Showing posts with label Paula Deen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paula Deen. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 07, 2015

Paula Deen Still Digging The Brown Out Of Her Ass!

What more can Paula Deen do to improve her image?

Food Network cooked her goose in 2013.

Now celebrity chef Paula Deen is trying to rebuild her image.

But today, the representatives for Paula and Bobby Deen tell the junk food media that her social media posting of Bobby in blackface was reckless. They posted on Twitter and it was quickly scrubbed after the outrage.

Deen wanted to do her best "I Love Lucy" impression. So she decides to throw on a red wig and the trademark dress Lucille Ball wore and Bobby decided to put a little brown in his act. In order to look like Ball's real life husband Desi Arnaz, Bobby slapped some brown makeup on and wore the sweater vest.
Bobby getting a work over.
Harmless parody?

A few years back, a shocking lawsuit came forth telling the junk food media that Deen and her sons were disrespecting Black customers at her Georgia restaurants.

She and her son even uttered NIGGER to a female worker.
Not funny.
Walmart and other national brands severed ties with her. Deen's restaurants took a nosedive during the first quarter of 2014.

She went to the junk food media to tearfully make an apology. The first time she apologized, she acted like it wasn't a big deal. So the second time, must have been the charm.

Roku was about to help Deen back into the mainstream. The Paula Deen Network was scrubbed.

You know that Jamie also caught flack too. At one of the restaurants that Paula owns, he the manager of the place. He wanted to be a real comedian. So he asked his older Black staffer to pose in a picture with him and they do a lip lock while Jamie's wife took the picture.

That went viral.....Jamie was forced to apologize for this picture.

Bobby and Jamie are celebrity chefs like their mom.

Your thoughts on it?



Friday, June 27, 2014

‘More Offensive Than the N-Word’- Update

Update:

‘More Offensive Than the N-Word’: Paula Deen’s Son Posts Photo of Him Kissing Employee ‘Forced’ to Dress Up Like Aunt Jemima | Issue Hawk


Do you see the similarities between Paula Deen's son photo and the blatantly racist 19th century cartoon, "Not Particular" depicting that very same scene except they were standing up instead of sitting?



Disgustingly Racist and Sexist!  Paula Deen's son ought to be ashamed of himself!

Here's more racism from the Deen family on Mail Online newspaper

More offensive than the N word': Paula Deen's son reignites racism row after posting photo of him kissing employee 'forced' to dress up in Aunt Jemima outfit

  • Jamie Deen has re-ignited the accusations of racism that surround the family a year on from the scandal which cost his mom her TV career
  • On Friday he posted a photo of him cuddling Ineata 'Jellyroll' Jones, an employee at the center of some of last year's racist accusations
  • Other employees claimed that Deen forced the woman to dress up in an Aunt Jemima-style outfit against her wishes
  • His questionable tweet comes amid a reports that his Food Network show has been dropped
  • Last week his mom launched The Paula Deen Network, a show to be made available to digital subscribers from September


Just as Paula Deen is attempting to rebuild her sullied reputation in the wake of last year’s N-word scandal, son Jamie has re-ignited the accusations of racism that surround the family.
Amid reports that the Food Network has cancelled his own cooking show, Jamie posted a photo on Twitter on Friday of him smooching with an older African-American woman.
The image was captioned ‘Don’t tell [my wife] Brooke. #jellyroll #sugar’.

The woman in the photo, Ineata ‘Jellyroll’ Jones, is an employee of Paula Deen who was at the center of some of last year’s racist accusations.
In 2013, The Columbus Dispatch claimed, ‘Deen used Jones for restaurant theater. At 11 a.m., when the doors opened at [her restaurant] Lady & Sons, she stood in front and rang an iron dinner bell.’


Ineata Jones was being made a "mammy" by the Deen family.  The blatant racism of the Deen family is beyond disgusting.

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One Black woman wrote:

“Wow, did Paula Deen really call one of her workers JellyRoll?” LaVerne Mack (@shaigirl11) wrote on Twitter. “I find that more offensive than the N-word.”

Another woman wrote:


"I didn't know about the history of the term jellyroll but she clearly doesn't mind the nickname. Paula asked her to dress as Aunt Jemima and she said no, end of story. Sometimes people need to be educated on other cultures. Clearly Paula has a romantic view of certain periods of time in the south that was very painful for African Americans. The south is not the most tolerant place and it's steeped in tradition. Instead of vilifying, why not use these incidents to begin a conversation about some of the issues that exist with race."-  Charli at Radaronline.com.

