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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPaula Deen’s business deals are sliding away faster than a pat of butter on a pile of hot cakes
Joining Caesars Entertainment, Smithfield Foods and the Food Network, Walmart has announced that its cutting ties to the southern chef. QVC also said earlier this week that it had concerns over the recent controversy involving Deens use of racial epithets.
http://consumerist.com/2013/06/26/walmart-will-not-place-new-orders-for-paul-deen-products/
Love the pat of butter line.
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)fucking over everyone equally...
dkf
(37,305 posts)Aka...she is done.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)thanks a slew of lucrative endorsement deals, most of which have evaporated in the past 48 hours.
says Forbes today.
someone on DU earlier called her The Dowager Butterworth!
dkf
(37,305 posts)And it ain't pretty.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and a little bit of that went a long long way for me. I found her cloying.
In the deposition, that "cute" comes across as insincere with a lot of miimizing and justification for her behavior.
Skittles
(153,934 posts)I wonder if Fox News will pick her up
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)mercuryblues
(14,615 posts)companies are dropping her like hotcakes, yet I have not heard of any calls for boycotts of their products if they keep her. Were the first few just looking for an excuse and the rest jumped on the gravy train?
LuvLoogie
(7,157 posts)The boycotts against bigotry have been effective, and these companies did not want to loose any revenue.
mercuryblues
(14,615 posts)But from I can find there haven't been any calls for boycotts. Quite the opposite. People are threatening boycotts because they are dumping her.
LuvLoogie
(7,157 posts)dumping her than to defend not dumping her. It's that simple.
mercuryblues
(14,615 posts)I read her deposition. The first thing that came to mind is why didn't she try to get it sealed, from the get-go? The second was how did she get where she is today with such a faulty memory?
There is no amount of sugar she can ooze to hide the taste of vinegar that lies beneath.
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)This one day she had brought her little girl to work, and that child had many big, fat blisters on her hand, probably from helping out her momma. Something about those blisters just attracted me and I remember hitting those little hands with a bolo bat, and it busted her blisters good. It was pretty satisfying.
I dont know why I did it. I have a hard time thinking I did it out of meanness. But her motherI cant remember if she slapped me across the face or she spanked me or bothbut either way, now I know I sure had it comin.
Well, still I was heartbroken and I went running to find my Grandmother Paul and Granddaddy and my momma. And my granddaddy had the woman arrested for hitting me. The little black girls momma went to jail.
All this time its bothered me.
It was me who deserved to be sittin in that jail for breaking a little black girls blisters in 1957.
Well Paula, you ain't going to jail, but if I had been that woman, and if it had been my 4 year old baby you ripped blisters open, I would have whacked your butt pretty hard, AND demanded an apology. Yet, this poor women went to jail!! Because she was black. Do you get it now, you idiot? How can you feign ignorance when this is what you grew up with? Unbelievable.
LuvLoogie
(7,157 posts)It is her choices as an adult, when she knows better, that turn her Karmic wheel. Of COURSE an adult should get arrested for hitting a child. And no, a little girl should not be arrested for misguided, juvenile cruelty. Deen knows this. This story is just more evidence of her saccharine equivocation. Trying to jive the world that she is just a little girl who made a mistake and feels real bad about it.
However, no adult should hit a child, period. Given it was another person's child, the woman deserved to be arrested.