really made to southern culture. i ll get to a quote, you know, from your article in a moment, but i do want on just right off the bat get an idea of how you interpreted her statement. did she say enough? the omission of certain words, does that do more damage than good? she did i tend to agree that she didn t say much of anything in, you know, again, i try to look at this now from a crisis pr standpoint but in actual human standpoint of did it actually, you know, not did the apology, quote-unquote, work or, quote-unquote, help her but did she actually apologize. i think just as a human accepting an apology, it sort of means saying what you actually did wrong, why you understand that it was wrong. what you learned from it. what you re going to do about it going forward. and there just wasn t much of that. now, i m not inside paula deen s camp. i don t know what sort of advice or lack therefore she s getting. it had the feeling of something. there is an ongoing lawsuit and
yeah, i think her food is good, actually. it was one of my favorite restaurants so like a lot of people i was disappointed to hear about any of this. i tried to understand this. i tried to look at it from a human standpoint and when i see paula deen and i m from the south like she is icy her like the charles barkley of cooking. she sells you food that might kill you and tell you a joke that might offend you and political correctness isn t her strong suit. if you look throughout her life you see a woman that has probably learned the hard way that you can t just sort of lay yourself out there for the public to consume because not everybody is going to get the joke, and i certainly don t get the joke because this is a very serious issue. it there s is there a difference between political people throw around that term political correctness but if, in fact, and we don t know whether this lawsuit is true or not but if she s using jokes with the
thank you very much. caller: thank you. i want to bring in boyce watkins. with me here michaela angela davis. professor watkins, what do you make of this? i know you ve been a fan of paula deen for a long time. yeah, i think her food is good, actually. it was one of my favorite restaurants so like a lot of people i was disappointed to hear about any of this. i tried to understand this. i tried to look at it from a human standpoint and when i see paula deen and i m from the south like she is i see her like the charles barkley of cooking. she sells you food that might kill you and tell you a joke that might offend you and political correctness isn t her strong suit. if you look throughout her life you see a woman that has probably learned the hard way that you can t just sort of lay yourself out there for the public to consume because not everybody is going to get the joke, and i certainly don t get
weapons on their own people, then the u.s. would get involved. gretchen, the rebels are being led by al-qaeda. i don t think you have to say much more. brian: what about iran? what about north korea? by the way, iran is with the rebels. they re the ones fighting. then you have russia. brian: they re with assad. russia is no. i don t think so. i don t think so. your is with assad. russia is really with assad and frank lee, if you look at what s going on with let iran, let russia straighten out their own problems. it s from a human rights standpoint, from a human standpoint, we ve been through this before. who knows what weapons they have? who really knows what weapons they have? wouldn t you think maybe it s time to stay out of one of these? gretchen: i hear you, donald, cause i think the american public, not only are we out of dough, but they re weary of war after iraq and afghanistan. i guess my question is what about israel standing alone there in the middle of all tha
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