I agree.




Thursday, February 13, 2014

Can Paula Deen Survive Another Scandal?

More pictures surface of celebrity chef with Black people.

Last year the Queen of Cuisine was shamed after it was revealed that she often said racial slurs about Black and Hispanic customers, now Paula Deen is promising a redemption.

Paula Deen Ventures controls the restaurants, cookbooks, and other properties that Deen owns, and it announced that it’s received a significant investment (between $75 and $100 million) from Najafi Media.

At a recent public event, Deen addressed the scandal that tanked her career for a spell last year, thanking all the people who stood by her and believed in her.

The person who sued Deen lost her battle.

Could you forgive Paula Deen?

Friday, December 20, 2013

Rush Limbaugh's Only Black Friend Died!

Black conservative pastor and former NFL player Ken Hutcherson passes away.

I know that King Hippo has plenty of Black (conservative) friends. Obviously whenever he's gone he'll put on that old school Black conservative Walter Williams to fill in whenever he's away.

I know that Bo Snardly is his Black phone call screener.

But retired NFL player Ken Hutcherson, the guy who officiated the fourth marriage of the conservative agitator died. The conservative agitator offers his condolences to the only Black man he actually ain't attack on daily basis.

He was a Black conservative and one of the few guest that was featured on that conservative agitator's program. He would call in during special events and talk to about personal issues.

Hutcherson played linebacker for Livingston University (now the University of West Alabama) from 1970-73. He was a starting outside linebacker for the Tiger’s 1971 NAIA National Championship team, and was an All-American both his junior and senior seasons.

He was the NAIA National Player of the Week in 1972 when he made 21 tackles against Southern State. Hutcherson was named GSC Defensive Player of the Year in 1972, and was an All-GSC and All-Alabama Small College selection in 1972 and 1973.

Hutcherson was drafted in the fourth round by the Dallas Cowboys in 1974, and played five years in the NFL spending time with the Dallas Cowboys, San Diego Chargers, and Seattle Seahawks.

He was the senior pastor at Antioch Bible Church in Kirkland, Washington, where he had been since 1985. His nickname from his NFL days was "The Hutch". Hutcherson died on December 18, 2013 after more than a decade-long battle with prostate and bone cancer.

In addition to his wife, Pat, and four children, Hutcherson is survived by his mother.

Publicly, Hutcherson would often call in to King Hippo's program around NFL playoffs and Super Bowl time.

Upon hearing about the Black conservative's death, the conservative agitator told his audience that Hutcherson meant the world to him. He said that he wouild be sorely missed and the impact his death would have on others like himself.

Conservative agitator shares his wedding photos to his audience.
KING HIPPO: "He was a man, folks. There was no complaining. There was no bleeding on people. There was none of that. He didn't want his relationship with anybody to be defined, even in what turned out to be the latter months of his life, by his illness. He was a devout Christian. He was a devout practicing Christian. And, as such, I don't think that he feared death because of that. But he's gone now, and it's a great, great loss for his congregation and his family because he's a unique individual. Nobody can be replaced when they're gone, but he's created an especially huge void for a lot of people because he was a counselor to people in trouble, no matter what the problem was."

Hutcherson also made frequent appearances on Chalk E Becker's programs. On December 17, 2013, he right wing media mogul devoted a portion of his program to his friend Hutcherson.

Beck tweeted the same day: "I just spoke to Hutch tonight. He is dying. He promised me that he will wait until I can get there Friday. Pray for his sweet wife and children."

We here at Journal de la Reyna send our condolences to the family of Ken Hutcherson.

Monday, July 29, 2013

Tim Allen: I'm Gonna Need Some HOME Improvement!


Wild hogging! Tim Allen uses Martin Lawrence as a reference to how you explain the word NIGGER.

Famed comic is under fire for defending troubled celebrity chef Paula Deen. The comic even utter the racial slur.

From Home Improvement, to The Santa Clause and Toy Story, he's been a fixture of Disney for sometime.

After a rocky second season, ABC decided to renew the Tim Allen sitcom Last Man Standing. Even after the changing of actors and the dreaded Friday spot, the show pulled good ratings. The show features Nancy Travis, Molly Ephraim, Hector Elizondo, Kaitlyn Dever, and Amanda Fuller.

