Have you noticed it? That foul stench of bitter jealousy and sweet cream butter going head to head in an epic battle of hypocritical finger-pointing vs. individual freedom? There seems to be a war going on, and it’s whiny, shallow, loud-mouthed leftists versus the sweet southern comfort we know as Paula Deen. The celebrity chef just announced that she has been diagnosed with diabetes and, apparently, that signaled “open season” to all of her public, celebrity haters.
For you unfortunate souls who are unaware of the Deen master, let me give a bit of background. Paula Deen is perhaps the most well-known and well-liked chef of good old American southern food. Her adorable accent and fluffed out silver locks have found their way into the hearts of millions of fans, and that isn’t even including her food. The woman is a whiz in the kitchen – her style is straight up TASTY. Forget calorie-counting and all that “healthy” living stuff. No, Paula Deen has legions of fans because her stuff tastes amazing. In fact, the common joke about Deen is that everything she cooks requires at least one stick of butter, if not 40.
Not to mention, Deen is a savvy business woman. She has capitalized on her success with the production of several cookbooks, a product line of kitchenware, a handful of restaurants, and not one, but three cooking shows- “Paula’s Home Cooking” “Paula’s Best Dishes” and “Paula’s Party.” Her empire even recently expanded with the launch of her son’s show, “Not My Mama’s Meals,” in which her son Bobby will offer healthier versions of his mother’s meals.
That being said, the rambunctious southern belle announced Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with Type II diabetes- a devastating blow to her fans, but a delicious weapon for her enemies.
But who could hate this woman? Hypocritical, finger-pointing, jealous, liberal bullies – that’s who.
Let’s begin with notorious bully and foul-mouthed celebrity whiner, Perez Hilton. The ever-present jerk spouted off on Deen after her announcement. He said:
“It wasn’t like we didn’t see it coming, but just knowing that Paula Deen‘s been withholding this information and still peddling her unhealthy slop on her show makes us sick.
And guess what?
Just because she has Type 2 diabetes, she says it won’t stop her from eating what she wants. Because that’s the kind of example you want to be!… We’re pretty sick over this. How long has she known, but been carrying on with her unhealthy ways to audiences around the nation? How many cases of type 2 diabetes (other than her own), is she the cause of??
How can she sleep doing what she does?”
Well Mr. Hilton, or should I say, Mario, (yes folks, Perez Hilton was born Mario Lavandeira. I know, you’re shocked) it’s called “personal responsibility,” a concept you don’t quite seem to be grasping.
Deen did not force-feed her viewers. Deen did not “give diabetes” to anyone. As Americans, and for me as a conservative, we believe the power to make choices belongs to the individual. It is up to the individual viewer to determine whether or not to cook Deen’s food. And just in case her viewers ARE silly enough to eat her meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, Deen actually has a reputation of encouraging her viewers and fans to eat “in moderation.”
Well Mr. Lavandeira, it appears you A. don’t believe her viewers are responsible enough to make their own decisions and B. have never paid attention to her show. To PREVENT such things as her viewers getting diabetes, Deen herself encourages them to vary their meals. “In moderation” is a common phrase heard on Deen’s shows. But the truth about Deen and her wise words to her viewers is a little… inconvenient for you, isn’t it Mario?
Echoing Hilton’s claims, comedian D.L. Hughley similarly chided Deen on Twitter stating, “The Paula Dean show should have a surgeon generals warning like pack of cigarettes! LISTENING 2 PAULA DEAN HAS BEEN KNOWN 2 CAUSE DIABETES!”
Wow. Hi.lar.i.ous.
Another of her critics is professional a-hole, Anthony Bourdain. The food critic and brash host of “No Reservations” once called Deen the “worst, most dangerous person to America.”
ZOMG! Unhealthy food is bad for you?!?! Why didn’t anyone tell me!?
But I digress.
On Monday when rumors were circulating about Deen’s diagnosis, Bourdain told Eater, “When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you’ve been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you’ve got Type 2 Diabetes… It’s in bad taste if nothing else,” he said. “How long has she known? I suspect a very long time.”
