They can say these things, say sorry, and turn around after and make more money, but OTHERS are ruined for life if they do the same. As a group Blacks are too open to turn the other cheek when things like these happen.

[Peasie]

to think that all this time I thought her recipes were the most horrifying things about her

[jah_yout]

wow.when I first saw the quotes I thought it was another "onion" type satire piece....incredible

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[Peasie]

Lard a$$es protesting, "Don't deny us our rights to diabetes and heart disease! Paula Deen 4vr!"