<p>I heard there were record orders placed for the book. She should self publish it.</p>
<p>She should self publish. There is clearly a market. I find it very amusing that such an outspoken supporter of president Obama, even to introducing mrs. Obama to her audience in 2008, is being torn apart this way. I am sure the first family will rush to her defense at the first opportunity a la Professor Gates.</p>
<p>If she self publishes and it sells the sponsors will come back. These companies are afraid for their brand. We should not expect profiles in courage from them.</p>
<p>She has a strong enough following to self-publish. She has the power to become even bigger than what she was with the sponsors. After the companies start to see the change of tide, they’ll start running back to her with surf boards ready.</p>
<p>I think this thing has gone way too far. I do not cook so I’m not likely to buy her book but the way the media has tied her a post and thrown stones at her is just plain wrong. This should have been a 1 or maybe 2 day thing. I mean Mel Gibson had that horrible rant about Jews. But hey only the media focused on that for about 2 minutes.</p>
<p>The Mel story was out there for a long time. I am torn by these stories I believe in redemption but want people to be aware that there are consequences for discriminatory thoughts or actions. I want society to say your discriminatory thoughts and actions are unacceptable. I also want people to be forgiven and get an opportunity to turn over a new leaf.
Every day is a new day.</p>
<p>WOULD YOU PEOPLE STOP IT ALREADY! </p>
<p>Excuse YOU! I wish I could dissect all of your lives and point out every flaw in them. I wish I could tell everyone of every mistake you’ve made, every bad thing you have done, everything that you said behind someone’s back, and everything that you’ve done that goes against moral views. This is someone who has a record of doing things that she’s not proud of --just like all of us. I wish I could televise every single thing that you have done wrong and I wish I could make threads like this about every one of you who spit on Paula’s name. Face facts people: everyone isn’t perfect. And yes some of you are going to say that this thread is not about Paula- but that’s NOT the point. News of today, critics of today, and UNFORTUNATELY THE ONCE HUMAN PEOPLE THAT ARE ALIVE TODAY have no respect for reputations! </p>
<p>Some things you guys are saying is cyber-slander. You should watch it.</p>
<p>LOL, y u mad tho?</p>
<p>That’s what happens when you settle for excerpts.</p>
<p>I do know that just about every American English speaker has used the “n” word either flippantly or seriously, at least once, if only singing along to a rap lyric in the car.</p>
<p>You know this,how?</p>
<p>“I am torn by these stories I believe in redemption but want people to be aware that there are consequences for discriminatory thoughts or actions. I want society to say your discriminatory thoughts and actions are unacceptable”</p>
<p>Huh? Do you mean words and actions? Or are you actually proposing people be made to pay the consequences for thinking the wrong thing? Shall we have the NSA monitor our thoughts too?</p>
<p>I’ll be honest and say I haven’t read every post, but I will agree with those who say that if Paula was a skinny, young thing from LA or NY, folks would be a lot more forgiving. It is perfectly fine to call folks “crackers” or “honkies” AND it would be fine for me to use the “n” word if I were a rapper or an African American. Truthfully, I don’t think that ANYONE should use that word, but I remember being a kid and using the term “n” knocking for ringing a doorbell and running away. Would I use it now as an adult? NO.</p>
<p>I probably wouldn’t have bought Paula’s book before this week, but now I’m really tempted. I’d love to be a fly on the walls of these holier than thou folks who are crucifying her.</p>
<p>And, for the record, I do believe this started out as a shake down. (And I think Paula’s brother is a boob)</p>
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<p>You’re right, I don’t know it. But I suspect it. If someone hasn’t done what I’ve described, then they have read Huckleberry Finn and been “exposed.” What words are so bad that they can’t be said? That they require someone to be shunned and ruined? Jay-Z is fine, but Paula Deen is not? He’s at least as privileged as she is. He and his wife shut down an entire New York hospital so that their baby could be born in privacy.</p>
<p>Listen, I don’t think that people should go around and use offensive terms. But the hypocrisy of the media and entertainment industry is nauseating to me.</p>
<p>As other posters have said, we do not know Paula Deen personally, and we don’t know what it is in her heart; and surely we have ALL said things that we regret and immediately wish we could take back.</p>
<p>When several of her long-time African American employees are coming forward and adamantly defending and supporting her 100%, that tells me something.</p>
<p>{A. Weiner makes me sick. The fact that he has the ego and gall to run for office again (apparently because he has no other skills or any other way to make a living besides being paid by the taxpayers) says all that is wrong with politics. But that’s a discussion for another day.}</p>
<p>I do not think all those sponsors dropped Paula Deen just out of sympathy for the AA community. Sponsors play a game of predicting how much money “we will loose”. Paula Deen had a wholesome image and that image got shattered (regardless if you believe she deservedit or not). She could have fixed it by being upfront about it and facing people the first time, but by letting things play out and not showing her face she lost credibility, I am sorry. I am not trying to play the racist card here but how many of us remember a word said 20 years ago once? I sure don’t ; that makes me believe that the N word was part of her vocabulary and that is why she was warned by her sons not to use it.</p>
<p>She;d might be a nice lady, or she might not be. But in either case “Paula Dean” isn’t necessarily Paula Dean. “Paula Dean” is a media creation - a nice, Southern, homespun, friendly, gentle woman who shares her family’s recipes and traditions. That imagery, for better for worse, is shattered. No one really cares about Paula Dean, it is “Paula Dean” that sells cookware, drugs, etc., and she died.</p>
<p>A figure with her resources doesn’t go on the stand uncoached.</p>
<p>Yes busdriver you are correct. I should have written words and actions.</p>
<p>Just went on Food Network.com to find recipes for all of these cherries I just picked and all traces of her, her recipes, her shows…gone.</p>
<p>Nope, looks like I can still “get healthy” with [Paula</a> Deen](<a href=“http://www.foodnetwork.com/paula-deen/recipes/index.html]Paula”>http://www.foodnetwork.com/paula-deen/recipes/index.html).</p>