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Topics => Media Bias/Media War => Topic started by: Pandora on June 22, 2013, 08:54:48 AM
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O noes! Paula Deen has "a dark side"? Who knew! A few drops, or one, of noble African blood in her otherwise White Georgia-born and bred heritage, perhaps? Newp, not it.
During a deposition, the 66 year-old Deen admitted to having used "the n-word" in a long ago time. (http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/06/21/the-dark-side-of-paula-deen/?singlepage=true)
Radar Online and the National Enquirer have gone through the videotaped deposition Deen and Hiers have made in the lawsuit against them from a former employee. Both media outlets use exploitative headlines, the Enquirer breathlessly boasting, “WORLD EXCLUSIVE COVER STORY: PAULA DEEN RACIST CONFESSIONS” and beginning their story with “CAUGHT ON VIDEO—PAUL [sic] DEEN’s secret confession – her racist rant EXPOSED in a bombshell ENQUIRER WORLD EXCLUSIVE!”
Radar Online’s story summarizes the deposition in this way:
Celebrity chef Paula Deen has admitted to using the N-word and telling insensitive racial jokes during a May 17 deposition that was videotaped — and also confessed to her brother’s cocaine, pornography and alcohol addictions!
Paula, 66, admitted to using the N-word and wanting black waiters to play the role of slaves at a wedding party she was putting together, a new bombshell report from the National Enquirer claims.
“The personal disclosures uncovered have stunned Paula’s family and could mark the collapse of her entire empire,” a source told the tabloid.
The Emmy-winning kitchen queen was questioned for three hours because of the $1.2 million 2012 lawsuit in which the former General Manager of their Savannah, Georgia, restaurant, Lisa Jackson, claimed use of the N-word by Paula and sexual harassment and infliction of distress and assault by her brother Bubba Hiers.
When asked by Lisa’s Atlanta-based attorney if she’d ever used the N-word, Paula responded, “Yes, of course,” and gave examples of times she used the offensive term.
... According to a transcript of the deposition, filed Monday in U.S. District Court, an attorney for Jackson asked Deen if she has ever used the N-word.
“Yes, of course,” Deen replied, though she added: “It’s been a very long time.”
Asked to give an example, Deen recalled the time she worked as a bank teller in southwest Georgia in the 1980s and was held at gunpoint by a robber. The gunman was a black man, Deen told the attorney, and she thought she used the slur when talking about him after the holdup. “Probably in telling my husband,” she said.
Deen said she may have also used the slur when recalling conversations between black employees at her restaurants, but she couldn’t recall specifics.
“But that’s just not a word that we use as time has gone on,” Deen said. “Things have changed since the ’60s in the South. And my children and my brother object to that word being used in any cruel or mean behavior. As well as I do.”
William Franklin, Deen’s attorney, said the celebrity was looking forward to her day in court.
“Contrary to media reports, Ms. Deen does not condone or find the use of racial epithets acceptable,” he said in a statement.
The AP also gives a better context to the all-black-waiters story:
Jackson’s attorney, Matthew Billips, also pressed Deen to explain whether she had once suggested that all black waiters be hired for her brother’s 2007 wedding.
Deen said she once mentioned the idea to her personal assistant and Jackson but immediately dismissed it. Deen said she had been inspired by an upscale Southern restaurant she and her husband had visited in another state.
“The whole entire wait staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful white jackets with a black bow tie. I mean, it was really impressive,” Deen said. “And I remember saying I would love to have servers like that, I said, but I would be afraid that someone would misinterpret (it).”
Asked if she used the N-word to describe those waiters, Deen replied: “No, because that’s not what these men were. They were professional black men doing a fabulous job.”
Deen's original sin is her Southern cooking, full of that nasty fat and sugar, adding insult to injury as she is diabetic. As that wasn't enough to bring her down, the media found the other tastier, juicier red-meat substitute in which to sink their teeth -- Paula Deen is a racist. And now, The Food Network has cancelled her show, because, you know, that just won't do.
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She was screwed no matter what she said.
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Once again I find myself culturally back-watered for lack of a boob-toob :o
I don't know who this Paula Deen person is or why I should GAS about her. So I took a peek at the backside of this story to see no only who she is, but who is flinging poo at her.
I looked up the radar online site and found it to be an insipid mouth-breather fanzine for shallow thinkers. Of course the inquirer caters to the same. So what's their beef? That someone uttered a word that has fallen into disfavor (except to black racists). It looks like the libs have committed a first-rate job of character assassination on Deen and she's probably toast. That's a shame.
But then the left destroys everything it touches so it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
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I have met Paula Deen. Thru my wife's work, I have been to meetings she conducted and had dinner with her. I liked her because she appeared genuine. It steams me something from her past, her distant past, is now used to beat her around the head.
I bet, if you dig enough, most elderly people have used the term. Hell, my 82 year old dad lets it slip, especially when it is true. it was commonplace when he was younger and he is in no way a racist. He believed in hard work and if you worked hard he sure didn't care what color you were......along with your religion or who the hell you slept with.....just don't bring it in the workplace.
This nation makes me sick.
