C&S,
Then surprise me. What does she do or say in part of two of her shows that offsets all of her outside marketing and persona? I didn't say she didn't do it, just that I've not seen any sign from anything else she's done.
For example, I don't read everything Ladd Everett puts out but from everything I know of him from what I have seen and all his other exposure I am familiar with, it'd surprise me if he isn't actually a *expletive deleted*bag. But if I could be shown something to the contrary I missed by not being intimitely familiar with his entire CV I'd be willing to change my mind.
In any event, I shouldn't default to dick mode with fellow APS'ers.
Thinking about it, Paula Dean isn't a hypocrite as that would require her to behave and believe differently than she espouses, which I can't say she does.
In part answer to Micro, it's more that, as far as character goes, it is unseemly for someone to build a career on obnoxiously unhealthy foods (as in unhealthy almost by design as opposed to simply "rich" like much fine cooking) and then not acknowledge their own situation which requires they limit or modify their enjoyment of that kind of food for health reasons.
What I, for instance, would have done if I were "Paul Dean, Master of Butter By the Pound" and found out I had diabetes would be to go on my show, talk about my diagnosis and begin a new program of explaining how to eat the same kind of foods but prepared in healthier ways. Talk about living with diabetes but still loving American comfort foods, bring Wilford Brimley on and cook with him, that sort of thing. Let the medical companies come crawling after me.
She appears to have not acknowledged her diagnosis in order to protect her marketed persona until she could cash in on it.
Unseemly.
