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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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KEYWORDS: foodnetwork; pauladeen; racialslur
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To: mrsmel

I’ve used the word myself when they desired fightin

I rarely felt black anger back when we discriminated against them

The new ones who have no such beef have been raised on hate whitey (except his women) mothers milk

Not all mind you ...sorta like the peaceful Muslim argument


141 posted on 06/23/2013 11:54:53 PM PDT by wardaddy (the next Dark Ages are coming as Western Civilization crumbles with nary a whimper)
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To: DustyMoment

” The Paula Deen name carries a lot of weight with consumers - ESPECIALLY Southern consumers - and consumers are what the advertisers are after, anyway”

Now that you explain it like that, there are certain to be other networks with eager advertisers who will be happy to produce and advertise on a new Paula Deen cooking show.


142 posted on 06/24/2013 4:39:47 AM PDT by Wellington VII
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To: Abbeville Conservative

The questions is... Is she an absentee business owner?


143 posted on 06/24/2013 8:59:23 AM PDT by Jaded (Really? Seriously?)
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To: MamaB

I have worked with a few lesbians, but, and this is a big but in my world- they were discreet, and like most people I know, their private life was private. One exception— when an old high school class mate saw me, big grin on her face and she homed in. I acted as though I did not notice, spoke to her briefly, and she moved on.


144 posted on 06/24/2013 12:36:23 PM PDT by handmade
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

I really like Pioneer Woman - what a great life she has!

That said, try finding Paula Deen’s magazine on newsstands. I wanted to take a stance against pc but all the copies of her magazine are GONE.


145 posted on 06/24/2013 3:49:41 PM PDT by miss marmelstein ( Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, for me it’s anything to get her off the TV. I can’t stand to listen to her.


146 posted on 06/24/2013 3:54:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is dead. Let's not pretend otherwise.)
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