But her most high-profile critic is none other than Michelle Obama. Yes, the first lady is no fan of Paula Deen. While the FLOTUS’ initiative to get America healthy is kind of at odds with the admittedly unhealthy recipes of Deen, their “beef” (pardon the pun, no wait, don’t pardon it – that was intentional. You should laugh because that’s funny) Ahem. Their “beef” is more personal.
Apparently, in October 2011 while promoting her new book, Deen dished that the first lady, while once visiting her show, liked to pig out on unhealthy crap including “greasy French fries, fatty hot chicken wings and sugary deep-fried Snickers bars.”
“She probably ate more than any other guest I ever had on the show!” Deen said. “She kept eating even during commercials. Know what (the Obamas’) favorite foods are? Hot wings. Y’know – those kinds of foods that aren’t necessarily top-of-the-list healthy foods.”
Apparently the first lady now regrets ever being on her show. Gee, ya think? Bet it’s hard to grow French fries in that organic garden of yours, isn’t it Michelle?
Also, just because I can and because, well, it shows what a hypocrite she is, I’d like to point out that the first lady celebrated her 48th birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday, Mrs. Obama! Guess how she celebrated? Yeah, with a $28 burger called “The Obama” – complete with Kobe beef, bacon and cheddar cheese.
So personal responsibility is, apparently, an unattainable concept in the minds of Paula Deen’s critics. Instead of wishing her well, these jerks essentially said “You got what you had coming! Good Riddance!” Ignore for a minute the fact that sometimes diabetes can be contracted genetically (not through dietary habits)… so what? So what if Deen got diabetes on account of her own behavior? This is America, darnit. She can do what she wants.
And so can her fans.
Folks, Paula Deen is everything that is GREAT about America. Ya, I said it. Come and get me, Mario. Take a swing, Anthony. Wanna go, Michelle? I’ll do a round with you. For AMERICA!
Perhaps Paula said it best when she said to Oprah, “Honey, I’m your cook, I’m not your doctor!”
p.s. this is the best website EVER. Paula Deen Riding Things. Enjoy J
(featured image by the glorious George Crudo, @Crudotastic)
Paula Deen’s behavior is appalling not because she promotes or indulges in an unhealthy lifestyle, or gave herself a life-threatening disease as a result, but because she wants to shamelessly cash in on the whole thing. Make no mistake: her all time favorite dish is sugar-frosted deep-fried MONEY.
To Neil,
Are you an American? Because a real American would not have said what you said!
Wouldn’t it be great if you could control what other people eat?
And what exactly is wrong with her making money? Nothing at all. Keep your class warfare nonsense to yourself. We ain’t buyin’ here.
It is a great shock to learn this foul butter monger has tricked us inattentive sweet toothers into tuning in on a regular basis with the siren song of her bubbly personality and sugary menu from hell. And she did it all in exchange for wages, endorsements and fame!
Oh, the horrors.
There will be no money making while Neil is in the kitchen, rest assured.
Yeap, they’re all liberal bullies. All I’ve got to say is Bourdain should dry up… no, I mean literally. He knocks booze back with the best of them. I’ll wait until his liver decides to sue him for separate maintenance. I hope some wags their finger in his face.
All these libs were angry that Paula Dean, in a fun, innocent way exposed FLOTUS as a hypocrite.
As far as Perez Hilton, he should go get a second helping of Black Eyed Peas.
Hahaha Amen on that Black Eyed Peas comment!
Great article. People want to blame personal consequences on anyone but themselves. If a students is failing a class, it isn’t his/her fault for not studying or doing homework. No no no, it must be the teacher’s fault!
It’s not Obama’s fault the economy sucks, it’s Bush’s fault.
It’s not man’s fault the globe is warming…oh wait.
It’s not any celebrity’s fault the globe is warming, it all those nasty people driving SUV’s.
And it’s not Perez’s fault that he is an idiot, he just never outgrew junior high.
