Paula Deen

[thesummerqueen]

From a PR viewpoint, they just screwed themselves.

No they didn't. From the viewpoint of many, many others, they would have screwed themselves by keeping her. She's an embarrassment and clearly doesn't represent the values of the company that hired her, thus, they fired her. If you want to be in entertainment and in some way represent an organization, you have the obligation to represent that organization in the best possible way, and clearly this wasn't it.

Believe me, they wouldn't have fired her if they couldn't stand the hit. And believe me, the diabetic fat asses who live down here have plenty of other shows on that network they will continue to watch instead of getting up and making their own food.

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PS, in case anyone was concerned about what Southerners think...

Gaston County Gazette posted a link asking what everyone thought about it on Facebook and people were writing in that it wasn't fair that Deen was booted for being racist, but some other woman was allowed to stay even though she was lesbian.

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ALSO -

who gives a shit if Food Network "screwed themselves"?

I rather think it's like Starbucks telling the Christian Right they can go fuck themselves if they want to boycott for Starbucks supporting gay rights. Food Network just threw down the gauntlet: 'we don't put up with this sort of shit, and if you want to be on our payroll you'll have to keep it to yourself.'

Do we say that Starbucks screwed themselves? No one said that when Chik-fil-a made their stance...except Chik DID change their words a bit, due to the fact that there are more NICE people out there than ugly people.

No, I don't think Food Network has shit all to worry about.