I can admit even in the replacement of actress Alexandra Krosney for Amanda Fuller was kind of rocky but it did bring an improvement to the show.
Tim Allen plays Mike Baxter on the show Last Man Standing. He and Nancy Travis play a married couple who raising three daughters and their grandson in suburban Denver.
Last Man Standing is based on married couple with three daughters and a grandson. Allen is the chief manager of a sporting good store and his wife (played by Travis) is a geologist. They raise three daughters in their home in suburban Denver, Colorado. Each of the character's experience involves Allen giving his fatherly advice to most modern day issues.

Allen's character is a conservative at heart. Some episodes featured conversation about President Barack Obama and perennial loser Mitt Romney. Some of the episodes talk about controversial themes such as "unwed pregnancy", "performance enhancing drugs", "vigilante protests" and "racial stereotypes".

The third season will begin in September.

Allen pissed off Melissa Harris-Perry and Michael Eric Dyson, two featured players on Obama News.

Allen gave an interview to the Tampa Bay Times and he praised his idols Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor.

He also gave his thoughts on Paula Deen:

"If I have no intent, if I show no intent, if I clearly am not a racist! How can say that NIGGER be bad [when it comes] out my mouth?"

I do (sic) a movie with Martin Lawerence and pretty soon they're referring to me, 'hey my NIGGA's up'. So I'm the NIGGER if I'm around you guys but 7 feet away, if I said NIGGER, it's not right. It's very confusing to the European mind how that works, especially if I've either grown up or evolved or whatever, it litterally was growing up in Colorado, with Hispanics and Anglos, that's all I remember.

That didn't go so well with Michael Eric Dyson. This was discussed on Melissa Harris-Perry's show this weekend.


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Friday, July 26, 2013

Butterball'd!

More scandal for celebrity chef.

Paula Deen still regrets her comments about Black patrons. As of today, I will add her to the label list.

Still under the fire for her racial slurs towards Black guest, cooks and hosts.

Somehow, I do feel a little sympathy for the celebrity chef.

I guess today, I may even show a small bit of support for this woman.
Aunt Jemima is the iconic woman for syrup and pancake mix.
She's entitled to say whatever the heck she wants, but I guarantee that the words she says from this point on will have a lasting effect on her career as a chef, reality television host, mother, grandmother and public figure.

Paula Deen Allegedly Asked Black Staffers to Dress Like Aunt JemimaThe controversy starts with one of her Black food prepare cooks saying that Deen thought of her as Aunt Jemima. The character on the syrup bottle.

Wow, ain't that nice. A Black woman is a character on the syrup bottle. Sweet.


Quaker Oats, Inc. has the rights of all its products and I wonder if Deen's brands a part of it?

Dora Charles overflows with allegations of racist behavior. Deen allegedly paid black employees less than white ones and used racial slurs.

But it is Deen's idea of Confederate-tinged dinner theater that may be the most unseemly element of the story. Charles tells the Times that she refused Deen's requests to ring a dinner bell in front of her Savannah, Georgia restaurant The Lady and Sons and, in the words of the paper, holler for "people to come and get it."

Deen's already damaged reputation following her admission last month that she said NIGGER!

The chef was forced to open up about her use of slurs during a deposition related to allegations of racism and sexual harassment brought against Deen by a former employee, Lisa T. Jackson.

In the wake of Deen's admission, the celebrity chef was dropped by Food Network and dumped by retailers like Walmart and Target and the drug maker Novo Nordisk, with whom she had endorsement deals.

Wendy Williams tears into the controversy.

Monday, July 01, 2013

Kiss The Cook Goodbye!

Reality television star catching flack for uttering racial slurs about Blacks.

Even in the midst of a major controversy involving celebrity chef Paula Deen, another reality television star goes off on the social networks attacking the Black community.

There's a show on Fox called MasterChef. It's part of the Kitchen Nightmares series with British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay.

The show picks amateur and home chefs in a competitive race. The one to be chosen with bring forth their  signature dish for the three judges. Each judge takes a taste of the dish and gives his opinion before voting a "yes" or a "no". At least two "yes" votes are required to earn a white MasterChef apron, allowing the competitor to advance.

Krissi Biasiello, a contestant on the fourth season of Fox's "MasterChef," has a nasty social media past.

The Philly Daily News catches the competitor popping off at the mouth. Mediaite obtains the portions of the controversial Twitter post. The woman deleted her person page but kept her fan page online. Unfortunately whomever gotten a hold of the posts are sharing them with the reps for Fox Broadcasting and Entertainment.

Mediaite claims that a reporter unearthed the two now-deleted tweets showing Biasiello making some pretty derogatory comments last year.