This reminds me of a restaurant in downtown Vegas that just opened… its called Heart Attack Grill. It was opened by a Doctor and he did it knowing it is a horrible place for people to eat, but in America people get to make CHOICES something my left friends don’t seem to understand, it is like temptation is not a choice to give in if you put a temptation in front of them they have no CHOICE, sort of like my friend who give me crap for Loving Jesus and following Jesus because I make a CHOICE, others don’t seem to understand CHOICE and that they get to CHOOSE and VOTE with their dollars. People feel FORCED by CHOICE and yet feel FREE when FORCED. I don’t get it and will never understand it… oh well
What troubles me about all this is that I’m watching not just leftists attack Paula but also Conservatives. Our society has become so nosey and interfering that even some of us Cons have forgotten that we believe someone can do what they want and live with their consequences without any trouble from us.
If Paula Deen, who even gives warnings about her own food, wishes to show how to cook meals that would be bad for her then that is her or any person then that is her choice. If a person wishes to cook and eat that food that is their choice. Who are we to stand up and start casting stones? How many of you smoke? How many of you have unprotected sex with people you hardly know? How many of you drive way over the speed limit? All of these things have clear consequences that we ignore because that’s how we choose to go about living our lives.
It all boils down to how we choose to live. Diabetics have no right to yell at Paula Deen, because diabetics don’t have to eat her food. It’s not being forced on them. Would you be like the left who forces THEIR type of diet on others? I’d think real hard before we as Conservatives start jumping on other people for decisions they have made. We aren’t the left and we need to keep it that way.
God forbid that people take responsibility for their own actions. Now if you excuse me, I need to go find some fried chicken.
BUTTER!!!!
First: Butter, bacon and Kobi beef will not give you Type 2 diabetes, or make you fat for that matter. It’s the sugar and wheat flour plus genetics.
Second: Because Paula Deen is not ashamed of hard work or earning a living, instead of sucking on the welfare state teat, she has the resources to pay for her own medical care. If that’s how she wants to use her money, that’s her business. Personally, I prefer staying healthy and not supporting a crony-capitalist corrupt medical/pharma industry.
I don’t care what you want to eat, drink, smoke or inject, just don’t ask me to pay your medical bills.
I worked in medicine for 20 years, & have never seen Paula Deen’s show. Now that you know these two facts, the following statement should make more sense. It seems none of Paula Deen’s critics know very much about how Type 2 Diabetes develops.
Exactly what I was going to say. It may not be healthy for her to eat what she cooks on the show anymore… and that would depend on the severity of her diabetes (my FIL has Type2, and he can eat sweets just fine, so long as he remains active, only takes in moderation and keeps an eye on his blood levels.)
Hate to break it to these ignoramuses, but you don’t get diabetes from eating sugar. It can develop from being generally out of shape and/ or overweight. Exercise is a fantastic way to manage things once diagnosed.
I’ve been diabetic since I was five and I wouldn’t dream of yelling at Paula Deen. I’m a mature adult who has sense enough to know what I should and should not eat. If I want to cheat once in awhile I know how to deal with that too.
Plus, one thing not mentioned on the news or by all the haters, the money she’s getting from being a spokesman for that diabetes drug company is all being donated to diabetes research for which I thank her.
1. I hate how people keep saying she kept this a secret… It’s not her responsibility to inform everyone of her medical records. We have laws to maintain medical privacy. She doesn’t have to tell us jack. I think the fact she came out with it shows more integrity then we could find amongst our celebrities and politicians, especially hypocrites like Hilton and Obama.
2. I also can’t help but notice that health nuts don’t have a great track record for life spans. Eat healthy, exercise like crazy and still dead by 60. Meanwhile you have great grandparents who are rounding 100 years, lived through wars and depressions and ate what ever they could manage to find, without regard for calories or saturated fat counts. So I say live your life best you can. As for me… Life is short, fry that chicken!
I am a gay liberal and I love Paula Deen. It’s sad what happened and I hope she is well and keeps frying her chicken deep.
By the way you all know Paula Deen campaigned for Barack Obama in 2008, and says she is democrat.