On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> The Food Network chef had told Matt Lauer yesterday that she would be > willing to discuss her controversial statements about African-Americans, > but her publicist called "Today" this morning and claimed she was > "exhausted" and could not appear--yeah, right: > > http://www.today.com/video/today/52272603#52272603 > As I woke up this morning to the sounds of my wife puttering in the bedroom I gradually became aware of Lauer's voice, and then Al, on the TV explaining this set of circumstances. They could not possibly have been more charitable to Dean (to the effect "we love Paula, she is a huge friend of the show, I talked with her last night, she promised she would come on and talk about this"). In the end it seemed like what troubled them more was not that Dean had possibly discriminated against African-American employees (isn't that the underlying charge here?) or used the "N-word" several times, but that she had stood them up. Unfortunately I don't give much of a crap about Paula Dean one way or the other, so I could not get worked up about it, and besides, I am on my summer break. Wake me up when there is another scandal involving Padma Lakshmi... -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
