At Georgia Restaurant, Patrons Jump to Defend a Chef From Her Critics (Paula Dean)

NYTimes ^ | 6/23/2013 | KIM SEVERSON

[RoosterRedux]

SAVANNAH, Ga. — The line of Paula Deen fans waiting for her restaurant here to open grew throughout the hot, muggy morning Saturday.

They discussed what they might select from the buffet inside The Lady and Sons, her wildly popular restaurant in the heart of Savannah.

But they also talked of boycotting the Food Network, which dropped their beloved TV chef on Friday after she awkwardly apologized for having used racial slurs and for considering a plantation-themed wedding for her brother, with well-dressed black male servants.

The predicament that Ms. Deen finds herself in began when a former employee — a white woman who is now managing restaurants in Atlanta — filed a discrimination lawsuit in March 2012. She claimed that racial epithets, racist jokes and pornography on office computers were common while she managed Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House, one of the restaurants in Ms. Deen’s empire. Forbes has estimated her net worth at $17 million.

Most of the diners in line on Saturday morning were white and more than ready to defend one of their favorite cooking stars. But at the very front was Nicole T. Green, 36, an African-American who said she had made a detour from a vacation in New Orleans specifically to show up in support of Ms. Deen.

[dfwgator]

Eventually, many members of the current ruling junta will be having the same experience.

Yep, there are going to be a lot of "Strelnikovs" who will find out too late, that their turn against the wall is coming, no matter how loyal to the cause they were.

[rlmorel]

It can be argued quite convincingly that liberal policies are inherently racist, and deleterious to the well-being of blacks in this country.

As Ann Coulter is fond of saying, “We could make a case of that in court…”

[GOPJ]

Right now, as she is being dragged by both arms down some hallway in a concrete building (figuratively speaking, of course) she is probably wondering why those she admired, sympathized with, and supported are treating her in this fashion. She was after all, in her mind, “one of them”.

Solzhenitsyn was a gift to mankind...

[dfwgator]

Solzhenitsyn was a gift to mankind...

I've been reading a lot of his stuff lately, and I'm convinced he's one of the most brilliant men whoever lived. He foresaw everything that was to happen to the West, and he tried to warn us.

[Albion Wilde]

I think it is the irony or justness that has people cheering, if cheering is what it can be called. More like grim satisfaction.

OK, but gloating is a sin.

Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him.
--Proverbs 24:17-18 ESV

My question is, has Martha Stewart "reached out" yet?

[carlo3b]

THE REAL REASON SHE’S TOAST;

Paula Deen: “Michelle Obama loves fried food and ate more than any other guest I’ve had on my show”

That is a NO, NO... Exposing the First Cow, is the end of anyone’s career.. :)

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[rlmorel]

I find it one of the most fascinating aspects of liberalism. It would be completely comical, if it were not so completely deadly, and mortally serious.

This, I think stems from another flaw of liberalism. To liberals, there is no past beyond that past they can hijack or use as a tool to serve their immediate ends.

Put another way, the past is merely a malleable tool to liberals, in contrast to the way many conservatives view the past, which serves to us as a testbed of ideas and actions, and that past we observe is used as a guide to our current and future situations.

I honestly do not believe that liberals view history or the past in that fashion. They simply can’t, how else could you explain the failure of communism, socialism, and the success of capitalism? More specifically, how on earth can they use history to buttress their views on taxes and the effect they have on economies?

Another great book by David Horowitz, an author who speaks with great authority on liberalism (because he was one) is “Unholy Alliance”, in which he talks about liberalism’s views on the past and present with respect to government, in which he states that there is no government past or present that committed liberals will support or respect, since all of them must be destroyed to get the utopia they seek to reach in the future.

[libertarian27]

Wonder how long her Pharma endorsement gig will last

[rlmorel]

Yes, it would be a sin. In my case, I can hardly gloat. We are on the losing side. I see my approval of her “being hoisted on her own petard” as being just desserts, actual justice, not gloating.

Similar to someone who is doing something stupid who has the suggestion made that they should do something differently. Not only being ignored, they ridicule the person making the suggestion, then it comes to pass that they are injured. I think it is perfectly possible to view with sympathy the injury, yet at the same time temper it with the “grim satisfaction” that their failure and injury may serve as an object lesson to others pursuing something equally stupid.

