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Default My take on the Paula Deen story



"Jeßus" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 22:35:57 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
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>>"gregz" > wrote in message
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>>> ImStillMags > wrote:
>>>> I think the larger picture is this. A growing majority of people
>>>> have
>>>> just had it with all the strife, bigotry, racism, angst and agendas.
>>>> Whether she said something 20 years ago or not has become irrelevant.
>>>> Paula Deen has become the poster child of what most people want do
>>>> leave
>>>> behind them.
>>>>
>>>> I feel a bit sad for Paula Deen because it means the collapse of a tidy
>>>> empire she had built, but I feel a bit better about society in that we
>>>> seem to be, finally, saying "no" to everything here past actions stand
>>>> for in our nation.
>>>>
>>>> http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/27/news...html?hpt=hp_t2
>>>
>>> Prior to this I never saw or heard of her. I'm tired of it.

>>
>>You're kidding! She was everywhere! You don't remember the whole
>>diabetes
>>thing where she covered that up, all the while cooking buttery and sugary
>>dishes and slugging down sweet tea? Then she was photographed on some
>>cruise stuffing a giant burger in her face. That was everywhere!

>
> If it wasn't for RFC, I would never have heard of her.


Nor me!

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