Massa Paula Deen

[marmar]

Paula Deen is no stranger to controversy, but new allegations of racism leveled against the Southern chef may shock even those who have followed her troubles most closely.

The National Enquirer claims to have acquired a video of a deposition in which Deen admits to using the N-word and making racist and anti-semitic jokes. She also allegedly describes her interest in hiring black waiters dressed to look like "slaves" at a wedding.

The deposition, which was reportedly held on May 17, took place as part of a court case brought forth by former Paula Deen Enterprises employee Lisa Jackson against Deen and her brother, Earl “Bubba” Hiers. Jackson alleges several instances of sexual and racial workplace discrimination. ....................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/19/paula-deen-racist-comments-n-word-caught-on-video_n_3467287.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

[LuvNewcastle]

1. Judging from this exchange, I'd say it looks like

Paula Deen is going to have to pay up.

[forthemiddle]

2. Can the Food Network possibly keep her on?

What about her two sons shows? Any other network (as shown in the recent past on ESPN) would at a minimum place her on leave. As for her sons, I don't think they are guilty, but their shows are "spin offs" of Paula's show (Not my Mommas Meals) which features her on every episode.

[Myrina]

7. Does Food Network show anything other than Diners, Drive Ins and Dives anymore?

I've given up on that channel, I so despise Guido Fieri & he's on - marathons - 5 nights a week.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. I'll usually watch "Good Eats" with Alton Brown, and that's about it.

And since Adam Richman ("Man v. Food&quot has pretty much retired from doing challenges, and Andrew Zimmern keeps trying to convince me that pickled pomeranian feces with grilled possum pecker are really pretty good, really they are, I don't even look to the Travel Channel much anymore for handy helpful hints.

[OriginalGeek]

18. I recently saw Zimmern eat

some cooked intestines of some wild critter and the people feeding it to him were bragging about there being "one in the chamber".

"Oh that's the best part! try it!"

I laughed a good long while before I threw up in my mouth a little.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. By now, I really should know better than to try to make something like that up! :) nt

[OriginalGeek]

33. lol!

I just figured you had seen that episode...it was just last weekend.

[marmar]

10. 'Diners, Drive Ins and Dives'

That sounds like the Travel Channel.

[Myrina]

12. Maybe it will move there ... if we're lucky.

All he does is go from "quaint" restaurant to restaurant, harassing the owners/chefs and making stupid jokes (and probably stealing recipes).
He watches them cook some of their 'signature' dishes and then we get to watch him stuff his face on camera.
He's a caricature ... bleached blond spiky hair, armbands, sunglasses stuck on the back of his head, tacky man-jewelry ... and I've never even seen him boil water.

[reflection]

15. I used to LOVE "Two Fat Ladies."

That was one of the few things I would turn the TV on for.

[OriginalGeek]

21. I think Two Fat Ladies was the first cooking show

I ever got into - and now cooking shows are about half my TV diet.


I woulda paid good money to get a hug and a hunter's sandwich from them.

[Myrina]

28. Yes!! Although most of the food seemed ....

.... well, very English (which it should have been) ... nothing I'd ever want to eat, it was still interesting and rather humorous.

[truebrit71]

19. I love TripleD...they also show alot of Chopped and Restaraunt Impossible...

...and those new 'gotcha' hidden video shows...

I remember when they actually used to COOK on that network...

[dbackjon]

24. So u love a show by an anti-gay bigot?

[truebrit71]

25. No, I love a show that features some really awesome independent chefs and owners...

...

[dbackjon]

29. No of whom are gay, because Fieri refuses to do a show with an openly gay chef or owner

[truebrit71]

30. I seem to recall that he has done more than a few with gay chefs/owners...

[Raine]

27. I can't stand him, he never actually cooks. nt

[RebelOne]

31. I have also wondered about that.

Does Guy Fieri own some part of Food Network?

[Myrina]

32. I think he was their first "Next Food Network Star" ....

.... so the managers think people actually like his show, or are too lazy to give viewers real, current programming anymore.
If you notice, the majority of the DDD's are at least a couple years old.

[packman]

3. Shakespeare said it

"O serpent heart, hid a flowering face". I always felt that sugar-sweet smile, bubbling over saccharin enthusiasm was hiding a darker place.

[BainsBane]

4. I head about this a while back

regarding a lawsuit at one of her restaurants. She evidently referred to the president by the N word. I haven't been able to watch her since.

[Orrex]

5. Yet another reason to find her nauseating

Everything about her makes me cringe, from her fried butter wrapped in bacon to her hyper-airbrushed mug on her ubiquitous magazines to her practiced and too-sweet antebellum drawl.


Can't say I'm sorry to see her dragged into the light of day.

[Major Hogwash]

6. Wow, this won't end well for Paula.

She admitted it!!!!
Incredible.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. We should really thank her.

She's pulled back the curtain on a mental mindset we suspected was there, but rarely get to see because they only expose it in tight quarters.

[JW2020]

14. Hate to say it

but whites in the south talk about blacks when they aren't around. And that's the way they talk about them. I've experienced it, in a store when another white customer makes a comment about a black customer who has just left the store, they think you are "in on it" and agree because you share the same skin color. I always cringe.

[cordelia]

16. And you're naive - or something - enough to believe

that whites don't talk about other races when they're not within hearing in other parts of the country?

I've experienced it. And cringed.

[mythology]

22. I grew up in Texas andI never talked like that

whether there were minorities around or not and neither did my friends.

[carolinayellowdog]

26. true in the Deep South, and in the Great Lakes states, more than the upper South

in my observation. Have lived in OH, MI, LA, and AL and heard more n-words in all of them than here in VA. Not that the structure of white privilege is much different, but norms of civility are more stringent, thank God. And I do notice the word since more than half my extended family is black. Or, maybe I look just racially ambiguous enough to give pause to hate speech, and people here are more sensitive to such subtleties, dunno.

Deen seems the type to throw it around freely.

[PDittie]

11. #PaulasBestDishes

http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2013/06/paulasbestdishes-best-twitter-hashtag.html

Scroll down for the Twitter hashtag bomb from yesterday (no, you don't have to go to Twitter)

[KurtNYC]

13. She asks herself questions during her deposition.

I see this a lot with people who are used to being in control. Mayor Bloomberg is famous for this kind of thing at press conferences:

Lawyer: Okay. Well, have you done anything about what you heard him admit to doing?

Deen: My brother and I have had conversations. My brother is not a bad person. Do humans behave inappropriately? At times, yes. I don't know one person that has not. My brother is a good man. Have we told jokes? Have we said things that we should not have said, that -- yes, we all have. We all have done that, every one of us.

[bullwinkle428]

17. Donald Rumsfeld is another one that immediately came to mind, as far as

asking and answering his own questions in a press conference!

[marshall]

20. I gave up trying to control the use of the "n" word when I was teaching

In the mid 90s when I was teaching in a big city school I was appalled at the widespread use of the word. Initially I contacted parents and referred matters to the principal, but I seemed to be the only one worried about it. I finally just gave up and resolved to just not use the word myself unless I was talking about the use of the word.