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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The Food Network is going to be in a world of hurt if I ever catch anyone using the word ‘cracker’ on a show.
I gave up HGTV some time ago. I got tired of their pushing the homo agenda.
Same here. They really push the homos.
Yes the house hunting shows are as you have heard. My granddaughter living in Finland was having a terrible time finding housing so she checked into that. You have to do the leg work, make the decision, then they fabricate the show around that.
It fits the rest of tv- phoney garbage.
You did not understand my comment.
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say the indignant northerner shrill on this thread is not yet peaked
That was my point, I hope you understood that.
I bet he lives in mostly whitelandia and some indigs
Alaska
The n word being such an issue
White self righteousness.....insufferable
Disgusting to see that the political correctness and the active seeking to be offended are as alive on the “right” as on the left. The left only uses it as a weapon to wield when they choose-they never brought down Robert Byrd for being a leader in the KKK, because his career was to serve the agenda. So it’s plain that they aren’t uniformly “offended”, only when they choose to be.
For myself, as long as blacks can call me cracker or honkey all the day long, I can call them ni**er.
Well said!
Just realized something. Some people were moving here and their house hunt was on HGTV. Guess it was as fake as the others. I must have led a very unusual life since I do not know a single homo. Guess growing up in a very small town where people knew everyone’s business did that. They are not gay at all so I do not call them that.
Let’s not be worried about the illegitimacy rate in the African American community. Let’s not worry about the number of fathers who do not provide financial support for their children. Crime rate? Drop out rate? Nah. Let’s worry about a word utter fifty years ago by someone who is being mugged. This, in a nutshell, is the problem with race relations in America in 2013.
How about the guy with KILL WHITEY tattooed all over him?
Where is Obama supporting her? Where are her Black friends now? Where is Jimmy Carter? They tossed her under the bus! I hope she learns a lesson here. I hope we all learn a lession. PC is anti-American/ Anti-Free Speech.
No more Food Network for me.
Exactly! Ever seen one if their “Giada”shows? Her cleavage is always on major display. You can’t tell me that they don’t dress get and use that to their advantage.
Not to even mention the sexual overtones in those segments...it’s like her show should be called “Foreplay with Food”or something
The”lawsuit says”
Bingo. Allegations. Anyone can allege anything. They only fired her over what she admitted to.
I made myself a fake FB page losing as a black woman. I love it. I can say so much more without getting reported and banned.
I’m serious. I get away with MUCH more than i can ever could as a white girl.
posing! (or you really do mean losing?)
Omg, I freaking hate Autocorrect.
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