Paula Deen: A Pig On Two Counts

I'm pretty sure I've seen her eat a stick of butter on her show and now the racial slurs. Tsk tsk.

Didn't she overeat herself into Diabetes and then profit off of drug endorsements? She's no Wilford Brimley.

The lawsuit is troubling, but also hilarious. In private meetings held in her bathroom, she fantasized about throwing a true plantation style wedding complete with black waiters in white tuxes with black bow-ties, except she didn't use the word black, she used a different version of that word that rappers use. Her only correction when asked about those statements? She wanted women, too. She admits to using the "N" word because, well, she's from the South and it was different in the 60s. That wedding was in 2006. She said yes, they were mimicking slaves, but she didn't mean it to be derogatory. The "I'm from a different era" excuse is bull and worse than "but I have black friends."

This is a woman who rolls macaroni and cheese in bacon, then fries it. She's disgusting on many levels, but reading about her insane proclivity for racial slurring is just so funny. She's like a cartoon Klan member. Racism isn't funny (except when it is) and the fall-out from our national predisposition to prejudice isn't funny - but this Paula Deen thing is funny because she's so ridiculous. She talks like Foghorn Leghorn, doesn't she? Can we just laugh this away and not feed any money into her sleazy, buttery empire?