Paula Deen’s business deals are sliding away faster than a pat of butter on a pile of hot cakes

[appleannie1]

Joining Caesars Entertainment, Smithfield Foods and the Food Network, Walmart has announced that it’s cutting ties to the southern chef. QVC also said earlier this week that it had “concerns” over the recent controversy involving Deen’s use of racial epithets.

http://consumerist.com/2013/06/26/walmart-will-not-place-new-orders-for-paul-deen-products/

Love the pat of butter line.

[JustFiveMoreMinutes]

1. Somehow Walmart being 'appalled' seems hypocritical. n/t

[SomethingFishy]

3. Not really... Wal Mart is well known for

fucking over everyone equally...

[dkf]

2. I hope she saved well. I think she has destroyed her future stream of income.

Aka...she is done.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Last year, Forbes ranked Deen the fourth-highest earning celebrity chef–hauling in $17 million

thanks a slew of lucrative endorsement deals, most of which have evaporated in the past 48 hours.

says Forbes today.

someone on DU earlier called her The Dowager Butterworth!

[dkf]

7. What a comedown. I don't know exactly what she said but I can certainly see the reaction...

And it ain't pretty.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. She got a lot of milage out of being "cute"

and a little bit of that went a long long way for me. I found her cloying.

In the deposition, that "cute" comes across as insincere with a lot of miimizing and justification for her behavior.

[Skittles]

4. love seeing that phony go down in flames

I wonder if Fox News will pick her up

[PoliticAverse]

6. The more she keeps talking the more she seems to lose... n/t

[mercuryblues]

9. this is what I don't get

companies are dropping her like hotcakes, yet I have not heard of any calls for boycotts of their products if they keep her. Were the first few just looking for an excuse and the rest jumped on the gravy train?

[LuvLoogie]

11. They notice what happened to Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh.

The boycotts against bigotry have been effective, and these companies did not want to loose any revenue.

[mercuryblues]

15. They can be

But from I can find there haven't been any calls for boycotts. Quite the opposite. People are threatening boycotts because they are dumping her.

[LuvLoogie]

16. It is a better position to defend

dumping her than to defend not dumping her. It's that simple.

[mercuryblues]

18. this is also true

I read her deposition. The first thing that came to mind is why didn't she try to get it sealed, from the get-go? The second was how did she get where she is today with such a faulty memory?

There is no amount of sugar she can ooze to hide the taste of vinegar that lies beneath.

[riverwalker]

10. the wheels of Karma grind slowly...

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/06/paula-deen-sambo-burger.php

In one passage, she detailed a particularly troubling experience she had at the age of 10 with a “real nice black woman” who “often babysat” her and that woman’s small child:

“This one day she had brought her little girl to work, and that child had many big, fat blisters on her hand, probably from helping out her momma. Something about those blisters just attracted me and I remember hitting those little hands with a bolo bat, and it busted her blisters good. It was pretty satisfying.
I don’t know why I did it. I have a hard time thinking I did it out of meanness. But her mother—I can’t remember if she slapped me across the face or she spanked me or both—but either way, now I know I sure had it comin’.
Well, still I was heartbroken and I went running to find my Grandmother Paul and Granddaddy and my momma. And my granddaddy had the woman arrested for hitting me. The little black girl’s momma went to jail.
All this time it’s bothered me.
It was me who deserved to be sittin’ in that jail for breaking a little black girl’s blisters in 1957.”

Well Paula, you ain't going to jail, but if I had been that woman, and if it had been my 4 year old baby you ripped blisters open, I would have whacked your butt pretty hard, AND demanded an apology. Yet, this poor women went to jail!! Because she was black. Do you get it now, you idiot? How can you feign ignorance when this is what you grew up with? Unbelievable.

[LuvLoogie]

17. I don't believe a child's actions call the hand of doom to her.

It is her choices as an adult, when she knows better, that turn her Karmic wheel. Of COURSE an adult should get arrested for hitting a child. And no, a little girl should not be arrested for misguided, juvenile cruelty. Deen knows this. This story is just more evidence of her saccharine equivocation. Trying to jive the world that she is just a little girl who made a mistake and feels real bad about it.

However, no adult should hit a child, period. Given it was another person's child, the woman deserved to be arrested.

[appleannie1]

12. About a third of their customer base is black. They can't afford to lose that many customers.

[elehhhhna]

13. While Trump publically calls women FAT PIGS and keeps on rolling

[malaise]

14. Rec(ing) for a DUzy of a subject