Biasiello is a 34-year-old paralegal based out of Philadelphia. She is currently placed within the top 11 contestants on this fourth season of MasterChef, a competitive cooking reality program co-hosted by Gordon Ramsay.

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Deen Dong!

The celebrity is distraught about the situation. But the remorse is a little too late when they're pulling the money out of her cookie pots.

Celebrity agitators are still in shock over chef Paula Deen's awkward and yes tearful apologies for uttering NIGGER to her Black patrons. But so far the damage is done and she's paying for it by the lost of major sponsors.

Just like our friend on talk radio, King Hippo, Deen made herself famous on the theme of reality television and the day to day activities being monitored by the camera. Her mouth got her in trouble and the boycotts towards her business and trademarks are suffering.

It took a White whistleblower to expose the celebrity and her brother for downright sexist, racist and outright ignorant comments towards the president, Blacks, and Hispanics.

The agitators are seeing the free fall of the Southern gourmet chef.

Over 30 sponsors have severed ties with her. The Food Network has fired her and put an abrupt end to her longtime programs.

Some of her most loyal fans are demanding retribution by boycotting the network and attending her restaurants.
Celebrity meets a Black chef.
Is that enough?

I think not.

You start to notice that there's pictures circulating the internet with the celebrity being in the presence of Black entertainers and athletes.

Yeah, many Americans including myself loved Paula Deen. She was the charming and yet outspoken advocate for heavy calorie food. Her key to successful dishes was a stick of margarine (butter).

She had to cut back on that stuff after she was revealed she had Type II diabetes.

She had to make drastic health changes and lost over 50 pounds.

Now Lisa Jackson, a former employee of restaurants owned by Deen and her brother, Earl "Bubba" Hiers, filed a lawsuit alleging racial and sexual discrimination. In a story initially reported by the National Enquirer, Deen stated in her deposition that she has used the "N-word" at times, saying "Yes, of course. But that's just not a word that we use as time has gone on. Things have changed since the '60s in the south."

Deen said she employed the term when telling her husband about an incident “when a black man burst into the bank that I was working at and put a gun to my head. I didn’t feel real favorable towards him,” Deen said of the bank robber."
Pictures circulate with celebrity embracing Black people.
Deen also admitted she was sure that she’d used the word since that incident. Jackson’s attorney responded by asking Deen to explain how the N-word might be used in a “non-mean way.” Specifically, Deen said she probably used the word while repeating a conversation between blacks. She also said that her family, including Hiers, do not discriminate against any race and object to the N word “being used in any cruel or mean behavior.” Deen also described wedding plans for her brother with a "true Southern plantation-style theme". She planned to employ black male servers to represent slaves in the antebellum era, although she denied having used the word "nigger" when discussing the wedding waitstaff.

As a result of the controversy, Food Network announced that it would not renew her contract when it expires at the end of June 2013.

For the same reason, in June 2013, Caesars Casinos, Walmart, Smithfield Foods dropped her as a spokeswoman.

Again, are you forgiving of Paula Deen?

Will you be willing to give her a second chance?

In the age of President Barack Obama, should any White celebrity get a pass if they utters some negative theme to piss off women, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians and the LGBT community?

Or should they be scrutinized for it?

Friday, June 21, 2013

Curtains For Paula Deen!

Nosedive for celebrity chef.

The controversy finally taken its toll. The celebrity chef was fired from The Food Network after it was revealed that she had said racial slurs towards her Black patrons.

The Southern based chef Paula Deen was embroiled in a huge controversy. According to a lawsuit, the celebrity chef went into a verbal tirade against Blacks. She was known to utter a racial slur about them.

Is there hope That Guy Who Helped Obama Win will give Deen an exclusive interview?

Will Chief Roger get a network together and call it Dine?

Are you accepting of Paula Deen's apology?

Well the news is getting worse. The Chicago Tribune says the impending loss of Deen's broadcast deal represents a potentially huge setback for a television personality who has built an empire on high calorie food, with cookbooks and restaurants in her native Georgia and other states.

The Food Network said in a statement it "will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month."

A spokeswoman declined further comment but the network, which is owned by Scripps Network Interactive Inc, said on Thursday it "does not tolerate any form of discrimination and is a strong proponent of diversity and inclusion."

The network's decision to drop Deen was announced hours after she failed to make a scheduled appearance on the NBC television morning show "Today" to discuss the controversy. She later apologized on video that was posted online.

