Paula Deen Hysteria and Deranged ‘Political Correctness’
By Gina Miller
AmericanClarion.com
When I
started seeing the scathing headlines about
celebrity chef Paula Deen, I immediately remembered the
story from
about a year and a half ago of Ms. Deen recounting
having had Michelle Obama on her television show in
the run-up to the fateful 2008 presidential
election. Ms. Deen popped off about how Mrs. Obama
loves to eat—a lot. While it was clear that Ms. Deen
was saying it in good nature, what she said made
Michelle Obama sound like a pig. In part, Ms. Deen
said, “Well, I did a show with Michelle, and I just
loved being with her. She probably ate more than any
other guest I’ve ever had on the show. She kept
eating even during commercials.”
Well,
you just don’t “diss” the healthy food nazi First
Lady by carelessly blabbing about her hypocritical
eating habits. I’m certain Ms. Deen was on the
media’s (and possibly the Obamas’) target hate list
from that moment on. So, now a woman decides to file
a “harassment” lawsuit against Ms. Deen and her
brother, which has produced a Paula Deen deposition
that gives the media a fried plum opportunity to
ruin Ms. Deen by making a mountain out of her verbal
mole hill.
The
woman filing suit, Lisa Jackson, who is “white,”
worked for five years—five years—as a manager of one
of Ms. Deen’s restaurants that she co-owns with her
brother. The gist of the lawsuit is that Lisa
Jackson claims Ms. Deen and her brother run a
hostile work environment. According
to TMZ, Ms. Jackson basically claims Ms.
Deen’s brother is a racist, lecherous porn hound.
Ms. Jackson worked until 2010, and I see no word on
why she stayed in that oh-so-terrible work
environment for five long years or why she waited
three years after leaving to makes these claims in a
lawsuit. Whether or not she is an opportunist
looking to cash in on some of Ms. Deen’s large
fortune remains to be seen, but what is remarkable
about this whole story is the nation’s response to
Ms. Deen’s having admitted to calling an armed
robber—as our insane, politically correct nation
calls it—the “N-word.”
Paula
Deen was swiftly steam-rolled by the hysterical
media frenzy over this revelation. Judging simply
from the media’s outrage and indignant,
self-righteous reaction, you would think Paula Deen
had admitted to pan-searing cute little live puppies
in butter sauce. But, no; what she did was say a
word that some people might find offensive.
Diana
West, writing
at WorldNetDaily had
this to say:
As
practically everyone knows by now, multimillionaire
TV chef Paula Deen was yanked from the pinnacle of
free-market success after admitting to a lawyer
taking a deposition in a racial and sexual
harassment lawsuit (already Orwellian) that she had
used what is referred to as “the N-word” some 25
years ago.
“The N-word”? Here we give the Victorians a run for
their word-mincing money. The offending word, of
course, is “nigger,” and no matter how ugly it is,
it is hardly taboo when a quick search of iTunes
pulls up 2,000 entries for sale featuring the term.
According to the deposition, Deen said the word when
telling her husband about the man who had stuck a
gun to her head during a robbery at the bank where
she worked years ago. She also admitted to using the
slur at other non-specific times but said, “It’s
been a long time,” adding: “That’s just not a word
we use as time has gone on” (unless “we” are in the
music business).
That’s
right. The so-called “music” business is glutted
with “songs” that vomit the word. I have no patience
for double standards, especially when they are this
blatant. Black people call each other “nigga” all
the time, and that’s supposed to be okay, but a
“white” woman saying it is not?
Larry
Elder also has no patience for such hypocrisy. In
his WorldNetDaily column, “If
Paula Deen is out, what about Maher and Sharpton?”
he points out the absurdity of the vicious attack on
Paula Deen while the virulently racist Al Sharpton
and the despicable Bill Maher both get passes for
some of the dirtiest racist and sexist remarks we’ve
heard. Mr. Elder refreshes our memory with instances
of Sharpton’s and Maher’s words and actions. Paula
Deen does not hold a candle to those two men when it
comes to bad words.
This isn’t about what Paula Deen said decades ago—or even yesterday. Besides being a handy distraction from Barack Obama (or whatever his name is) and the crimes and scandals of his administration, this is about the steady, incremental conditioning of the people in our nation to accept the deranged shackles of “political correctness.” This is about our taking a lesson from observing the swift media trial and execution of Paula Deen’s career. It is disturbing to see how easily-offended so many in our nation have become, as if we have a “right” to not be offended. And of course, this whole ridiculously overblown ordeal was created, shaped and fueled by the media, which led the American public’s dim perception by the nose.