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Paula Deen SACKED From Food Network Hours After She Makes Grovelling Apology Over Racial Slurs
UK Daily Mail ^ | UPDATED: 16:00 EST, 21 June 2013 | By Rachel Quigley

Posted on 06/21/2013 2:06:31 PM PDT by drewh

Celebrity chef Paula Deen was today sacked from her job at the Food Network despite begging the public for forgiveness over her past use of racial slurs in a heavily-edited video apology.

A Food Network spokesman issued this statement today: 'Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month.' It came just hours after she released the 45-second video in which she says: 'I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong I have done. I want to learn and grow from this.

'Inappropriate, hurtful language is totally, totally unacceptable. I have made plenty of mistakes along the way but I beg you, my children, my fans, my team, my partners, I beg for your forgiveness. 'Please forgive me for the mistakes that I've made.'

The 66-year-old was due to appear on the Today show this morning to to answer questions from Matt Lauer about the racial slurs - but she pulled out just before the show started. Later that day she announced on her Twitter page that she would be releasing a video statement soon. After the initial video was released another, longer one was then posted on YouTube and was taken down soon after.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Food; Local News; TV/Movies; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: deen; democrat; democratcelebrity; fired; nword; pauladeen; slur
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1 posted on 06/21/2013 2:06:31 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh
Coming soon to your local Dollar General....a slight 're-mark' on the price tag should be simple enough. I love it when leftists get mired in the sh*t.


2 posted on 06/21/2013 2:08:13 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (Piffle....)
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To: drewh

Who? What?


3 posted on 06/21/2013 2:08:33 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: ErnBatavia

bttt


4 posted on 06/21/2013 2:08:42 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: drewh

Finally a Celeb who is a democrat, gets pounded.


5 posted on 06/21/2013 2:09:37 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died, now Obama covers up the lies.)
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To: ErnBatavia

this blows my mind......who in this forum has never told an off color or racial joke? I hate the n word and would never even use it in a joke, BUT Paula Deen grew up in a segregated era in the south and I’m sure they feel totally different than the normal person. PC run amok


6 posted on 06/21/2013 2:10:30 PM PDT by estrogen (voter fraud was huge)
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To: ErnBatavia

She also peaded to LGBT sexual orientation crowd in the video-no dice Paula!


7 posted on 06/21/2013 2:10:39 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

I’m Southern but she needed to go. She was a terrible liberal and I have no love for liberals.


8 posted on 06/21/2013 2:11:21 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: drewh

The woman who is suing her is White.


9 posted on 06/21/2013 2:11:51 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: drewh
Apparently, Paula Deen cannot be forgiven but this racist POS could.


10 posted on 06/21/2013 2:11:51 PM PDT by South40
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To: Michael.SF.

now...what ‘bout Alex Baldwin who called a black a coon a month ago on tape ??????????????????


11 posted on 06/21/2013 2:11:54 PM PDT by advertising guy (golf in june in Phoenix ? it's so dry, our gators use Gold Bond)
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To: drewh

The saddest part is that the “World’s Best Fried Chicken” and “Everybody Loves Watermelon!” episodes were already in the works.


12 posted on 06/21/2013 2:12:04 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: drewh

The only unforgivable “crime” in this country is being a racist.


13 posted on 06/21/2013 2:12:59 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: CodeToad

I didn’t realize she was a liberal ....that being said I still think there is a double standard...people in govt. have made worse jokes and nothing happens to them (Bill Clinton said O would be serving drinks to them in a past life)


14 posted on 06/21/2013 2:13:10 PM PDT by estrogen (voter fraud was huge)
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To: drewh

Meanwhile Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still welcome withing the DNC ranks.


15 posted on 06/21/2013 2:13:33 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: jiggyboy

Your handle is the topping on that remark.


16 posted on 06/21/2013 2:14:10 PM PDT by Cboldt
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” I hate the n word and would never even use it in a joke, BUT Paula Deen grew up in a segregated era in the south and I’m sure they feel totally different than the normal person. “

First off, “segregated era of the South”? Hate to tell you but Jim Crowe laws started in the North. I know public school history taught by the communists want you to believe racism was only in the South, but the North had its fair share. Hint: Slavery was started in the North by a black man that enslaved another black man during a time when slavery was illegal.

Second, what kind of “off color” jokes have you told yet refuse to use that dreaded n-word? Really? Can’t tell a black joke using that word but any other word is fair game?


17 posted on 06/21/2013 2:14:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: estrogen

You hate a word. Hah.


18 posted on 06/21/2013 2:15:00 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028
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To: drewh

She’s a dumb liberal but I kind of feel sorry for her. How quickly fame and fortune can vanish. I wonder what will happen to her sons’ shows.


19 posted on 06/21/2013 2:15:00 PM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: dfwgator

“The only unforgivable “crime” in this country is being a racist.”

Unless it is being a black racist then it is superior to non-racists.


20 posted on 06/21/2013 2:15:00 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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