It has been hard to find the exact wording or what Paula Deen actually said, in context, in the deposition that has caused all the sound and fury. The news has suspiciously be covert about the truth and was only reporting the sensational.
Fortunately, John Derbyshire looked into it and found out the story:
06 — Cracker trouble. The republic has been
having trouble this last few days with what Trayvon Martin would have called a "cracker," which is to say a white person.
The offending cracker here is Paula Deen, a celebrity
chef and restaurateur. Ms. Deen is not just white, she's Southern white.
Cracker-wise, that makes her a twofer — a Ritz Bits Sandwich, if you like.Well, the manager of one of Ms. Deen's restaurants brought an action in law against her for creating a hostile workplace atmosphere by using racial insults. Ms. Deen's deposition in the case included the following exchange with a lawyer.
Lawyer: "Have you ever used the N-word yourself?"
Ms. Deen: "Yes, of course."
Lawyer: "Okay. In what context?"
Ms. Deen: "Well, it was probably when a black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head."
The lady was referring there to a documented incident that
happened in 1986. That was enough to get her denounced from all the
nation's pulpits,
though. The TV network canceled her show and several of her sponsors
dropped her, though to their great credit some others didn't, or at
least haven't as we
go to tape.We then went through the usual embarrassing charade. Ms. Deen made a tearful apology, swearing that she is not a racist. That of course didn't help her; neither did the fact that she is a liberal and an on-the-record Obama supporter. Hey, George Zimmerman's a liberal, too — a registered Democrat, anyway. That's not helping him. When the forces of righteousness and orthodoxy have decided your pelt would look real good on the wall of the Diversity Chapel, ain't nothing going to help you …
… Although it depends who you are — specifically, how useful you are to the Cultural Marxists. The late Senator Robert Byrd said the N-word on nationwide TV, twice, yet every standing structure in West Virginia is still named after him. Ah, but he was a bigfoot Democrat politician, useful to the elites in getting their pet laws through Congress. That's different.
Ms. Deen has been banished into outer darkness, to the place of wailing and gnashing of teeth. Still, although the Thought Police have pushed her off the airwaves and killed her big sponsorship deals, they haven't yet deprived her of all her income. In one respect, in fact, they've given it a boost. Ms. Deen's cookbooks are selling like hot cakes … hot deep-fried Twinkies, it would be more apt to say. Her latest, which doesn't even hit the bookstores till October, is running at Number One on Amazon.com at week's end. Another book, Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible, is at No. 13. Several other Deen titles are out of stock.
GO TO THE LINKS
Ask Obama if he ever used the N-word himself.
She should get a smart new publisher. m/r
Paula Deen's upcoming book nixed by publisher - CBS News
CBS/AP/ June 28, 2013
Paula Deen's upcoming cookbook, currently the No. 1 seller on Amazon.com, has been dropped by its publisher.
In a brief statement Friday, Ballantine Books announced it had canceled publication of "Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up." The book was scheduled for release in October, and in recent days pre-orders have raised it to No. 1 on the online bookseller's sales ranks. Her 2011 cookbook, "Paula Deen's Southern Cooking Bible," has risen to the second spot.
Deen has lost many of her business relationships following revelations that she used racial slurs in the past. Sears Holdings Corp and J.C. Penney Co. Friday that they're cutting ties with Deen, following similar announcements fromWal-Mart Stores Inc., Target Corp. and Home Depot.
Last week, the Food Network said that it would not renew her contract. She was also dropped by Smithfield Foods, Caesars Entertainment stripped her name from restaurants and drug company Novo Nordisk said it was suspending its work with her.
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