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Paula Deen fans vent outrage at Food Network for dumping celebrity cook over past racial slurs
Washington Post ^ | 06/23/2013

Posted on 06/23/2013 1:43:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

SAVANNAH, Ga. — Watching Paula Deen’s cooking show was a weekend ritual for Marilynne Wilson, who says she’s furious at the Food Network for dumping the comfort-food queen after she acknowledged using racial slurs in the past.

“I was shocked. I thought she’d get a fair trial,” Wilson, a nurse from Jacksonville, Fla., said Saturday after stopping to buy souvenirs at the gift shop Deen owns next to her Savannah restaurant. “I think the Food Network jumped the gun.”

A day after announcing that it’s dropping Deen from its roster of celebrity cooks, the cable network was served heaping portions of Southern fried outrage by her fans.

Angry messages piled up Saturday on the network’s Facebook page, with many Deen fans threating to change the channel for good. “So good-bye Food Network,” one viewer wrote. “I hope you fold like an accordion!!!”

The decision to drop Deen, whose daytime shows have been a Food Network fixture since 2002, came two days after disclosure of a recent court deposition in which Deen was asked under oath if she had ever used the N-word. “Yes, of course,” 66-year-old Deen said, though she added, “It’s been a very long time.”

Deen and her brother are being sued by a former manager of their restaurant who says she was harassed and worked in an environment rife with innuendo and racial slurs.

Wilson’s friend Debbie Brown said the Food Network is “basically convicting” Deen. “They should have waited until it goes to court,” she said.

Deen issued a videotaped apology Friday in asking fans and critics alike for forgiveness. It had been posted online for about an hour when the Food Network released a terse statement that it “will not renew Paula Deen’s contract when it expires at the end of this month.”

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To: SeekAndFind

Oh and btw, I see Capital One is still using Baldwin commercials. Wasn’t he the honkster who supposedly used the N-word recently?


81 posted on 06/23/2013 3:18:43 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat
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To: SeekAndFind

“I was shocked. I thought she’d get a fair trial,” Wilson, a nurse from Jacksonville, Fla., said Saturday”

Idiot. Using racial slurs isn’t a crime and I’m damned sick of this. If you belong to a “protected class” you can damn well say whatever you want, but if you don;t you are held to a different standard.

This PC crap is totally out of hand.


82 posted on 06/23/2013 3:18:47 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: ZULU

On the other hand, an employer should be able to fire someone for any reason.


83 posted on 06/23/2013 3:20:05 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Wellington VII
No advertisers, no program.

No one knows if that is true. The Food Network hasn't had the opportunity to explore whether that is/would be the case or not. They jumped on any excuse they could find to dump her.

IMO, it will ultimately cost the Food Network much more than it will cost Paula Deen.

84 posted on 06/23/2013 3:22:38 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for anti-American criminals!!)
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To: ZULU
"This PC crap is totally out of hand."--on purpose, in order to distract from the realities of an encroaching police state, and in order to keep certain elements focused on victimhood instead of freedom.

vaudine

85 posted on 06/23/2013 3:23:06 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: SeekAndFind

Mrs. L says that this is like masturbation. If you say you’ve never done it, you’re lying.


86 posted on 06/23/2013 3:25:05 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Ueriah
Here’s an interesting question: what is the statue of limitations on having said anything racist?

Life if you are white and 1.5 seconds if non-white.

87 posted on 06/23/2013 3:25:09 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: dfwgator

Not sure I agree. What somebody does and says on their own time is covered by the Bill of Rights. As long as a crime was not involved and it wasn’t done on company time, they should NOT be able to do this.

If they can fire her for her legal speech out of the workplace, they can fire us for using FreeRepublic.


88 posted on 06/23/2013 3:27:25 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: RobertClark

“I, two years ago, had to fire my best friend (of over 30 years) for making the same racist remark while in my employ.”

You were not his friend at all.


89 posted on 06/23/2013 3:29:59 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Kirkwood
You were not his friend at all.

I absolutely was and still am. I provided employment, the salary from which he used to raise his family and provide a good life for them all. He was well aware of my beliefs and the lack of tolerance for certain issues. And he put me in the position of having to do it - a fact that he acknowledged even while we were discussing his departure. He, to this day, apologizes because he knows I lament the lack of his talents at my company.

91 posted on 06/23/2013 3:37:11 PM PDT by RobertClark (My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
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To: Abbeville Conservative
The use of the N word is one of many instances in this lawsuit and is not one of the major issues.

But it is the only reason the media is bothering to cover the story.

92 posted on 06/23/2013 3:37:19 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Norm Lenhart
No pity for Libs or people who support them.

Well, here you are again Norm......just gotta throw that hate out dontcha? Politics is your life, you live it, you sleep it, and people be damned if they hold opposing political views such as yours........

It must suck being you Norm, how many ex-friends are in your history simply because they were liberals?

Better yet, how many friends do you have left at all Norm?

93 posted on 06/23/2013 3:38:35 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: RobertClark
... I, two years ago, had to fire my best friend (of over 30 years) for making the same racist remark while in my employ...

Wow, your commitment to friendship is pretty tenuous if you would do that. If I knew that and I knew you, I would not count on you in a difficult situation.

96 posted on 06/23/2013 3:44:39 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: RobertClark

In a million years I would have never subjected my best friend to the treatment you dished out. Ever hear of a warning ? The left just sits back & laughs, really, why do they need to do any of the dirty work since most so-called conservatives are well-trained to do it for them.

It’s your company & your rules, so go to it, but you are no best friend in my book.


97 posted on 06/23/2013 3:50:21 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Hot Tabasco

So what exactly is your issue with my statement?

I don’t come here to make friends. Perish the thought I talk politics on a board that exists to talk politics. And no, it’s not easy being me. But I’m good with it. Don’t much care if you are.


98 posted on 06/23/2013 3:50:51 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: DustyMoment

There is not all that much to explore as the Food Network seems rather confident that most American companies do not want their product associated with a woman who thinks that slave themed wedding are a jolly good ole time.


99 posted on 06/23/2013 3:51:15 PM PDT by Wellington VII
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To: Wellington VII

Who had a “slave themed wedding”?

Maybe in the sadomasochism crowd, but no redneck with any dignity would do this.


100 posted on 06/23/2013 3:53:04 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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