Paula Deen dropped by Food Network

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She could have a career on this porn site I saw a few videos from, forget the name but it's basically like this. This black dude with an arm for a dick takes white females and he makes them say the N word and other things that degrade black people. Then he proceeds to annihilate them to teach them a lesson. Paula could be the 1st celebrity to appear.

and use butter for lube
 

SheHateMe

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Paula's accent is so damn fake and forced that it makes all of us sick. Cooking wholesome, southern food isn't about butter, sugar, and gravy. Too bad she has become the "staple" southerner for most northerns as it just reaffirms their opinion of the south being a bunch of bigots, which is not the case.

:eek: So yall don't say "YAWLLLL" like Paula Deen? You guys don't pronounce "butter" as "budder"?
 

phucheneh

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I always assumed the accent was real. Product of quality inbreeding. Probably from Alabama.
 

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When?in what context? I don't give a fuck who you are... if you are white, at some point in your life you have said or will drop the n-bomb either in anger, in a joke or singing along with a song. You just may not have the balls to admit it.
Now that I've 'reconnected' with a bunch of people from my hometown, many of whom I went to school with (25 ~ 27 years ago), occasionally I see one leaving a comment or post about a topic or issue such as drunk driving, basically having the tone there is absolutely no excuse for drunk driving and that anyone who does it gets what they deserve. And I'm like thinking to myself, "Ummm, did you forget that time" or "those other two times when...?" At least one in recent memory had even wrecked their car driving while drunk, back in the day. I don't say anything, but sometimes I really want to.

I mean, I've dropped the N-bomb. I was raised in a nearly all-white community, and by that I mean there were probably three or four blacks in my high school over a 10 year period. Even though some people didn't use it, or thought it was inappropriate, there was basically nobody who would stand-up and strongly oppose or admonish anyone for using it, except for maybe teachers when it was used within earshot at school or in their classroom. Sorta like the F-bomb. Some people don't like it, some people don't think its appropriate and don't use it themselves, but how often have you ever seen anyone stand-up and really admonish someone else for using it?

I was young and insensitive. Who wasn't in some way or another. Once I grew-up, got out into the world (beyond WhiteyVille USA hometown) became aware of how insensitive and hurtful this word was, and more knowledgeable about the history of racism in our country, I stopped using it. When I am Paula Deen's age, I will be able to say "it was decades ago since I last used that word."

Lotta hypocrites in the world. Even blacks, who in their own BlackVille USA communities, use offensive, insensitive, derogatory, or racial slurs for everyone else (Asians, hispanics/latinos, whites, Jews, you name it).
 
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mikeymikec

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Moaning about how the media wouldn't understand her appreciation for pre civil war plantation life and the desire to use it as a wedding theme is pretty out there.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...d-7-shocking-details-from-her-deposition.html

It's pretty hilarious if one forgets that there are actually people walking around who think this way. The wedding one is priceless.

If Clerks 3 is ever made and someone is needed to play Randal's racist grandmother, I guess we know who to call! :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdVwt2deY4
 
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waggy

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I'll take the deposits...

hmm so many jokes i could make! you really set it up...:wub:


i read a report she was thinking about retiring anyway. I love her cooking but its something you should not eat more then once a week.

heh i remember growing up my mom made EVERYTHING from scratch. Most was like she made. we were not fat or unhealthy.

granted we didn't get cable tv until i was 13.
 

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Lotta hypocrites in the world. Even blacks, who in their own BlackVille USA communities, use offensive, insensitive, derogatory, or racial slurs for everyone else (Asians, hispanics/latinos, whites, Jews, you name it).

Not to mention themselves.
 

Wyndru

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Figured this would happen. You can never be honest to the media, and should only tell them what the public wants to hear. I was amazed what was said in her interview, I keep imagining her PR staff's reaction when she said it, they might as well walk off the set immediately, their job is over.

It sucks, and in many ways it's hypocritical...but it's the way it is when you have the world as your audience.
 

sunzt

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Here's a sample of what she's been saying about porn and black people:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-craziest-quotes-from-the-paula-deen-deposition-2013-6


The transcript mentions employee complaints about Hiers looking at pornography at the restaurant and forcing other employees to look at it as well. In response to questions about this, Deen said:

I know all men in my family at one time or another, they'll tell each other, 'look what so and so sent me on my phone,' you know. It's just men being men.

http://www.businessinsider.com/paula-deen-allegedly-admits-to-being-racist-2013-6

According to FOX, Deen also reportedly wanted black people to play slaves for a wedding she was planning. She said the idea came from a restaurant: "The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful white jackets with a black bow tie. ... It was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America ... after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War ... It was not only black men, it was black women ... I would say they were slaves," Fox reported, citing the Enquirer.

Definitely not kosher if you're on a nationwide tv network.
 

SheHateMe

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There is a such thing as being too honest.

I understand her southern plantation fantasy wedding...but she should have realized that idea should have been kept to herself because it is SO out there.
 

SheHateMe

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americans pronounce the Ts in words such as butter as Ds. that's one of the differences between american and british accents.

lol no we don't. We say "buTTer" It may sound like "budder" from people who have accents or people who just talk fast.

But Paula definitely pronounces it as "buDDer". Its her accent.

Its just like the word "water". some people make it sound like "wadder". or "Wahtah".

There is no one American accent. It depends on where you are.
 

DCal430

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Here's a sample of what she's been saying about porn and black people:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-craziest-quotes-from-the-paula-deen-deposition-2013-6




http://www.businessinsider.com/paula-deen-allegedly-admits-to-being-racist-2013-6



Definitely not kosher if you're on a nationwide tv network.


You and Fox are completely twisting her statement, she never said anything about wanting blacks to play slaves in her restaurant. She said for a instant brief moment she an idea of an all black waitstaff. She never actually wanted it.

Like the other things she said, she could have denied them all and no one would have known. She said these things because she wanted to be honest.
 

Wreckem

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You and Fox are completely twisting her statement, she never said anything about wanting blacks to play slaves in her restaurant. She said for a instant brief moment she an idea of an all black waitstaff. She never actually wanted it.

Like the other things she said, she could have denied them all and no one would have known. She said these things because she wanted to be honest.

She told the truth because she was in deposition. Those are sworn statements, perjury and all that jazz applies.

And its likely the plaintiffs had witnesses that could have contradicted her if she had lied. I bet the last thing her and her brother want are former employees coming out of the woodwork.
 
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nageov3t

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She told the truth because she was in deposition. Those are sworn statements, perjury and all that jazz applies.

And its likely the plaintiffs had witnesses that could have contradicted her if she had lied. I bet the last thing her and her brother want are former employees coming out of the woodwork.

yeah... it's the difference between getting fired and crying all the way back to her multimillion dollar estate versus getting locked up in jail.
 

SheHateMe

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Why would she go to jail? The disposition was for a lawsuit leveled against her by a former employee.
 

Wreckem

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Why would she go to jail? The disposition was for a lawsuit leveled against her by a former employee.

Perjury is perjury, but perjury stemming from civil suits is rarely prosecuted. That said, trying to lie in a deposition is stupid and almost always comes back to bite the deponent in the ass.