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Paula Deen is being drawn and quartered...

Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago to Politics
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...for an alleged racial slur from 30 years ago.

She has lost her TV show, her best (pre)selling book, her product sales in many stores, etc.

Why is she being persecuted for a 30 year old remark?

Who is behind this?

I see her being 'taken' down for her success...not unlike the producers in our favorite book.

What say you?
SOURCE URL: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57591604/paula-deens-upcoming-book-nixed-by-publisher/

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  • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago
    Who? Oprah.
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    • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago
      A cat-fight?
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      • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago
        Oprah would have hit the roof over the plans for a plantation wedding besides the omission of jokes from thirty years ago. She did give Paula Deen her start. Deen’s fans are over on the Oprah website begging her to give her an interview and to fix this. They are suppose to be friends but there has been no official statement from Oprah expressing her views. Since when is Oprah quiet?
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        • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months ago
          Oprah has been quiet since she helped get the boob elected.
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          • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago
            Now that I can speak directly to. I saw the Oprah show episode with Obama when it aired in September of 2006. Three times during the broadcast with Obama as a guest (and nobody really knew who he was yet ), she said: “We want you to run for President” He was there to sell his new book. She didn’t just help him, she was the driving force behind him. I did see that with my own eyes. I tease my friends all the time for it. “That’s what you get for voting for Oprah’s choice for President!"
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            • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months ago
              I saw the same interview and didn't like him from the get go. It was the over enthusiastic smile that he whips out for an extra moment to think of a response. Apparently it's mesmerizing to the sheep. I don't consider anyone who voted for him my friend... How can you square the fact that they voted for evil....a force that is a direct threat to your freedom? It can't be squared. Even if they don't realize it, or try to deny it..it is still so.
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        • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago
          The plot thickens!

          There is nothing worse than a woman scorned?

          Keep digging....
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          • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago
            Your last words to me on this topic, “Keep digging” As you can see, I never came back to this thread nor ever promised to dig for info. I also did not “butt heads” with you as you stated in the other topic. Anybody can see that by reading this topic. I don’t think anybody, did they?

            Point is that you made a couple assertions about my actions that were plaintively false. Mistake? Okay, I’m cool with that. How I see my actions in this thread is I did some heavy speculating and gossiping. Agreed? I have no dope on Oprah. Besides I’m more afraid of her than I am of the NSA! Lol.
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            • Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 10 months ago
              She's being made an example of. She should have stood her ground and taken the hits...instead she crumbled and begged and became a jelly fish. A performance the oppressors can use to advance their agenda. Way to go Paula.
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      • Posted by $ Mimi 11 years, 10 months ago
        I wouldn’t know, but someone with some serious clout has to be taking advantage of Deen’s vulnerability.. I just don’t see a publishing house like Random House canceling any writer’s books because of controversy.
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        • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago
          Hence my opening question!

          Who benefits from destroying Paula Deen?

          Every successful person makes enemies along the way...but I haven't seen any story telling me who even made the opening accusation(s).
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  • Posted by $ erudeen 11 years, 10 months ago
    She is being made to pay, because people are allowed to feel offended. And said offenses demand payment and retribution. The only thing that is important to the system is the appearance of sensitivity and the idea that they really care. Let the market decide her fate through the purchase of her products and the ratings of her TV show.
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    • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago
      Are you ready to accept your 'fate' for something you said 30 years ago? Did you ever say something 3 decades ago that you wouldn't say today? Would you question the fairness of having an accuser wait 30 years to confront your youthful utterance?

      As for "let the market decide": she is systematically being removed from the "market". It's hard to have a fair "fate" when you are being blackballed.
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      • Posted by $ erudeen 11 years, 10 months ago
        I would also think that they cannot take her mind. In this age it is very possible for her to go to the internet. Her sons support her, the whole family could break out from the broadcasters and start there on their own. and the best part... It would be theirs. They could continue to sell their own brands mail-order. A mistake? Yes. Does it mean the end? It shouldn't. I do not accept their reality. I do not think that her mistake negates her ability in the kitchen.
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      • Posted by $ erudeen 11 years, 10 months ago
        There may come a day when I will have to. I won't like it and I will pay the consequences for my actions. When I refer to the market I am deferring to the consumer, not the agents of pull that fear that they may look guilty by association to an individual.
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        • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago
          I'm not talking about a robbery that you thought you got away with. It could have been an off color joke, or comment.

          If you are saying that you carry the scarlet letter for the rest of your life, and you are comfortable with that, then I say you are 'nuts'! ;-)

          P.S. You can come back here in 30 years and have me publicly shamed (and in Paula's case, ruined) for what I just said. But I wouldn't either understand that, or sheepishly offer my throat for cutting.
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          • Posted by $ erudeen 11 years, 10 months ago
            I understood. And I said a lot of dumb things back then. I have repeated off-color jokes I heard from friends and family. I occasionally do to this day.
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            • Posted by Rocky_Road 11 years, 10 months ago
              "I understood. And I said a lot of dumb things back then. I have repeated off-color jokes I heard from friends and family. I occasionally do to this day."

              Then how can you say that her punishment fits the 'crime'. You admit to be an ongoing criminal, while her last 'offense' was 30 years in the past.

              By your posted standards, you should clear your office desk of personal belongings...walk out into the public square...offer your back for your deserved flogging...and stoically accept your "fate".

              There is an old saying (that didn't come from Rand), that says "let the punishment fit the crime". That is the last thing that is happening to Paula Deen....
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