"I want to apologize to everybody for the wrong that I've done. I want to learn and grow from this," Deen said in one video posted on YouTube and other websites.

The controversy surrounding Deen erupted earlier this week when a deposition was released in transcript form in which Deen, who is white, was asked if she had used the "N-word," and responded, "Yes, of course."

Asked about the epithet in the deposition, Deen said she had used the slur when describing, probably to her husband, how a black man robbed a bank where she was working in the 1980s. She said she had used the word since, "but it's been a very long time."

A former employee of Paula Deen Enterprises, Lisa Jackson, is suing Deen and her brother, Earl "Bubba" Hiers, in federal court alleging racial and sexual discrimination in the workplace. The deposition was related to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit alleges that, while discussing with Jackson plans for Hiers' 2007 wedding, Deen said she wanted a "true southern plantation-style wedding." She went on to say in the lawsuit, she would like to see "n-word" wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties. You know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around," Deen said, according to the lawsuit.

'PLENTY OF MISTAKES'

In one video message posted on Friday to YouTube, Deen apologized to "Today" host Matt Lauer for failing to show up for her interview, as she tried to reach out directly to the public.

"I want people to understand that my family and I are not the kind of people that the press is wanting to say we are," Deen said in that message.

In another video statement posted on YouTube and other websites, Deen said she had made "plenty of mistakes along the way."

"But I beg you, my children, my team, my fans, my partners, I beg for your forgiveness," she said.

Deen did not directly mention the lawsuit or her deposition in either of the two widely shared video statements.
You can't butter the public!
A spokeswoman for Deen did not return calls or an e-mail seeking comment.

Howard Bragman, vice chairman of the reputation management service Reputation.com, told Reuters the chef "needs to be honest, emotional and convincing."

"She's never going to come back whole, she's never going to come back to where she once was," Bragman said in a phone interview. "Do I think she can salvage some measure of a career? Yes I do, there's a lot of people who still like her - the butter manufacturers of America. But she's never going to come back whole."
Long before becoming a celebrity chef, in 1989 Deen started out of her home a catering service called The Bag Lady. It later became the critically acclaimed restaurant The Lady and Sons in Savannah, Georgia.

Her show "Paula's Home Cooking" debuted on The Food Network in 2002 and her program "Paula's Best Dishes" premiered in 2008. She had a longstanding love for butter as an ingredient, but after revealing last year that she had Type 2 diabetes, she became a paid spokeswoman for drug maker Novo Nordisk and introduced light recipes.

Paula Deen Uttered Racial Slurs Towards Blacks!

Celebrity chef Paula Deen with NBC News reporter/weatherman Al Roker. The chef is in hot water for uttering racial slurs about bad clients and President Barack Obama. The celebrity chef has taken herself away from the spotlight after it was revealed that she said NIGGER around a Black worker.

The queen of cuisine is under fire for saying racial slurs about Black people.

Deen an American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress and Emmy Award-winning television personality. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. She has published fourteen cookbooks.

She was diagnosed with Type II diabetes after her food gotten the best of her health.

Reports that Deen is having not only this controversy but a feud with chef Anthony Bourdain.

He commented in 2011 that he "would think twice before telling an already obese nation that it's OK to eat food that is killing us."

On January 17, 2012, Deen announced that she had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes three years before, a disease for which a high-calorie diet is a major contributing factor.

It was also disclosed that Deen is a paid spokesperson for the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, whose main export is insulin.

She was called a hypocrite for continuing to promote her high-sugar diet while only disclosing her medical condition when it benefited her in representing the drug company to market their diabetes management program.

It was alleged in a lawsuit against Deen that "In the presence of Ms. Jackson and Uncle Bubba's restaurant manager and a vendor, Bubba Hiers stated they should send President Obama to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so he could nigger-rig it."

According to the court documents, the plaintiff stated that she was appointed by Deen to handle the catering and staff for Bubba's wedding in 2007, and she asked Deen what the servers should wear; "Well what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around," the plaintiff alleged Deen told her. 

"Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that."

In the case Lisa Jackson has brought against Deen, the chef stated in her deposition that she has used the "N Word" at times, saying "Yes, of course" she did, and also acknowledged making racist jokes, though she claims she is not racist. "It's just what they are—they're jokes ... most jokes are about Jewish people, rednecks, black folks. ... I can't determine what offends another person."

Now what do you think of Paula Deen and her position on The Food Network?

She's taken a leave of absence after the controversy blew up.

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