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I just can't and won't work up any effort to give a sh*t about this "scandal" or any other where a non-black person is accused of saying "nigger" as long as it is part of the every day vernacular of the hip hop and innumerable other black cultures. To do so would cause my hypocrite alarm to go off and that won't do. Plus we elected a dark skinned person twice to the highest office in the land so we are all immune now to any charge of racism as far as I'm concerned.
I personally hope that Mrs. Deen emerges from this stronger than ever and that the Food Network suffers immeasurably for its stupid ass politically correct crap.
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I've been known to say it on rare occasions
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I have met Paula Deen. Thru my wife's work, I have been to meetings she conducted and had dinner with her. I liked her because she appeared genuine. It steams me something from her past, her distant past, is now used to beat her around the head.
I bet, if you dig enough, most elderly people have used the term. Hell, my 82 year old dad lets it slip, especially when it is true. it was commonplace when he was younger and he is in no way a racist. He believed in hard work and if you worked hard he sure didn't care what color you were......along with your religion or who the hell you slept with.....just don't bring it in the workplace.
This nation makes me sick.
That's the thing -- there are times when that is the word that fits because the subject has earned the contempt and disrespect it connotes, and no other will suffice.
As has been said, I'll be damned if I'll condemn anyone for using a word Blacks toss freely at one another yet fall into paroxysms of horror and opprobrium should it come from the lips of a White person, even when used in a quote, for pete's sake! Here we are, grown adults, some of us old, and we're reduced to saying "the n-word", as though we're all children?! f**k that.
As for Paula Deen herself, I'm not overly familiar with her either and never watched her show. She came to my attention about this time last year when she announced she was diabetic and the ensuing stink it caused made the news. Questions and accusations -- hypocrite! -- flew because consensus is/was that her "unhealthy" cooking and diet is suspect in her condition. ::snort:: Apparently, the Presstitutes lost no time getting her main competition, Anthony Bourdain (http://eater.com/archives/2012/01/16/bourdain-cayman.php) to weigh (heh!) in and he's a catty little bitch.
Look, what are the chances Deen is an Obongo voter? I'd say slim to none. Maybe she donated to a Republican, if she's at all political, but she got on the wrong somebody's radar and we know how judgemental are the special, tolerant people when it comes to perceived opposition to their "virtues", and anything they consider "unhealthy" -- in this case it's food fer crissake -- requires, deserves, broad and vocal defamation.
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What's a word when a leadership position in the Democrat Party awaits a Grand Kleagle in good standing.
(https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/650295552/hD437EC39/)
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It was definitely part of the Southern vernacular not so very long ago, and people used it in an entirely non-pejorative way as part of ordinary conversation. I recall hearing both my grandfathers use it in a solely descriptive way. If you look at literature you'll see it used that way, like Conrad's "Nigger of the Narcissus".
I don't go out of my way to offend anyone, but like Pan I object to this notion that it should never be stated or written by any white person ever. I will use the word in an academic sense if the discussion calls for it, such as repeating the titles of a work of fiction, or in quoting something. Instead though we have an entire race of people who dance around it with asinine code words (and how long until those code words also become verboten and require all new code words?) like "the n-word" because the pop culture has demonized people completely out of context. And I would add that Eric Holder had the sheer nerve to say that this country has been "cowardly" in its discussions on race. Well, look at what happens any time a white person tries to "keep it real".
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Orders for Paula Deen cookbook surge... (http://wtkr.com/2013/06/25/orders-for-paula-deen-cookbook-surge/)
“Yes, of course,” said Deen, when asked by a lawyer if she had ever used the “N word.”
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Turns out I was wrong about her politics; she a Dem, campaigned for Obongo and had the Mooch on her tv show -- thereafter "letting it slip" some amazement at how much the Mooch ate while on the set.
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Orders for Paula Deen cookbook surge... (http://wtkr.com/2013/06/25/orders-for-paula-deen-cookbook-surge/)
“Yes, of course,” said Deen, when asked by a lawyer if she had ever used the “N word.”
“Smithfield condemns the use of offensive and discriminatory language or behavior of any kind,” said Smithfield vice president of investor relations Keira Lombardo, in a statement to CNN. “Therefore, we are terminating our partnership with Paula Deen.”
Of course, Smithfield sold out to the Chinese.....So I can't wait to see their new slant eye( is that racist?) on the Food network.
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Target has cancelled further orders of her products.
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Yep. She's a "victim" of the very thing she helped nurture, modern America.
You ride a low information culture to riches, you die by that same low information culture.
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You ride a low information culture to riches, you die by that same low information culture.
::thumbsup::
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It's a shame that there are people in this country who sanctimoniously criticize Paula Deen because it makes themselves feel more "empowered." It's all about the power.
Eff 'em. Eff 'em all.
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One more scumbag:
http://www.ajc.com/news/news/fbi-former-savannah-man-tried-to-extort-250k-from-/nYd9d/ (http://www.ajc.com/news/news/fbi-former-savannah-man-tried-to-extort-250k-from-/nYd9d/)
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That old loser won't last long in the joint.
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And the late Robert Byrd , a Senator and "former" Klansman received pass after pass on this . A double standard of monumental proportions exists in this country ... especially for Douchebagocrats .
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I guess Paula should have followed Sheets' example and joined the Klan & the Democrat Party at the same time!