Butter.
That’s what comes to mind when Seraphic Secret thinks of Paula Deen.
She cooks with lots and lots of butter. And, not surprisingly, her politically incorrect defiance of liberal health Nazis have made her brand wildly popular.
So: when we heard that Paula Deen was in hot water because of a single word—
Is private language no longer private?
Is the past no longer the past?
We’re talking about a legal deposition concerning a private comment Ms. Deen made 30 years ago.
—we didn’t pay a great deal of attention.
Look, America is a great country. The American people are, for the most part, generous and tolerant people. America is not institutionally racist. Are there racists in this country? Sure. But most of them are liberal race-baiters who have become rich and famous by pushing the false narrative that America remains a Jim Crow nation.
Al Sharpton, a thug who gained fame in the Tawana Brawley case by falsely accusing white men of raping a black girl, is a liberal Jew-hater. In 1991 Sharpton called Jews “diamond merchants” with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. Sharpton then led a pogrom in Harlem in which an Orthodox Jew was murdered. Sharpton’s evil is, at last, rewarded by being handed a show on MSNBC. Of course, he is described by the media as—get this—a civil-rights leader.
Jesse Jackson, another Jew-hating liberal, called NY “Hymietown.” Jackson also growled that he’d like to cut off Barack Hussein Obama’s testicles. Imagine if a Conservative white man had brayed such a threat. This despicable con-man is the confidant of Presidents and—G-d help us—also referred to as a civil-rights leader.
But these… er… civil-rights leaders, never pay a price for their language, their vile actions, their corrupt and corrupting ideology.
Nor can these race-baiters explain why Third World immigrants are storming the gates of this country legally and illegally. If America is so nasty, so racist, why are millions of dark-skinned people determined to become Americans?
Is it because they are really crypto white-racists who yearn to join the hordes of masked KKK riders that rule the streets of America?
It’s not that the left has a double standard.
The left has no standards.
The left is, at the core, amoral. They say what they say in order to get rich, or get votes. Basically, it comes down to getting power.
The entire Paula Deen story has been deliberately distorted by the mainstream media.
A few simple facts from retired US Naval intelligence officer, J. E Dyer, who credits John Leonard with doing the hard, investigative work.
1. Paula Deen was sued by a white former employee.
2. The purpose of the lawsuit was to get Deen to fork over $1.25 million, or have it exposed to the public that she had once used the N-word thirty years ago. This was made explicit by the plaintiff’s attorney, Wesley Woolf, who specified in a letter demanding settlement that Deen was likely to see her commercial activities damaged by this threatened exposure. The lawsuit, in other words, is a shakedown.
3. When Deen used the N-word, it was about a black man who had robbed the bank where she worked, while pointing a gun to her head. She was speaking privately in her home when she used the word.
4. The white former employee, Lisa Jackson, wrote a letter when she left Deen’s employ expressing fulsome thanks for the opportunities Deen and her brother had provided. (Don’t believe the thanks were fulsome? Read the excerpt from the letter.)
5. Under oath as the plaintiff in her shakedown lawsuit, Jackson testified as follows (emphasis in original):
In her deposition, Ms. Jackson was forced to admit that she never heard Paula Deen utter a racial epithet, never knew her to discriminate against an employee based on gender, and never knew Paula Deen to sexually harass anyone.
So this entire thing is about a shakedown lawsuit, brought by a former employee who apparently had received blessings from Ms. Deen’s hands.
More at Dyer’s excellent blog, The Optimistic Conservative.
I never have personally cared for Paula Deen or her show. I am from the South (born and raised), but I think she overdoes the “Y’all” to excess, and I suspect (though I cannot say for sure) that she also overdoes the accent for effect. Plus, where I am from “pecan” is pronounced “p’kahn” not “pee kan,” though I know a lot of people use the second pronunciation. The latter is what you use when it is the middle of the night and you don’t want to go to the outhouse. That said, I think she is being royally screwed.
Bob:
I’m born and raised in the deep North, Brooklyn. I have no idea how to identify an authentic Southern accent. Nor can I recognize the correct pronunciation of pecan.
I do know that she’s a celebrity chef who has built an empire through hard work, grit, and talent.
Now, Paula Deen is being tormented because she is:
1. Southern.
2. Because she cooks with politically incorrect ingredients.
3. Because she used a racially insensitive word, in private, over 30 years ago.
Paula Deen is a victim of a political hit job worthy of a totalitarian regime. We should all be defending this woman. For in her defense we are standing up for free speech, a free market of goods and ideas, and for liberty.
This says as much about our legal system as it does about the jackals in the media. How did a 30 year old private comment ever make it into a legal case in the first place?
Why is Paula Deen excoriated for something she apologized for while I can go to any record store and buy a CD with that word and worse on it? I went to an inner cit community college back in the ’70’s and that word was as common as oxygen and not once uttered by a white.
Paula Deen is a hardly a poster child for conservatism being an Obama supporter and friend of Michelle. But she’s white and southern so unlike the urbane Alec Baldwin that’s enough for the media hang her on the cross of political correctness.
Of course you’re right about both the slack that the media cuts for liberals and the frivolity of the allegations against her, but I wonder if maybe some of Paula Deen’s corporate sponsors – Sears et al – had some other reason for wanting to dump her, and just took advantage now of the opportunity this latest scandal provided. I mean, wasn’t she already in hot water for promoting fattening food while hiding her own diabetes?
Robert – you beat me to it – contrasting their treatment of Alec Baldwin.
Or any other liberal.
And let’s not forget Bill Maher’s rant against Ms. Palin or Alec Baldwins VERY RECENT rant against the media. Neither of them were fired or lost businesses.
One might almost think it was discrimination against a woman, but I’m sure that could NEVER happen in 2013. Right? (/sarcasm)
In my opinion, Paula Deen should have been more dignified in her
TV appearances. Her crying and wailing apologies didn’t help her.
She should have gone on the shows and said that the insult happened
30 years ago when a black man put a gun to her head and, if her use of
the word after that encounter offended anyone, she was sorry. A woman
of her wealth didn’t need to whimper.
I find that it is interesting that the TV media, even Fox News, never
mentions the gun to the head incident when interviewing people and
their opinions about Deen’s use of the insulting word.
Hoss:
You are correct. Deen has no idea how to defend herself. She is not smooth. She is not media savvy. She is semi-hysterical and frequently incoherent.
But her destruction is certainly not justified by her awkward apologies.
Alec Baldwin, over the weekend, tweeted a series of hate tweets against a gay reporter. Truly homophobic rants. He apologized—actually, his PR firm did it—smoothly this morning. Thus, because he’s a liberal, he pays no price. His contract with Capitol Financial Services will continue with nary a hitch.
Robert:
I agree with you and Hoss wholeheartedly. Paula should have dealt with this matter with strength and dignity. These ‘political correctness Nazi’s’ would never be sympathetic to heartfelt (albeit soppy) ‘demonstrations of contrition’. Besides, her purported transgression is so mild in comparison to the vitriolic and unwarranted accusations being hurled at her. I also believe because she is a white, apparently conservative, Southern woman (with a non-politically correct fondness for butter) she is an obvious and easy target for the liberal media. Poor woman.
“A woman of her wealth didn’t need to whimper”
What does her wealth have to do with it?
Brianna:
You’re correct about that – but I believe the sentences’ meaning hinged-upon the increased options ‘assets’ provide a person – that’s how I interpreted it, anyway.