Deen loses more business ties

Sears, Penney sever relations with celebrity chef
Associated Press
Jun 28, 2013


Paula Deen's media and merchandising empire is collapsing.







Both Sears and Kmart sold Paula Deen products.




















AP National Writer Hillel Italie contributed to this report

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To think, yesterday I went out and bought 6 of her "Best of Paula Deen" cookbooks as presents for Christmas.

I should have waited till today, maybe they would have had 10% off the cover price



This is crazy....if everybody were held accountable for what they said or did 25 yrs ago, we'd all be in trouble! I understand what she said wasn't nice...but come on!


NAACP strikes again..just like the George Zimmerman trial, ughhh...


Agreed. The only way to end this PC BS if for people to vocally boycott businesses that play into the PC game everytime the media targets someone and let their upper management know that you won't be doing business with them anymore.

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For the umpteenth time this is more than about 25 years ago.


Can someone please explain to me how Paula Deen admitting to using the N word 25 years ago can destroy her career, yet others (rappers, young people, etc) can throw the word around and it is totally acceptable. I'm not understanding this. Please, please, please explain this to me because I don't feel it should be used by ANYONE. Thank you.

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PussyCatPatrol: It is never appropriate, but there is a double standard in some places. The rationale appears to be that it is an appropriate term when African-Americans use the term among themselves or want to bait others(usually white) to use it. Then, it becomes a racial slur and the proclamation is that the person who took the bait is "racist". My mother always told me "It takes one to know one".


Maybe she have done like Martha Stewart and went to prison for breaking federal law. Then like Martha Stewert she would stll have her TV show and endorsements.


You have a mom ? Did she ever tell you not to hate? How the h*** do you bait someone to say something racist That has got to be one of the most stupid things you have ever said and there has been many.

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Deertracker laid it out pretty good in another story on here about Paula Deen.
THU, 06/27/2013 - 8:38AM
Let me explain it to you. Black people, and young people have given the word a totally different meaning. If you take the so called power from the word it no longer has the negative connotation attached. Most people I know use it as a term of endearment that is why some may hear it during a neighborhood basketball game. Like you, I just choose not to use the word and since my kids grew up almost never hearing it at home, they don't get all bothered by it either. I always taught them that no one is defined by slurs and it says more about the person using them and to let those type of things roll off easily.


I think it's time to take a stand of our own. Folks, you need to go to amazon and purchase her book, in fact, purchase 100 of them. Too often, we sit back and watch the double standards take place and do nothing. Quit whining and go buy your books. I just bought three of them for gifts.


Once again can i call you a B**** even tho i dont know you. Tell me one time you have heard any rappers or young people say N***er and ill prove you wrong.


Yes, and the next rebel flag I see needs to be walked on also. Just like lil wayne & what he did with the American flag. Both are wrong.


Meanwhile Bill Maher calls Sarah Palin the "C" word and there's no fallout or backlash. Seems to be a media bias when it comes to the PC Police selectively wielding their mallet of outrage at certain comments. And no, I'm not a Sarah Palin fan, or a Paula Deen fan either.

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Bill Maher is a comedian, who is on a pay to watch network, HBO. Palin brought attention to herself by using her family as props. No comparison.


"Bill Maher is a comedian"?

So he isn't just an fascist, liberal *hole?

HBO is a cable channel NOT a network. DERP!

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Didn't you once write that they were full of errors?

Sorry, can't have it BOTH ways DERPY! :)

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You use it Derpy.

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I really don't have time to deal with your dr_nk__n rants today.


I use Wiki as a "primer," NOT an authoritative source.

Whatever you say DIRPITY DERP DERP. :)


Did you ever get the distinct feeling that you're the only person here that feels the way you do? Perhaps you are the one with the real racial tension that needs to deal with it.

Pterocarya frax...

Bill Maher also called Donald Trump the afterbirth of an orangutan. Both are true.

The difference is that Maher has not sold his soul to get commercial endorsements like Paula Deen. When you put yourself out there as a wholesome southern belle, and then you don't live up to the image, the fall from grace is hard.

