UPDATE:
There are are always two sides to every story...and especially a lawsuit. I realize it's not news unless it's sensational, someone is toppled, or there is a lot of money involved. The media loves to get a hold of portion of the truth...and run with it. It would be interesting to see how this plays out....
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2013/06/25/newday-cuomo-bobby-jamie-deen.cnn.html

Or, put another way:
"I make my living off the Evening News 
Just give me something-something I can use 
People love it when you lose, 
They love dirty laundry "
Don Henley....Dirty Money lyrics


Recipe For Keeping The Folks Riled Up

"The Food Network said Friday it's dumping Paula Deen,...... troubled by her admission to having used racial slurs in the past."

You've got to be kidding me....after pages and pages of depositions given because of a lawsuit filed by an employee at her brother's restaurant, concerning an alleged incident at THAT location, THIS is what was gleaned from all that testimony????

From the nitpicking at the beginning by the prosecuting attorney, all the way through the various past residential locations, reasons for divorces,.....WHY????...progressions of business deals, Bubba's personal problems, conduct at the workplace of everybody, employee structure at all restaurants, and the various "he said, she said" complete with witnesses: THIS IS WHAT THE MEDIA IS OBSESSING ABOUT, an admission inartfully given in response to a tersely asked question?? 

Racism is NOT OK, don't get me wrong. But in order to place the comment spoken in the most correct light...you have to have been born and raised in the southern states. YES, I know the Civil War is over....and they lost. But habits are hard to break, and hearing and saying certain phrases generation after generation cannot be weeded out just like that. My family here in Tennessee is just as guilty...and they are educated, well-traveled, wealthy, Church-going folks. They can see no wrong in their speech or actions. I have lived in several "northern" states all my live and I think it's wrong and I tell them. They just don't understand......and I am the odd one here.

The response to articles written on all the news websites are just as BAD in their name calling as the journalists are painting Ms. Deen out to be. 

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/06/22/answering-the-n-word-with-the-c-word-the-paula-deen-scandal-displays-the-worst-of-the-internet/

Yes, the subject does need to be talked about. Just like Edward Snowden forced us to have a conversation about the Patriot Act, in all its useful and hideous forms.

http://sulia.com/channel/all-business/f/8b5bad53-9f24-443a-a8db-e04b6ca07f29/?source=email_2013-06-22_tag_comment2

I happen to smell a rotten apple here and we won't see the results until the end. The Food Channel perhaps had no choice but to act as they did...but there is the chance it might not have been a smart one. A knee-jerk reaction as it were. Ms. Deen raised two sons by herself, tirelessly working in what she knew best: food. Maybe not the healthiest by today's standards....BUT SHE GOT OFF HER BUTT AND DID WHAT SHE HAD TO DO. People mock those who do not "do something" about the miserable situations they find themselves in. Yet once they move forward, it makes others, shall we say, jealous?  Now, like her or not, she has had many great accomplishments.

What is there in the American psyche that loves to kick people when they're down?? To believe the first bad thing about someone?? That jumps for joy when a bit of news is taken out of an article and displayed as a "gotcha?" Does it make us all feel better about ourselves to think that they are not really all that perfect and have the same faults? Lawyers and money?

And Another Thing....

The honesty, effectiveness, legality....not to mention the Blue Blooded Americanism.......of the Patriot Act needs to be debated AGAIN, but also keep in mind:

"Glenn Greenwald has been looking to take down Obama and feed his own depthless narcissism for years now. He just managed to accomplish one of these goals in spades: If you’re a mainstream media outlet thinking of giving him airtime or copy space, you’re naturally increasing his visibility. Just be warned about what you’re up against. It damn sure isn’t the intellectual and journalistic honesty and relentless quest for the truth Greenwald would have you believe."

http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/the-daily-banters-official-helpful-media-guide-for-interacting-with-glenn-greenwald/#.Ubc-UUGLgfh.twitter

Inquiring minds would like to know......

Hmmmmmmmmm......??

Let's see: Obama won a second term. Right Wingers are beside themselves. They thought for sure that all that money they collected, and the Kochs spent, was going to be a surefire win...FOX even told Romney it was in the bag. I mean, they did NOT spend four years obstructing, mocking, whining, back-walking all their own policies for nothing......

The current "scandals"  they are conflagrating must be played out for the next three years...can't have any governing going on, or laws to help the economy passed. Anything to keep this administration from making progress, or being seen as anything other than "the destroyer of everything" or "the devil incarnate."

NOW we have revelations about the NSA. The bottom line was....can you say it....PATRIOT ACT. Yes, there has always been trust and unease about the policy that Bush and Co., as True Patriots and Americans subjected this country to. But the timing, the leaker, and the disclosure itself are suspect.

Glenn Greenwald's Anti-Obama Vendetta Continue

"There was a time when I really wished I could understand what drives Glenn Greenwald's hatred of President Obama. But then, I realized. I really don't care. I just wish his editors would be a little more discerning with his use of links and, um, "facts."

http://pleasecutthecrap.typepad.com/main/2013/05/glenn-greenwalds-obama-vendetta-pops-up-again.html

His taseteless tweet and his follow up comments regarding it:

http://thegrio.com/2012/01/02/glenn-greenwald-defends-obama-could-rape-a-nun-attack/

And the fact that Grreenwald dislikes the man terribly:

"Greenwald has been one of the loudest and harshest critics of the Obama administration, and while not actually a liberal or an Obama supporter, he is frequently identified as a blogger who is “disappointed with President Obama” over what he sees as serious violations of civil liberties."

http://www.politicalruminations.com/glenn-greenwald/

Yes, there needs to be a rational debate on how much privacy and security we, as United States citizens are assured of versus the information covertly obtained to protect our country. This is NOT a new, suddenly subversive issue. The disingenuous outrage, and the "gee, I didn't know our government was capable of such a thing" from both the Right and Left, which in turn stirs up the citizenry is unbelievable.

I can't believe this is just an altruistic move from an American journalist, living mostly in Brazil, writing for an British paper...and looking out for the "good" of his fellow Americans. Maybe I'm just cynical enough to question such things.....

"Maybe, in the end, it’s not even the politics that matter the most to Glenn Greenwald. Maybe what’s most important to him is ensuring that he’s not ignored."http://rootedcosmopolitan.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/glenn-greenwald-neither-a-liberal-nor-a-progressive/