Such as supporting liberalism and nanny statism.

But that is just me.

[dfwgator]

Sometimes, one’s great purpose in life, is to serve as a warning to others.

[EricT.]

They quote what their parents use to say about Republicans. You tell them that it is not the party of their parent but the family tie blinds their hearing.

I have always found that level of intellectual laziness disgusting. You can't reason with those people because they don't actually think; they just repeat what they're told like smiling little robots. They're not worth a conversation beyond "Hello, how are you?"

[rlmorel]

Hahaha...THAT is one of my favorite sayings...I just used it last night.

My favorite expression is the rusty bow of the ship poking out of the water with that saying below it.

Soooo true.

[rlmorel]

I just finished reading “The Gulag Archipelago” AGAIN, and it scares the crap out of me.

Look how far the Soviet government went in such short a time. Why do we have the conceit we would be somehow immune to it?

[Charles Martel]

IIRC , it was Emeril that made the FN.

I thought so too, but he's not even mentioned in the network's "timeline" on Facebook. It was founded in '93 and the first network-produced show was Bobby Flay's in '96. Maybe Emeril's show was produced elsewhere and merely licensed to FN.

The next two shows hit in '99 - Tyler Florence and Alton Brown. Paula's show didn't begin until 2001, so she was part of the third wave of FN programming, along with Rachel Rae.

I sort of lost interest a few years ago when the entire network kissed Michelle Obama's ample butt. Which, BTW, makes it even more entertaining that right now the network is catching hell on Facebook for pulling Deen's show.

[EricT.]

But you are astute in observing just how lard-ass the people in line are. Wonder if that was typical of all the patrons, or if it was "selective journalism"?

After 20 years living in various Southern states, my educated guess is that it's typical.

A guy could get rich selling diabetic supplies in the South.

(It's still one of the better parts of the country, though.)

[BwanaNdege]

“racial epithets” - 2013

“colloquial descriptive nouns” - 1950’s and earlier.

BTW, my ‘redneck’ grandfather, who used the “N” word at times, would have jumped all over me for insulting those same people if I had called one “black” or “African”.

[Albion Wilde]

With regard to Mugged, she was too late, by maybe two months, in getting it published, as the arc of presidential campaign expectations keeps getting moved earlier and earlier. She had clearly intended Mugged to influence voters in the 2012 election to stop looking at skin color, reflexively responding to white guilt or giving in to emotional blackmail as their "unreasons" for voting for Obama. The book was released September 25, 2012 -- too late to develop a groundswell of demand independent of the major networks or for the message to sink in by word of mouth; and it is a shame. One of her best books ever.

Jimmy Valentine's Brother, BufordP and myself went to her very well-attended book signing in DC (sponsored by Americans for Tax Reform, Brent Bozell, Human Events, Penguin Publishing USA and WMAL) when it came out; so each of us has a signed first edition. There are a lot of Coulter haters on FR now, but when I read a book, I consider the book and what is in it independently from her often-careless sarcasm and spouting off on the air. She researches carefully, cites all her sources, and can frame a debate -- something fewer freepers seem to want to take the trouble to do any more.

[grania]

I don’t think she should’ve apologized and grovelled. We don’t need Word Police. We need to accept that people say dumb things, and just move on.

[SeminoleCounty]

The timing of the breaking of this story is oddly coincidental to the opening of the Zimmerman trial IMO.

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Because the Zimmerman lynching by the Black Racists is not going as planned.....they needed a new “Honky I Wanna Lynch” and nothing is easier to get White Guilt Liberals on board than a Southern woman who once used a term Trayvon Martin called himself

Stupid that she supported Obama....but even more stupid people are siding with the Black Racists on this....esp if you are white.

[rlmorel]

I disagree with Ann Coulter on some very important issues, but...the truth is the truth.

I find it telling that liberals attack HER, not what she writes...:)

As for her sarcasm, I listen to audiobooks, and I won’t buy an Audiobook of an Ann Coulter work unless she reads it herself! Her voice, intonation, cadence and sarcasm are perfect for the subject at hand.