Neil Young tells it like it is:

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Neil nails it.


I'm with you, Train.......this is getting ridiculous. I feel sorry for Paula Deen.

There you go again

Please, everyone go out and buy Paula Deen products and show your support. It is a shame that so-o-o-o many people affiliated with her products will lose their jons over this "political correctness", if you can call it that!

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It's a little beyond PC.


The woman is worth an estimated $10M. I ain't cryin' for her 'too much'.

Ya put it out there, ya get whacked by the whackos. Ya know?

I recently read that the govt. is having difficulty filling some regulatory posts, possibly because few enjoy the media proctology exam.

"Idiocracy" HERE WE COME!

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LOL, I do not think our president would be brandishing his UAS12 like theirs! It is a class III firearm requiring a tax stamp.



- Richard M. Nixon


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BUT he wasn't POTUS then. :)

BUT, then again: How do we know with 100% metaphysical certainty that he still doesn't "partake"?

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I guess this tells us he does : )

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It's your Capitalistic Corporations who are dropping her winnie. Money, Money, Money.


Re: "It's your Capitalistic Corporations who are dropping her,"

Re: "1st of all I like Paula Deen."

So you support her racial slur DERPY?

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Re: "Nope."?

The Big Dog's back writes:

"1st of all I like Paula Deen."

So defend her DERPY.

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She's a big girl, she can defend herself. Still have that derogatory outlook on women ehhh winnie.


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"1st of all I like Paula Deen."


Only a racist like you would excuse Robt. Byrd too.


Over something she said 20 or 30 years ago... I remember my parents once told me that when you grow up, it won't matter what people think of you based on the mistakes you made when you were younger. Ha, tell that to the controversy surrounding Paula Deen... welcome to today's generation where minds are made up about you and what you did when you were younger does matter.

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Of course it matters.

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Maybe then but now it is on a zatabyte hard drive LOL


I have seen quite a bit of coverage on this but have yet to see any black group, person, or organization, speak out against her. I have seen blacks speak out for her. These are white people doing this to her. Don't blame the NAACP, blame those that are at fault.

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Things only haunt some people. It is the way of our society, black, green, purple or whatever!


Re: "These are white people doing this to her."

Good observation.

IOW: White guilt.

Liberals love to bathe in it as part of a "purification" rite.


"white guilt" is nothing more than a made up term by white people for their own "purification" purposes. You can't change the past. Move on already!


Re: "'white guilt" is nothing more than a made up term by white people,"

NOPE! Black libs like it too.

You obviously don't pay attention to poverty pimps like Jackson and Sharpton and race baiters like John Conyers.

Can you say: REPARATIONS????


Like I said, you can't change the past. Keep your REPARATIONS!

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deertracker, he's hittin' the sauce again.


I have warned him repeatedly about Kesslers. He just won't listen.


Re: "Keep your REPARATIONS!"

So tell THAT to the aforementioned white guilt promoters.


"Alec Baldwin loses it in Twitter rant, hurls homophobic slurs"

Do you think that Capital One and Hollywood movie studios will dump this liberal *ss clown?


Her stuff cost too much and she used way too much butter. I think it's safe to say she can retire comfortably. She'll be a'ite. Martha Stewart's ok after a prison stint and and insider trading scandal. Next?


The Big Dog's back writes: "For the umpteenth time this is more than about 25 years ago."

So that makes it right DERPY?

You obviously support racial hatred since you can excuse Robt. Byrd who was a MEMBER of a white supremacist organization.


So this is what Paula gets for admitting to her mistakes instead of trying to cover them up, this will really encourage the youth of today to be honest. The TRUTH will set you free, huh? Yeah, that's a LIE!

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Black staff could only use one bathroom;

Black staff couldn’t work the front of the restaurants;






So if you are OK with this, what can I say.

Darwin's choice

And, the source for your fairy tale? Mother goose? Here's one for you...where is the outrage for this?

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When down south they called me a Yankee, I called them hillbillies. They got real mad. ahhHAH